It does not include all of his other releases, like the collaborative albums with R. The list below includes only solo studio albums. It was impossible for anyone to imagine that this would be the outcome for the guy with the rapid-fire delivery that was best known as Jaz’s sidekick, but he’s reinvented his sound several times (with varying results) and has become a worldwide superstar. With 14 number-one albums on the Billboard chart (11 in a row as a solo artist), 21 Grammys, over 100 million records sold, and countless other side deals, he has repeatedly gone beyond the normal bounds of what a rapper could do. He's so variously effective.Ranking Jay-Z’s Albums: Jay-Z is the most successful emcee in history. On the Black Album and American Gangster intros, Jay is absent, his voice replaced with sparse, sample-narrated white space. He's reset the game, teasing new rivals and deading past allies. With his intros, he's refreshed his life's panorama in broad strokes. Jay Z, "The Prelude," Kingdom Come (2007) In fact you can't fit this hustle inside of a wrapper I say that reluctantly 'cause I do struggleĪs you see, I can't leave so I do love youīut I'm just a hustler disguised as a rapper Even Jay Z's weakest albums ( Kingdom Come, The Blueprint 2) lead with the right foot.įorget this rap shit I need a new hustleĪ little bit of everything, the new improved Russell From Reasonable Doubt, which leads with "Can't Knock the Hustle," in 1996, through the The Dynasty's "Intro" in 2000 and the third Blueprint's "What We Talkin ' Bout" in 2009. Think of "The Ruler's Back," from The Blueprint, as a bullying, bass-driven contrast to that album's final track, the whimpering, nostalgic "Momma Loves Me." Think back to The Dynasty album's "Intro," which, as it plays, requires no hype or advocacy from me.Īmong Jay Z's odd strengths is his leading nearly every one of his albums with these unstoppable intros. Consider that Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, The Black Album, and Magna Carta Holy Grail are sturdy, definitive checkpoints of Jay's career highs and creative fluctuations, and that, singles aside, Jay Z recharges our expectations of him from each album's jump. Since his major beginning in 1996, Jay Z's been a genius storyteller, not just by the construction of his songs, but also by the the construction of his albums and the narrative integrity of his catalog.
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