Jay-Z was haunted by the album. Jay-Z has continued to reflect on In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 a quarter century after its release.Back in January 2022, Questlove responded to a fan who expressed their ...

The revisionist history which frames Jay Z’s pre-Hard Knock Life career — placing Doubt as an instant classic and In My Lifetime as the “sophomore slump” — is unfairly reductive to Vol ...

“The City Is Mine” is In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 distilled into a four-minute sample: wrought with grief and buoyed by extraordinary technical skill, packaged in (and maybe marred by) a fixation ...

The Perfect Imperfections of JAY-Z’s ‘In My Lifetime Vol. 1 ... Sure, Jay-Z had scored minor hits in the Foxy Brown-assisted club banger, "Ain't No Nigga," his sublime duet with Mary J. Blige, ...

While JAY-Z's discography is literally the library of a legend it isn't perfect. He recently revealed that In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 still haunts him to this day.

Jay-Z has said before that his sophomore effort In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 is one of his least favorite works.Despite eventually going platinum, sales-wise the album failed to perform, only selling ...

20 Years Ago: Jay-Z’s ‘Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life’ Turns Him Into a Rap Superstar MC Lyte Goes R&B on ‘Act Like You Know Me': Sept. 17 in Hip-Hop History ...

In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 saw the gritty-mafioso rap themes that was prominent in Reasonable Doubt limited, shifting rather to a more commercial and flashier sound on Jay Z's first Def Jam release ...

Jay-Z may not frequent Twitter often, but yesterday (16 January) he shared his first tweet of the year, and first since Halloween 2021. While responding to a tweet stating that Jay-Z's "Sunshine" was ...

My favorte track on In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 is: "Friend Or Foe '98" is the sequel to the cut off his debut and what a burner it is, thanks to the up-tempo bounce crafted by Primo.

Jay-Z CREDIT: Kevin Kane/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jay-Z has said his second album, ‘In My Lifetime, Vol 1’, “haunts” him in a rare tweet responding to Questlove. The ...

In honor of the recent 20th anniversary of Jay Z's debut album, Reasonable Doubt, we're publishing a series of pieces looking at the rapper's singular career and achievements. Welcome to Jay Z Week.