The US rapper Jay-Z says goodbye with a real cannonball hip hop legacy from the music scene: His latest album is expected to be the best When Jay-Z's new album "Black Album" is all black: The Box, the CD, the music anyway, and even the booklet was printed in black and white. This is based on a clear strategy: The 33 year-old rap star, producer and owner of the New York group of companies "Roc-A-Fella" reflects on his ninth album of the roots of rap music: rolling chant of angry (and not always FamilySafe !) lyrics, rapped on bone-dry sounds, for the most part from machine samples (sound snippets) and looped beats (rhythm loops) assembled wurden.Jay-Z, even an old production Fuchs, caused by persistent presence on the mixer for that the 14 songs in spite of sound cooks sound like a unified whole. With the "Black Album" tops the "Jigga", as he is called, the fans, have been strongest album "The Blueprint" (2001). Nevertheless, he announced that he no longer operate on this CD as a musician, but will concentrate on producing colleagues and especially on its planned film career in Hollywood: "The Little Jay-Z wants to play with the big and see what comes out. "