Just follow what eskay said about who got what from where. It’s late, and I’m wild tired (read: not caring about who got da props). SHAKE UPDATE: Luv_DC (and Yardie) deserves da props. But I’ve updated with the OS version.
PREVIOUS: Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 (Artwork x Tracklist)
Yes. It’s here and it’s dope. Let the hate commence.
YEAH THIS SHIT IS DOPE AND I HAVENT EVEN SEEN IT :+
disappointing…
wow no propz to Yardie
this is tragic
Rihanna is Bonkers.. WOW
vid does not match vibe of song
I found the video very disappointing until Kanye’s part and which he was the only on into it showin animation and effort unlike Sean
the failboat has sailed. weak vid… jigga lookin like bill cosby or something… stick to the music, stay away from the camera… u wrinkly! STUPID VIDEO!!! WASTE OF MONEY
I like the video.. it almost makes me forget how horrendous Jay’s verses were. Kanye and Rihanna owned this.
wtf is the concept of the vid???? Rihanna will get a mean pipe anyday
Wow… Wack.
Rihanna’s voice is soo annoying on this song… ayyyyyyyyyyyy ayyyyyy ayyy ayyy ayy ay ayyyyyyyyyyyy STFU
its hot
rihanna is…wow
Blue Magic Didn’t affect how good AG was, Change Clothes didn’t affect The Black Album, shit Money ain’t a thing didn’t fuck up vol. 2… let’s hope it’s the same with this one
definite different vid. been waiting for this, the teasers on mtv really built anticipation. don’t understand the story really, but it’s a music vid. right? not a short film. interesting approach to the feel of the track, if i had 2 pick a track off the top of my mind that would have matched this better maybe Amazing by Kanye? idk lol
not a bad vid. like it better than the D.O.A. peace!
EDIT: good god, little brother steals the show once again. i’d be pissed if i were Jay & try harder from now on if Kanye’s even in his presence in no matter what they’re competing in, even something as small as a staring conest hah
Is it me or does this whole song just make you feel like Joe Buddens was right, “you still rap alright but your ears exhausted!” This was a terrible selection for a single, Kanye clearly had the most entertaining verse and Rhianna, um how can I say this politely…. um here voice, and um her tone…. let’s just be frank she sucked it just was a bunch of yelling not singing. If they locked her in a room and said sing your verse on to this beat in a perfect key or a bomb is going to go off, then… that would be the last time we heard her….
As always ^ just my opinion…
is j.cole in the vid?
SMH @ people saying the concept of the video doesn’t match the song. It’s obviously a mob “RUNNING THE TOWN”.
i like the video. its a dope concept and thank god some1 is breaking away from the cliche video (club, whips, clothes, etc)
I thought I saw Young Chris @ the end but didn’t see any J.Cole
Seriously? That was such a horrible video. The video itself was pretty cool, but with that song? The producer/Jay-Z/anyone involved has to be retarded. Doesn’t match the subject matter at all.
Kanye’s rapping about Rav4s, maybachs, a girl with an ass that’d swallow up a g string, and up top, two bee stings… and he’s surrounded by a bunch of dudes looking like they are starting to go on a witch hunt in some medieval bullshit. Garbage video. Good thing it’s just the music video. I still like the song.
another overhyped jay-z video
hes not even that good to begin with
vid gets boring…when the money goes was waaay better. btw, jays verses were good, u just need greater knowledge to understand them, hence why most you losers say they sukd. so far great start for bp3. hovaaaa
Ya’ll retarded for complaining about the music vid. It’s a perfect match towards the theme of the song.
1000 cool points for no random screenshots of Nuvo!
*YAWN* Call me when 9/11 comes
COSIGN THE NUVO COMMENT!
At least this an original style video (don’t say he bit “California Love” because those videos depicted two different historical eras).
I have really began to hate ungrateful, over-critical hip hop fans speaking on blogs. It sickens me. This isn’t the greatest ish in the world, but it certainly didn’t suck.
I guess people would rather see Jim Jones in front of a green screen holding up some Nuvo and doing the Dougie.
I Said It A Few Years Ago And I’ll Say It Now…
Fuck Jay-Z!
Haters Haters Haters…The song is a HIT #3 on the billboard Hot 100..Highest Jay Single EVER!…Video Is Dope..anybody who says Jay’s verse was wack dont Know SHIT… Dude word play is OFF THE CHAIN! Effortless flo..BP3 on the way
^^^^2 Pac Is Funny,
Illuminati….That’s All I Got To Say About Jay-Z
Jay’s verse on this does nothing for me, I’m sorry…
this > any other video that’s out.
the video is iffy. Ye’s verse is basically a reject verse Graduation. doesn’t fit the song at all.
don’t like Jay-Z and this wasn’t impressive in anyway. i don’t get whats so great about him. maybe it’s just me.
Not Better Than The Big Sean Video…
Fuck All That Prince OF Persia Bullshit…
He Should Of Pulled A Jeezy And Did A Blk And Wht Video With Alot Of Guys Storming The Blocks Of New York…
That Shit Would Be Ill…
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illcredible : “run this town,” jay-z ft. kanye west & rihanna « millist said this on August 19th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
woww. this vid is dope a thousand times over. everyone hating on this shit needs to wake the hell up and stop bein so damn close minded and ignorant. smfh @ everyone sayin “it doesnt match the song”. number 1 – the song is called run this town and the video is clearly a buncha warrior (ie the movie) lookin dudes overtakin and runnin a town. number 2 – not everyyy single frame of the video hasta coincide with every single word of the song. some1 was sayin how kanye rappin bout 1 thing and the video showin another fuck outta here. the OVERALL theme of the video is a perfect match to the OVERALL theme of the song. number 3 (and this is a good one) i REALLY REALLY REALLY wanna know what eveyone thats sayin that the vido is wack wouldve liked to see. i give huge props to jay for completly steering away from your typical cliche rap video nowadays. no club shots. no cars/rims. no girls in bikins. no cristal/nuvo/ciroc/patron refrences ANYWHERE. the video is somethin DIFFERENT, somethin CREATIVE. wake the fuck up n appreciate it ppl.
It was cool.
the video was dope kanye steels the spotlight again his verse was best and his whole effort to this masterpiece was dope so props to ye he run this town
i didnt know th roc was part of some taliban crap but anyways yea california love>this crap
This video is dope man…
They started with a good concept but didn’t deliver an impressive or memorable final product.
For example Day N Nite and Stronger were dope and memorable videos
this is like … well a video I can’t remember.
Kanye KILLED Jay
@Sir Nigel
Quit trying to rap, you suck,also you’re dumb as fuck, how doesnt Kanye’s verse fit the song, he’s talking about how he came from nothing to being on top of the rap game. Cool video, okay song
glad you took the time to listen.
naw im cool, enough of this shit please…just cause its not a video in a club doesnt mean it automatically gets a pass. boring video, wack costumes…shouldve let hype williams get his hands on this
Dope. Props!
dope video, enough said.
Damn my babe Rihanna is lookin fine as always
This video was good. I liked it. Not surprised by all of the boo birds though. It’s easier to hate something than to realize that no is doing anything like this. Some many lines in Jay’s verses went over people heads. You have to really be well rounded to completely understand this guy.Kanye’s verse is cool but it’s easy. Jay-Z’s verse is considered wack because no one understands what he’s saying.
Vids dope…. can’t please people anymore shit makes me sick… it’s disgusting… ya’ll some grade A haters..
Ri Ri is looking mighty fine if I might add.. she needs to quit messing with those NASCAR dudes tho, shit aint a good look…
Chris Brown = FAIL AT LIFE
rihanna looked good.
visuals were dope.
i liked it.
What happened to Jay-Z? And don’t give me any of that “he evolved as an artist” bullshit.
actually pretty dope. made me like the song alil bit more….forced me to re-listen…..
jay-z getting old he cant think straight no more
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Jay-Z - Run This Town f. Rihanna & Kanye West (Video) | Cooldown said this on August 19th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
It is so sad with these so called hip-hop fans! I’m not a Hov fan but you got to be kiddin me. This video was HOT hands down!
Niggas don’t like anything! Everything has a flaw everything is wak everything needs to be more like this or more like that! Listen to a different genre!
Be critical but in a neutral fan perspective not in this malice hateful ass opinions! If your opinion wasn’t hateful then you don’t have to think I referring to you on this!
‘ye murked Jigga on this one for sure. The video only deepens the cut
haven’t even seen the video but it ain’t fuckin with drakes best I ever had video I’m sorry it’s just not and I don’t give a fuck how good rhianna looks 10 hot hoes beats 1 hot ho any day it is what it is… Fuck the haters… Can’t wait till that clipse album drops till the casket drops cocksuckers!!!
Kanye absolutely slaughtered jigga on this track but i like the vid def fits the “im the shit,im the king”feel of the song.. people are so close minded…i know wat everyone wanted they wanted jay to be walkin through marcy with his niggaz in black hoodies and bandanas Stampedin the streets well wow thats so cliche..everyone’s so ass these days look in a diff direction!
…@sean…And Nothin happened to jay!,he hustled got money,and does what ever the fuck he wants hop off the mans cock u agonizingly irritating internet fuckboyz!!!
^^^
I agreed 100% about the video cliche people wanted in “Marcy” and all that!
Hip Hop fans suck ass man i wish hip hop fans had the same loyalty to their artist as mafuckin brittney spears fans this bitch do coke and all and she still b gettin love yall niggas juss pitiful…
HIP HOP FAns = Death Of Hip Hop
yea i know^ nd the funny things is me and you both are not big on hov but we can acknowledge creativity and good music i hate ignorant hip hop fans!
Kanye is murking everyone on their own shit! Saw that Digital Girl vid, and now listening again to this song. Damn Ye, wonder if he did another song with Luda, who would outshine the other this time?
It’s not a bad video…concept kinda reminds me of California Love and that wild near-future uprising. True, the lyrics don’t match the vibe of the video…but nowadays, when do they ever? The director and songwriter do their jobs @ two entirely different times.
This was a great video to enjoy. Roc La Famila Getting Gutta. No Patrone, Armadale, Ace Of Spades etc. No Three Slaps Followed By The Salute. Just 3 hot verses And Banging Chorus And A powerful message to anyone hating from a distance or up close. Hov himself said it best “Hov’s a living legend And I tell you why/Everybody Wanna Be Hov And Hov Still Alive”
^^^
agreed niggas xpect 2 much from a video
“Hip Hop aint dead i believe that its the FANS”- Wale
+1 @ Marshall
Kanye killed that shit, you could see Rihanna smiling during his verse LOL
lol this video is just what i expected….they overdoin it tryna b “super hard” n it just comes off corny…turned it off when kanye started rappin couldnt handle the amount of corn being displayed
yo so if we dont like the vid we’re either 1. haters, 2. ignorant, 3. hard to please, 4. killing hip hop, or 5. all the above….fuck outta here…
please tell me what makes the video dope besides not having patron, or bitches or the club? come on people, be real, opinions is opinions. seems like the cool thing to do online is to hate on opinions. shit is clownshoes
This was dope. Fun to watch. Ye goes so hard all of the time and people wonder why he’s good. Jay is classic man and his verses don’t suck you just have to listen to them more than once. Rihanna’s yelling is kind of annoying but it’s catchy you def sing that in the shower haha and plus it’s stadium music it’ll sound great at summer jam next year. Just sayin.
It’s dope film work. The cineamatography the screenshots the lighting the costumes the whole Jay-Z as like a kingpin undertone thing going on. The Kanye in a busted car irony during his verse. Rihanna walking down that hall way covering her mouth on the ewwwww line. The three of them throwing the roc and the last part showing all the masked people. You have to look more into things not just watch it once and say oh that wasn’t very entertaining.
Mortal Kombat:Def Jam Alliance?? lol jus playin..im feeling the vid.
lol @ Kanye’s spin at the end of his verse.
Its Warriors/Meets Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome/Meets That Evil Gang From That Sylvester Stallone Movie Cobra. It Was Designed Well And Showed Great Elements. This Was A Great Video Unlike Drake’s Wack Nonsense (That Mr. West Directed) Great Comeback Ye’
If your going to hop on a Jay song, even his album for that matter you better bring flame and that’s what Kanye did on The Blueprint 3 and Em did on The Blueprint…This album I know for a fact is gonna be timeless, he’s releasing what may be his last album on 9/11, eight years after he released The Blueprint on the same, Jay is a veteran in the game. So I’m quite sure this man laced up his boots and has his game face on for this album. Trust me we will see a Jay verse on a Kanye album one day where Jay will slaughter Ye’…Interesting video nonetheless could’ve gone a different route but dope…9/11 is gonna be a great day for hip-hop.
god damn. i would give Ri the dick so many different ways. its a possibility that she is the sexiest/prettiest/most beautiful female i have seen. from her swag to her eyes to her hair to her nails. she just perfect in every single way. she’s one female who could look at me and say “eat the ass and the cat and don’t expect no play” and i’d be aight w/ it…
brown fucked the fuck up…
oh and dope video and song or something?
jay’s verses sound like they are freestyles, they’re that average
“SOME PEOPLE HAAAATINGGGG”
then you need listen again… and if you was unaware…… every jigga verse is a freestyle at one point.
^^^
Absolutely right! Not written.
once again, on behalf of HOVA, thank you haters for getting him a thousand hits and 100s of replies. enjoy the sales of BP3, god knows hova dont need the money haha.
“i lost a couple stacks, jus tryna get em back”
or somethin that effect, not enough of a stan to get the wording right.
quick point of knowledge though… 20m wouldnt hurt jigga, AKA more than you will see in your whole life.
I liked Kanye’s part in the video, and I don’t just mean the verse. I don’t think Jay should’ve been hooded, but I guess that’s just me.
Did Rihanna just finger the camera? lol, the fuck? Pointless much?
Rihanna’s annoying as fuck and Ye murked Jay on his own shit. Jays verses were good but i expected more.
I smell fuckery.
I’m so with this.
Dope as fuck …
“Just because no one can understand how you speak, don’t necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep”
Not hating, Jay-Z’s second verse is actually alright after a few listens. The first one isn’t.
Kanye does his thing on the verse but the beat’s just not interestig enough, too generic.
F*ck Rihanna, f*ck that hook
Video is dope though, props on that
Jay, went from top 10 to not mentioned at all
till his own producers verse was better then urs
lol
nah seriously, d12 fight music >>> this bs.
Hip Hop fans suck ass man i wish hip hop fans had the same loyalty to their artist as mafuckin brittney spears fans this bitch do coke and all and she still b gettin love yall niggas juss pitiful…
HIP HOP FAns = Death Of Hip Hop
……………..
STFU
1. We Hip Hop fans, want Jay and other artist’s to do songs like Dity of Your Shoulder, not this bs.
2. Dont ever compare Hip Hop fans to B.S. fans.
3. Record Companies have been screwing the fans over for years, I dont no how many times I payed alot of money for an album and it had 1 or 2 good songs on it. So fuck them , were in control now so keep downloading ppl I only see it as us getting our money back at the end of the day.
I was jus curious as to how many of y’all who think Jay killed Ye, caught everythin in his verses? (Honestly, if i hadn’t seen “Public Enemies” I would’ve never caught that dillinger line, but c’mon, did all y’all even see that movie and immediately say, “FIRE!!!”?) IMO, it was clever, but from Jay, I’ve heard better, all I’m sayin. Movin on to the 2nd verse, 1st half was simple/easy, 2nd half, I googled Martin Margiela…wasn’t impressed (with the wordplay and pretty obscure reference too) The rest was decent. I thought Jay would body it but, Kanye took over. Not to downgrade Ye’s verse (I thought he smashed it, IMO), but people love simple/easy to catch bars over thought-provokin shyt dig?
does any body realize that kanye looks buff. any ways he stool the show and rihanna looks really hot now for some reason. jay z looking like bill cosby he really getting old. dope vide
hm dat vid was doper than Tyron Biggums’ lips
@Hatin is Overrated..i saw that movie, Kanye still had a better verse
video of the year. no doubt.
i will consistenly say this HOV is making 40 and none of ya young rappers gonna be making music that good at that age IF THEY GET THERE WITH THEIR FAKE GANGSTA PERSONAS. Real recognize real hov is a legend you dont see raekwon punching hove in the eye n shits or him having to join a group to gain status, this nigga did it on his own so all u stanky leg, illiterate bums can suck a dick when hove drops the earth stops
The video’s cool but the song is…..I just don’t care. I guess that affects my video viewing.
Some of you guys are right, hip-hop fans are very much to blame for the downfall, however, it is YOUR type that calls everyone who doesn’t like it a “hater” who killed it.
Are you shitting me? It’s a “hot” video because there’s no club/alcohol/cars in it? Fuck, then EVERY recent rock video & country video is SUPER hot! Why aren’t y’all watching those 24/7? You really need to come with a better, more intelligent reason as to why it was hot.
Newsflash: People who don’t like the video and have intelligent reasons as to why they don’t like the video are NOT “hating”.
Shake
It says Jay-Z twice, or did you meant to do that? There’s no Kanye lol
Lol notice how Jay-Z says “I’m in Mason” in the 2nd verse..
look at the discription kanye is the new jay-z
Dope video…………The all black everything is sweeet…This guy Jay-z is trying to be like Johnny Cash lol
Yeah…I definitely noticed that. LOL…Mason…Martin.
The video makes me like jays’ verse better, and it makes kanyes seem out of context (still a hot verse).
Love the vid, some people will never be happy.
just appreciate, when yous make a better video and song then come and comment this.
@young son, Maison Martin Margiela is a designer. you just pointing out that he says he’s wearing that right?
I am fucking amazed at the people who are labeling this song as GOOD or anything synonymous to it. People must be so desperate to get anything from Jay-Z that he can be spittin like souljah boy and still call it dope.
Jay-Z hasn’t been consistent, but, like a lot of rappers, get lazy, or succumb to trends, fads, etc, severely transitioning their once amazing ability to rap into this garbage.
Further evidence is the amount of features on BP3, which some haven’t even been out to weather the storm, if you know what I mean. Nas didn’t even make the cut, are you for real? This video could’ve been produced by some elite, highly skilled person, and still wouldn’t have been able to carry this whack track.
For the stans saying make something better and appreciate; how can one appreciate what is now when we appreciated what once was, which was when Jay was at his pinnacle.
Disappointment at its highest.
Also cosign on what Q said. Truth written.
And a lot of you don’t realize that you’re not going to be watching the video everytime you hear the song. Once that video magic is gone, all you have is another forced song.
this video and this song has illuminati written all over it….
Not listenable with the censors
Honestly, trying to express any sort of intelligent thought on these comment boards is like responding to someone who wrote “suck my dick” on the wall of a truck stop. In the end this man is self made and you can’t do anything about it but press the caps lock on your keyboard.
Ehhhh….vid is just ok. I’m not really sure why artists bother making vids anymore anyway. It’s not like MTV or VH1 actually plays them during any meaningful timeslot. At any rate, Kanye’s verse is sick (def out does J’s), but I agree it doesn’t really fit the tone of the song as a whole. Jay’s verse are ummm….just mediocre when compared to what he’s capable of. I’m out….
dope…knaye did get jay this time tho
Yea I like Jay’s verse better than Ye’s now cuz Ye’s didn’t have shyt to do with the concept at all……..
Beside all the Masonry, Illmunati, and Satanic-ness of Jay-Z & Ri (I have yet to hear a Kanye Satan BackMask), the video was dope.
Rihanna was rockin’ that Kango (I think it was a Kango) & them Glasses.
yall nitpick like a motherfucker…lmao.
this is nice…nothing more…nothing less.
title is wrong FEAT. JAY-Z
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ALL I GOTTA SAY IS THIS VID IS THE BEST OUT NOW BUT ITS JAY SO OF COURSE ALL U NIGGAS GONE HATE! EVERYBODY ON HERE COMMENTING BOUT HIS LYRICS CANT SPIT SHIT CLOSE TO IT! SO DO EVERYBODY A FAVOR STOP HATING AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!
AND FOR ALL YOU DUMB MOTHAFUCKAS TALKIN BOUT ILLUMINATI AND JAY IS A MASON….Maison Martin Margiela IS A HIGH BOUTIQUE CLOTHING LINE BASED OUT OF BEVERLY HILLS DO YO RESEARCH AND STUDY HIS LYRICS AND YOU’LL SEE HOW MUCH HE PUTS HIS WORD TOGETHER AND MURDERS THIS SONG
I have no argument that the song is dope. I love it. I also don’t really feed into that backmasking and Mason crap. (Rev. G. Craig Lewis is just a hater).
Wait wait wait hold the molotov.
Im saying it looks Illmunati because Jay has had shit before that got all Satanic that wasn’t even Lucifer and this looks it. Not my fault he likes to play words that makes him add more to the Look of a Mason.
again, despite le fact the video was over dope.
hell, I try to avoid it too Young Son– but certain things I hate to over look. I over think everything anyway, so it’s whatever.
say what you wanna a say about the vids, but its BETTER THAN ANY VIDEOS YOU GUYS PUT OUT…ayo I thought there was some mean visuals,and again Kanye spazzed out…i dug it…people stop hating on these artists if you can’t do better…hotep
The Video Was Pretty Dope IMO Idk What They Don’t Like About It… Oh Maybe We Should Have A Cliche Rhymin On The Block Gunz Pointed @ The Camera Video … Would Yall Fuck With That ?
Jay-Z – Run This Town feat. Rihanna & Jay-Z
lol
Dope video, especially the beginning. But it doesn’t match or capture the mood of the concept/ lyrics in my opinion. =/
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Video: Jay-Z ‘Run This Town’ Feat. Kanye & Rihanna « The Corner said this on August 20th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
rihanna saved this song/video
Q is purely ignorant hip hop fans are the worst the product you recieve is what you ask for..Keep payin too see bullshit artist and bumpin and boastin b.s. music well the industry will deliver you more wack ass artist and songs.. its pitiful and did this cat say fans want jay to do a song like dirt off my shoulders lmao..are u serious tht song is the epitomy of y your so fuckin ignorant yea we all wanna hear about, bitches,money,cars and expensive liquor gtf outta here!!!!!! sick of that cliche nonsense
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Nah let’s just listen to a bunch of anger or serious or struggle or painful music and eliminate the celebrations of success and fun in music! You’re right that would balance the world and more importantly hip-hop music!
Great idea Ebenezer Scrooge!
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