![]() “I’ve really never seen anybody do what he does. Rubin returned the respect and admiration. “When I started this record, I made a wish list of producers I wanted to work with and he was up at the top.” “I’ve always admired Rick Rubin,” Jay said. The Rubin-produced track “99 Problems” sounds pulled from a time capsule, matching Jay-Z’s vocal with the heavy guitar, bass and drums that Rubin helped usher in two decades ago. To that end, the album features Jay and only Jay making the rhymes, with an all-star group of producers including the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams, Eminem, Kanye West and pioneering hip-hop producer Rick Rubin. While Jay spoke of his two most recent recordings - The Blueprint (2001) and The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse - as echoing 1997’s In My Lifetime: Volume ’s Volume 2: Hard Knock Life, The Black Album was composed and recorded as a career summation, but one that didn’t rely on the styles and sounds of his previous recordings, but looked back to when he first started rapping. In New York City this week, the rapper offered a sampling of the music from the record, which plays out like the culmination of a career, with myriad references to his life and times. ![]() The new set’s street date was recently pushed up to November 28th, “Black Friday.” ![]() 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.
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