To best assess Jay-Z's GOAT status, one must assess all 13 of his solo rap albums. Without including collaborative albums with the likes of Beyoncé and Kanye West, seeing how Hov presents himself ...

If a single Jay-Z album went platinum 20 times, I was probably responsible for 2% of those sales. ... The best thing about Jay-Z albums is that no one ever gets all of the references at once; ...

Jay-Z’s highest-selling collaborative album with Kanye West, Watch the Throne, contains some of the best performances from both rappers in their respective careers.

We’re hoping Beyoncé will take home the Best Album honor one of these days, and we’re very much with Jay-Z that it should’ve happened already. Fans definitely agreed with Jay-Z on this one.

Jay-Z used his acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards to condemn the academy for failing to give his wife Beyonce the best album award, despite her 32 wins in other categories.. The Brooklyn-born ...

Jay-Z’s American Gangster album arrived in conjunction with the 2007 motion picture of the same name. The Denzel Washington-led, Ridley Scott-directed crime drama told the story of real-life New ...

Jay-Z released his first album, Reasonable Doubt, in 1996. Since, he's shared hits The Blueprint , American Gangster , 4:44 and latest album HOV DID — and many more.

In a wide-ranging speech, Jay-Z recalled Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff boycotting the award show in 1988 and his own boycott after being nominated for best rap album in 1998.

Jay-Z took the Grammys to task for not giving Beyoncé a certain honor. ... But then in ’98, I took a page out of their book and was nominated for best rap album.