Kingdom Come

I got the rap patrol on the gat patrol
Foes that wanna make sure my casket's closed
Rap critics that say he's money, cash, hoes...

The past few weeks I’ve seen Jay-Z on SportsCenter, in the booth at Monday Night Football, cooking quiche with Wolfgang Puck, on the Dan Patrick and Jim Rome Show, playing the tambourine at a suburban Chicago dance recital, calling bingo numbers at the El Paso swap meet, on the GQ cover, fixing a transmission on ‘Earl’s Shop’ on cable access, waving next to the giant Subway sandwich on the street corner, and hunting wild boar on American Sportsman. Basically, Hov has been hawking his new CD, Kingdom Come, everywhere, anywhere. Oh yeah, it comes out today.

I haven’t listened to the entire CD, but I’ve heard a few of the tracks. The title song is a bangin Just Blaze cut with a heavy Rick James bass line. On the other hand, the leadoff single, “Show Me What Ya Got,” is nothing more than a fluffy Budweiser commercial. The rest of the joints I’ve peeped fall somewhere in between. Looks like this offering from Jigga won’t be the opus that The Black Album was, but it won’t be some stale crap like Roc La Familia. For more thorough reviews, most of the rap sites on my links section have some good insight. Check em out.