On that journey, he’d cultivated not only his own record label, Roc-A-Fella Records, but a list of collaborators and admirers of the highest echelon. ![]() In the lead up to Jay-Z’s final solo record, 2003’s The Black Album, no-one could or would deny the swathe he’d cut through the hip-hop landscape in 7 short years. I just felt like, it being the last album, that I wanted to do it by myself. For the first time ever, here are the numbers to cement the album’s legacy forever. The Black Album was meant to be the climax of Jay’s career, a raw and personal record with minimal features. ![]() Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z announced that he was leaving hip-hop: but only on his own terms and with his own voice.
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