drawing heavily upon sound bytes from American Gangster, Ridley Scott's Denzel Washington starring vehicle about Frank Lucas. On paper Jay has delivered in many ways what is the ultimate Scarface ...

If base nostalgia is a sort of compromise with the past, Jay Z’s “American Gangster” is not nostalgic because it’s not compromised. More than a decade (and one rescinded retirement ...

while Jay-Z tosses off boasts like “Pink rose, think O.J./I get away with murder when I sling ‘ye.” It might be the hottest song on Jay’s new American Gangster, but it has plenty of ...

The concept behind Jay-Z’s new “American Gangster” album was simple. After watching a preview of the new Ridley Scott film of the same name, chronicling the rise and fall of real-life Harlem ...

Rap star/mogul Jay-Z is planning to release a movie based around his upcoming conceptual album American Gangster. The album contains all-new original material from Jay-Z and is his lyrical ...

THE PRELUDE: THE AMERICAN GANGSTER STORY It would seem like Jay-Z is about to do what he once rapped about on the intro track, The Prelude, of Kingdom Come, his 2006 comeback album.

On this date in 2007, Jay-Z released his American Gangster album, which also served as the soundtrack to the movie of the same name with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. It was a conceptual ...

Idris Elba makes a memorable appearance on Jay-Z’s 2007 album American Gangster, speaking on and producing “Intro.” Now Elba has spoken a bit more about how that came to be, telling Jimmy ...

Jay-Z’s American Gangster is one of the strongest albums in his discography. Inspired by the Denzel Washington movie of the same name, the 2007 album did its best to capture the essence of the ...

Jay-Z’s since cooled to it, though, admitting later that it was “maybe too sophisticated”. So it figures ‘American Gangster’, loosely based on the forthcoming Denzel Washington flick of ...

The "American Gangster" actor told Jimmy Fallon he wrote Jay-Z a poem that ended up on the film's companion album. “At the time I hear Jay was about to do an album associated with the film ...