Jay-Z - 100$ Bill

Artist:  Jay-Z
Song:  100$ Bill
Album:  The Great Gatsby Soundtrack (2013)
Genre:  Rap, Hip Hop
Language:  Strong

Been hitting up some Electro-Swing recently, and with that came a lot of people trying to tell me about The Great Gatsby and it's apparently fantastic soundtrack.

Now I've never been a huge fan of Jay-Z due pretty much to me just not having interacted with his music.  Also now that he pulled all his stuff off of Spotify to force people toward Tidal it's making it hard for me to get into his stuff.  I'm not about to buy another streaming service, ya know?

But I can find some stuff on YouTube still, and I'm happily enjoying this song as well as a couple others on the soundtrack.  Not super Swing-y, but still a good time.

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Kanye West - Monster

Artist:  Kanye West feat. Bon Iver, Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj
Song:  Monster
Album:  My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Genre:  Rap, Hip Hop
Language:  Strong

A friend of mine was talking about this song recently.  Something about Rick Ross' incredibly out of breath sounding verse, Jay-Z and Kanye not giving their all, and the DJ cutting the song off before Nicki's verse hits.

Now I, and my friend, are not the biggest fans of Nicki.  However her verse is hands down one of the best things about the song.  It's just goes so hard, it's fantastic.  It's probably the best verse she's ever laid down if we're being honest.

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Kanye West - Niggas In Paris

Artist:  Kanye West and Jay-Z
Genre:  Rap, Hip Hop
Language:  Kinda obvious

I still really love Kanye, and this song is really one of my favorites of his.  I'm not really familiar with anything that Jay-Z, but I know that he's good.

This album was both Kanye and Jay-Z working though, and all in all it's a really solid thing.  If you follow TheNeedleDrop you might have seen his review of this album talking about how since both Kanye and Jay-Z are at the top of the game the album seemed like a bit of a self serving piece at times.  Tracks where they just bragged themselves up when they really didn't need to.

This one though.

This song is freaking fantastic.

As usual if you don't like my taste in music or the language content I do apologize, but this is me.  If it offends you, please pass this post by and enjoy (I hope) the next one.