Description
From thoughtful urban poet to wise guy-inspired East Coast rap wizard to platinum-bejeweled high roller, Jay-Z's artistic evolution has always relied on his connection to the inner city. Summers in the Hamptons, music videos with Traci Bingham, and Annie samples notwithstanding, Jay-Z represents Street. Or Brooklyn Street, to be precise. On VOL. 3...THE LIFE AND TIMES OF S. CARTER, he brings it back to the ghetto that raised him with 15 tracks of some of the most unrelenting, hardcore brag rhymes and the illest, smack-you-upside-the-head beats this side of Brownsville.