JAY Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne

JAY Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne


Anything Kanye or JAY Z(no idea why he changed the way his name was written, i.e., all caps and no hyphen) makes will be at least decent, if not good or great. That being said I wouldn't say this is one of the strongest of either of these two hip-hop great's works, but it still falls into the "good" category. This an album that required growing on for me to enjoy as well. Though I still have to skip "Made in America", I just hate that song, the rest of the album is at least enjoyable for me to play through. My favorites thus far on the album are "Murder to Excellence", "That's My Bitch", and "Who Gon Stop Me". Overall, I don't want this to come across as me thinking it's a bad album, it isn't, like I said it falls into the "good" category, it's just I've come to expect nothing but breath-taking from such a duo (and especially after Kanye in Dark Fantasy...).

As well, I have to say I was sad at first to find out initially that it was exclusively released on iTunes on the 8th (everything else was for the 12th), while I wanted the album, I refused to pay for it on iTunes. However, lucky for me, there was a second way to get it early. If you had already purchased a ticket to the Watch the Throne concert, then you received the album early, and at 320 kbps  mp3 at that, woo.


All of that taken into account, I give this album a decent:

7/10