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Jay Z Grey Album Download jay z grey album download Free Download: Radiohead and Jay-Z Mash-Up, ‘Jaydiohead’ Check out DJ Minty Fresh Beats' curious combination of tracks from the New York rapper and the Brit brainiacs. Jay-Z is no stranger to involuntary collaborations with the rock’n’roll elite; remix wizards across the web have mashed his tunes with those of bands from Oasis to Pavement and beyond. And now he has another musical partnership to add his lengthy list: Radiohead. Unlike Danger Mouse’s sensational The Grey Album , which united Jay’s Black Album and the Beatles’ self-titled “White Album” track for track, Jaydiohead mashes an array of songs from both artists, including pairs like The Black Album ’s “99 Problems” and Kid A ’s “Nation Anthem” (remix title: “99 Anthems”), and American Gangster ’s “Fallin'” and In Rainbows ’ “15 Step” (“Fall in Step”). The man behind the mix: New York’s DJ Minty Fresh Beats, who premiered Jaydiohead on his MySpace page December 30. 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In 3.0 and earlier license versions, the indication of changes is only required if you create a derivative. You may also use a license listed as compatible at https://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses. A commercial use is one primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation. Merely changing the format never creates a derivative. The license prohibits application of effective technological measures, defined with reference to Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty. The rights of users under exceptions and limitations, such as fair use and fair dealing, are not affected by the CC licenses. You may need to get additional permissions before using the material as you intend. “The Grey Album”: An Internet classic revisited. Last week, sound engineer John Stewart celebrated the eighth anniversary of Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album by releasing a remastered version via Mediafire zip file. That’s an awkward benchmark to examine the revolutionary mashup project, which layered Jay-Z’s vocals from The Black Album over warped highlights from the Beatles’ eponymous 1968 masterpiece that fans collectively branded The White Album . For starters, few pop culture moments this side of John Kerry’s fear of gay marriage make 2004 feel more dated than The Grey Album’s now also-ran cut and pasting. The tale of Grey reads like the plot of a ‘90s hacker thriller where someone accidentally dials up a 56K connection and finds a code that could change everything : million-dollar company sues starving bedroom artist and makes him the most-wanted producer in America along the way. The issue actually bypassed the freshman interest-group debates about Napster and Metallica entirely, because Danger Mouse’s crime (real name: Brian Burton) was not initially Internet-based. He produced roughly 3,000 copies and peddled CD-Rs independently like a Memphis rapper, and then EMI (the major label that’s survived on the Fab Four’s catalog) brought in an army of Machiavellian lawyers to squash it. It was this excess force that spun a classical freedom fighter firestorm about digital copyrights and fair use and statutory license. On Feb. 4, 2004, the now-defunct Worcester, Mass.-based Downhill Battle and nearly 200 sympathetic websites hosted the album for free on their servers for 24 hours to counter EMI’s efforts, and 100,000 people downloaded in civil disobedience. Eight years later, apparently, The Grey Album endures as one of the most heralded, important, and influential albums of the 21 st century. Thank well-earned martyrdom coupled with one pretty-cool-at-the-time idea. By mashup standards, however, the album doesn’t hold up—and it barely did eight years ago. The Avalanches’ 2001 LP Since I Left You , for instance, packed 3500 samples into one coherent, hour-long work. 2ManyDJ’s 2003’s As Heard On Soulwax is similarly full of drag and drop showmanship and evokes dancing. Here, the “99 Problems” loops don’t even sync with the distinct cadences of “Helter Skelter.” The “Dear Prudence” riff that accompanies “December 4’s” verses is the only instance on The Grey Album where the mashup outduels the song its leeching. Within the culture, it’s one giant unlistenable crime against hip-hop because it cheapened the creative spirit of a genre it was supposed to champion. The Black Album is the best album from the most prolific commercial rapper of all-time because of two key items: Jay-Z raps like a sultan and selects beats like a scholarly dork. Jay-Z’s most underrated talent as a musician has always been his curation of beats. The “Fade to Black” documentary about the creative process behind The Black Album shows him tirelessly skimming potential tracks without pretention or favors; 14 people wound up with producer credits, including nobody duo, The Buchanans. They’re still relative nobodies, but they gave us rap song for the ages, “What More Can I Say?” To the former point, producers were so quick to pirate his ‘hood favorite vocals and remix them that Jay’s people released an acapella version of The Black Album specifically for bootleggers to flesh them out with their own beats. I had a buddy who spent most of a semester smoking weed and working on his own Black Album and the result was somewhat naïve in ambition but a great and worthwhile exercise in composition. Once the Grey Album made Pazz & Jop’s top 10, the game plan for producers changed. The notion of juxtaposing pop music into mashups was nothing new eight years ago. That’s what’s made hip-hop such a fresh and interesting genre for four decades. But this was more direct and calculated. Peer-to-peer file-sharing by off the grid DJs helped spurn the practice while standardizing it: stack vocals over beats forged from cheeky origins not commonly found in the hip-hop genre. To make it work, one just needs to be a learned media guardian—urban kids who know suburban culture can gather and disseminate and live off their all-encompassing taste. (See the Radiohead/Jay-Z mashup, Jaydiohead . ) It should be noted that Danger Mouse, the producer, has shed his party crasher aesthetic and blossomed into a wonderful engineer, songwriter, and producer. His tight drumming on Beck’s Modern Guilt is virtuosic, human, and passionate. After the lawsuits his next two national projects— collaborating with eccentric masked rapper MF Doom on the hilarious and thumping Danger Doom LP and owning pop during the summer of 2006 by way of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”—left Grey in the dust with an army of opportunistic mashups. The “Grey Album” THE “GREY ALBUM” is an absolute must-download record.
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