American Gangster vs The Black Album.. which album is the better album?..

DMTxCannabis

The Black Album: released November 14, 2003..



Change Clothes..



Dirt Off Your Shoulder..



99 Problems..



American Gangster: released November 6th 2007..



Blue Magic..



Roc Boys..



I Know..



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Both albums were released at almost exactly 4 years from each other.. TBA is probably his most memorable album being that he claimed he was gonna retire after TBA, and the release of Fade to Black definitely increased the allure of the album.. whereas the concept-driven album AG is generally considered his best post-retirement album..

So I ask, which album do ya'll think is better?..

ohhhla

The Black Album.

No Hello Brooklyn equals = superior albums.

YoungGoldie

The Black Album.

He was lyrically better on TBA. Puff did his thing on AG, but what Ye did on this joint trumps erething on AG....

ROZAYTABERNACLE

oh this is a tough one. both are easily his best albums since the blueprint...

Jamaica

The Black Album.

I like both but I give the edge to Black Album.

ohhhla

The Black Album.

Tommy, please don't come in here and state something asinine like

Dynasty Roc La Familia>>>>>>>>The Black Album

will grimey

American Gangster.

AG no debating that...

SleepwalkingInJapan

The Black Album.

Lucifer and Allure >>

Built 4 cuban linx

American Gangster.

tough but I'll say American gangster. album is damn near perfect

say hello and American gangster outro. I could listen to those all day

vslyke

The Black Album.

Black Album. AG is nice, but Black Album is a league above it.

southernmade

American Gangster.

I fuck with AG more than any other Jay album....

ShencotheMC

Black Album of course. AG not too far behind though.

lamontbdc

American Gangster.

yea i like AG more than Black Album

unspoken_respect

The Black Album.

Good memories

Bklyn's_OX_KING

American Gangster.

AG

it has that Black exploitation boom bap sound I like

Lou Cypher

The Black Album.

I enjoyed both albums a lot. Black album i played more of tho.

Love how so many remix albums came from these 2 albums, if you havent, check these out yall.







Brooklyn soul is a remix of American Gangster using all Marvin Gaye Samples. Beats are 100X better than the retail version of the album. And the samples totally give it that 1970's vibe. Fits perfectly.

Lou Cypher

The Black Album.

s2jepeka

American Gangster.

Damn...tough.

On 1 hand, lyrically Jay obviously was better on Black Album.

On the other hand, BA has a handful of avg to even WACK songs. Dont care what nobody say, Brush Your Shoulders is/was WACK. Justify my thug was meh. Moment of Clarity = the prototypical attrocious Eminem beat...

But then he got JEWELS wit My first song, Allure, and Lucifer.

AG gets the egde b/c there are no skips, and the concept and how he perfectly aligned full sngs with exact moments in the movie. Crazy

Vader

American Gangster.

like the production and vibe on this album better than TBA

s2jepeka

American Gangster.

When journeying though the album, Jay-Z rarely homes in on one song, but describes them in groups. It’s as if he doesn’t want one to outshine the others.

He begins to explain a song that correlates with a scene in the movie.

“In ‘Success,’ there is the scene [in the movie] where he shoots the guy in front of the [restaurant]…”

Suddenly, he starts spitting lines from the song.

“I’m way too important to be talking about extorting /Ask me for a portion is like askin’ for a coffin.”

Then he resumes the answer as if it weren’t just sliced in two by a rap bar.
"…where the guy tries to extort him in front of the diner,” he says moving to the next few songs. “ ‘Pray’ is the corruption with the cops. ‘Fallen’ is, his fall from grace. [The album] is all of the pieces and bits of emotions I pulled from the movie.”


“The last song is a song called ‘Fallen’ and that’s everything just falling apart,” he says, eventually reverting back to his brash brand of bravado. “[The album’s conclusion is] not really true and s**t, ‘cause I’m a bad ma’ f**ker. I really made it and s**t. I’m better than Al Capone – he ain’t make it. Michael Corleone [from “The Godfather”], Scarface – I’m iller than all them n***as.”

The room remains silent.

“Y’all gotta give it to me,” he coos…charming them into laughter. “That’s some very true s**t.”

http://board.rapmusic.com/hip-hop-central/1063946-jay-z-explains-whole-concept-american-gangster-jay-thinks-its-blueprint-esque.html

Law Trafalgar

American Gangster.

AG, i will never understand why tba album gets so much praise when there's literally 2-3 playable songs on there.

Young Gunner

The Black Album.

The Black Album is virtually unskippable. I like/love every song

Tommy bilfiger

ohhhla wrote: »

Tommy, please don't come in here and state something asinine like

Dynasty Roc La Familia>>>>>>>>The Black Album

It is and so is vol 1,BP,Bp2,Rd,ag,wtt

Jigga got 7 of them thangs(classics) like robert horry.The Wacc album aint one of em

ohhhla

The Black Album.

Jay -Z doesn't have 7 classics more like 3.

Vol. 2, BP, TBA

How is WTT a classic?

lamontbdc

American Gangster.

yea that 9th wonder remix of American gangsta is crazy

Yamoley

American Gangster.

American Gangster, hands down

Fuck the Black Album, I wholeheartedly loathe that bullshit album....and to think some morons call TBA a classic? Fuck outta here