99 Problems by Jay Z

The music single “99 Problems” was released by Jay-Z in the year of 2003 from the music album “The Black Album”.

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About the song

The song was produced by Rick Rubin. This song belongs to the category Hip-Hop. In this song the actor Ice-T acted for the purpose. 99 Problems contains some samples like “Get Me Back on Time, Engine No.9” by the song writer Wilson Pickett. From his one of the music album “Home Invasion” he took the title song track. The songs will melt you while listening. The video song was premiered in April 2004 and that was directed by the Mark. This video was fully shooted in the form of earlier picture like black and white. It was fully filmed in Brooklyn city which is in New York. The song shows about the entertaining life in a city and also about the fashions of the different peoples. The dance in the song was performed by the break dancers in a group. They choreographed very well in that video song from the music album “The Black Album”. One of the scenes in the video was that they both are in a car which was stopped by the police. The final appearance in this song was so violent. Jay Z being shot with gun by an attacker. This scene impacts the death of Jay-z and shows the rebirth of Shawn Carter.

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Recognition for the song

In 2004 US Billboard 200 gives the No.1 position for this music album. In the same year U.S. Top R&B/Hip Hop Music Albums gives the No.1 position for the same music album. This song won the award from the MTV which is nominated as MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Cinematography. For the awards Video of the Year and Best Male video for such positions this song was nominated. This song was remixed by most of the singers as well as song writers. This music album has sold approximately 1,882,000 copies worldwide. As a result of this, the song was awarded the gold certification by the Song Recording Industry Association of America for sales of copies in digital downloads.

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Chart position for the song

This music album got into 3rd peak position in Canadian music Albums Chart. IT ranks 64 in Dutch music Album Chart. In the same way the music album touches more countries. In the UK music Albums Chart the song reached the position at 30. The song reached the position no.2 in United World Chart. In U.S. Billboard 200, U.S Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop music album, U.S Billboard Top Rap Music albums they gave highest position which is No.1. The Lyrics and Songs by the musicians were excellent. If you don’t have his music albums in your collection, you can download to your mp3 or get it as CD/DVD downloadable format and enjoy hearing the music songs and videos. The song got into the position No.10 in Billboard Hot 100. Edit

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