The Black Album by Jay Z

The musician Jay Z was released his music album “The Black album” in 2003. This music album belongs to the hip hop category. Pharrell Williams featured in one of the music single from this music album which was "Change Clothes". In this Jay-Z's mother, his mother also rolled she told about his childhood in the music single “December 4”,

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Song formation

In this music album it contains fourteen singles. Each music single can be downloaded in separate formats such as CDs or DVDs. The music singles are “Interlude” this song was produced by Blaze. Then the song “December 4th”, in this music his mother had performed some portions. “What more can I say” song has been produced by The Buchannans. The music single “Encore” song was written by Shawn carter and Kenny west. The songs “Change clothes”, “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”, “Threat”, ”Moment of clarity”, “99 Problems”, “Public Service Announcement” , “Justify my Thug”, “Lucifer”, “ Allude” and then finally “My first song”.

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About the music album

In his first song “December 4” was his birth date. In this song the singer talks about his life from birth day to date. The famous producer Just Blaze played the song along with the singer’s mother in “This Is Your Life Fashion” which about the musician’s early birth life. “The first music single, "Change Clothes," is much more interesting than the lightweight club hit it sounds like, a keyboard-heavy pop music to the Neptunes' "Frontin'". The music single”99 Problems" song samples Billy Squier and outrocks Kid Rock. The songs "Change Clothes" and "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" were both successful singles in this music album. From this music album most of the singers mashed up their songs with this music album songs which also enlighten the new featured songs. Such songs are Clipse's "Where You Been", based on a line from "Threat", Gillie Da Kid's "Holla Back," based on a line from "Moment of Clarity", Beanie Sigel's "All the Above" uses "Public Service Announcement (Interlude)" for a line on the music track, Freeway's "It's Over" song chorus was based on a line in "Encore".

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Chart positions for the music singles

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. In 2003 the song “What More Can I Say” got the rank No.48 in Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Music singles & Music Tracks. With the same year the song “Change Clothes” got into the position No.10 in Billboard Hot 100 and the position No.6 in Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks then in 4th position in Hot Rap Song Music Singles. In 2004 the music single “Encore” has been ranked as 30 in Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Music singles & downloadable music tracks and songs. With the same year the song “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” got the rank no.5 in Billboard 100 and 3rd rank in Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Music singles & Music Tracks and 2nd position in Hot Rap music singles.

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Sources

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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