Your boy Jay is dropping another album. It’s entitled “American Gangster” and it was apparently inspired by the (hopefully excellent) film that will be coming out soon.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 — Jay-Z, the rap superstar and president of Def Jam Records, has quietly returned to the studio to record an album of new songs inspired by the forthcoming movie “American Gangster,” his first “concept” album and second CD in less than a year.
The album, which his label plans to release in early November, came together over the past few weeks after Jay-Z was shown the film, directed by Ridley Scott, in which Denzel Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a early 1970s Harlem heroin kingpin. (More)
I’ve got nothing against Jay-Z dropping another album – really. He’s an excellent artist, on the top of his game, and it’s going to a hot album. But unlike any other Jay album, I’m just not excited about it. I attribute it to the lackluster return that Jay-Z had with Kingdom Come. If you’re “the best rapper alive” and you come out after two years of retirement, you’ve got to drop an incredible album. Kingdom Come wasn’t an incredible album.
But turning to the Def Jam artists… how does it feel to be on the backburner for years and the CEO of your company can drop an album when he feels like? Must be nice…
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