THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Barry Egan on August 05, 2009, 07:32:21 PM
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(http://www.avclub.com/assets/images/articles/article/31326/Jay-z_Blueprint3.JPG_jpeg_300x1000_q85.jpg)
"These things are like the forgotten pieces in hip-hop," Hov said in an interview. "It's still about music. It's not about radio, making gimmicks -- it's still about making music. Those things are piled in the corner. These are the forgotten things about music...The three stripes that everybody is asking about is made from the original [number] three. The first three they made on the wall was someone carving. If you look at [the number] three, all they did was connect lines. The whole thing about this album, how I approached it, is that I wanted to make a new classic to start that all over again -- to go back to making classic albums like the ones we grew up listening to." (MTV)
Can someone Strunk and White this shit please?
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Like, woah, man.
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IT ALL MAKES SENSE
Seriously though, I'm really excited for his new album. It's amazing how much I used to loathe Jay Z, Reasonable Doubt aside, but I'm really starting to like his recent direction.
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The album received universal acclaim from most music critics
:wtf
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Hova? Really? Not Jay Z or Carter? I'll stream it first and see if it's worth a pickup
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Can someone Strunk and White this shit please?
the three lines are a "3" without the line to connect all three lines. he says that a "3" was made when someone saw three lines like on the album cover and drew a line to connect them, creating something new. so this album is like him going back to the roots of hip hop and creating something new out of it.
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I get confused when he says that the 3 was created when someone "connected the lines". As in mentally?
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what is this I don't even
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I get confused when he says that the 3 was created when someone "connected the lines". As in mentally?
I guess it is some symbolic thing that he came up with. Unless there's some story about the creation of the very first "3" that I don't know about :lol
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(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z47/contextfree/3.jpg)
I don't think it's that hard to understand, no idea if it's historically accurate though.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_%28number%29#Evolution_of_the_glyph
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Evolution3glyph.png)
Three is often the largest number written with as many lines as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but to this day 3 is written as three lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the Brahmin Indians wrote it, and the Gupta made the three lines more curved. The Nagari started rotating the lines clockwise and ending each line with a slight downward stroke on the right. Eventually they made these strokes connect with the lines below, and evolved it to a character that looks very much like a modern 3 with an extra stroke at the bottom. It was the Western Ghubar Arabs who finally eliminated the extra stroke and created our modern 3. (The "extra" stroke, however, was very important to the Eastern Arabs, and they made it much larger, while rotating the strokes above to lie along a horizontal axis, and to this day Eastern Arabs write a 3 that looks like a mirrored 7 with ridges on its top line): ٣[2]
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What was so difficult to understand about his explanation? smh
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The album received universal acclaim from most music critics
:wtf
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/jayz/americangangster?q=american%20gangster
POW
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50New Musical Express
You leave American Gangster longing for more of this don't-give-a-fuck attitude, but the feeling that presides is Jay-Z patting his wallet.
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universal acclaim from most music critics
as if "literally" as generic intensifier weren't bad enough, smh.
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Isn't 80% 'most'? Just sayin'.
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uh, I think you're missing the point here
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Everybody completely understands what you're saying, mostly.
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It better be better than his last two albums.
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Holy shit yeah, totally missed the point. :lol
As for the album, I have high hopes after Run This Town and DOA.
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Watch this come out and be more generic hip hop drivel.
Jay-Z + Autotune
So clearly a troll but whatever the song is actually good
[youtube=560,345]aMuf_ekJhOs[/youtube]
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Before making "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)", co-song producer Kanye West and Jay-Z had recorded an Auto-Tune song. However, West heard the instrumental by No I.D. and thought about making an anti-Auto-Tune song. They then removed all the songs that contained Auto-Tune from The Blueprint 3 to further their point.[3] Jay-Z himself stated that the point of the song was to "draw a line in the sand", saying that while he appreciated the use of the Auto-Tune by artists with an ear for melody like T-Pain, Kanye West, & Lil Wayne, far too many people had jumped onto the technology and were using it as a crutch.[1] One of the partial inspirations for Jay-Z to write the song was hearing Auto-Tune being used in an advertisement for Wendy's fast-food chain. It made him realize that what was once a trend has become a gimmick.[4]
:lol Hypocrites.
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ooh, here's 4:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Evolution4glyph.png)
This is pretty interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Jay-Z!
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The beat for DOA is decent but his lyrics are unmemorable.
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The beat for DOA is decent but his lyrics are unmemorable.
The same goes for Run This Town.
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Oh look, what's this
http://forums.projectcovo.com/showthread.php?t=2104391
camel stay losing
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camel :lol
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Oh look, what's this
http://forums.projectcovo.com/showthread.php?t=2104391
camel stay losing
I see the resemblance to the secret machines cover, but the U2 one is a big, dumb stretch.