12/7/2023 0 Comments Jay z the dynasty: roc-la-familia![]() It gives the album high stakes, the kind that lawyers gave to Vol. It’s anthemic, and flexible, the kind of song you can play before a basketball game or a drug test. ![]() The Dynasty's "Intro” is one of Jay’s most virtuosic performances: he doesn’t start rapping til a minute and a half in, but when he does, he’s Stevie Wonder with beads under the doo-rag, with a darkened liver and spotty scripture knowledge. But The Dynasty is an engrossing record, a snapshot of Jay at his creative peak, before Bush, before he cribbed the whisper from Young Chris, and it’s time for it to receive the attention it deserves. It should have been an afterthought, and to many critics, it would be, dwarfed when Jay smartened up, chopped up soul, and bared his own on The Blueprint a year later.
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