Wednesday, October 22, 2003
The first Jay-Z single from The Black Album is a go!
Whoa, I must be losing my touch when the place I first hear about the brand new Jay-Z single from his forthcoming Black Album is by surfing the indie music website, Pitchfork media. So I wasn't sure whether I should go by their enthusiastic review of "What More Can I Say?" as to whether Jigga still got it but figured, if they're on the mark, it's looks like he's about to drop a heat-rock on the hip hop world.
Well 15 minutes later I surfed around and finally got to check out the track for myself and yeah, it's pretty hot (although it uses the same MFSB "Something for Nothing" sample as the Biggie/Tracey Lee duet "Keep Your Hands High" from Lee's underappreciated Maney Facez album, again with the Biggie references, yeesh. Maybe Nas had a point on "Ether.") . Click here to peep "What More Can I Say?" for yourself .*
Word is this is not the "official" first single from the album. That will be a jawn titled "Change Clothes" which will premier this Friday on AOL. As music website Hiphopgame.com notes: "the concept of [the] BLACK ALBUM [was]: NO SINGLES, NO PROMO, NO VIDEO, NOTHING !! Jay-Z hasn't stuck to the concept at all..." But De La Soul said it first back in the day: Stakes is High, baby. Even, Jay can't take a chance putting out an album with no promotion. Or maybe he stuck to his vision but Lyor and Kevin stepped in and injected some reality into the proceedings.
I don't think it's really possible to add any commentary of value, humorous or not, to this story, is there?
Fred "Rerun" Berry R.I.P.
Elliott Smith R.I.P.
*link courtesy hiphopgame.com
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Well 15 minutes later I surfed around and finally got to check out the track for myself and yeah, it's pretty hot (although it uses the same MFSB "Something for Nothing" sample as the Biggie/Tracey Lee duet "Keep Your Hands High" from Lee's underappreciated Maney Facez album, again with the Biggie references, yeesh. Maybe Nas had a point on "Ether.") . Click here to peep "What More Can I Say?" for yourself .*
Word is this is not the "official" first single from the album. That will be a jawn titled "Change Clothes" which will premier this Friday on AOL. As music website Hiphopgame.com notes: "the concept of [the] BLACK ALBUM [was]: NO SINGLES, NO PROMO, NO VIDEO, NOTHING !! Jay-Z hasn't stuck to the concept at all..." But De La Soul said it first back in the day: Stakes is High, baby. Even, Jay can't take a chance putting out an album with no promotion. Or maybe he stuck to his vision but Lyor and Kevin stepped in and injected some reality into the proceedings.
I don't think it's really possible to add any commentary of value, humorous or not, to this story, is there?
Fred "Rerun" Berry R.I.P.
Elliott Smith R.I.P.
*link courtesy hiphopgame.com
