The Black Album is one of the 16 eras on the community Jay-Z tracker, which runs from Preasonable Doubt to EVERYTHING IS LOVE. The tracker places it after The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse and before Kingdom Come. unreleased.world has 8 tracks from it: 5 full songs and 3 snippets — 18 min of music in all, played 2 times on the site.
The tracker dates 3 of these leaks from 2003 to 2015; the most recent, “🏆 Early This Morning [V2]”, surfaced December 9th, 2015.
The most played cuts are “🏆 Early This Morning [V2]”, “🏆 Pop Pop The Burner” and “I Ain't Heard Of That”. “Kanye West - Never Let Me Down [V4]” is the longest at 4:30.
Every track streams free in the player; open the album to hear it start to finish.
The community tracker documents all of these 8 tracks, with leak dates for 3 of them and producer credits for 4; it is in the tracklist below.
Tracklist
- 1I Ain't Heard Of ThatCD Quality · OG · prod. The Neptunes2:08
- 2Never Take Me Alive [V1]Leaked January 12th, 2003 · High Quality · prod. Scott Storch2:04
- 3🏆 Early This Morning [V2]Leaked December 9th, 2015 · Recording · prod. Just Blaze1 plays0:30
- 4LuciferLeaked November 5th, 2004 · Recording2:01
- 5???Recording · Throwaway · prod. The Neptunes1:29
- 6Kanye West - Never Let Me Down [V4]CD Quality · Feature4:30
- 7🏆 Pop Pop The BurnerRecording1 plays0:33
- 8Kanye West - Never Let Me Down [V3]Not Available · Feature4:30
Play The Black Album in the player— every track, free, in order.
Most played from The Black Album
- 1🏆 Early This Morning [V2]1 plays
- 2🏆 Pop Pop The Burner1 plays
- 3I Ain't Heard Of That0 plays
- 4Never Take Me Alive [V1]0 plays
- 5Lucifer0 plays
The The Black Album era
What has surfaced of the 16 entries the tracker files under The Black Album: 3 in full, 1 tagged, 1 partial, 2 as snippets and 8 unavailable.
JAY-Z's eighth studio album, The Black Album, was released on November 14, 2003. The album was touted as his final release, with retirement being a recurring theme throughout the songs. He originally wanted to collaborate with DJ Premier, but ultimately worked with 10 different producers, including Kanye West, who produced two tracks.
- July 2003The Black Album begins recording
- November 14th 2003The Black Album releases
All 16 Jay-Z eras
In the order the community tracker lists them.
- Preasonable Doubt21 tracks
- Reasonable Doubt6 tracks
- In My Lifetime, Vol 14 tracks
- Vol 2, Hard Knock Life5 tracks
- Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter4 tracks
- The Dynasty: Roc La Familia2 tracks
- The Blueprint5 tracks
- The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse11 tracks
- The Black Albumthis page
- Kingdom Come8 tracks
- American Gangster5 tracks
- The Blueprint 326 tracks
- Watch The Throne35 tracks
- Magna Carta.. Holy Grail12 tracks
- 4:445 tracks
- EVERYTHING IS LOVE13 tracks
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