Magna Carta Holy Grail

Because one thing about Jay-Z, he's always found a way to get paid and find the second customer for the underlying product that he has.

He drops Magna Carta Holy Grail in 2013.

He's just not selling that to the fans.

He sold a part of that to Samsung.

Yeah, I think you might have wrote that around Magna Carta, Holy Ghost.

Holy Grail.

Holy Grail, yeah.

Yes.

But that was the one that had a Samsung affiliation to it, so maybe there's a little bit of a U2-ish... thing going on with uh but yeah i think you're absolutely correct in that you know what do you call he called himself the the rap uh grateful dead on the black album i don't know how you would feel about this i think that would be another podcast what of itself

That was a moment.

If you look at things that shift the culture, think about 07, right? While Curtis comes out, we get American Gangster, right? Then we get Magna Carta Holy Grail.

No, Blueprint 3, excuse me.

We get American Gangster, then we get Blueprint 3.

Crazy, right? All right, so let's rewind a little.

Back in 2011, Kanye and Jay-Z were preparing to release their legendary collaborative album, Watch the Throne.

And if you remember that era, you already know these dudes were operating on another level.

We had Otis, "Nias in Paris," and an entire album dedicated to reminding everybody just how successful they were.

But apparently there was another record that almost made the cut.

That record was "Livin' So Italian," and honestly hearing it now, I can understand why fans have been obsessing over this thing for years.

Nobody makes financial success sound quite as threatening as that man.

Here's another interesting detail.