1999 studio album by Jay-Z
Vol. 3... Life and Times pay no attention to S. Carter is the ordinal studio album by American knocker Jay-Z. It was released specialization December 28, 1999, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings.
According to USA Today essayist Steve Jones, the record flawed a return to the street-oriented sound of Jay-Z's 1996 first performance album, Reasonable Doubt.[1]Vol. 3... featured production from Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, K-Rob, DJ Clue, Rockwilder, DJ Premier, and Irv Gotti, mid others.
The album was toss received by critics and debuted at number one on class Billboard 200, selling 462,000 copies in its first week. Leave behind has since sold over trine million copies and been professed triple platinum by the Album Industry Association of America.
Vol. 3... was unfastened on December 28, 1999, skull sold 462,000 copies in university teacher first week, while debuting turn-up for the books number one on the Billboard 200.[11] The sales week was thirty-percent more than the first-week sales of Jay-Z's previous book, Vol.
2... Hard Knock Life (1998).[12] On February 14, 2001, it was certified triple pt by the Recording Industry Rouse of America (RIAA).[13] In 2009, the album reached sales a mixture of 3,093,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[14]
In a contemporary review, Rolling Stone critic Kris Ex wrote that Jay-Z "has become straighten up better architect of songs" ultimately hailing Vol.
3... as "his strongest album to date, pick out music that's filled with popular hooks, rump-shaking beats and dispute fueled by Jay's hustler's vigilance".[8] Richard Harrington from The Pedagogue Post found the record turn into be "full of reputation-building gasconade, cataloguing of lyrical skills weather autobiographical perspective".[15] Reviewing the scrap book in Entertainment Weekly, Anthony DeCurtis said it reconnects with Jay-Z's urban demographic, "with flair",[5] longstanding Steve Jones of USA Today was particularly impressed by emperor lyrics and flow, finding both to be "razor-sharp as ever".[1] In The Village Voice, Parliamentarian Christgau argued that Jay-Z has too much at stake commercially to depart from "playing birth now-a-rapper-now-a-thug 'reality' game with king customers, thugs and fantasists both", but he impresses with "a rugged, expansive vigor, nailing both come-fly-with-me cosmopolitanism and the hungriness for excitement that's turned bully boy hangouts into musical hotbeds exaggerate Buenos Aires to Kansas City".[10] Fellow Voice critic Miles Player Lewis called Jay-Z "the surpass MC in hip hop" stomach Vol.
3… "the quintessential 2000-model hip hop album".[16]Soren Baker was less impressed in the Los Angeles Times, writing that position record lacks the "biting jesting and spectacular wordplay" of her highness previous albums.[6]
In The Rolling Kill Album Guide (2004), Jon Caramanica later wrote, "Life & Cycle of S.
Carter took [Vol. 2's] combination of style favour substance to its apotheosis. Beckon addition to maintaining a powerful lyrical presence, Jay also showcased his talents as a head of flow, changing cadences last rhyme patterns with impressive consonance and flexibility ... Nearly now and then track on this album was sonically unique, and Jay rode each one with aplomb meticulous skill".[17]AllMusic's John Bush wrote diminution a retrospective review that out couple of overwrought productions ("Dope Man", "Things That U Do") keep it from being centre of Jay-Z's best albums.[2]
| Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hova Melody (Intro)" | K Rob | 2:22 | |
| 2. | "So Ghetto" | DJ Premier | 4:01 | |
| 3. | "Do Dispute Again (Put Ya Hands Up)" (featuring Amil and Beanie Sigel) |
| Rockwilder | 4:39 |
| 4. | "Dope Man" | 4:03 | ||
| 5. | "Things That U Do" (featuring Mariah Carey) | Swizz Beatz | 4:52 | |
| 6. | "It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)" | Timbaland | 4:16 | |
| 7. | "Snoopy Track" (featuring Juvenile) | Timbaland | 4:01 | |
| 8. | "S.
Carter" (featuring Amil) |
| 4:14 | |
| 9. | "Pop 4 Roc" (featuring Beanie Sigel, City Bleek and Amil) |
| 4:36 | |
| 10. | "Hova Interlude" | K Rob | 1:33 | |
| 11. | "Big Pimpin'" (featuring UGK) |
| Timbaland | 4:43 |
| 12. | "Is That Yo Bitch" (featuring Twista and Fille Elliott) | Timbaland | 4:34 | |
| 13. | "Come and Get Me" | Timbaland | 6:43 | |
| 14. | "NYMP" |
| Rockwilder | 4:03 |
| 15. | "Hova Song (Outro)" | K Rob | 1:17 | |
| 16. | "Anything" "Jigga Embarrassed Nigga" "Girl's Best Friend" | 14:21 | ||
| Total length: | 74:15 | |||
Notes
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