I get legit chills watching this man. I was obsessed with this album. When Jay was going to do his Black Album concert at Madison Square garden he announces a warm up concert in Lowell, Massachusetts. I couldn’t believe it. Bought tickets immediately blowing my whole savings from my high school job at FYE lol. To this day it’s my favorite concert of all time. Jay-Z doing one of the greatest albums of all time in front of a live orchestra man it was unreal. He did Reasonable Doubt classics, had Mary J Blige, Beyoncé, everyone man. What a night. What an album. What an all time artist.
7:45 Jay Z just casually hears a great beat, then goes immediately into the studio and spits out, straight from his mind, one of the greatest rap songs ever. Jay Z’s out of this world talented.
@@alandemarest9952 nah it’s more than just than just being a “great producer.” Most great producers will be like Timberland…providing amazing beats, bobbing their heads and watching the reaction from the artist. Kanye did all that but also knew how to convert it into a song, concert experience and an album. This takes more than just being a “great producer.”
If you heard jay he said he wanted them to make the beats there nothing in the crate. N pharrell said he had a bunch of hits on his bus. Kanye def shined on thos album
Most of tims real money has come from producing pop music. He was just feeling his music and happy to be in the studio with an old friend, by that point him and Jay had worked plenty times before that.
@@thisisit130 😂🤣😂brush your shoulders off is was not Tims biggest record, and he made way more money off other records. You have to think, on any record the producer is getting paid the most. He gets paid for the beat itself and also gets a significant amount of points on the record. If you dont know what points are do your research. Also tim was already huge by this point doing pop and r&b. Rap has made him the least money in his career.
lol nah just spitting facts, like jay z but he doesn't half bite other peoples songs and lyrics, i do think he's overrated cos his wife is beyonce.people try make them michelle and obama of hip hop lol. he is one of the goats i agree just not the goat @@keatonwoods60
Jays persistence and absolute INSISTENCE on finding the right beat is exactly why he is where he is. He doesn’t just hear the first best and go “yeah that’s fine” like some rappers, he really makes sure every single song is a reflection of himself and it’s why he always has such amazing verses
what are you on about lol, what rappers take the first beat they hear? the difference in production is taste. also, his rapping ability has a lil bit to do with his success but maybe that's just me
William Hord yep. I’ve been feeling hella old over here because I was like, “yo!!! Ricky fucken Rubin and Mikey muthafucken diamond! Everyone else: Tim! Pharrell! Kanye!
ha! Kanye had already worked on the blue print and had already worked on other projects including beanie seagels debut, the one producer that was the least famous and not even on this video was 9th Wonder. 9th played him some tracks and he didn't like any of them, then 9th made what's now "threat" and Jay loved that shit
@Ewarton Charlton New fans lmao, get the fuck out of here. If you think he only produced a "handful of tracks" for artists who weren't on Rocafella you need to go look some shit up, your memory is obviously failing you. There's no way you had his mixtapes at the time to come out with that bullshit either. Kanye produced 5 tracks on Blueprint, an instant classic and his production was a huge part of it. He blew up immediately after that album dropped. he was absolutely not a fucking "unknown" within hip-hop. Go look up his production work between the Blueprint and the Black Album and get back to me. He wasn't known as an artist or as a producer who'd sell records by his name (Neptunes, Timbaland), but he was fucking hot as fuck within hip-hop already at this point. Any heads knew exactly who he was.
copy & paste "(ALL) When RAPPERS Hear New Songs... (Jay Z, Kanye, Puff Daddy, DJ Khaled, Drake, Future, Eminem...)" into youtube & look at the thumbnail Jay's face says it all
Nothing, I mean NOTHING else will top that studio moment with Timbaland. Its been years already, NO other studio moment comes close to this one. Timbaland the GOAT with Jay Z.
øsmaKkx YUNG BLAS maybe there’s actually two Ye’s. One saw the other one in the studio and was like “damn this dude hot” and then fell in love with that Kanye. So the artist is actually different from the public figure, and when he says “I love you like Kanye loves Kanye” he means it literally.
Hearing jay z explain that he doesn't glorify, he reports on what he had to do and what he had observed in his environment was powerful. Only someone who is completely removed from the pain of that kind of life could ever think he was speaking on it with happiness. Its pride to survive for sure but not happiness.
Kanye and Pharrell explaining how the album was supposed to feel like a movie makes perfect since, I’ve always had a thing with this album that When I hear it that I can see exactly who what when and where each song takes place.
Yeh, The Black Album, i remember when he said this is his last album. We got finessed on that one. Also, Timberland set Jay up for that beat. Played him some mediocre stuff, to set him up for the banger.
Horse Cock Express whatttt none of the beats TIMBERLAND played were mediocre lol they were miles better than most of the other beats tim out classed everyone tbh except Kanye all his shit was legit
THIS GIVES ME CHILLS!… takes me back to one of the greatest times in my life. This album 💿 was EVERYTHING! N ALLURE was n still is my FAVORITE ❤️🔥song 🎶 on this album
gdixtakinglzz oh I definitely caught that, trust me. I just got really excited when the video started and I commented almost right away before finishing the whole thing
Notice how he went to 4 different producers and they all had their own sound. That diversity and originality isn’t in hip hip producers anymore. They all use the same sounds and make the same kind of beats. Also, Timbaland is on a whole other level lol.
Not true, they make beats that cater to the current market, ur a stupid producer if you are making boom bap when all artists want are trap beats. I guarantee you guys like metro booming could probably make boom bap shit but just don't really see a lucrative market for it so they don't waste their time because time is money.
Jay is such a Musical Genius!!! It’s definitely Ingenious how he got the Motivation for “Dirt off Ur Shoulda” from Timbaland’s one hand gesture of dancin and rubbin his shoulder one time and went in the booth and Killed It!!! That song has been Sampled so much to this day. His Bars are pure Genius
Jay sees Timbaland brush his shoulders off "You need to get that dirt off your shoulders", Jay hears Kanye say murder capitol "Im from the murder capitol where they murder for capitol", Jay listens to Pharrell's Carlitos way speech "Shit I know how this movie ends, still I play... star role in 'Hovito's Way"
I was in 3rd Grade, my father took me to Best Buy and bought the black album 💿 (RIP DAD) Jay-Z is the greatest rapper imo of all time born in 94. I produce music now so coming back to watch these videos is super inspirational 🐐
It's just amazing to watch Jay's process and all the producers like Kanye and Timbaland and Pharrell. I had this movie a long time ago and I recommend you watch the entire thing, concert and all.
I loved this movie. Just watching that Timberland, Kanye, and Pharrel gave me chills again. Nothing but creative geniuses in a room together. If you are in that room, you just have to absorb all of that energy.
all retirement jokes aside .... The Black Album was fuckin magnificent. every track plays, not 1 skip. this footage is just a testament to it's greatness. nice to hear what didn't make the final cut. top shelf producers.
harlemdiplo Ehh. I personally skip Allure & Threat (everyone loves that track but I just can’t get with it). But I do agree, The Black Album is one of Jay’s most concise along with The Blueprint and now 4:44 to a lesser extent. Plus how the album plays out like a night at a theatre or something with the more mature lush bombastic production and portions with intro, interlude, encore, shoutout end credits, change of clothes, etc is very entertaining. Defo one of those albums best heard from start to finish.
Damn when you see how involved kanye was you could tell he was gonna be amazing. He was involved with the best songs on the album and the hooks and even the video and visual concepts. pure genius
This was nostalgic to watch. I came to love Jay when he dropped the Blueprint 2 so when he was marketing the Black Album as his last album I was hella sad, like “I just got here!” HOV is definitely the GOAT. Fight me.
He didn't get Ethered! Blueprint2 Diss... etc cmon man... and Nas don't have better verses on songs that him and Hov are on together... On "BBC" and "Sorry Not Sorry"... Matter of fact on "The Takeover" what Hov say??? " I showed you your first tech on tour w Large Professor/then I heard ya album bout ya tech on the dresser/ so yea I sampled your voice yu was using it wrong/ Yu made it a hot line I mad it a hot song/.....(referring to the dead presidents hook).... Man give Hov his flowers already hater! Lol
This report is great, thanks for that. Best thing about that wasn't the last plate from that absolutely inspiring grace. He should release an album with the untaken tracks on they hadn't use for Black Album
So RR was responsible for suggesting Jay acapella the start of 99 Problems. Which is one of the best parts of the song and one of the best intros to a rap track ever. The guy is godlike
The crazy part of this album is that it was such a big deal that we all have memories of where we were or what we did while listening to it.. I was in middle school rocking the black album on the way to the gym..you never needed to skip a track they were all dope!
Jay Z is one of the most hardworking artists of all time. His first eight albums are easily classic's because that shows what kinda worker Jay was. I felt like he did an amazing job with The Black Album. And as much as after he came back and did great, I felt like if he really retired after the black album, that would've been crazy
Hell no his first 8 albums ain't classic lol he has a solid 5 classics and the rest are okay. Reasonable Doubt, Volume 1, Blueprint, Black Album and American Gangsta! All those other albums are average or slightly above average
I wouldn’t even say he has three classics. Only reasonable doubt and black album are great. Blueprint is the most overrated album I ever heard, only takeover and renegade are worth anything -girls or izzo is a good song? No one plays that album anymore
Кино
Jay: “This is my LAST album.”
Narrator: “It wasn’t.”
3000 years later........... Jay still making music.....lol
“But it wasn’t, Jay would go on to release Kingdom Come in 2006”
@@JahrellGardner i wish he didn't honestly
@Vincent Sample yes i am
BMprod Why not? I enjoyed Kingdom Come
You'll never see Jay-Z looking more disgusted than when he hears a dope instrumental.
its like a tiger before the kill, he knows he is about to take that beat and do unspeakable things to it
When Kanye played his jawns will never not give me inspiration
@@jwizdum2103 pause
lmao
He get real REAL ugly
I get legit chills watching this man. I was obsessed with this album. When Jay was going to do his Black Album concert at Madison Square garden he announces a warm up concert in Lowell, Massachusetts. I couldn’t believe it. Bought tickets immediately blowing my whole savings from my high school job at FYE lol. To this day it’s my favorite concert of all time. Jay-Z doing one of the greatest albums of all time in front of a live orchestra man it was unreal. He did Reasonable Doubt classics, had Mary J Blige, Beyoncé, everyone man. What a night. What an album. What an all time artist.
Bomb story! That's awesome that you had that opportunity!
Awesome story
The black album was a classic for real. 💯
truly one of the greatest albums of all time
So many souls being lost but u already know that
7:45 Jay Z just casually hears a great beat, then goes immediately into the studio and spits out, straight from his mind, one of the greatest rap songs ever. Jay Z’s out of this world talented.
I’d like to think watch Tim brush his shoulders off helped to inspire Jay
@@PlicanyExotic❤
Out of this world, demon world
„When you start thinking , you start forcing music“
DAMNN WHAT A QUOTE THA LEGEND
It applies to everything too
does it means it's bad ?
I think Michael Jackson said that originally
by any means on whenever there's a drought
Get your umbrellas out because, that's when I brainstorm
Creatives intuitively figure that out eventually
7:09 I don't think people realise how important it was that Timba brushed dirt off his shoulders right there
You can just see the lightbulb moment right in Jay’s eyes and I love it 😂😂
fr!
That's 1 of the benefits of having everyone in the studio as opposed to just sending beats thru email
So true
Hey what mic were they recording with?
I am so appreciative we have technology like this where you can actually go back like you're in a time machine.
I stg we take this stuff for granted
Dead Presidents Lyric Breakdown ruclips.net/video/OFnHLIaZidM/видео.html
Facts, I love RUclips.. It’s better than Television in my opinion
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It’s crazy how Kanye knew how people would vibe to “Encore”
That shit give me chills.. Kanye different frfr
Because the real instrument in any art is the audience you’re trying to make them feel something
It's not really crazy at all...It's the reason why most great producers are great.
I know right it’s almost as if Kanye’s job is being a producer and making beats.
@@alandemarest9952 nah it’s more than just than just being a “great producer.” Most great producers will be like Timberland…providing amazing beats, bobbing their heads and watching the reaction from the artist. Kanye did all that but also knew how to convert it into a song, concert experience and an album. This takes more than just being a “great producer.”
Timberland dancing around cause he knew he about to get paid
If you heard jay he said he wanted them to make the beats there nothing in the crate. N pharrell said he had a bunch of hits on his bus. Kanye def shined on thos album
Most of tims real money has come from producing pop music. He was just feeling his music and happy to be in the studio with an old friend, by that point him and Jay had worked plenty times before that.
Top This! That and he knew he was gonna get paid that’s probably his biggest record
@@thisisit130 😂🤣😂brush your shoulders off is was not Tims biggest record, and he made way more money off other records. You have to think, on any record the producer is getting paid the most. He gets paid for the beat itself and also gets a significant amount of points on the record. If you dont know what points are do your research. Also tim was already huge by this point doing pop and r&b. Rap has made him the least money in his career.
@@thisisit130 his biggest hit record to date is "apologize" with one republic.
Pharrell looks exactly the same as he did all those years ago.
Not really i gave him bj last summer he looks bit old on sunsets
@@MOUMOUK shut yo wannabe edgy ass up
Dutch Delight shut the fuck up sis
Bouby Brown bitch you fr? 😂
hes a vampire
This honestly belongs in some kind of museum.
As an artist I watch this almost everyday
6:47 the best studio moment of all time.
Gives me chills every time. Timbaland’s beats are untouchable.
The cool part is the beat that he played before ended up a Ludacris song
With a banana in his hand
'records 99 problems'
jay- That might be somethin
acting like he didnt take that song from ice t
Paranoid Kalle always a Jay hater somewhere. It comes with being the goat I see
lol nah just spitting facts, like jay z but he doesn't half bite other peoples songs and lyrics, i do think he's overrated cos his wife is beyonce.people try make them michelle and obama of hip hop lol. he is one of the goats i agree just not the goat @@keatonwoods60
@@paranoidreggie53 Very different songs. Ice-T's song focuses on the bitches who are not problems. Jay-Z's song focuses on the problems.
same thing he also hated woman in his music@@Jamesharveycomics
Timbaland had a completely different sound.. that shit is unreal.
yeah sometimes its almost unfathomable the imagination that people have.
old timbo is a treat for sure
OMM 💯
Meh
Tremendous
it's a blessing that this is recorded
Jays persistence and absolute INSISTENCE on finding the right beat is exactly why he is where he is. He doesn’t just hear the first best and go “yeah that’s fine” like some rappers, he really makes sure every single song is a reflection of himself and it’s why he always has such amazing verses
Only a True legend can listen to a bunch of premade beats and then say yes to the ones he likes the most!
He was always extremely in tune with himself. He was born to rap and he knew it. That's how We all have to live our life's purpose.
what are you on about lol, what rappers take the first beat they hear? the difference in production is taste. also, his rapping ability has a lil bit to do with his success but maybe that's just me
@@YourGuyWedge literally anyone can do that
@@aguuug5139 pretty sure that's the point homes. sarcasm ya know?
Jay's reaction to Kanye's beats - he is really impressed and is touched - he knows that Kanye is special.
This is pre-kardashian Kanye...😂
That was NWA not kanye
William Sligh ummm
Everyone knew...everyone still knows...nigga just nuts man lol
SPRB the beat was NWA Dope man, Kanye didn’t make that beat.
11:48 Rick Ruben just casually coming up that iconic ass intro.
William Hord yep. I’ve been feeling hella old over here because I was like, “yo!!! Ricky fucken Rubin and Mikey muthafucken diamond!
Everyone else: Tim! Pharrell! Kanye!
William Hord straight up historical moment
Interesting....
he didnt invent it
he didnt invent it
You can tell every producer wanted to be the one to impress Hov the most and the competition benefited everyone. Everybody came and delivered
Jay-Z had those producers shaking and sweating. Its hilarious and also dope to see how this classic album was put together.
Kanye was the less famous of all producers at this moment , but he was the one that impressed Jay the most
ha! Kanye had already worked on the blue print and had already worked on other projects including beanie seagels debut, the one producer that was the least famous and not even on this video was 9th Wonder. 9th played him some tracks and he didn't like any of them, then 9th made what's now "threat" and Jay loved that shit
Ye been making him beats since 99
Just Blaze impressed him the most. He said JB was the greatest after Song Cry
@Ewarton Charlton He wasn't unknown at all lmao, he was one of the highest rated producers in hip hop after Blueprint dropped.
@Ewarton Charlton New fans lmao, get the fuck out of here. If you think he only produced a "handful of tracks" for artists who weren't on Rocafella you need to go look some shit up, your memory is obviously failing you. There's no way you had his mixtapes at the time to come out with that bullshit either.
Kanye produced 5 tracks on Blueprint, an instant classic and his production was a huge part of it. He blew up immediately after that album dropped. he was absolutely not a fucking "unknown" within hip-hop. Go look up his production work between the Blueprint and the Black Album and get back to me.
He wasn't known as an artist or as a producer who'd sell records by his name (Neptunes, Timbaland), but he was fucking hot as fuck within hip-hop already at this point. Any heads knew exactly who he was.
Hov is the master.he literally made the chorus for dirt of your shoulders by looking at Tim moving
Exactly yea I saw that
al kuda i mean it was just one sentence
He’s just a rapper able to rap. It’s his job. Imagine if he literally didn’t make a chorus.
18 years of The Black Album.
JAY-Z’s best album and my favorite album of all time.
Same here bro
@@jimbo6519 no match for blueprint 2
Reasonable doubt is the best by far .. but this only shows the man is a genius
I always got the cinematic vibe from _The Black Album_
Jay definitely achieved what he was striving for with this one.....a true classic.
Biggest takeaway: If Jay-Z listens to your mix-tape and it looks like he just smelled a fart, he loves your mix-tape.
Alex Clark LMAO...spits out juice..
copy & paste "(ALL) When RAPPERS Hear New Songs... (Jay Z, Kanye, Puff Daddy, DJ Khaled, Drake, Future, Eminem...)" into youtube & look at the thumbnail
Jay's face says it all
your a one direction fan for sure ... Such a dumb comment, grow up
Real fans be knowing lmao 💯🙌😂😂
@@unclesam530 lol that was mad funny. My g
i come to watch this at least twice a year to keep me inspired
Im with it... this my 3rd time in a week
Nothing, I mean NOTHING else will top that studio moment with Timbaland. Its been years already, NO other studio moment comes close to this one. Timbaland the GOAT with Jay Z.
Sorry but kanye west in studio making mbdtf is more legendary
Soon as I seen this comment, literally a second after, the next scene with timbaland lmao
the way kanye can just see everything and plan it out from just making a beat is wild.
Kanye West is the reason Kanye West is the way Kanye West is today
øsmaKkx YUNG BLAS maybe there’s actually two Ye’s. One saw the other one in the studio and was like “damn this dude hot” and then fell in love with that Kanye. So the artist is actually different from the public figure, and when he says “I love you like Kanye loves Kanye” he means it literally.
øsmaKkx YUNG BLAS
This sentence needs to be on a T-shirt.
Andrew Nibb you're stupid, having a mentality like that won't get you far in life bruh. Guy said there's two Kanyes. Lmao
When Jay said “tape this nigga” I died lol
He's awaken to truth, thats why. Don't lie to yourself. Stop watching MSM PPL! ITS ALLLLL MIND CONTROL!
The reason this album was so good is simply becuase all the producers thought of the album as a Jay-Z movie and jay went on the beats and Narrated.
Thank Kanye
@@s.s5933 kanye had i think only 2 tracks on the blsck album i no lucipher was 1 im not sure about the other
@@barbarapaparella2282 the other was the second beat he played
@@barbarapaparella2282 Lucifer and encore
@@sprk007 ye haters act like he doesnt have the beat discography in hiphop lol
Hearing jay z explain that he doesn't glorify, he reports on what he had to do and what he had observed in his environment was powerful. Only someone who is completely removed from the pain of that kind of life could ever think he was speaking on it with happiness. Its pride to survive for sure but not happiness.
Kanye and Pharrell explaining how the album was supposed to feel like a movie makes perfect since, I’ve always had a thing with this album that When I hear it that I can see exactly who what when and where each song takes place.
*sense* ,not since. 😅🤣
imagine how many Timberland beats are unreleased..
So it was Ruben who suggest starting 99 acapella. That was always my fav part of the song.
Facts, so dope to actually hear Rubin say that
22:18 is a such a sick moment, seeing Jay react to Pharrell's beat is so inspirational, Hell, this whole documentary is incredibly inspirational.
That Beat makes me feel inspired man
It’s my favorite part of the whole documentary. Seeing Rick was crazy too.
You can almost see the wheels turning
💯
When you drop a beat that makes Jay-Z stand up and bounce. That has to be the best feeling ever!
Yeh, The Black Album, i remember when he said this is his last album. We got finessed on that one. Also, Timberland set Jay up for that beat. Played him some mediocre stuff, to set him up for the banger.
Those beats was not mediocre lmaoo especially that first one he played
@@alopez9527 That first one was crazy!
Horse Cock Express whatttt none of the beats TIMBERLAND played were mediocre lol they were miles better than most of the other beats tim out classed everyone tbh except Kanye all his shit was legit
kgain673111 “alright, you pick”
@@joshw8854jw sure but he saved the best for last and he knew it
I can tell Pharell was feeling some type of way after the Kanye Session, he was like nah this gonna be MY time to shine lol
I really disliked pharells beat
Pitch Buckets the allure track balances out the black album.
Allure was easily the hardest track. Chad Hugo and Pharrell did great
@@pitchbuckets2860 trippin, it was the most musical beat on the album
He knew ye beat him and was hoping not to be completely forgotten with that beat lol
I give thanks to the person who decided to record this for posterity! Thank you for the peek behind the curtain! 🤩🤩
THIS GIVES ME CHILLS!… takes me back to one of the greatest times in my life. This album 💿 was EVERYTHING! N ALLURE was n still is my FAVORITE ❤️🔥song 🎶 on this album
Timbaland is simply a mastermind when it comes to putting together an instrumental
True indeed, but what about that beat Kanye dropped?!!!
@@bernardhawk3258 I could b wrong but I think that crazy beat w the high pitched synth was a Dre beat
@bernardhawk3258
Timbaland make Kanye look like J.V
@@ThePsychicFish yeah thats dopeman
Just Blaze, Pharell, Yung Guru, and Jay all in the studio at once just being creative. it would be unreal to sit in that studio and experience that
Cinco Sound fr.
Cinco Sound don't forget timbalan 5:49
gdixtakinglzz oh I definitely caught that, trust me. I just got really excited when the video started and I commented almost right away before finishing the whole thing
Jay chewing ass in there to, you guys seen him talk to dude about the games? Lol
I would pay big money to be a fly on the wall in those rooms.
I love how Timbaland is so into his beats when they play out loud.
The transition at 16:15 🔥🔥🔥🔥 that's what makes him the greatest
100%. my jaw dropped
Creating is an amazing feeling.
Zayd Shakur nothing like it
Yes it is
@Galva Tron you're a virgin loser😂😂
@Galva Tron A woman made YOU. Lol
💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯
Notice how he went to 4 different producers and they all had their own sound.
That diversity and originality isn’t in hip hip producers anymore. They all use the same sounds and make the same kind of beats.
Also, Timbaland is on a whole other level lol.
Trunx Kraft you don’t listen to a lot of modern rap then
Trunx Kraft what you said about hip-hop today isn’t true at all lmao what are you talking about
Not true, they make beats that cater to the current market, ur a stupid producer if you are making boom bap when all artists want are trap beats. I guarantee you guys like metro booming could probably make boom bap shit but just don't really see a lucrative market for it so they don't waste their time because time is money.
L
CHUUUCH!
Jay is such a Musical Genius!!! It’s definitely Ingenious how he got the Motivation for “Dirt off Ur Shoulda” from Timbaland’s one hand gesture of dancin and rubbin his shoulder one time and went in the booth and Killed It!!! That song has been Sampled so much to this day. His Bars are pure Genius
At 7:16, Timbo knew he was about to get paid for life off that beat LMAO.
One of beats turned into a Ludacris song, "The Potion".
Andrew Alvarez i knew i wasnt trippin lol i couldnt think of who the artist was at
Andrew Alvarez also jay looks like a caveman who just discovered fire lmaoo
yesssss I heard it immediately
I didn't even know tim produced the potion
That's the first thing that came to my head dam that beat was in the bag for a minute
"Dont ever stop the music, take that shit to the hallway....." Hov is really the greatest
No matter what, Timbaland will always be underrated. Dude writes some phenomenal music.
Jay Z: raps 128 bars with perfect pronunciation and clarity.
also Jay Z: 'Arqutecs' 12:08
The Black Album is one of the greatest albums to exist up to this day 🔥💯
😂😂😂😂
Yea that and Manga Cartel or what it was called 😒😒😒😒😂😂😂😂
It’s 2nd to Reasonable Doubt
Blueprint
Blueprint, black album, and reasonable doubt imo but shit vol 2 and 3 and blueprint 3 are all dope also
Jay sees Timbaland brush his shoulders off "You need to get that dirt off your shoulders", Jay hears Kanye say murder capitol "Im from the murder capitol where they murder for capitol", Jay listens to Pharrell's Carlitos way speech "Shit I know how this movie ends, still I play... star role in 'Hovito's Way"
They weren't beat makers. Back then, they were producers.
Damn what keen observations! 😵💫
it's all in his head, what a genius
Kanye said "murder Capitol where they murder for Capitol
I peeped the with Tim brushing his shoulder. Jay pay attention to people reactions and capitalized
Jay replaying Lucifer to hear the beat drop is exactly how I replay it
I was in 3rd Grade, my father took me to Best Buy and bought the black album 💿 (RIP DAD) Jay-Z is the greatest rapper imo of all time born in 94. I produce music now so coming back to watch these videos is super inspirational 🐐
sorry for your loss
whats your ig
Kanye Man... His Passion Never Really Stopped Either
Ye was ahead of his time for sure
those timba beats were all pretty fcking thicc.
Brandy-Come As You Are
What's the beat at 6:28
@@Moe_Preme ruclips.net/video/N_FGsw7hTKA/видео.html Potion - Ludacris
First time seeing this documentary and I must say I have a whole new respect for Jay z….
i remember watching this on repeat over and over again. appreciating the art and process…
What I appreciate about this video is the fact that HOV seems humble through all of it
It's just amazing to watch Jay's process and all the producers like Kanye and Timbaland and Pharrell. I had this movie a long time ago and I recommend you watch the entire thing, concert and all.
K. Kelly what is the full movie called?
Fade to black
@@abergs-dp2ob 📝
seen it a few times, the best imo next to Pac.
His beat selection is unmatched
timberland drinking high fructose corn syrup by the gallon
this was Jay last album 4 albums ago lol gotta love Hov
Ry its 5 excluding watch the throne and UB
4.5 albums ago. WTT!
Unfinished Business
Kingdom Come
American Gangster
Blueprint 3
WWT
MCHG
4:44
LOVE IS EVERYTHING
5 solos + 3 joint albums = 6.5 albums
Facts 😂😂😂😂
"Can't Leave Rap Alone The Game Needs Me"
Jay addressing Just's video game addiction is hilarious. It's true though.
This was 1 of my best movie experiences ever... The theater was rocking whole movie like we was at the Concert 😂😂❤❤
The energy between ye and jay in their session is beautiful
I loved this movie. Just watching that Timberland, Kanye, and Pharrel gave me chills again. Nothing but creative geniuses in a room together. If you are in that room, you just have to absorb all of that energy.
all retirement jokes aside .... The Black Album was fuckin magnificent. every track plays, not 1 skip. this footage is just a testament to it's greatness. nice to hear what didn't make the final cut. top shelf producers.
harlemdiplo Ehh. I personally skip Allure & Threat (everyone loves that track but I just can’t get with it). But I do agree, The Black Album is one of Jay’s most concise along with The Blueprint and now 4:44 to a lesser extent.
Plus how the album plays out like a night at a theatre or something with the more mature lush bombastic production and portions with intro, interlude, encore, shoutout end credits, change of clothes, etc is very entertaining. Defo one of those albums best heard from start to finish.
You can skip like 1/2 of it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That whole album was incredible!
EleKKtriK _03 You’re buggin
skip Justify My Thug everytime. When i first burned this CD, i skipped that song on purpose.
Damn when you see how involved kanye was you could tell he was gonna be amazing. He was involved with the best songs on the album and the hooks and even the video and visual concepts. pure genius
Jay-Z's beat selection is a big part of what separates his discography from everyone else's in my opinion.
that “ dirt off ya shoulders” beat made Jay get out his seat Lls
the fact that lucifer was a reference track from kanye just blew my mind. classic
"kanyeezy you a genius for this one!! " Jay Z has said this numerous times on his own songs about Kanye West
Tf is a reference track
@@winterwarden if you were a rapper it’d be if I made a song for you and then you went and re recorded
@@na2898 like kanye made the instrumental and shit? he didn't write no shit did he? cheers bro
@@winterwarden a reference track includes lyrics but I’m sure jay added his own in addition
Wow, I’m so glad they filmed this very creative time and process.
This is priceless. Thank you for sharing this.
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0:59 "only two things will get you through this: patience and persistence" ... Jay-Z life/success philosophy in a nutshell.
Nelson C say it like it.
I'm salty he turned down the beat before dust your shoulder off but Missy killed it
"That's Kanye West, That's Kanye West, he signed an autograph!" He also pissed on of his Grammy's today lmfao
Legendary comment 😂
This is magic. I remember watching this year's ago!!
This was nostalgic to watch. I came to love Jay when he dropped the Blueprint 2 so when he was marketing the Black Album as his last album I was hella sad, like “I just got here!” HOV is definitely the GOAT. Fight me.
Can't be the greatest when you've been ethered
He didn't get Ethered! Blueprint2 Diss... etc cmon man... and Nas don't have better verses on songs that him and Hov are on together... On "BBC" and "Sorry Not Sorry"... Matter of fact on "The Takeover" what Hov say??? " I showed you your first tech on tour w Large Professor/then I heard ya album bout ya tech on the dresser/ so yea I sampled your voice yu was using it wrong/ Yu made it a hot line I mad it a hot song/.....(referring to the dead presidents hook).... Man give Hov his flowers already hater! Lol
One of the top 10 hip-hop albums of all time. So many dope producers that came with straight fire, then add Jay's lyrics and flow = GOAT
16:15 is why jay is great, this man started rapping his verse and it still felt like he was having a convo... wow.
This report is great, thanks for that. Best thing about that wasn't the last plate from that absolutely inspiring grace. He should release an album with the untaken tracks on they hadn't use for Black Album
The level of greatness in this video is insane!
The Black Album and American Gangster was big soundtracks to my life.
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Ludacris only got the Potion beat cause Jay-Z heard the Dirt off your shoulders beat right after n forgot about it.
Cats miss that
Actually jay and peedi crack passed it up , peedi crack had it for the state property album but they said it didn’t fit the mood for the album
The very first beat he played was on Brandy's album "Aphrodisiac." The song is called "Come as you are."
I knew I heard that beat b4 I couldn't think which 1 it was
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Allure is one of my favorite songs. This song is truly special. That song is a feeling
JAY Z WAS COLD DURING THAT ERA 🥶🥶🥶
The Black Album is my favorite Jayz album of all time. I grew up with it on rotation.
I love how he matches his flows with the beats so effortlessly
I like how the different flavors of each producer is so dope.
This my favorite Jayz album. Loved every track
So RR was responsible for suggesting Jay acapella the start of 99 Problems. Which is one of the best parts of the song and one of the best intros to a rap track ever. The guy is godlike
And Chris Rock told him to play that for Jay
Kanye had the whole studio rockin facts
I love how they all bring jay z different beats and he killing it putting impromptu rapping into each, he has to be possessed lol
Thought you knew lol
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The crazy part of this album is that it was such a big deal that we all have memories of where we were or what we did while listening to it.. I was in middle school rocking the black album on the way to the gym..you never needed to skip a track they were all dope!
Jay Z is one of the most hardworking artists of all time. His first eight albums are easily classic's because that shows what kinda worker Jay was. I felt like he did an amazing job with The Black Album. And as much as after he came back and did great, I felt like if he really retired after the black album, that would've been crazy
Hell no his first 8 albums ain't classic lol he has a solid 5 classics and the rest are okay. Reasonable Doubt, Volume 1, Blueprint, Black Album and American Gangsta! All those other albums are average or slightly above average
I wouldn’t even say he has three classics. Only reasonable doubt and black album are great. Blueprint is the most overrated album I ever heard, only takeover and renegade are worth anything -girls or izzo is a good song? No one plays that album anymore
@@tylurmackinnon6217 I still do lol Blueprint was the shit in my opinion
We throwing around classic pretty loose nowadays
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Kanye West's Lucifer beat and rhymes just at another level
Looks like Timberland inspired the 'dirt off ya shoulder' hook when he did that lil 'brush them haters off' dance 🔥
Thank you for this 🙏🏾