Jay-Z's eighth studio album "The Black Album," turns 20 this year, which makes me feel like looking at retirement brochures because who knows where the time goes? I was 23 when the album dropped ...

Jay-Z made a great album. It was built on an idea never happened: Jay-Z was supposed to retire after The Black Album and, spoiler alert, did not follow through on that. No one with a shred of ...

Yeah, so I’ve been thinking about it, because when that album ... only a few Black people in the neighborhood. And those Black people are like Mary J. Blige, Eddie Murphy, Jay-Z and himself.

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn’s own JAY-Z released he would-be retirement album The Black Album. Although there was virtually no pause between The Black Album and new Jay-Z music ...

Jay-Z's "Black Album" is turning 20. To celebrate, Roc-A-Fella is re-releasing the classic jerseys Hova helped to popularize. Roc-A-Fella Records and Mitchell & Ness have teamed up to release a ...

In 2003, at 33 years old, Jay-Z retired from hip-hop at the peak of his powers. “The Black Album,” his putative swan song (the “retirement” lasted about three years), was released in ...

If Jay-Z's career was akin to the stages of running a marathon, The Black Album was his glorious, hard-earned final lap. In the early 2000s, there were plenty of contenders in the field.

Advertised as his final album before retiring, Jay-Z released The Black Album in 2003. Like Michael Jordan, we all know now that Jay did not stay retired for long and eventually returned to music.

However, many fans felt she was slighted in the album of the year category for the highly acclaimed project. No Black woman has earned that award in 25 years. "I don't read Jay-Z as speaking up ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn’s own Jay-Z released he would-be retirement album The Black Album. Although there was virtually no pause between The Black Album and new Jay-Z music ...

His ‘retirement’ might have only lasted a few years, and The Black Album didn’t prove to be Jay-Z's swan song after all, but rather a brilliant classic record to punctuate the next phase ...