Make Your Next Move Your Best Move & Play it Like A Chess Move

With the success of Jay-Z’s newest CD The BluePrint 3 it was sure that a huge tour would follow. Well that tour is upon us and the BluePrint 3 Tour is underway. Jay-Z is sharing his tour and split it among himself, Young Jeezy and Trey Songz. When I looked at the line up my initial thought was “huh.” I get the Young Jeezy add on, those two have been cool for a minute, but the Trey thing kinda boggled my mind for a second. I mean really until very very recently has Trey been getting big radio spins and his album sales never garnered him as a “big time artist.” To me though, he is pound for pound one of the best singers out in a long time. He has a wide vocal range and can really sing, but his songs never really did anything for me until recently. Jay-Z is an opportunist and he wants to throw an all boys tour I get that, but a key underlying note to this whole thing is good ol’ revenge. Ya see Trey and Jim Jones used to roll super heavy, back when Jones put out “Diary of a Summer” and was going at Jay-Z and his reign of Summer hits. The young boy Trey was featured on that song, and they toured awhile promoting that album and single. Also, Jimmy started using Rell one of the original singers and signees to Roc-A-Fella on his songs and albums. So as a sort of silent rebuttal Jay-Z takes Trey Songz on tour…it’s like they are playing chess. It’s actually an interesting game. It’s clear who is winning the game but you kinda are thinking what’s the next move gonna be?

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Pray IV Plain

Listen swagger and charisma be damned...I had high hopes for Jim's album...higher then some b/c of some other vested interests. But its sad that on Tuesday when I bought it... uploaded it to my Ipod...and listened it was pretty regular. The build up too this album has been higher than any of his previous efforts but the music is the same if not worse. There is no growth on this record. He first made the move to a major label...stole (borrowed) the semi-horrible "Pop Champagne" as a single let that fade away...put on a play...remix popular songs such as Asher Roth's "I Love College," and Kid Cudi's "Day N Nite." He was constantly on the Internet with interview videos and clips with him and Dame Dash and Rick Rubin. So the marketing power was there. But the actual album when you look at it doesn't back up all the media put behind it. Sub-Par records and production. Why get the fake T-Pain (Ron Browz) on your records...you ballin' get T-Pain...Why get fake Timbaland beat...get Timbaland. Then he gets Ryan Leslie but shoots a video for "Blow The Bank!!!" WTF!! Some dude named Oshy singing on it...its just some strange shit going on. And Dame knows what a good album is supposed to sound like (i guess) so why wouldn't he tell his man.."homie this shit ain't rocking." Jones album sold 42,000...if he was all the way still on Koch (E1..whatever) those would be fairly decent numbers...but given that this was a Columbia Records joint venture...even with the firings...he would have been better off all indy.

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Trailer Watching

Check out Big Bully in the trailer for the ByrdGang Movie. I think I do more promoting than this guy.

Grinding like a Mexican....Viva La Raza

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