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The real success here is that Jay attacks these subjects with a calm and collected manner, never rising with anger, choosing to weave his way through with puns and complicated rhymes to convey his message. Lyrically, American Gangster may be the smartest album Jay has ever released: the MC maneuvers through as diverse subjects as the tricky subject of gang violence and the recent out breakout of criticism against rap after the Don Imus debacle. He doesn’t exactly do that, but it’s obvious that Jay has rediscovered the main reason he’s considered to be one of the greatest of all time. Production is more focused than Jay’s previous album as well: it’s lush and beautiful, large enough to seem coherent, but also managing to give plenty of room for Jay-Z to build wonders with his wordplay. Jay-Z sounds relaxed and comfortable in his legacy on the mic: he’s not feeling as pressed to perform as he did on Kingdom Come, and the MC just lets his talent flow effortlessly. vs T.I.P as the best hip-hop concept album released this year. The concept manages to add extra buzz to the record: it makes what is usually just another hip-hop album more interesting, and there’s a large (and I mean large) chance that American Gangster could eclipse T.I. Even Kingdom Come reached number one on the charts, and that album wasn’t attached to what may be the biggest film of the second half of the year. It really is a good story, and Jay-Z has no reason to be worried about the album’s commercial appeal.
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The album becomes as hyped as heavily as the movie it’s smartly attached to, and early reviews hype American Gangster as Jay’s true comeback, a record that manages to hold its own against Jay’s other classics. Weeks later, American Gangster is announced for a November release, being a loose concept album documenting Jay-Z’s story if he’d never left the hustling and the drug trade.
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Jay-Z, seeing an advance screening of the flick, was motivated. On a seemingly unrelated note, Ridley Scott’s new movie loosely documenting legendary gangster Frank Lucas, titled American Gangster, is being filled to the brim with hype. Jay-Z, with his public popularity as low as George Bush’s, seems deflated after his supposed “comeback” album, Kingdom Come, failed considerably both commercially-wise and, most noticeably, critically-wise. Review Summary: Hova's back, and he's made one of the best albums of his career.