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Track List: Black Album

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  1. InterludeDownload & Buy
  2. December 4thDownload & Buy
  3. What More Can I SayDownload & Buy
  4. EncoreDownload & Buy
  5. Change ClothesDownload & Buy
  6. Dirt Off Your ShoulderDownload & Buy
  7. ThreatDownload & Buy
  8. Moment Of ClarityDownload & Buy
  9. 99 ProblemsDownload & Buy
  10. InterludeDownload & Buy
  11. Justify My ThugDownload & Buy
  12. LuciferDownload & Buy
  13. AllureDownload & Buy
  14. My 1st SongDownload & Buy

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Album Details: Black Album

Release Date:
11/14/2003
Label:
Def Jam
UPC:
602498611210

User Reviews: Black Album

  1. Awesome Finish

    , November 9, 2003
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  2. HOV is back and ready to go out with a bang

    , November 12, 2003
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If The Black Album is JayZ's last, as he publicly stated it will be, it illustrates an artist going out in top form. For years Shawn Carter has been the best rapper and the most popular, a man who can strut the player lifestyle with one track and become the eloquent hiphop everyman with the next, an artist for whom modesty is often a sin, and yet, one who still sounds sincere when he's discussing his humble origins or his recurring doubts. After the immediate classic The Blueprint found him at the peak of his powers, and The Blueprint²: The Gift the Curse came as the most deflating sequel since Star Wars: Episode I, his followup (and possible siren song) impresses on the same level as the best of his career. As he has in the past, JayZ balances the boasting with extensive meditations on his life and his career. The back history begins with the first song, "December 4" (his birthday), on which Carter traces his life from birth day to present day, riding a mock fanfare and the hearttugging strings of producer Just Blaze, along with frequent remembrances from his mother in This Is Your Life fashion. The other top track, "What More Can I Say," opens with Russell Crowe's defiant "Are you not entertained?" speech from Gladiator, then finds JayZ capping his career with another proof that he's one of the best of all time, and a look into what made him that way: "God forgive me for my brash delivery, but I remember vividly what these streets did to me." He also goes out with a few words for underground fans who think he's sold too many records for his own good. On "Moment of Clarity," he lays it out with an excellent rhyme: "If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli/Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense/But I did five mil, I ain't been rhyming like Common since." The first single, "Change Clothes," is much more interesting than the lightweight club hit it sounds like, a keyboardheavy pop sequel to the Neptunes' "Frontin'" (the anthem that rocked the summer of 2003, and his last collaboration with professional beatmaker and amateurish falsetto Pharrell Williams). And he can rock with the best as well, working with Rick Rubin on a cowbellheavy stormer named "99 Problems" that samples Billy Squier and outrocks Kid Rock. The only issue that's puzzling about The Black Album is why one of the best rappers needs to say goodbye unless, of course, he's simply afraid of being taken for granted and wants listeners to imagine a rap world without him.

- John Bush, All Music Guide



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