Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Album Review: Watch the Throne by Jay Z

As brilliant as Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was, this new collaboration with Jay Z is convoluted. The same mish-mash that worked so well on that prior album, falls flat here.

I think part of the problem is that it's hard to tell where West leaves off and Jay Z takes over. I think this album would have been better if West were simply the producer and Jay Z the voice, but they tried to do everything jointly and it simply doesn't work. I don't even hear the good parts that most reviews mention.

Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 0 out of 5 stars for Don't Like.

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