album review: jay-z & kanye west. watch the throne. 12 august 2011. def jam recordings
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i was planning on reviewing the joint jay-z kanye record at some point this week when i noticed my friend, and writer of shamfrolic, mr kris de souza was giving us a track by track run down on twitter. never one to pass up the opportunity to do less work, i sent him a quick message to ask if i could use this on sockformation. hurrah. he said yes.

so here it is. i ask you to please, in time honoured manner, start at the bottom and work your way up please.

he hasn’t given it a score, so i’ll sum up how i feel about it and score it quickly. it’s good. i’ve never got overexcited about kanye myself, but there is no doubting that he’s one of hip hop’s most creative artists (proper creative. not will.i.am ‘let’s put on a lego hat so everybody thinks i’m crazy’ creative). so when combined with the biggest rapper in the world, this was always going to be good. it will sell in it millions and no doubt garner the odd 5 stars and 10/10 here and there. it’s no deltron 3030 though.

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