The group split and began work on solo projects just a year after The Score’s release, but that was enough time for it to put Fugees in the hip-hop hall of fame, changing the genre’s landscape forever. Each member of the band have the opportunity to really shine on this record, but The Score has to be noted for bringing Hill to a mainstream audience, with her vocals anchoring the group’s soulful sound on singles such as “Ready Or Not” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song”. Weaving together smart samples, live instruments and intelligent vignettes of ghetto life, The Score is intimate and thoughtful, at the time providing a broader appeal to masses who were skeptical about hip-hop music. If you talk that kind of talk, you sure as hell have to walk the walk and, upon release, The Score did not disappoint. “It’s almost like a hip-hop version of Tommy, like what The Who did for rock music,” said Lauryn Hill of Fugees’ second album, before it had even been released. Equipped with Death Row Records’ most celebrated producers – including, you guessed it, Dr Dre – to match his swaggering braggadocio, All Eyez On Me may not be 2Pac’s most thoughtful album, but it’s the one on which all elements came together harmoniously and, considering its sheer scale and quick turnaround, deserves to be remembered as one of the greats. While a tone of urgency runs through it, 2Pac’s work on this album is anything but sloppy, eschewing the more self-reflective themes explored on Me Against The World for an unashamed celebration of Thug Life. The rapper died in a drive-by shooting less than a year later, but not before the release of All Eyez On Me, an album that was hastily recorded in two weeks. In today’s world, no label in their right mind would have bailed him out for his crime, but that’s what Death Row Records did in 1995, forking out $1.4 million on the condition he would make three albums for them once released. In April 2008, Jay-Z was reportedly on the verge of a partnership with Live Nation for _150 million-among the most expensive contracts ever awarded to a musician.Ĭarter married Beyoncé Knowles on April 4, 2008.At 27 songs long, 2Pac’s fourth and final album to be released during his lifetime is a tour de force of hip-hop, the first of its kind to ever be released for mass consumption and a ferocious return to music after spending eleven months in jail for sexual assault.
MTV named him number one on their list of the greatest MCs of all time. After announcing his retirement from recording music in 2003, he returned in late 2006 with the album Kingdom Come, which sold 680,000 copies in its first week, Jay-Z's highest-selling album in a one-week period. His critically acclaimed album, The Blueprint, was written in only two days. Jay-Z's debut album, Reasonable Doubt, is ranked by Rolling Stone as #248 on its "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Along with his financial and musical success, Jay-Z is known for being involved in many quarrels with other artist in the rap industry, the most well known being between him and fellow New York rapper Nas, which was eventually settled in 2005.
He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having sold over 26 million units in the United States and receiving several Grammy Awards for his musical work. He co-owns The 40/40 Club and the New Jersey Nets. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records. Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1970), better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. See Music Videos that you CAN'T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes.
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