The project reached #1 on the albums chart and it won a Grammy for " 99 Problems". The album was considered a classic and Jay said it would be his last album. The Black Album was released and had three hit singles and 2 of them were top 10. The album sold 500k but it received mixed reviews. The first single was his most successful single worldwide for Jay since " Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)". The sequel followed in 2002 and had hits like " '03 Bonnie & Clyde", " Excuse Me Miss" both peaking inside the top 10 on the Hot 100. The Blueprint peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 400k, eventually reaching 2 million. In 2001 he released his classic album The Blueprint which spawned his first top 10 single " Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" which was produced by Kanye West. The album sold 500k first week and had the hit " I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" which peaked at number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart being his first single to reach that peak. His next album The Dynasty: Roc La Familia was released shortly after Vol 3. Hits like " Girl's Best Friend" and " Big Pimpin'" were released and the later peaked at #18 on the Hot 100 earning a platinum certification by the RIAA. Carter had hits like " Jigga My Nigga" which peaked at number 1 on the Rap chart and #28 on the Hot 100. Hard Knock Life to debut at number 1 on the Albums chart and selling over 5 million copies. In 1998 he released the smash hit singles " Can I Get A." and " Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" which peaked at number 19 and 15 on the Hot 100 and had wide success worldwide, too. The album peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and it received positive reviews from critics. The next single " The City Is Mine was the most successful single of In My Lifetime, Vol. His next single " Wishing on a Star" peaked at number 13 in UK being his highest peak on the chart until Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). In 1997 he had success outside of the US with singles like " Sunshine" which peaked at number 25 in UK, 18 in Germany and 22 in NZ. The Brooklyn native rapper Jay-Z had success on the Billboard Hot 100 with singles from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt. 1.The singles discography of American rapper Jay-Z consists of 68 singles as a lead artist, and 51 singles as a featured artist, as well as 14 promotional singles. It’s a still a stunning, bold piece of work, utterly unlike anything his peers were making. Yeezus (2013)įorty minutes of abrasive, distorted hostility that drags everything from bovver-booted glam to industrial music to acid house into the mix, Yeezus is faintly marred by the feeling that West’s no-filter approach to lyrics is getting disturbingly out of control. The orchestral arrangements of Jon Brion add a new weight and depth to West’s sound, the hits – Touch the Sky, Gold Digger – are among his most impermeable, and there’s the unmistakable sense of an artist keen to reach beyond the usual confines of his genre.
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Late Registration (2005)Ĭollege Dropout has better lyrics, but Late Registration just edges it in musical terms. The sugar rush of his then-signature production quirk – old soul samples sped up to chipmunk squeakiness – matched by lyrics that already hinted at the complex, ambiguous figure behind the elephantine ego. The College Dropout (2004)Īs striking a debut album as 2000s hip-hop produced, the endlessly delayed and tampered-with College Dropout was almost as good as West claimed it was. Forget Chris Martin’s ill-judged cameo and luxuriate instead in the euphoric Good Life and the Daft Punk-sampling Stronger. The least appealing of his opening trilogy of albums – the superstar narcissism tending to the-paparazzi-are-worse-than-Nazis idiocy, the sound a little too calculated in its lunge for stadium-filling vastness – but still frequently fantastic. The Life of Pablo (2016)Īt turns infuriating, superb, utterly original and deeply flawed – occasionally over the course of the same track – The Life of Pablo is a rambling mess, liberally splattered with moments of greatness ( Famous, Waves and Fade) and haunted by the sense that its failings might be less down to hubris than the fact you are listening to a mind unravelling.
But some of the music boasts the same ambition as My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the lyrics occasionally flame, as on New Day and Made in America.
West hooking up with Jay-Z was perhaps less about music than a super-sized, follow-that event, and there are moments when listening to the pair discuss how rich they are starts to pall. Kanye West and Jay-Z perform at the Verizon Center in Washington DC.
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