The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
Jay-Z (2000)
By 2000, Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z had already cemented his status as one of the top 5 MCs in the 90's. Already releasing 4 albums, Jay-Z had decided to take a different approach to his 5th album, "The Dynasty: Roc La Familia". He decided to bring together La Familia into the Roc-A-Fella supergroup which featured many new artists and producers that weren't as widely known as Jay-Z himself. The new album featured Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek, Freeway and Amil and outside of the Roc Family, R. Kelly, Scarface and Snoop Dogg. It also featured production from Rick Rock, The Neptunes, Just Blaze and Kanye West.
Only 3 tracks on the album, including the intro, were solo tracks done by Jay-Z. All the rest had other artists featured and one was even a solo track by Memphis Bleek. The album spawned 3 singles, "I Just Wanna (Give It 2 Me)", "Change The Game" and "Guilty Until Proven Innocent". My favorite tracks on the album were "This Can't Be Life" feat. Scarface and Beanie Sigel and "1-900-Hustler" feat. Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek and a debut by Freeway. This album was different from past albums from Jay-Z because it had more a soul sampling sound compared to the heavy-drum style sound in previous albums and of course featured a lot of other artists with different styles and most of all because it kicked off the producing career of Kanye West, which led to his rapping career and put him in a spot right besides Jay-Z as one of the top rappers of this decade. This is a great album, you should definetely buy it.
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