base talk Can you name a solo Jay-Z song?

[Space Cowboy]

Can you?

[Fleahive]

Pop twinks please stop trying to downplay the success of black rappers challenge. P.s. a heavy part of rap and hip hop culture is collaboration. 
 

 

Edited Thursday at 08:47 PM by Fleahive

[Selegend]

i thought about empire state of mind, crazy in love and n**gas in paris

so the answer is no. 

[nostalgic]

Who doesn't know Hard Knock Life or 99 Problems though

[Shinning]

2 minutes ago, nostalgic said:

Who doesn't know Hard Knock Life or 99 Problems though

Right? Expand your music taste beyonde Taylor Swift y'all.

[Burn]

Duh? I know his full discography. Girls Girls Girls is one of my fav songs and his MTV Unplugged album is a classic. Tbh he's one of the most accessible rap artists that if there's one rapper that pop stans should know, it's him.

[kimberly]

I'm sorry. I understand he's a rapper and he's got features a lot of the time on his hits — which is the nature of being a hip hop artist, though that's a conversation for another day...

 

...but if you don't know 99 Problems you need to log off.

[gatito]

99 problems 

[satellites.™]

Big Pimpin spend the G's

[Erreur2 La Nature]

2 minutes ago, kimberly said:

...but if you don't know 99 Problems you need to log off.

Why would anyone know a song that charted in 4 different countries ?

 

UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)[29]	2
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[33]	10
UK Singles (OCC)[28]	12
Ireland (IRMA)[27]	23
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[31]	26
US Billboard Hot 100[30]	30
US Pop Airplay (Billboard)[32]	37
Germany (GfK)[26]	67

[Gorjesspazze9]

Dirt off my Shoulder still slaps too this day

[Imagine Dragon]

I know this song, lol.

 

 

 

[byzantium]

I know 99 problems, but since the song is 20 years old, I would not fault someone younger, or not from the US for not knowing it.  

[king_queen]

 

[Raphy23]

Forever Young 

[Yellowfever]

he's completely unknown outside the US.

[Siberian Tiger]

Even I know Hard Knock Life

[kimberly]

Just now, Erreur2 La Nature said:

Why would anyone know a song that charted in 4 different countries ?

 

UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)[29]	2
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[33]	10
UK Singles (OCC)[28]	12
Ireland (IRMA)[27]	23
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[31]	26
US Billboard Hot 100[30]	30
US Pop Airplay (Billboard)[32]	37
Germany (GfK)[26]	67

not this  not everything has to be measured by global chart appeal, especially Black hip-hop musicians' success. there are plenty of examples of GENRE-DEFINING hip-hop classics from the 90's/00's that only charted in the US/UK.

 

if you care about music and aren't uncultured, you know "99 Problems." that's the end of that.

[Draper.]

Everyone has heard 99 Problems, wether they know it's 99 Problems or not.

[Erreur2 La Nature]

8 minutes ago, kimberly said:

not this  not everything has to be measured by global chart appeal, especially Black hip-hop musicians' success. there are plenty of examples of GENRE-DEFINING hip-hop classics from the 90's/00's that only charted in the US/UK.

 

if you care about music and aren't uncultured, you know "99 Problems." that's the end of that.

You can't expect the whole world to know a song that wasn't popular anywhere on the planet.

[Hey Babes]

Crazy in love 

[SlowGinFizzzz]

I don't know that many solo ones, but yes, everyone knows 99 Problems.

[Princess Aurora]

 

This song is for the classy girls, bookworms, and intellectuals 

[Space Cowboy]

10 minutes ago, Draper. said:

Everyone has heard 99 Problems, wether they know it's 99 Problems or not.

I just listened to it since you all keep mentioning it in this thread, and I can confidently say I've never heard that song in my entire life. But to be fair I'm not murican. Song was mid tho 

[kimberly]

3 minutes ago, Erreur2 La Nature said:

You can't expect the whole world to know a song that wasn't popular anywhere on the planet.

who's talking about the whole world? I'm saying if you're a music fan (likely why you're on this forum), you should 100% know "99 Problems." point blank.

 

also the second half of your statement is absolutely horse ****. we're talking about LimeWire and mixtape era of music. who cares if Greek/Norwegian/Slovak radio didn't play it?

 

for your chart obsessed ass, here's a stat: it's one of the most streamed songs from 2003 on Spotify with 244 million streams.