The Black Album

Um, I, I love Jay-Z.

Black Album I think is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Uh, could listen to it front to back.

I've said, and I'll say it again, I thought Metallica would've been an awesome concert last year.

"This is just talking." And that also did as much to end gangsta rap, because it just became softer, and it became more commercial.

And I mean, there's, you know, there were a couple of albums later, Dre 2000 and, uh, Jay-Z's Black Album was still gangsta rap.

But kind of beyond that, it's all about the Benjamins.

Yeah.

You're at, you're at the World Series, game seven, bottom of the ninth, they pull you in, what song are you walking out to?

Ooh, probably Hov's Interlude from the Black Album.

Wow.

The Jay-Z Interlude from the Black Album, yeah.

That's a hell of an answer.

What about, you got the windows down in the 405, you're probably in a lot of traffic.

I, I love what I love, and it's been that way since I was a kid.

But I think the, I, I don't know.

That's good.

And the White Album is interesting, because did you ever hear about how Jay-Z did the Black Album? And then he did a black album.

And then there's this artist, Danger Mouse, who took the riffs and the music of the white album, and then he took Jay-Z's black album lyrics and mixed them together and made this gray album, which is just really weird.

I almost want to look more into all of that because it's...

Sounds like

I think it's probably different for different artists.

Why did Jay-Z call you? The time that I first met Jay was when he was making the Black Album and he wanted to...

He was planning on retiring, and this was going to be his one song, his final album.

The Black Album was Jay-Z's last album.

Turned out not to be, but that was the plan.

And he asked his 10 favorite producers to each make one track with him.

Metallica had a black album.

Jay-Z had an album called The Black Album, but nobody's ever had no information whatsoever, you know, in their album kind of packaging.

There is information there, but you got to find it.

You know, it's like underneath the CD, and you got to break that out, because I legally had to put it there, you know.

Can't Knock The Hustle on Reasonable Doubt, talks about that.

Um, and what more can, what more can I say for The Black Album? Kind of breaks that down a little bit, but he breaks down little verses at a time with Rick Rubin.

Um, and then he goes into the second episode, and he breaks down the two Biggie songs that he did.

Um, the one that he did on the Reason- the Reasonable Doubt album, uh, Brooklyn's Finest, um, was the one they talked-

I think the last time I enjoyed an album of his was probably American Gangster.

Magnum.

I just kind of wish he called it a, called it a career at The Black Album like he allegedly was gonna.

It was what he was doing.

[laughs]

I'm looking forward to seeing you here for the 30th anniversary of The Black Album, which is sooner than I wanna admit.

Oh, I'm sorry.

[laughs]

And he had a hand in it.

Black Album, though, is like best.

Anything called Black Album is good.

Metallica, Jay-Z, many others.

Jay-Z was getting shout-outs on Life After Death long before we knew who he was.