Jay-Z during Jay-Z "The Black Album Tour" Live at Madison Square Garden - Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, United States. 2003.

The Black Album was the moment Shawn Carter perfected selling Jay-Z as a product, one that’s reinvented every few years. It’s a sales model that will last until his actual retirement ...

In fact, for younger audiences discovering Jay-Z, it makes a great gateway to discovering Jay-Z past classics. The Black ...

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 ...

The album also went triple platinum in the United States and made appearances on music charts of eight different countries. Tags: 15th anniversary , 99 Problems , jay-z , Rick Rubin , The Black ...

Jay-Z's "Black Album" is turning 20. To celebrate, Roc-A-Fella is re-releasing the classic jerseys Hova helped to popularize.

More than a decade removed from his intended swan song, Black Album, JAY-Z continues to chip away at the grindstone that is immortality. It’s to the point that it’s not a question of if he ...

Rap music of the early- to mid-1990s was quickly consumed by the fiery tempers of battling East Coast and West Coast rappers. While the mainstream media was consumed with the fight between Los ...

Jay-Z has been talking retirement almost as long as he’s been making records, but the pomp surrounding his new release, The Black Album, suggests this time he might make good on his claims.The ...

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. From Nas ...

transcript. Jay-Z’s ‘The Black Album’ Reconsidered Our culture writer loved this quintessential hip-hop album as a teen. But after the summer of 2020, he started rethinking its message.

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.