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  1. Vos
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    Vos

    Feb 5, 2015
    Gotta Have It might be the funnest song on there.

    'wassup wassup wassup wassup wassup muh f--ka where my money at? you gon make me come down to your house where your mommy at, mummy wrap the kids, have em cryin for their mommy back' > *
     
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  2. Goku187
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    Goku187

    Feb 5, 2015
    ^I'm so glad I don't have such a joyless existence that I can't enjoy those songs
     
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  3. Goku187
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    Goku187

    Feb 5, 2015
    I have two problems with WTT: Jay and Kanye were incredibly lazy on Lift Off, which could have been a great song. And Made In America, while I don't hate it, is just a bit too cheesy.

    Everything else is fantastic. Those two songs aside, this was everything I hoped for in a Jay-Kanye collab album, and both of them came through lyrically. Some of the best moments were when they were going back and forth (who doesn't love Otis and Gotta Have It?), but their full solo verses were consistently strong as well. The album seems to have a reputation for being about "nothing", or just focusing on being rich, but it's a totally undeserved and inaccurate perception. Listen to New Day, Why I Love You, Murder To Excellence.

    So whether or not it's a classic just depends on your definition. The tracklist isn't perfect, as I explained above, but the album as a whole has (and will continue to) age well over time, and contains numerous classic songs.

    Eerily similar to mine, WTT total play count is 87, with Otis being my top played song in all of iTunes (275 plays)

    how are you gonna call people dickriders when they only rate it a point or two higher than you? lol
     
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  4. Fire Squad
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    Fire Squad Boss Don Biggavel

    Feb 5, 2015
    Will always remember the first time I bumped N***** In Paris in the whip Goddamm :dew:

    Completely destroyed my poverty speakers :wiggins2:
     
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  5. Nav Bhatia
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    Nav Bhatia Bitch, be humble

    Feb 5, 2015
    Hovs last verse on Who gon stop me :banderas:
     
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  6. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Feb 5, 2015
    @Swizz @Joshua Smoses I just checked my iTunes after you guys posted out of curiosity, and I've got 60-70 plays on most songs off of WTT, except Otis is in the 120 range. I didn't realize how much more I'd listened to Otis than the rest, I figure NIP would have it beat for sure.

    For some reason I always overlook WTT when looking at both Jay and Ye's discographies. As people have said, it's a mostly-fantastic album with one or two missteps and a few sequencing issues (really I would just switch That's My b---- and New Day), but all-in-all, it far surpassed my expectations for any collab album/super group project out there.

    This is also only album where I feel like the bonus tracks are really part of the album, as well. That instrumental that plays every so often (like at the end of No Church and at the beginning of Illest MFer Alive) feels like a sort of intermission, which makes the bonus tracks feel kind of like an encore. I love it.
     
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