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Jay-Z compares his works from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol to the Muses goddesses, pictured above on a mosaic. "Illest Motherfucker Alive" contains cello arrangement handled by Dean. [ 4 ] The song combines Southside's snare drums with West's orchestral sections, featuring opera vocals from Kid Cudi, Bankulli , and Cardona.
Royce da 5'9" and Fredro Starr of Onyx both describe Jay-Z's emphasis on flow in the book How to Rap—Starr says that Jay-Z is "a master of the flow—he can flow fast, he can flow slow". [141] The book describes how Jay-Z uses 'rests' to provide structure to a verse [ 142 ] and how he uses 'partial linking' to add more rhymes to a verse. [ 143 ]
The song's title references a sample of "Bam Bam" by Jamaican musician Sister Nancy, who described her participation on the track as "a blessing."[3] [4]The song's hook, sung by Damian Marley, is an interpolation of the 1976 song "Tenement Yard'' by Jacob Miller and Inner Circle, with Marley singing Gangsta cant live inna tenement yard in place of the original Dreadlocks cant live inna ...
The Black Album is the eighth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z.It was released on November 14, 2003, through Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings.It was advertised as his final album before retiring, which is also a recurring theme throughout the songs, [1] although Jay-Z resumed his recording career in 2005.
Jay-Z described the recording process as having a "minimalist approach" to give Magna Carta Holy Grail a "1990s feel". [15] While working on Beyoncé's fifth studio album, frequent collaborator Timbaland played Jay-Z the instrumental for what would become "Picasso Baby". According to Jay-Z, that song built the sound of the album.
Jay-Z’s infidelity was exposed in Beyoncé’s album “Lemonade,” and he owned up to it on his own album, “4:44.” “Decoded” (2010): Jay-Z’s memoir goes into explicit detail about ...
According to Yahoo!Music journalist Angus Batey, American Gangster used "a selection of beats built from '70s soul and funk" to reflects "the period setting; lyrically, its primary theme is an investigation of the evolution of the gangsta archetype, looking at how the drug dealer became a semi-sympathetic outlaw figure, examining the contradictions inherent in those who chase the American ...
Jay-Z has a long-running feud with rapper Birdman, who signed Lil Wayne to his record label in 1998. For his part, Lil Wayne has consistently cited Jay-Z as his all-time favourite rap artist, and ...