Jay-Z & The Roots - MTV Unplugged (2001)
A Jay-Z live album where he's backed up by The Roots, and also has Jaguar Wright up there on stage singing for him! It's pretty enjoyable and has some great moments, like when The Roots start playing Nas' "N.Y. State of Mind" during Jay-Z's diss on "Takeover", really helps put the salt in the wound, and it can even be funny, like when Jay-Z fucks up with his self-censoring and lets loose a few uses of "shit" and "fuck", but HOW THE FUCK IS THIS "Unplugged"? Nearly everyone on stage is using electric instruments! THE FUCK?! Ah well, The Roots do a great job, so does Jaguar Wright, and Jay-Z does a pretty good job too, but I generally just don't really fuck with his live performances that much because of how different he is in tone (vocally) compared to the studio originals that I've grown to love. Still, very much worth checking out, if anything, to write about and try to get your older brother to actually fucking respond to one of your messages on Facebook, because he used to be your best friend, but now he just stays off in the distance unless something major comes up or he needs something from you, and it really, REALLY fucking sucks because you feel like you don't even FUCKING HAVE ANYONE while you're going through a really fucking rough patch in your life because YOU WERE A STUPID ARROGANT PRICK over the years and unintentionally made everyone, including a best friend you'd consider a brother, fucking leave you, and that's why your entire fucking life now consists of trying to self-medicate until you can fucking pass out for at least eight hours a night because you FUCKING HATE BEING ALIVE and you just want to FUCKING DIE but you can't fucking bear doing that to your fucking mother because she's been through enough shit in her life to not deserve having to find and bury one of her fucking children in her life, so you just end up fucking screaming into a pillow every Goddamn night while thinking that if there IS a God, He will take pity on you and end your life peacefully while you're dreaming about how things used to be.
AND THE CROWD ENDS UP SINGING THE HOOK TO "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" EARLY AND THAT'S KIND OF FUNNY TOO I GUESS
7/10
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