October 31, 2000 - Jay -Z The Dynasty : Roc La Familia
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Happy Anniversary this album turn 17 years old today and now it's Rated R eligible. Jay -Z was in his prime back in 2000. The album came out less than 9 month after Volume 3 Album. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 557,789 copies sold in its first week and more than 2.3 million copies sold to date. The album generally received positive reviews from music critics and the album ended up becoming the 20th highest selling R&B/Hip-Hop Album of the 2000–2010 decade according to Billboard.
Is this Jay -Z most underrated album Thoughts?
Is this Jay -Z most underrated album Thoughts?
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DOPE ALBUM. SOME OF HIS BEST MATERIAL IS ON THIS JOINT. MUSICALLY, HE WAS ALREADY MOVING TOWARDS THAT SAMPLE HEAVY BLUEPRINT STYLE ON THIS. NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE HATE FOR THIS JOINT.
ALSO, I REMEMBER THINKING THIS ? CAME OUT OF NOWHERE BACK IN 2000. -
DOPE ALBUM. SOME OF HIS BEST MATERIAL IS ON THIS JOINT. MUSICALLY, HE WAS ALREADY MOVING TOWARDS THAT SAMPLE HEAVY BLUEPRINT STYLE ON THIS. NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE HATE FOR THIS JOINT.
ALSO, I REMEMBER THINKING THIS ? CAME OUT OF NOWHERE BACK IN 2000.
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MAYBE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD...
I KNOW IT DROPPED IN 2000, BUT I REMEMBER THE ALBUM DROPPING OUT OF THE BLUE...LIKE...THE ALBUM ROLL-OUT WAS VERY SUDDEN... -
I remember this and Outkast's Stankonia dropped the same day.....bought them both.....there was a rumor that Def Jam had purchased more Dynasty albums in order to outsell Stankonia for the top spot for week 1 sales
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MAYBE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD...
I KNOW IT DROPPED IN 2000, BUT I REMEMBER THE ALBUM DROPPING OUT OF THE BLUE...LIKE...THE ALBUM ROLL-OUT VERY SUDDEN...
Your Right... Jay -Z came on MTV News too talk about the sudden release
https://youtu.be/vP3Wqy3OMfk -
MAYBE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD...
I KNOW IT DROPPED IN 2000, BUT I REMEMBER THE ALBUM DROPPING OUT OF THE BLUE...LIKE...THE ALBUM ROLL-OUT VERY SUDDEN...
Initially, it wasn’t supposed to be a Jay album. It was a rocafella compilation album.
Then Jay called an audible. -
One of the best intros in rap history
? it arguably the best ever, ? is perfect -
I only listen to RD,HKL vol.2, and BP, ill have to revisit Roc Lafamilia one day this week.
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http://read.tidal.com/article/23-things-you-might-not-know-about-jay-zs-the-dynasty-roc-la-familia
Initially conceptualized as a Roc-A-Fella compilation album, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, was released as JAY Z’s fifth solo album on October 31, 2000.
The album was a warning shot to everyone that Roc-A-Fella Records boasted the strongest rap crew in the game with JAY Z showcasing a roster that included stars-in-the-making such as Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Freeway, and Amil. Sonically the album was chock-full of soulful production from Bink!, Just Blaze, and Kanye West that laid the foundation for the ? MC’s classic sixth album, The Blueprint. To commemorate the 15th anniversary of The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, TIDAL spoke with Roc-A-Fella A&Rs, Kyambo “Hip-Hop” Joshua and Lenny “Lenny S” Santiago, Memphis Bleek and Freeway, and producer Bink!, who dropped some jewels behind the making of the much heralded album.
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The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
JAY-Z
1. The Dynasty: Roc La Familia was recorded from end of July to September in 2000. It started one day at Baseline Studios when Memphis Bleek was working in the larger A-Room. Bleek’s normal engineer, Brian Stanley, had called out sick. Young Guru worked with Bleek that day instead and called the then up-and-coming producers, Just Blaze and Kanye West, to come to the studio. Bink! happened to be working with Missy Elliott’s artist, Mocha, in the smaller B-Room. JAY Z and Hip-Hop stopped by Bleek’s session later and when Hip-Hop went in to talk with Bink and heard the beat for “You, Me, Him and Her,” he called JAY Z in. Mocha agreed to give JAY Z the beat and this became the first song recorded for the album.
2. NBA star, Malik Sealy, who owned Baseline Studios, was in the session when JAY Z recorded “You, Me, Him And Her.”
3. Bink! got the Moments’ “What’s Your Name” sample used on “You, Me, Him And Her” from Sylvia Robinson’s son, Joseph “Scutchy” Robinson, along with records from The Escorts, Skull Snaps, and others, as Scutchy and Sylvia had recently got the publishing rights for various artists’ catalogs. Bink! then put the Moments’ “What’s Your Name” in his MPC 3000 at 45rpm and sped it up +10 or +15rpm pitch-wise so the sample had a chipmunk-sound. Bink! then had Scutchy come to his Hackensack, New Jersey home, played him “You, Me, Him And Her” and asked him if he could recognize the sample. Scutchy didn’t recognize it, but Bink told him anyways and cleared the sample.
4. While JAY Z and The Neptunes were at New York’s Right Trax Studios (now Platinum Sounds Recording Studios) recording “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me),” Ludacris’ manager, Chaka Zulu, called Hip-Hop and told him they needed a second single for his Def Jam debut, Back For the First Time. Hip-Hop booked another room in the same studio for Ludacris to work out of and The Neptunes went downstairs and they recorded “Southern Hospitality” the same night.
5. No one else laid down any verses for The Dynasty album until there were six songs recorded for the project.
6. Just Blaze used Logic to make the beat for “Streets Is Talking.”
7. Although initially meant to be a Roc-A-Fella Records compilation, after “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” and “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)” were recorded, it was decided that it would be a JAY Z album.
8. Def Jam Records didn’t want to release it as a compilation because they felt it would be hard to find in the record stores if it wasn’t under JAY Z’s name.
9. Puff Daddy had a version of “I’ll Be Missing You” that used the same Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes’ “I Miss You” sample used for “This Can’t Be Life” that he played for Hip-Hop.
10. JAY Z and Beanie Sigel recorded their verses for “This Can’t Be Life” together in New York. Scarface recorded his a couple days later in New York.
11. Ghostface Killah was supposed to be on “This Can’t Be Life,” but due to miscommunication, Lenny S didn’t get in touch with him before the deadline to turn the album in.
12. JAY Z and Hip-Hop wanted to purchase two Timbaland records before they had ever started working on The Dynasty that Static Major had written hooks for including one called “I’m A Phenonem,” which helped develop the relationship that led to him singing on “Change The Game.”
13. Although “Change The Game” was recorded the first week JAY Z started working on The Dynasty, it didn’t have a hook until right before album was done. They listened to the song without a hook throughout the whole recording process of the album and decided to give Static a ? at it right before the album was done.
14. Memphis Bleek was mad because the production crew wouldn’t let him actually ride a motorcycle in the video for “Change The Game.” For safety reasons they hitched it to a truck that dragged it for the scene where he was on one.
15. Bink! bought the Ten Wheel Drive’s “Ain’t Gonna Happen” record that he sampled for “1-900-Hustler” at a yard sale for $5 in Norfolk, Virginia.
16. It was JAY Z’s idea to bring in the elevator music that played right before Freeway’s verse on “1-900-Hustler.”
17. Hip-Hop got the concept for “1-900-Hustler” from the Convicts’ “1-900-Dial-A-Crook.”
18. Beanie Sigel was originally supposed to have a verse on “1-900-Hustler,” but instead asked Hip-Hop and Young Guru to let Freeway have his slot.
19. While recording “1-900-Hustler” everyone rapped over the parts with the horns coming in that Bink! intended to be the hook, and used the parts he intended to be the verses with the choir to do the phone operator skits.
20. Bink! is the voice for Murder Def ? Homicide ? on “1-900-Hustler.”
21. Because Roc-A-Fella had signed so many rappers from Philadelphia at that point with Oschino, Sparks, Beanie Siegel, Young Chris, And Neef, Freeway wasn’t officially signed to Roc-A-Fella Records when The Dynasty hit stores. Puff Daddy tried to sign him once the album came out, but he eventually signed with Roc-A-Fella.
22. “Streets Is Talking” was originally supposed to only have JAY Z on it. But Beanie Sigel asked to lay a verse on it, and JAY Z was fine with it.
23. The videos for “Change The Game,” “Do My…,” “Hey Papi,” “And “Is That Your Chick,” were all shot in L.A. over the course of 5 days. -
I seen and live it, I did some things I admit it
Wasn't proud of it, but I was a child ? it
Kept a pow tucked in a brown belt
Couldn't sit down, big gun kept stickin my pelvis
? it was either that or be livin wit Elvis
? is jealous, hell is hot, you heard X
Wanted to tell ? that I don't deserve this
Was afraid that he'd tell me I deserve less
My life was nervous, you haven't heard stress
Til you heard the cries of my mama, me givin her drama
Told her I ain't promised tomorrow, gotta live for the day
And before she could say Jay... -
JAY ORIGINALLY SAID HE BILLED IT AS HIS ALBUM INSTEAD OF A COMPILATION B/C HE WAS "IN THE ZONE"
BUT YEARS LATER JAY ADMITTED DEF JAM APPLIED PRESSURE ON HIM...
DAMAGE CONTROL AT ITS FINEST...
JUDGING BY THE QUALITY...THERE MIGHT BE SOME TRUTH TO IT...
BTW, BEANS WENT IN ON THIS ALBUM...
FAV. JOINTS
(THE DYNASTY) INTRO
YOU ME HIM HER
1-900-HUSTLER
THIS CAN'T BE LIFE (CHECK OUT DR. DRE'S XXPLOSIVE DRUM PATTERN)
STREETS IS TALKING
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i remember me and my ? went half on some ? car for $300.00 right before this dropped....yo u couldnt tell us nothing cruising thru Chicago, playing the dynasty on repeat in our ? car
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you , me and her
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Dynasty Intro>>>>>any other intro in hip hop history
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Dynasty Intro>>>>>any other intro in hip hop history
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Intro >>>
7 Day Theory Intro >>>
Midnight Marauders Intro >>>
Ready To Die Intro >>>
Illmatic Intro >>>
Stillmatic Intro >>>
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Dynasty Intro>>>>>any other intro in hip hop history
dont know about history but its up there -
Word is bond, you grew up around ? -
R (dot) O (dot) C (dot) stop
From Tower to ma and pop, I move out stop
Shower your mom block, move out with Glocks
Raw to the cook, look, move out them blocks
Take it to the bucks who be grinding it up
Usually take it to the dubs so they diamond it up
Competition, lining em up
Forty-five ACP, let me squeeze lime em up
You want, drama what
Well silence it up
Since a young buck
Violent as ?
Wasn't me dog
The high will do it
I used to wild off embalming fluid
I sent ? to the trauma unit
Forty-five or the nine'll do it
I ? around and have your moms go through it
I'm a beast
? , ? always wanna ye ?
Then they wanna cease ?
When they ? peeps hit
But I don't cease nothing, I decease someone
I ? around and have you sleeping underneath som'un
Jigga Man huh, Sigel Sigel y'all
Memph Bleek what, Amillion, uhh -
You are a ? -
Jay my man hunnid bands, but I say, and will continue to say, Cam'ron had the best verse to the intro beat that i've heard.
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You are a ?
Nope but you got ? by one -
Don't blink LMAAAOOOOOOOOO. Said he had my ? combin his chest hair.
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You are a ?
Nope but you got ? by one
And I castrated - him -
MAYBE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD...
I KNOW IT DROPPED IN 2000, BUT I REMEMBER THE ALBUM DROPPING OUT OF THE BLUE...LIKE...THE ALBUM ROLL-OUT WAS VERY SUDDEN...
I remember this too. I think the rollout was different bc it was supposed to be a ROC compilation that became a jay album all of a sudden -
blue_london wrote: »I seen and live it, I did some things I admit it
Wasn't proud of it, but I was a child ? it
Kept a pow tucked in a brown belt
Couldn't sit down, big gun kept stickin my pelvis
? it was either that or be livin wit Elvis
? is jealous, hell is hot, you heard X
Wanted to tell ? that I don't deserve this
Was afraid that he'd tell me I deserve less
My life was nervous, you haven't heard stress
Til you heard the cries of my mama, me givin her drama
Told her I ain't promised tomorrow, gotta live for the day
And before she could say Jay...
What's the name of this song...loved that beat
