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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Detox Iz Not Active on September 14, 2006, 11:34:51 AM
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NEW YORK - Call him the Michael Jordan of rap. Jay-Z, who declared that 2003's "The Black Album" would be his last, is coming out retirement and releasing a new CD.
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"Kingdom Come" will hit stores this fall, Entertainment Weekly magazine reports in its new issue, due on newsstands Monday.
"It was the worst retirement in history," Jay told the magazine.
Actually, his post-retirement career looked pretty good. In 2004, the rap icon (real name: Shawn Carter) became president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings. He became part owner of the New Jersey Nets that same year. Also on his resume: Not-So-Secret Boyfriend of Beyonce.
Despite naysayers' doubts, the 36-year-old Jay-Z thought he was retired from music-making: "I believed it, yeah. I believed it for two years."
But since his "retirement," he's gone on a world tour, performed on hit records with Beyonce and other entertainers, and had a profile higher than most working rappers. There were rumblings that he was working on a new album. And in an interview with The Associated Press this summer, he said he was thinking about coming out of retirement.
He told Entertainment Weekly that he began tinkering in the studio over the summer.
"Something, when you love it, is always tugging at you and itching, and I was putting it off and putting it off. I started fumbling around to see if it felt good," he said.
The result: "Kingdom Come."
The disc is "more in the vein of `The Black Album' than `The Blueprint,'" he tells the magazine. "I've been experimenting with things, different types of music."
He's already recruited some A-list producer-collaborators: Timbaland, Kanye West and Dr. Dre. Even Coldplay frontman Chris Martin produced a track called "Beach Chair," he said.
So — for real now — when does he plan to retire?
"If I wake up one day and the best material has passed me by — and that's going to happen," he said, "then it's time to move on. I've said what I wanted to say."
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I posted a smilliar atricle in the Outbound.
Im glad hes "back". Not really looking to that Dre track as much as for Timbo tracks. Those 2 are the Snoop + Dre of the eastcoast and Timbo said in an interview he gave some crazy stuff to Jay.
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Wasn't King T's Aftermath album going to be called Kingdom Come?
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I'll believe Dre's on it when it comes out, he was meant to be on the Black album as well.
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i can confirm that jay and dre have already been working together.
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great,2 of the biggest studio gangsta working together..
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I'll believe Dre's on it when it comes out, he was meant to be on the Black album as well.
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yeah and what was the excuse again that the eminem track on the black album sounded like dre anyways? or something along them lines.
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black album was horrible, if this album sounds like that then it will be horrible
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he just need to retire...
if he was gonna do another ...he shouldn't mention about retiring...
lost respect for him...
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Dre producing + "Kingdom Come" = it's never coming out.
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i hope that shit sounds good
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i ain't wanna see jay z making a track called, "forgot bout jayz"
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how are you guys gonna diss jay-z's return to the game but praise bg knockout? dont make no sense at all.
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how are you guys gonna diss jay-z's return to the game but praise bg knockout? dont make no sense at all.
cause they young dumb and they fucking mothers, and fathers where hataz...its in their blood cuzz laugh:-----
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i want detox, fuck a jay-z album.
all dre gonna do is email him a beat.
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he just need to retire...
if he was gonna do another ...he shouldn't mention about retiring...
lost respect for him...
He wasn't going to do another, he is like an addict.
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all dre gonna do is email him a beat.
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all dre gonna do is email him a beat.
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Dre sent "In Da Club" to 50 and we know how that shit worked out...same with Mary J's "Family Affair", even though Dre can't be in the studio with the artist, a dope record can still get produced.
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all dre gonna do is email him a beat.