Jay-Z
The Black Album
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Tracklist
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Interlude full track | 1:21 | 28,849 | |
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December 4th full track | 4:32 | 36,098 | |
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What More Can I Say full track | 4:55 | 41,742 | |
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Encore full track | 4:11 | 49,877 | |
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Change Clothes full track | 4:16 | 41,551 | |
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Dirt Off Your Shoulder full track | 4:06 | 65,080 | |
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Threat full track | 4:05 | 28,848 | |
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Moment of Clarity full track | 4:24 | 38,346 | |
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99 Problems full track | 3:55 | 90,555 | |
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Interlude Version (Explicit)) full track | 1:21 | 127 | |
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Justify My Thug full track | 4:04 | 34,496 | |
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Lucifer full track | 3:12 | 41,102 | |
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Allure full track | 4:52 | 30,861 | |
| 14 |
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My 1st Song full track | 4:44 | 28,580 |
About this album
The Black Album is a 2003 hip hop album by rapper Jay-Z. It was promoted as his final studio album, although Jay-Z subsequently announced a return to solo recording in 2006. The album was very well received by critics and was also a commercial success, debuting at #1 with about 463,000 sold in its first week and more than 3.5 million to date. The black disc is accompanied by a black-covered set of liner notes and a black jewel case.
The album features a guest appearance by Pharrell (in “Change Clothes”), and Jay-Z’s mother, who speaks about his childhood in different portions of “December 4th”. An a cappella-only version of The Black Album featuring these performances was also released.
In early interviews, Jay-Z said that the album would be a return to his Reasonable Doubt sound (responding to criticism from some fans that his subsequent efforts were too commercial) and that it would be “for the streets”, with no promotion or singles however, “Change Clothes” and “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” were both successful singles.
He also claimed that the album would have a different producer for each track, and early magazine advertisements listed a series of numbers (representing tracks) and a producer for each number. The final album did feature a variety in producers, although Roc-A-Fella producers Kanye West and Just Blaze produced two tracks each, in addition to the two produced by frequent Jay-Z collaborators The Neptunes.
The album features a guest appearance by Pharrell (in “
Change Clothes”), and Jay-Z’s mother, who speaks about his childhood in different portions of “December 4th”. An a cappella-only version of The Black Album featuring these performances was also released.In early interviews, Jay-Z said that the album would be a return to his Reasonable Doubt sound (responding to criticism from some fans that his subsequent efforts were too commercial) and that it would be “for the streets”, with no promotion or singles however, “Change Clothes” and “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” were both successful singles.
He also claimed that the album would have a different producer for each track, and early magazine advertisements listed a series of numbers (representing tracks) and a producer for each number. The final album did feature a variety in producers, although Roc-A-Fella producers Kanye West and Just Blaze produced two tracks each, in addition to the two produced by frequent Jay-Z collaborators The Neptunes.
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Shouts
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aceroyal wrote:
This is one of his best albums. Reasonable Doubt being #1 of course
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gokanhan56 wrote:
this album....best Jay-z album. Ever.
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pamento wrote:
Great album... probably my 3rd favorite Jay album behind RD and Vol. 1
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tasha10 wrote:
this the hot album
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Nestea-88 wrote:
Lucifer ! That's hot track
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iamyates wrote:
threat is the sickest shit ever.
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TuNa_DriNk wrote:
@phillybird. yes i think so too. its good as reasonable doubt. its the best wit the blueprint and reasonable doubt :)
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FootToFace wrote:
do you really think age is the reason people have different opinions than you? fuck you
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e_nigz wrote:
roflz @ this being equal to reasonable doubt. fucking 12 year olds.
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Weed-N-Rock wrote:
it's funny because he's black
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phillybird wrote:
this album as good as Reasonable Doubt? wtf you people smokin
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KeKeReppinJerZ wrote:
ALLURE
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artutabr wrote:
yah, me too. My 1st song is like the dead presidents from this album, Wonderful song!
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FootToFace wrote:
Have to agree with Ruck.
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Ruck89 wrote:
equal to The Blueprint and Reasonable Doubt
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EdG810 wrote:
thats is the right cover, cd is classic imo. great production and his Mic skills were still strong then.
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tom_dissonance wrote:
hhc 95-05 top 100
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sega_smasher wrote:
yes, change the black album cover! thats not IT!!!
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GhostP wrote:
chaaaaaaaaaangeeee
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[deleted-user]
wrote:
Of course not. Someone fix this, please.
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