Sounds similar eh???

How the hell am I supposed to know. I Couldn't name 2 Jay-z tracks

I don't hear any similarity. . .

lol how u figure?

btw is that what they're sayin?..change clothes? LOL

DMSR said:

maybe if you're wearing earmuffs and you've got a hearing problem, yeah

otherwise nope

How long has Jay Z's Black Album been out? I went into HMV yesterday and there it was, with the same plain black cover as the official release of The Black Album. Obviously a homage to Prince, I think.

ConsciousContact said:

yeah, right.

Yeah rhythmiclly it doesn't, but they might be using the same chords.

ConsciousContact said:

Nah, homage to Spinal Tap

Oh yeah, in that track "encore" there's a falsetto/scream that sounds just like Prince, as a matter of fact if he said it was I'd believe it.

change clothes bites prince

so hard

from the hook to fake pharell's

prince-like falsetto

I can see where you're coming from, but it's pretty derivitive any ways, not necessarily Prince, or Pop Life.

Is this stuff really riding high in the conciousness of the USA?

This is just drivel, it's not even music, it's some loop with some nasty pimp talking bollocks over the top, and not even nice tasty bollocks, it's the same shit we've been hearing from rappers over and over and over and over for the past 15 years.

Can't these no talent dumb-fucks come up with anything new to rap about?

That's a hot song and I bought the CD just because of it...Jay-Z's my boy and I'm glad he's back!!!
[This message was edited Tue Dec 2 18:41:38 PST 2003 by Starmist7]

uh...no.

look folks, prince is very much influential and stuff but not EVERYONE in the music biz today is taking ideas from him/ripping him off/copying him/stealing from him
This thinking must stop
[This message was edited Tue Dec 2 18:56:58 PST 2003 by lovebizzare]

lovebizzare said:

Jay-Z did try to get Prince to contribute to this album.

Supposedly Prince never returned his calls.

sinisterpentatonic said:

I know, but that doesn't mean he's ripping him off with this song (as insinuated in the original post)


not that I have anything agianst Jay, but thank good God almighty

Romance1600 said:

I love the Neptunes beats because they steal from Prince, curtis Mayfield, etc. but they are not songs, they are just beats with 2-4 measure loop that repeats. Listen to Justin, Jay Z, Britney or No Doubt, and these "songs" really don't go anywhere from the first beat to the last. I do like the production, but the songs need work! It's really sad what passes for a song these days.