Jay Z by Mark Beaumont

Author:Mark Beaumont [BEAUMONT, MARK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-85712-792-1
Publisher: Music Sales Limited
Published: 2012-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

* What’s more, the Jay-Z single released a fortnight before the album wasn’t even on it. This was ‘20 Bag Shorty’ from a compilation album The Projects Presents: Balhers Forever, a sultry but unexceptional soul parp featuring Baltimore rappers Frody and Gotti that received little promotion, no chart action and a video lacking Jay’s usual budget and class – half a dozen bikini models on a very small boat draped around a couple of rappers waving clearly fake bundles of cash, neither of whom was Jay-Z. Jay’s name was writ large on the sleeve, but this was some serious imaginary player shit.

† A Bink! production designed around samples from Jackie Moore’s ‘If’. Trivia spot: when Bink! came to mix the completed track the disc was corrupted, forcing him to go back to the studio where he’d worked on it and desperately hunt through stacks of records to find the Jackie Moore disc and sample it again in time to recreate the ruined track for The Blueprint.

‡ “I’m too sexy for jail like I’m Right Said Fred.”

* From samples of Tom Brock’s ‘There’s Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From Loving You’; Blaze originally considered giving it to Ghostface Killah.

* Created using a sample from ‘Common Man’ by David Ruffin.

* Produced by Bink! from a sample of Natalie Cole’s ‘I Can’t Break Away’.

† His second album The Marshall Mathers LP had sold 1.76 million copies in its first week in May 2000 and had won the 2001 Grammy for Best Rap Album.

* ‘Got To Find My Own Place’.

* The album is currently Double Platinum, selling over 2 million copies in the US alone since 2001.

† The first two dates rescheduled in the wake of 9/11.

* A number 17 Billboard Hot 100 hit.

* This complicated matters further as a Nas vs Cam’ron side-beef developed with Cam’ron disparaging Nas’ mother and Nas making reference to rumours of Cam’ron having AIDS on his 2002 track ‘Zone Out’.

* ‘Big Pimpin”, ‘Ain’t No Nigga’, ‘Can’t Knock The Hustle’, ‘Jigga What, Jigga Who’, ‘Can I Get A …’, ‘Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)’ and ‘I Just Wanna Love U (Give It To Me)’ – the album hit number 20 and would sell 600,000.

† Right down to a backing vocalist singing all of the vocal samples, including the Annie chorus from ‘Hard Knock Life …’.

‡ A minor hit at number 66.

* Kelly’s case would take six years to come to trial, by which time the charges were reduced to 14 counts. Kelly was acquitted of all charges after a three-week trial in 2008.

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