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 More than a decade (and one rescinded retirement ...

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 ...

The concept album is deeply rooted in mafioso themes that place Jay-Z gangster motifs into the pastinto a cinematic setting, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...