The Black Album is the eighth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on November 14, 2003, through Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. It was advertised as his final album before retiring, which is also a recurring theme throughout the songs,
Although Jay-Z resumed his recording career in 2005. For the album, Jay-Z wanted to list a differt producer for each song, working with Just Blaze, Kanye West, The Neptunes, Eminem, DJ Quik, Timbaland, 9th Wonder and Rick Rubin, among others. The album also features a guest appearance by Pharrell Williams.
The Black Album was promoted with a retiremt tour by Jay-Z. It was also supported by three singles: 99 Problems, also the Billboard top-t hits Change Clothes and Dirt off Your Shoulder. The album received widespread acclaim from music critics and was a massive commercial success. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 463, 000 copies in its first week. It became Jay-Z's top selling record of the 2000s decade, and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2005. The songs core, Dirt off Your Shoulder, and 99 Problems are all on the Mashup EP, Collision Course with Linkin Park.
This Week In Music: Jack White Rants, Jay Z Is Sued And Waka Flaka Needs Blunts Rolled
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.
While Steve Jones from USA Today said ev with top-shelf work from elite producers, the album was elevated by Jay-Z's uniquely deft and diverse rapping style.
Writing for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin felt Jay-Z returned to brevity and consistcy on an album that demonstrated his lyrical abilities and, more importantly, hip hop's best producers.
Public Service Announcement (interlude)
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 reinvt himself as a rap classicist at the right time, as if to cemt his place in hip-hop's legacy for gerations to come.
Some reviewers were less thusiastic. In Rolling Stone, Touré determined that The Black Album was slightly inferior to Jay-Z's best records, namely Reasonable Doubt (1996) and The Blueprint (2001).
Dave Simpson from The Guardian was more critical, dismissing the music as an aural equivalt of that old American favourite, the schmaltzy biopic.
Jay Z's 'public Service Announcement (interlude)' Sample Of Little Boy Blues's 'seed Of Love'
In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave the record a back-handed complimt: [Jay-Z] raps like a legd in his own time—namely, Elvis in Vegas.
Nonetheless, in a retrospective review in 2011, Christgau stated that he was impressed by the stretch of songs from core to Justify My Thug and thought the fanfares, ovations, maternal reminiscces, and vamp-till-ready shout-outs were overblown at best at the time of its release, but they came to sound prophetic because of the trepreurial success and fame he continued to achieve afterwards. 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, and not only can he hire the best help dark gre can buy, he can make it sing.
It was ranked number 349 on Rolling Stone's 2012 edition of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, and rose to number 155 on the list's 2020 edition.
Danger Mouse: The Grey Album, Considered (2004): Looking Through A Glass Prism
The Black Album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 463, 000 copies in its first week, according to Niels Soundscan.
Another note on the alter was that the Black Album also blocked the soundtrack to the Tupac Shakur documtary, Tupac: Resurrection, and the G-Unit debut album, Beg for Mercy, from the top position. Both albums charted at numbers two and three respectively.
On August 16, 2005, the album was certified RIAA Certification triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipmts of over three million copies.
Keanu Reeves Received Bass Guitar Lessons From Flea
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.
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.
In December 2004 Roc-A-Fella Records released The Black Album on vinyl with no beats underneath Jay-Z's lyrics, spurring producers and DJs to rework his farewell disc into creations such as The Brown Album and ev The Grey Album, by Los Angeles producer Danger Mouse, which combines Jay's words with music from the Beatles' self-titled album (also known as the White Album), breaking with the Roc-A-Fella's tradition of not releasing acappella 12-inches, so producers could remix the hell out of it.
The Gift And The Curse: Jay Z's The Black Album At 20
Several notable reworkings were released but of all the remixed albums, The Grey Album was the most popular. The hype around The Grey Album gained notoriety wh EMI attempted to halt its distribution despite approval from Jay-Z and the two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
Music industry activist group Downhill Battle responded by coordinating Grey Tuesday, an electronic civil disobedice evt held on February 24, 2004. Participating websites posted copies of The Grey Album for free download for a 24-hour period in protest of EMI's attempts to prevt distribution of the mashup on the grounds that sampling is fair use and that a statutory licse should be provided in the same manner as if an artist were to perform or record a cover version of a song. Hundreds of web sites publicized the evt with 170 hosting the album for download. Over 100, 000 copies were downloaded on that day alone.
The legal repercussions of the protest were minimal; a number of the participants received cease and desist letters from EMI, but no charges were filed in connection with the evt.
0 Response to "Public Service Announcement Jay Z On Guitar"
Posting Komentar