Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam Recordings Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam Recordings While the album was criticized at ... The Annie-sampling title track, "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)," is often considered one ...

When did Jay Z become Jay Z? For some, the answer is as simple as when he took his name. For others, he emerged fully-formed on his tough-talking debut, Reasonable Doubt, or on his glossier Bad ...

Recorded in some of NYC’s most coveted studio spaces, Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life featured some of the games best producers, including Jermaine Dupri, Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland, Hov’s third ...

But with all that success also came some hard times. Cocker has struggled with ... recalling the 1970 tour that spawned his famous live album Mad Dogs & Englishmen. "By the early '70s, the drugs ...

That song, as well as its parent album, Vol.2 … Hard Knock Life, which turns 20 today (Sept. 29), marked a point of inflection for Jay-Z’s career as he transformed from respected New York MC ...