![]() Jay pleads with the audience, “What more can I say to you? You heard it all,” which is severely depressing and darkly humorous when you consider how bored the world’s most successful rapper has to be in order to make an entire song about the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Black Album is a work of sheer disgust at the excess of success. According to him “The game ain’t hot,” and hip-hop was now “corny.” His stated reason for leaving the genre behind was clear. Every piece of major label music is a publicity stunt by necessity, wrapped in an artistic package. He was asked if his retirement was a publicity stunt. I could think of other ways to get attention,” Jay-Z defensively told Touré in a 2003 New York Times interview.
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