Jay-Z's eighth studio album "The Black Album," turns 20 this year, which makes me feel like looking at retirement brochures because who knows where the time goes? I was 23 when the album dropped ...

Jay-Z's "Black Album" is turning 20. To celebrate, Roc-A-Fella is re-releasing the classic jerseys Hova helped to popularize. Roc-A-Fella Records and Mitchell & Ness have teamed up to release a ...

Advertised as his final album before retiring, Jay-Z released The Black Album in 2003. Like Michael Jordan, we all know now that Jay did not stay retired for long and eventually returned to music.

If Jay-Z's career was akin to the stages of running a marathon, The Black Album was his glorious, hard-earned final lap. In the early 2000s, there were plenty of contenders in the field.

His ‘retirement’ might have only lasted a few years, and The Black Album didn’t prove to be Jay-Z's swan song after all, but rather a brilliant classic record to punctuate the next phase ...