Jay-Z's eighth studio album "The Black ... track list, and analyze the album's artwork before breaking off to listen to the album individually. Just in case you wanted to hear the same song ...

Although there was virtually no pause between The Black Album and new Jay-Z music (collaboration albums with both R. Kelly and Linkin Park were released the following year), this album is easily ...

Fifteen years ago, in the midst of a creative rut and middle-aged ambivalence, Jay-Z made a great ... retirement on The Black Album. Vicious, succinct, perfect, no Hov song since has reached ...

And that’s where I’d listen to music. I remember the first song — Jay-Z songs that I was really ... I dropped that “Black Album.” Then I backed out it as the best rapper alive.

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.

Three years after promoting The Black ... among Jay-Z's best albums. In fact, in different ways, both projects are viewed as ...

If Jay-Z's career was akin to the stages ... might have only lasted a few years and although The Black Album didn't prove to be his swan song, the clues that pointed to his inevitable return ...