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With his criminally overhyped, thuddingly anticlimactic comeback album, Kingdom Come, Jay-Z offered listeners insight into the surprisingly dull life of a thirtysomething hip-hop mogul with nothing to... |
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The story goes like this: After seeing an advance print of the Ridley Scott heroin-trade epic American Gangster, Jay-Z found himself inspired. The movie details the story of the Vietnam-era Harlem kin... |
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In September, during a special congressional hearing, hip-hop once again came under scrutiny for violent and/or misogynistic content. (Thanks, Imus!) And once again, rappers invoked the Terminator def... |
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"This is black superhero music," Jay-Z proclaims in his excellent new "Roc Boys." That means live horns, grooving on some kind of Afro-beat riff over Seventies rumble-in-the-jungle fun... |
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irst the good, though not particularly surprising, news: Jay-Z's American Gangster is much better than last year's Kingdom Come. Like 2001's largely Kanye West-helmed The Blueprint, Gangst... |
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It's always a challenge picking up and listening to an album 'inspired by the motion picture' without seeing said movie. However in Jay Z's case I don't think indulging in Ridley S... |
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Of course, this approach hasn’t stopped him from releasing singles or making videos, but apparently, that’s different.
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Jay-Z's non-soundtrack to "American Gangster" uses a fictional framework as an excuse for him to re-address matters he's been writing about forever—which is fine and all, but a n... |
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If ever a warning to musicians not to bother with the façade of some self-important mock-retirement existed, Shawn Carter is it. When Jay-Z declared his retirement off the back of The Black Album in 2... |
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Jay-Z - American Gangster
(Tuesday November 6, 2007 7:52 PM
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Released on 05/11/07
Label: Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam/Mercury
Just in case you weren't sure what you were considering buying, th... |
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| 8 by Aftonbladet |
Med skivor som Blueprint och Black Album i Armanikostymen blir kraven när Jay-Z släpper album alltid skyhöga, speciellt eftersom han har en hel del att bevisa efter fjolårets halvtrista Kingdom Come. ... |
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| 8 by Dagensskiva.com |
Med skivor som Blueprint och Black Album i Armanikostymen blir kraven när Jay-Z släpper album alltid skyhöga, speciellt eftersom han har en hel del att bevisa efter fjolårets halvtrista Kingdom Come. ... |
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| 2 by Sydsvenskan |
Det är med popmusikens mått mätt längesedan Jay-Z tappade mycket av förmågan att välja rätt produktioner. Inte för att han alltid valde rätt, men han gjorde det oftare.
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I korthet
• Bästa spår: Roc Boys. • Lyssna även på: Curtis Mayfield – Superfly (1972). • Bakgrund: Lil Wayne, Beanie Siegel, Nas.... |
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