Jay-Z “Can I Live” (BP3 Tour, MSG)
March 3, 2010 @ 4:06 PM EST
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On most nights during this tour, Jay just gives the audience a taste of track 8 from his debut album. But in honor of the hometown, Hov went all in on this lyrical masterwork from his early catalogue. Modern-day Jay-Z fans get the fuck out this post.
Incredible song.. It was my alltime fav before I heard Allure
It’s interesting to watch scream out “what’s the name of this song”, I remember him doing that when I saw him perform a year or so ago as well. Interesting in that it’s admittedly his favorite piece, and he wants the whole world to feel it and appreciate it, but so many people just know the hits. It’s almost like it would be the biggest accomplishment ever if he could get the masses to know him for that song as well.
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What I would pay just to hear jay play his pre-millenium records only. RD and vol 3 two of my fav albums. Too bad if he played that shit half the ppl would be dumbfounded, so I can see why he doesn’t. Like HOV said than I just go and buy his old album…
“Modern-day Jay-Z fans get up on this”, or “Modern-day Jay-Z fans this is why they call him HOV”. or even Modern-day Jay-Z fans this aint a history lesson, this is class. Take notes kids.” but “Modern-day Jay-Z fans get the fuck out this post” is analogous to saying I was into Jay-Z before you so I am more of a fan than you are. Most modern day Jay-Z fans who check this site probably have either bought or downloaded all of Jay’s shit by now anyway.
I wonder if when Jay sees YN does he think “All aboard my balls, cause my dick don’t got a lot of room for the rest of y’all” (© Redman).
♠Ace♠
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well fucktard, clearly, u’ve never been to a jay-z concert, because he says that to the “modern day” fans near the end of every concert before performing album cuts. T
“Modern-day Jay-Z fans get the fuck out this post”
^ hehehehe… real talk!
Actually, Saw Him in Fresno, Ca @ the Save Mart Center 11/7/09. So, while this may be true that he says this, He also says a lot of things. Does YN just spend his time quoting Jay? Have you not noticed the “extreme admiration” of Mr. Carter in some of his posts? “Fucktard” is really great, and it only took you 11 minutes to come up with that gem.
All in jest my friend. Nice way to come to the defense, though. But it makes me wonder, When YN sees B.Dot does he think “All aboard my balls, cause my dick don’t got a lot of room for the rest of y’all” (© Redman)?
♠Ace
Me I started listen to hip-hop 1 in sec 3 I was 14 in 97 hehe I thought that song was about the new album I was like I want it now hehe yeah I looked to the lyrics of that song I like it that it’s a hard song I like the lyrics. Everyone starts in the struggle. I have admiration for the ones that became so popular when they start with nothing. You have to be the best. you have to have incredible lyrics like Jay-Z Eminem and other singers. Me I have one of the best vocabulary but I started with nothing I worked hard to others to know me. I had this incredible words but I had no contact me and my friends did’nt thought much to publish lyrics. We had these incredible words but nobody had the thought to publish it and do publicity. Me I start in 2001 to do publicity on doyou. I had nothing else about a cheap computer and some hours on the internet nothing much. I worked a lot on my account bring some new infos. In 2004 I worked somewhere where there was a lot of clients. I ask my boss if I can listen to musik. She said OK. So the musik was playing at the maximum there for 2 years. I was hearding these songs at the radio everywhere. In 2006 I stopped cause I was with these girl and I thought we could get off of it we were poor and I thought me and her we will get something for all that publicity that helped a lot. But we get nothing and times were getting harder and harder. I stopped in 2006 for personnal reasons. I came back on doyou around march 2009 with my words and I restart it cause I like hip-hop and cause I thought that I could be one to became at the top also with these words and with the publicity and my kool name that could became popular for everyone. That can help artists. Now I trying to play songs on the radio and bring some new vocabulary with the old vocabulary I brought younger. And I want to get Pay. I want to have my home if someone can approove that my publicity helped and helps a lot. If you want write me back to give me some tricks or other comments. I think that my words and publicty brought and brings great help.
B. Dot, ya’ll comment on everyone and everything all day long and put yourself out there like that to have the same done to you when you make those comments. If none of your barbs at the artists who make your jobs possible are not personal, you shouldn’t take them personal either. Besides, “What YN eats don’t make you shit”, right (©Jay-Z – well that embodies portion of an original line written by S.Carter.) LOL
♠Ace
I would be curious to find out how his Reasonable Doubt album have sold since the launch of this tour. Great marketing….if I was new to this I would definitly be hitting the itune store asap after leaving the show
YN this post could do without you rambling about being a jay-z stan
“My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle Like a Lexus, if driven wrong it’s sure to hurt you, Dual level like duplexes”
@Abdiesel
I’m with on that note, Vol 3 is one of my faves along with Vol 1 & BP2
I love Jay-Z and I want to have his baby. I love being on his nutz and I want him to nut a big one all over my textured african american hair.
Well Modern Jay-Z fans need to go back and connect with the songs from the past. I want to hear cuts from Vol. 1, D:RLF, etc when I go see Shawn Corey in concert.
“modern day fans get the fuck out of this post”
^i thought that was just a play on Squeeze 1st on The Dynasty
“squeamish kids, yall get the fuck outta this verse, its about to get so obscene in a minute”
shrug* …in any case, seems like niggas would be used to the jay-z posts being so plentiful. anyway though, Can I Live has been my favorite jay joint for years. shit is so descriptive. i think bryan crawford called reasonable doubt the first intellectual approach to the life of a hustler, the inner conflict and personal testimony etc in hip hop. i tend to agree. he got deep with it
“in unity, my crew and me commit atrocities like we got immunity, you guessed it
manifest it in tangible goods, platinum rolexes
we don’t lease, we buy the whole car as you should”
“when it boils to steam, it comes to it, we all fiends gotta do it
even righteous minds go through this
true this: these streets school us to spend our money foolish
bond with jewelers and watch for intruders
i stepped it up another level, meditated like a buddhist
recruited lieutenants with ludicrous dreams of getting cream
lets do this, it gets te-di-ous
so i keep one eye open like CBS, you see me stressed, right?”
ugh
Classic song. BP3 was great, and I don’t live in the past but lyric-ly that nigga was gettin biz on that album…He still is nowhere near Run live..Keep it real YN…Jay is the shit though…by the time he really retires…people who still have Big or Pac, Rah or LL number one will have to give it up. His catalog is sick.
Easily his best song IMO. Anytime a nigga start with that “Jay-z ain’t lyrical” shit I turn this bitch up, and then ask them where they fuck they was in ’96?
Real Talk – A surprise hov appearance at a young money show would eclipse the response of the young money surprise at the garden. Not to say it wasn’t electric, because it was. But think about it.
ps: Minaj’s ass >
He went in on the classics in ATL also, best part of the show to me…
NAS ethered JAY