The Return of the Magnificent

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2007)
• Original Release Date: May 8, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rapster
• ASIN: B000NO20UQ
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #109,065 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hip Hop feat. Twone Gabz

2. Let Me Hear U Clap feat. Pos of De La Soul

3. Run That Back feat. Eshon Burgundy & Black Ice

4. The Definition feat. Kel Spencer

5. Touch Me Wit Ur Handz feat. ChinahBlac

6. Jeff n Fess feat. Rhymefest

7. Practice feat. J Live

8. Supa Jean feat. Jean Grae

9. The Garden feat. Big Daddy Kane

10. She Was So Flyy feat. Kardinal Offishall

11. Hold It Down feat. Method Man

12. All I Know feat. CL Smooth

13. Go See The Doctor 2k7 feat. Twone Gabz

14. My Soul Ain't For Sale feat. Raheem DeVaughn

15. Come On feat. Dave Ghetto

16. Brand New Funk 2k7 feat. Peedi Peedi

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

DJ Jazzy Jeff is an eternal icon for urban music worldwide. Forever innovative, DJ Jazzy Jeff is known for being one of the few DJ's who can please both mainstream and underground audiences alike. As a DJ he's one of the few masters who can truly claim to have added something unique to the art with his famous, often replicated transformer scratch. He also was the baddest DJ on the eastern seaboard way before the City of Brotherly Love produced a rapper of note and he can still rock the crowd harder than anyone.

As a producer he's produced tracks for ground-breaking artists too numerous to name - let's just say the list stretches from Eminem to Jill Scott and far beyond and note that he's sold over 10 million records worldwide. He was the first rap producer to win a Grammy, and he's now one of the most famous DJs to have made the shift from vinyl to digital without losing his art. His successful TV career (alongside former partner in crime Will Smith in 'Fresh Prince Of Bel Air') has kept him a household name for those less turntable inclined, but all this hardly matters - with DJ Jazzy Jeff it's all about the music and he truly is one of the few legendary producers whose music is still essential today.

Product Description

The newest album from legendary hip hop DJ and producer, DJ Jazzy Jeff, The Return of the Magnificent is the eagerly anticipated follow up to his well received solo debut, 2001's The Magnificent. Whilst his iconic first album was an experiment in soul-influenced Hip Hop, The Return Of The Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff plows harder (albeit still soulful) ground, this time hooking up with an equally impressive array of artists such as Method Man, Rhymefest (Kanye West's prodigy), Big Daddy Kane, CL Smooth, Raheem DeVaughn, Pos of De La Soul, Kardinal, J Live, Peedi Peedi, Jean Grae and many more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY SOMEBODY GETS IT RIGHT!, June 3, 2007

By	R. Ingram (San Leandro, Ca USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Believe me when I say, this CD is off the chain from beginning to end! Look, I'm a person that has become a little dissappointed with hip-hop over the last couple of years. With the likes of T-Pain, Nelly, MIMS, Ying Yang etc. getting regular rotation on the airways every 5 mins, I just could'nt take it anymore. Was hip-hop dead like Nas said? A friend of mine called me and told me about this CD. When he said it was D.J. Jazzy Jeff I laughed it off and told him I'll pass. A couple days later while we were ridin' he put a CD in and and I heard something that I thought was a lost art...hip-hop! The 1rst track dope!, 2nd track dope! 3rd track dope!... I asked him who was this? He then proceeded to tell me it was Jazzy Jeff. I said No! I could'nt believe it. I could go on and on about this record, but bottom line go get it. I did that same day. I guess hip-hop still lives, you just have to know where to look.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DJ Jazzy Jeff, hip-hop saviour?, June 23, 2007

By	Olukayode Balogun (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

With the abundance of garbage that's strewn across the charts, all over commercial radio and on music television these days, and with our most respected MCs now reduced to bouncing up and down in videos with pop tarts, it's become so easy to forget what a gratifying art form hip-hop can be. Lucky then, that we have people like DJ Jazzy Jeff who, every once in a while gets together his 'family' of gifted MCs (people like Pos from De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane & Method Man) and soul singers (like China Blac and the fantastic Raheem DeVaughn) to give us a collection as solid as this. I'm still on a high from his 2002 set The Magnificent.

With pure hip-hop beats, soulful and jazzy grooves and lyrics that I for one find both informative and inspirational, this album is solid gold from start to finish, interspaced with some very entertaining skits for good measure. (The running one about Will Smith really cracked me up). I'm no hip-hop specialist but I know the good stuff when I hear it. Or, to be more precise, I know the stuff I like when I hear it. The language is colourful (though I understand there's a clean version) but in an age where presidents at G8 summit meetings can't be quoted in most family newspapers, I guess it's just the way things are these days.

It's still positive stuff though and if there are any lyrics glamorising crime or denigrating women on this album, I didn't hear them. We need more of this kind of music, we really do. There's even one song ("Go See The Doctor 2k7" feat. Twone Gabz) that grapples with the thorny issue of male sexual health! It's not all serious stuff though. There's silly fun to be had on here too as typified by "She Was So Flyy" feat. Kardinal Offishall, for example. If you like the commercial radio-friendly stuff, I'm truly happy for you but this is the real deal right here. If you're a true hip-hop head, you simply cannot afford to miss this one.

I did wonder one thing though: how come no sample credits? I heard music from people like Donald Byrd, Bob James, Bobby Caldwell, Ashford & Simpson and Peter Brown on here (there were a few others but I couldn't put my finger on who or what they were) and that's all well and good but aren't they supposed to be credited, whether as co-writers or whatever? What if we want to go look for the original songs that were sampled? I'm not complaining; I was just wondering.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you! Someone has to keep HipHop from killing itself ..., July 1, 2007

By	P. Tranreno "TrainWreck" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Take this from someone who tags, and hopes to one day DJ/Produce for some great MC's:

-BE WARNED: This is pure Hip-Hop. One of those albums that makes commercial & radio-hiphop lovers frown and condescendingly say," WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?"

-The lyricists on this outing define Jazzy's impeccable taste for HipHop as musical/emotional expression. It's just good music.
Expect nothing but 'Raw & Beautiful' from this one (and definitely listen to the above samples).

-How's the production? This can be answered with some word association:
Pete Rock, DJ Muggs, DJ Premier, J Dilla, Madlib, Buck Shot, 9th Wonder, Magnif, ?uestlove - starting to get the picture?
If not, take a listen to their work too (if you haven't already - hahaha).

Don't file this under CRUNK, SWISHA, CLUB, POP, UNDERGROUND, ART-HOP, TRIP-HOP (or whatever else the many "expert-opinion" music mags are buzzin'these days).

Keep reppin' the "four-elements" (DJing, MCing, Tagging & Breaking).

Peace,
TRINO