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 More than a decade (and one rescinded retirement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For instance, Episode 202, “Say Hello” (featured on Jay-Z’s “American Gangster” album), introduces the new attorney running point on her defense, Morris Chestnut’s Corey Cash.

"American Gangster" is proof that Jay-Z hasn't lost his gift of making some of the most undeniably inventive and assured hip-hop music, or as on "Roc Boys" he sums up: "This is black superhero music." ...

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 ...

Jay-Z's American Gangster is one hell of a comeback album . . . for Diddy. Sean Combs, along with his production team, the Hitmen, oversees Gangster's best tracks, “Pray” and “Roc Boys (And the Winner ...

Idris Elba starred in "American Ganster ... Lucas in the film. Jay-Z, clearly smitten by the reading, sampled it for the “Intro” track of his album. “Your gangster is not defined by ...