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 ...

Danger Mouse released 'The Grey Album' which sparked a civil disobedience event online and catapulted him to prominence.

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.

ON ITS 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY, 10 JAY Z COLLABORATORS ... The album was finished, cases were already made. Then, while I was mixing something else, at the last-minute, I made the beat for “PSA.” ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn’s own Jay-Z released he would-be retirement album The Black Album. Although there was virtually no pause between The Black Album and new Jay-Z music ...

Jay-Z made a great album. It was built on an idea never happened: Jay-Z was supposed to retire after The Black Album and, spoiler alert, did not follow through on that. No one with a shred of ...

Yeah, so I’ve been thinking about it, because when that album ... only a few Black people in the neighborhood. And those Black people are like Mary J. Blige, Eddie Murphy, Jay-Z and himself.

“I’m a big fan of [Jay-Z],” Brady told MassLive in 2014. “Public Service Announcement” served as a Just Blaze-produced interlude on The Black Album, which debuted at No. 1 on the ...

When neverending debates of the greatest of all time in rap commence, Jay-Z's name reigns as mandatory ... Three years after ...

Jay-Z insists that after the The Black Album, the curtain finally falls on his illustrious career in hip-hop music. Reclining comfortably at Bassline Studios in Manhattan, with engineer Young Guru ...

His ‘retirement’ might have only lasted a few years, and The Black Album didn’t prove to be Jay-Z's swan song after all, but rather a brilliant classic record to punctuate the next phase ...