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American rapper Jay-Z has released thirteen solo studio albums, four collaboration albums, one live album, five compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two extended plays, one hundred and fifteen singles (including forty-five as a featured artist), nine promotional singles and eighty-two music videos. As of December 2014, Jay-Z sold 55 million studio albums worldwide.^[1]

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Jay-Z began his music career in the 1980s, building a reputation as a fledgling rapper in his hometown of Brooklyn and collaborating with his mentor and fellow rapper Jaz-O.^[2] Jay-Z later founded Roc-A-Fella Records with close friends Damon Dash and Kareem 'Biggs' Burke and released his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt in June 1996.^[2] The album peaked at number twenty-three on the United States Billboard 200 record chart and has since been recognized as a seminal work of the hip hop genre.^[3][4] Its singles included 'Dead Presidents', 'Ain't No Nigga' and 'Can't Knock the Hustle', all of which reached the top ten on the BillboardHot Rap Songs chart.^[5]In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997), which saw Jay-Z collaborating with producers such as Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs and Teddy Riley,^[6] peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and earned a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).^[3][7]Vol. 2.. Hard Knock Life was released in September 1998 and became his first number-one album in the United States.^[8] The album featured the international hits 'Can I Get A..' and 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)', which both reached top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100.^[8]Vol. 2 was certified five times platinum by the RIAA and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 1999.^[9] Two more chart-topping albums – Vol. 3.. Life and Times of S. Carter and The Dynasty: Roc La Familia – followed in December 1999 and October 2000 respectively. The albums included hit singles such as 'Big Pimpin' and 'I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)' and featured several guest appearances from artists signed to Roc-A-Fella Records.^[2]

Jay-Z's sixth studio album The Blueprint, released in September 2001, became controversial for including lyrics attacking other New York City rappers.^[2] Nonetheless, The Blueprint topped the Billboard 200 and produced Jay-Z's first Billboard Hot 100 top ten single, 'Izzo (H.O.V.A.)'.^[3][8] The Blueprint is critically reviewed as his best album. The Best of Both Worlds, a collaboration with American R&B singer R. Kelly, and The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse were both released the following year. The latter album peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and featured the top ten singles '03 Bonnie & Clyde' and 'Excuse Me Miss'.^[3][8]The Black Album, released in November 2003, was intended by Jay-Z to be his final studio album and features his impending retirement as a recurring theme.^[2][10] The album performed well commercially and was later certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA.^[7]

Following a period of dormancy, Jay-Z became president of Def Jam Recordings in December 2004 and resumed his rap career two years later with the release of Kingdom Come, which peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified 2x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA.^[3][7][11] The concept album American Gangster followed in 2007 and continued his streak of number-one albums in the United States.^[3] With the release of The Blueprint 3 in September 2009, Jay-Z surpassed Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most number-one albums on the Billboard 200.^[12] The album included the international hits 'Run This Town', 'Empire State of Mind' and 'Young Forever'.^[8]Watch the Throne, a collaborative album with American rapper Kanye West, followed in August 2011 and became Jay-Z's eleventh number-one album in the United States.^[8] His album Magna Carta Holy Grail was released in July 2013 to great commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 and having the second-biggest sales week for 2013 at the time of its release.^[13]

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1. ^Magna Carta Holy Grail was released on July 4, 2013 worldwide to Samsung mobile users through a special mobile app.^[38]
2. ^Bring It On: The Best of Jay-Z did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 34 on the UK Budget Albums Chart.^[64]

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• Jay-Z discography at Discogs

The Black Album is the eighth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released on November 14, 2003, by Roc-A-Fella Records. It was advertised as his final album before retiring, which is also a recurring theme throughout the songs,^[1] although Jay-Z resumed his recording career in 2006. For the album, Jay-Z wanted to enlist a different producer for each song, working with Just Blaze, Kanye West, The Neptunes, DJ Quik, Timbaland, 9th Wonder and Rick Rubin, among others.

When The Black Album was released, it received widespread acclaim from critics. In its first week, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 463,000 copies in the United States. It became Jay-Z's top selling record of the 2000s decade, and by July 2013, it had sold 3,516,000 copies in the US. The Black Album was promoted with a retirement tour by Jay-Z and three singles that also achieved Billboard chart success, including the top-ten hits 'Change Clothes' and 'Dirt off Your Shoulder'.

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Release and promotion[edit]

Jay-Z had announced that The Black Album would be his final record and went on a retirement tour after its release.^[2] When it was released, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 463,000 copies in its first week.^[3] According to Billboard, it became Jay-Z's top selling record of the 2000s and the 136th highest selling record of the decade in the United States.^[4] By July 2013, the album had sold 3,516,000 copies in the US.^[5]

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Three singles were released from the album and appeared on the Billboard charts. 'Change Clothes' and 'Dirt off Your Shoulder' both reached the top 10 of the Hot 100, while '99 Problems' peaked at number 30.^[6]

Critical reception[edit]

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The Black Album was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 84, based on 19 reviews.^[7]AllMusic's John Bush claimed Jay-Z was retiring at his peak with the album.^[8]Vibe magazine said it was remarkable as an apotheosis of his genuinely thoughtful songwriting and lyrics 'delivered with transcendent skill',^[17] while Steve Jones from USA Today said even with 'top-shelf work' from elite producers, the album was elevated by Jay-Z's uniquely deft and diverse rapping style.^[16] Writing for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin felt Jay-Z returned to 'brevity and consistency' on an album that demonstrated his lyrical abilities and, more importantly, hip hop's best producers.^[18] Jon Caramanica wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that The Black Album was both 'old-school and utterly modern', showcasing Jay-Z 'at the top of his game, able to reinvent himself as a rap classicist at the right time, as if to cement his place in hip-hop's legacy for generations to come'.^[19]

Some reviewers were less enthusiastic. In Rolling Stone, Touré argued that The Black Album was slightly inferior to Jay-Z's best records, namely Reasonable Doubt (1996) and The Blueprint (2001).^[1] Dave Simpson from The Guardian was more critical, dismissing the music as 'an aural equivalent of that old American favourite, the schmaltzy biopic.'^[10] In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave the record a back-handed compliment: '[Jay-Z] raps like a legend in his own time—namely, Elvis in Vegas'.^[20] Nonetheless, he was impressed by the stretch of songs from 'Encore' to 'Justify My Thug' and wrote in a retrospective review for MSN Music that 'the fanfares, ovations, maternal reminiscences, and vamp-till-ready shout-outs were overblown at best', but they have come to sound 'prophetic' because of the entrepreneurial success and fame Jay-Z continued to achieve after The Black Album. 'He's got a right to celebrate his autobiography in rhyme because he's on track to become a personage who dwarfs any mere rapper,' Christgau wrote in 2011, 'and not only can he hire the best help dark green can buy, he can make it sing.'^[12]

In 2005, The Black Album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album,^[21] losing to Kanye West's The College Dropout at the 47th Grammy Awards.^[22] It was also ranked number 349 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.^[23]Pitchfork ranked The Black Album at number 90 on its decade-end list of the top 200 albums from the 2000s,^[24] while Slant Magazine ranked it seventh best on a similar list.^[25] In 2012, Complex named it one of the 'classic' records of the previous decade.^[26]

Track listing[edit]

All song samples, writing and production credits are according to the album booklet.

Track notes[edit]

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer
• 'What More Can I Say' features additional vocals by Vincent 'Hum V' Bostic
• 'Encore' features additional vocals by John Legend, Don Crawley, Leonard Harris and Kanye West
• 'Change Clothes' features additional vocals by Pharrell Williams
• 'Threat' features additional vocals by Cedric the Entertainer
• 'Justify My Thug' features additional vocals by Sharlotte Gibson
• 'Lucifer' features additional vocals by Kanye West

Sample credits[edit]

• 'December 4th' contains a sample of 'That's How Long' written by Walter Boyd and Elijah Powell Jr., and performed by The Chi-Lites.
• 'What More Can I Say' contains samples of 'Something for Nothing' written by Thom Bell, Kenneth Gamble and Roland Chambers, and performed by MFSB, and 'Keep Your Hands High' written by Tracey Lee and Christopher Wallace, and performed by Tracey Lee featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
• 'Encore' contains elements of 'I Will' performed by John Holt.
• 'Threat' contains a sample from 'A Woman's Threat' written and performed by R. Kelly.
• '99 Problems' contains samples of 'Long Red' written by Norman Landsberg, Felix Pappalardi, John Ventura and Leslie Weinstein, and performed by Mountain, 'Get Me Back on Time, Engine Number 9' performed by Wilson Pickett, 'The Big Beat' written and performed by Billy Squier, elements of '99 Problems' written by Tracy Marrow and Alphonso Henderson, and performed by Ice-T, interpolations of 'Touched' written by Chad Butler and Bernard Freeman, and performed by UGK, and portions of 'Children's Story' written and performed by Slick Rick.
• 'Public Service Announcement (Interlude)' contains a portion of 'No One Can Do It Better' written by Tracy Curry and Andre Young, and performed by The D.O.C., and a sample of 'Seed of Love' written by Raymond Levin, and performed by Little Boy Blues.
• 'Justify My Thug' contains portions of 'Rock Around the Clock' written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers, and performed by Bill Haley & His Comets, samples of 'Rock Box' written by Darryl McDaniels, Joseph Simmons and Larry Smith, and performed by Run-DMC, and an interpolation of 'Justify My Love', written by Madonna Ciccone, Ingrid Chavez and Lenny Kravitz, and performed by Madonna.
• 'Lucifer' contains a sample of 'Chase the Devil' written by Hugh Perry and Maxie Smith, and performed by Max Romeo.
• 'My 1st Song' contains a sample of 'Tu y Tu Mirar..Yo y Mi Canción' written by Germain de La Fuente, and performed by Los Angeles Negros, and a vocal portion of The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1996 interview for MTV.

Personnel[edit]

Adapted from AllMusic.^[27]

• Aqua – producer
• Marcella Araica – assistant
• Vincent 'Hum V' Bostic – vocals
• David Brown – engineer, mixing assistant
• Shari Bryant – marketing
• Buchannans – producer
• Kareem 'Biggs' Burke – executive producer
• Shawn Carter – executive producer, liner notes, primary artist, producer
• Demacio Castellon – engineer
• Cedric The Entertainer – guest artist, vocals
• Don Crawley – vocals
• Damon Dash – executive producer
• Tony Dawsey – mastering
• DJ Quik – mixing, producer
• Danee Doty – vocals
• Jimmy Douglas – mixing
• Eminem – mixing, producer
• Sharlotte Gibson – vocals
• Walik Goshorn – photography
• Leon Harris – vocals
• Keenan 'Kee Note' Holloway – bass
• Ken 'Duro' Ifill – mixing
• Kyambo 'Hip Hop' Joshua – A&R
• Just Blaze – producer
• Gimel Keaton – engineer, mixing
• Steve King – bass, engineer, guitar, mixing
• Jason Lader – programming
• Darcell Lawrence – A&R
• John Legend – vocals
• Jonathan Mannion – photography
• Rob Mitchell – A&R
• The Neptunes – producer
• 9th Wonder – producer
• Amber Noble – marketing
• Felix Pappalardi –
• Luis Resto – keyboards, producer
• Rick Rubin – mixing, producer
• Lenny Santiago – A&R, photography
• Andrew Scheps – engineer, mixing
• Robert Sims – art direction, design
• Chris Steflene – assistant engineer
• Michael Strange Jr. – engineer
• Darrell Thorp – mixing
• Timbaland – producer
• Richard Travali – mixing
• Joseph Weinberger – producer
• Eric Weissman – sample clearance
• Kanye West – producer, vocals

Charts[edit]

Certifications[edit]

See also[edit]

• Danger Mouse – The Grey Album (2004)

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External links[edit]

• The Black Album at Discogs
• In Brief: Jay-Z at New York
• Jay-Z Raps On the Fly Like a Man Set to Die at New York Times