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Danger Mouse released 'The Grey Album' which sparked a civil disobedience event online and catapulted him to prominence.
Success that lasts that long only comes from an artist who excels at Jay-Z's level, but does his discography excel enough to ...
But the album’s claim to canon more or less ends there. Because this is a modern-age Jay-Z album, a number of his commercial successors roll through as features, and they all amount to a montage ...
"Every album's a color." Jay-Z famously compared his catalog to a Rubik's Cube, specifically in how trying to complete a new side inevitably "fucks up the other color." Since then, as his ...
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 collects his 14th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his latest release, "4:44," debuts atop the tally. "4:44's" No. 1 arrival extends JAY-Z's record as the solo artist with the most ...
In a wide-ranging speech, Jay-Z recalled Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff boycotting the award show in 1988 and his own boycott after being nominated for best rap album in 1998. "DMX had dropped two ...
But a more interesting discussion centers around the ordering of the sprawling discography of one of the men who paved the way for them: Jay-Z. The rapper who began his career as a witty corner ...
Suave, brash, and eager to conquer the world. That picture, taken as a promo shot for Jay-Z's 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt, offers a glimpse of a relatively young man, 26 years old at the ...