Customer Reviews

Unfinished Business [Vinyl]

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(17)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

What happended here? All of these rap songs are elementary. How much time did it take to make this album? A couple of days? It's horrible. However, Big Chips is a great dance tune, but other then that, it's s***! Get real, this is truly business that should have been stayed unfinished.

P.S. Jay-Z is making more albums! This one, and the one with Linkin Park. I think the retirement thing was a lie.

This CD is not worth buying. Rappers are getting away with making CD's that dont mean anything for a long time. It feels like the Rhymes were never drafted.

These is typical of Jay-Z.

This CD is the type of CD that you will listen to for a week, maybe a month and let someone barrow it and never ask for it again.

These guys have no care for who buys there cds as long as they make a dollar, they dont care what they say or do. The CD was rushed with no thought put into it.

What can I say? Jay-Z came weak and R. Kelly is weak....No more of these types of albums need to happen....I mean the beef between them 2 and the tour and now this album its a waste of time and money....go ahead and get ya bootleg copy cause it aint worth more than ya 5 bucks.....holla

Yo everything on this album sounds EXACTLY like what these 2 clowns were putting out 2 years ago with " Best of both Worlds ". It's like they had some tracks left over, and decided to try and pass it off as new sh*t. For one...Hov said he wasn't fu*ckin' with R.Kelly, yet as soon as the slight chance to make money was brought into play, they're all of a sudden the best of pals touring together and sh*t. WHACK !! I didn't buy this crap, and I didn't waste my money on the concert. This album is TRASH ! Then...BIG SURPRISE...There's contraversy between the two super stars. NO SH*T !!! Now Kelly is trying to get 75 million dollars claiming someone pulled a knife on him. LAME !!! Bottom line...this album is garbage IMO. Peace...

Once again,like Bush winning another term, this disappointed the hell out of me. Also like Bush winning again, this is no better than the first time around. I know, I know, this was recorded at the same time as the first but they coulda at least put some new verses or something kowing the last was wack. This is a insult to my listening pleasures! 2 songs that are salvagable are "Don't Let Me Die" and the "Get This Money Remix" with Twista. This is bad music that carries bad Karma. You see what happened with the tour. Jay and R. if you're reading this (or any of your people) do not do this again if it's gonna sound like this!

You would think that two musical icons coming together for an album would be able to get their shhh together and release a good album, especially since they have done numerous collaborations and have already released an album together, but sadly this doesn't happen. They just seem to lack the chemistry when trying to hold an album together so instead of sounding like a formidable duo it's more of a R. Kelly featuring Jay-Z album. Meaning it's usually R. Kelly singing verses, hooks, and bridges and then Jigga drops a verse here and there. Even the beats are more on the R&B side. And R. Kelly doesn't really sing on this album he sorta does his little sing rap thang...not that it's bad it just gets tiring. Also the album is one dimensional...every song about money or women. But don't get it confused, they'll have a couple songs where they mesh perfectly such as The Return, Feelin You In Stereo, Pretty Girls, and Big Chips. But that does not warrant the price of the cd. Good songs but not must hears. The rest of the album is pretty much uninspired even though Jigga is his usual self, the songs are almost unlistenable. Twista saves the day on a throwaway track and after his verse there's nothing stopping you from fastforwarding. Overall it's decent but better on the bootleg tip rather than the spend money on it tip. 2.5 stars. Realize.

Jay-Z and R. Kelly made a fine album in Unfinished Business. A lot of the songs are funky and catchy, with a lot of bass guitar on them. There's a percussion like salt shaker effect that helps make the songs very sexy. I bought the edited version, but it's still just as strong as the more explicit version. The last album tended to have a hollow middle, but this second effort has a consistent cohesive flow. Jay-Z's street raps and R.Kelly's smooth R&B singing complement each other. There's a little cockiness in how they talk about the money, cars, girls and other things on the songs, but it fits well with the album concept. I like the album cover of the Chicago and New York skylines (where the artists are originally from)--no one has ever done that for a music album cover. They must have come up with that on a computer combining the cities. She's Coming Home With Me, Big Chips, Pretty Girls,Feelin' You In Stereo(the only ballad), Stop feat. Foxy Brown, Break Up, The Return and others are the standouts.I've been listening to Stop the most and Foxy Brown's flow has a deeper voice this time. Don't Let Me Die is well done as they admit their past problems to God--very moving. I especially like The Return remix with Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh--proves that they remember the early hip-hop artists. It's like clashing 1985 and 2004 in the same song! Rick and Doug E. still sound great today on that song! Rick is so funny with the storytelling on this one. This album is a smart mix of rap and R&B and will impress fans of both genres--a good party album!

Disappointed. Cheated. Angry. Thats how I felt when I finally heard Jay-Z and R. Kelly's second "Best of Both Worlds" CD. Jay's rhymes was the worst I've heard him do in a LONG time, R. Kelly basically outsung the whole CD. It was sad, on top of that, it was just wayyy to commercial. It seemed like they put zero to little effort into it, and Jay even admitted that. I went to the Madison Square concert the night R. Kelly walked off stage, and it was one of the best concerts I've been to ever. I felt like I witnessed history, only because it showed how one performer (R. Kelly) really proved that he was at the bottom of his game, while the other (Jay-Z) pulled out his aces and performed a hit show, thanks to Mary J, Ja, and Busta! The CD is horrible though, get the Black Album instead, or wait and get Nas' "Streets Disciple".

Yo son! this is tha worst album of tha year! don't buy this piece of sh#t

This album isn't really effective in many ways. You can tell from the opening track "THE RETURN" that it is going to be a cheesy album. Most of the arrangement lack something that is character of Jay-Z arrangements as well as R-Kelly arrangements. The one arrangement that sounds R.Kellyish is "FEELING YOU IN STEREO", and it is rather boring and prolonged compared to traditional R.Kelly. On that specific track Jay-Z just isn't necessary. "BIG CHIPS" and "PRETTY GIRLS" are the two best tracks, and "BIG CHIPS" lacks within its arrangements. This album just seems rushed and mediocre all over. 2.5 stars. Average.