![]() ![]() Jay-Z’s nonchalant flow, his dazzling wordplay, his cultivation of the finest beatmasters, the artful little twists he puts on both the thug life and its uptown sequel – all this puts Shawn Carter on another level to virtually anyone else in hip-hop history.īut is this really his last record? Jay-Z is something of a Frank Sinatra fan, going so far as to cover ‘My Way’ (quite badly) on last year’s ‘The Blueprint 2’, and comparing himself and his “Rat Pack niggas” to the man on ‘Threat’ here. “Pound for pound I’m the best that ever come around,” he claims on ‘What More Can I Say?’ And, while the rap world is necessarily full of egomaniacs and hyperbole, it’s hard to argue. ‘The Black Album’ is Jay-Z’s ninth album in seven years and, if we’re to believe this elegant hip-hop institution, the last one he’ll ever make.
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