Jigga's the shit, even when he rhymes in third person on his album intros. However, you can hear hints of his subject matter maturing on a few songs some reflections about the life he was living, and new realizations that there was more to life than getting girls to shake their shit at the club. Carter was pretty much a turning point in Jigga's career it proved that no matter what he put out there, people would buy it. That makes it sound like Jay-Z fucked up the rap game by commercializing the hell out of it. By the time his fourth album came out on Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella, Shawn Carter had turned the art of the rap album into a scientific equation: the right amount of club bangers + just enough violence and drug content to appease the streets = platinum success. Let's get back to reviewing Hova's entire discography.
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