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.” ...

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.

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 ...

Jay-Z's "Black Album" is turning 20. To celebrate, Roc-A-Fella is re-releasing the classic jerseys Hova helped to popularize. Roc-A-Fella Records and Mitchell & Ness have teamed up to release a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

If Jay-Z's career was akin to the stages of running a marathon, The Black Album was his glorious, hard-earned final lap. In the early 2000s, there were plenty of contenders in the field.

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 ...