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Firstly, id like to say this shit is hot.....new ideas, rhyming skills....jay-z today out-raps any competitor....awesome....

This is a review from the guardian unlimited (5 stars)::

Carl Wilkinson salutes the return of the hip hop kingpin whose friendship with Chris Martin hasn't dulled his spittin' skills

Sunday November 12, 2006
Observer Music Monthly

(Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) £12.99
Hov is back! 'Just when you thought the world would fall apart/Take off the blazer, loosen up the tie, step inside the booth, Superman is alive!' he raps on the title track. The title comes from a 1996 DC comic in which the Man of Steel and friends pit themselves against a younger generation of superheroes. It's obvious why the tale appealed: seemingly tired of life as the CEO of Def Jam records, Jay-Z (aka Hov, aka Jigga, aka Shawn Carter) has come out of short-lived retirement to stand behind a mic again. He's the 'Flash Gordon of Recordin', throwing sparks in the dark/Peter Parker - Spiderman, all I do is climb the charts.' Full of all his usual bombast, lyrical ingenuity, intelligence and flow, Kingdom Come is everything you could hope for from the most celebrated hip hop artist of the age.

'In music and hip hop you need events to happen to keep the excitement going,' he told me in the studio just over a month ago, as he was putting the finishing touches to the record. 'I believe at this point hip hop needs albums that are events. It needs another Dre album, it needs another Eminem album, it needs a Jay-Z album. I just believe that.
'The first couple of weeks in the studio I was just sitting around and really doing nothing and then one week everything just came rushing back. I guess it's like everything if you take a lay off - like a basketball player. You've got to get match fit.'

Lead single 'Show Me What You Got' failed to blow fans away when it was leaked on the web, but he clearly did get into the swim of things pretty quickly. The irregular flows, the lyrical agility and the ability to move swiftly through a subject that can be touchingly personal or a big party tune - it's all here.

On the Dr Dre-produced 'Lost Ones' he raps about relationship problems he may (or may not) have had with his girlfriend, Beyonce Knowles: 'Me my time in this army is served/ So I have to allow she her time to serve/ The time's now for her/ In time she'll mature/ And maybe we can be we again like we were.' He raps, too, about the terrible pain of losing his nephew, Colleek Luckie, in a car accident, involving the Chrysler Jay bought him to mark his high school graduation.

Similarly, 'All Grown Up' sees the rapper talk about what it means to hit your late thirties, a rich, successful man and to look back at where you've come from - in Jay's case, the projects in Brooklyn. It's not a showy song, rather there's a note of very real wonder at how his life has developed and an acknowledgement that, as he turns 37 next month, the maturity he has found in his business life must also be seen in his personal and musical life too.

He told me that he felt politics was what was missing from hip hop; that Kanye West was the closest thing to a mainstream political rapper. Another Dre-produced song, 'Minority Report', goes some way to redressing the balance. It features a hook from R&B star Ne-Yo, rain sound effects, and is punctuated by news reports from Katrina-hit New Orleans.

Perhaps the album's biggest surprise, however, is 'Beach Chair', the track produced by Jay-Z's new best friend Chris Martin, whose voice floats over the song. As anyone who caught Martin's vocals on 'Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)' at Jay's Royal Albert Hall gig in September will know, while the combination will shock Coldplay and Jay-Z fans alike, the result actually works rather nicely.

With sales of hip hop in the States in decline, Jay-Z has come off the bench to score the winning point. While many will no doubt have set the bar of their expectations too high, Jay-Z has pulled out all of the stops on Kingdom Come. Throw your ROC signs in the air: the 'Mike Jordan of recordin", 'the Bruce Wayne of the game' is back.

Recommended: 'Beach Chair'; 'All Grown Up'

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and please buy kingdom come, its worth the money....dont waste it on say...games album....

A.T.I.

and people hated on me for giving it 4 stars...

by no means in this a 5 star album though

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