It Must Be Nice.

Hm. Sit in apt on Labor day staring at a wall, or make 86MM in 2008 while my wife made 82 MM amidst dropping the most anticipated hip hop album of 2009? Son, of, a, bitch. Atleast I can stick it to this asshole just alittle bit by pirating his album.

So I downloaded the Blueprint 3 Torrent on Thurs, and my Bose joints have been bellowing the shit throughout my apartment for roughly 72 hours, in a desperate attempt to find something I can mouth at myself in the mirror to, while aiming gun-hands at the reflection of a 24 year old gone mad. Unsuccessful, in my quest, would be the understatement of this eon.

Look, I get the whole "i'm grown up, I don't necessarily need to tell you my rims are 24 inches anymore, in fact they ain't as I stick to stock Bentleys" shtick. Ofcourse, instead, I end up getting an earful about how Hova no longer "runs hip hop" but "runs the map" now. Somebody needs to fetch this guy a Venti coffee, bag of yola or SOMETHING to knock the jiggaman out this coma he seemed to slip into on Blueprint 3.

It's pretty clear Hova is over rap. And the next gen of hip hop aren't making me hopeful in the slightest. T.I? yawn. Wayne, okay fine but I rarely understand what he's saying. Drizzy Drake? Son, you were on Degrassi. I'm from a suburb in fairfield county Ct and I'm harder than you. What happened to being from crooklyn, or the slums of shoalin?

Getting back to the album, it's painfully obvious that Jiggas fed up with just about everything. Lukewarmth overtakes the listener immediately with the albums opener.

You've got Death of Autones, ehh, heard it a milly times. And at the mention of "this ain't for iTunes, this ain't for singalongs", I'm now almost compelled to wholeheartedly agree.

Dunny just sounds grumpy, letting me know that it must be incredibly boring at the top. And with that 40th birfday coming up, I don't see Jayz ever regaining that fire that once burnt a fuckin whole in the asshole of my Levis. "No, I'm not a Jonas brother, I'm a grown-up". Thanks for clearing that one up for us.

He does offer unsatisfied fans like myself a slap in the face though in "On to the Next One" when he goes: Hov on that new shit, niggas like how come//
Niggas want my old shit... buy my old album

I'll admit, that one raised the pulse a bit, but on the whole I was left with nothing but frustration and an onslaught of bitching by the GF to "turn that wack shit off".

Here's the tracklist.

1. "What We Talkin' About" (feat. Luke Steele) //Kanye West
2. "Thank You" // Kanye West
3. "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
4. "Run This Town" (feat. Rihanna and Kanye West) //Kanye West,
5. "Empire State of Mind" (feat. Alicia Keys)
6. "Real as It Gets" (feat. Young Jeezy)
7. "On to the Next One" (feat. Swizz Beatz)// Swizz Beatz 4:17
8. "Off That" (feat. Drake) // Timbaland
9. "A Star Is Born" (feat. J. Cole)// Kanye West
10. "Venus vs. Mars" // Timbaland
11. "Already Home" (feat. Kid Cudi)// Kanye West
12. "Hate" (feat. Kanye West)// Kanye West
13. "Reminder" // Timbaland
14. "So Ambitious" (feat. Pharrell)// The Neptunes
15. "Young Forever" (feat. Mr Hudson)// Kanye West

ACE'S PICKS: THANK YOU, EMPIRE STATE OF MIND, ON TO THE NEXT ONE, HATE, SO AMBITIOUS

All in all, those are the only jams I'd feel comfortable blasting at a party. Everything else, to use track 8's phrasing, I'm off that.