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With Kingdom Come, it felt like Jay was force feeding the concept of hip hop maturing, so much so that, it seemed as if making a great album was more of an afterthought. Listeners were consistently reminded of this on songs like the disc’s title track, where Jay declares, “I’m so evolved / I’m so involved / I’m showing growth / I’m so in charged.” The Black Album showed that the Shawn Carter from Marcy Projects had grown up without him having to remind us on every bar that he had grown up. Jay Z really wasn't on his A-game with Kingdom Come. Showcasing Jay's progression was a focal point on this album. Whether it was in 1995 or 2001, a post-retirement Michael Jordan returned to the game he once dominated a little rusty, and the same can be said for the Mike Jordan of recording. If this album was his final statement, his post-retirement career and legacy would have certainly been a lot different. Though The Dynasty Roc la Familia had standout moments, there were a good amount of very forgettable songs on this album like "Holla" and "Parking Lot Pimpin’." Like many Jay Z albums, The Dynasty Roc la Familia was rumored to be his last, and it’s a good thing that this wasn't. The dynamic duo connected like no other on nine of The Dynasty’s sixteen tracks. The chemistry of the Roc, particularly that of Jay and Beans, was at an all-time high throughout the album which was originally slated to be a Rocafella compilation project, but ended up being Jay's fifth solo effort.

1: In My Lifetime, but was also at his most vulnerable. The Just Blaze-laced track finds Jay spitting lines like, “Got a strange way of seeing life like / I’m Stevie Wonder with beads under the du-rag / Intuition is there / Even when my vision’s impaired”, and demonstrates just why, at the time of this album’s release, he was light-years ahead of much of his competition. On songs like, "This Can't be Life", "Soon You'll Understand" and "Where Have You Been", which features both him and Beanie Sigel directing heart-piercing lyrics like, “Fuck you very much / You showed me the worse kind of pain” at their absent fathers. The often cool and somewhat detached Shawn Carter was not only at his most revealing since Vol. “Intro,” the opening track to JAY Z’s fifth solo album, The Dynasty Roc la Familia is one of the best intros found on a rap album in recent memory. These rankings are not only based on quality, but also impact and importance. But with all of that being said, here, we attempt to rank Jay Z ’s solo albums, as we did for both Nas and Eminem. This is all what makes it impossible to get a Jay Z album ranking perfect. Hov's worse albums are better than most rappers' best albums, which force critics to grade his albums on a completely different scale. His catalogue, which includes several classic albums and even more classic songs, is the stuff of legend. 2 wasn't all that good" and "Are you shitting me?!" There's a reason people are so passionate in their critiques of anything Jay Z related, and it's simple: Jay Z  is as good as it gets. The God MC himself ranked his albums last year via Life + Times and caused an uproar from just about everyone, including die hard fans, casual listeners and committed Internet trolls, who bombarded the comment section with commentary like, "Nah! Vol.

Ranking Jay Z albums can be like doing any other Jay-related list: it's impossible to get it right. We order Jay Z's solo efforts from worst to best.