No. 3 The Black Album (2003)
Prepping for his “retirement” (yeah right), Jay decided to pull together a who’s-who of hip-hop superproducers: Timbaland, Pharrell, Rick Rubin, Just Blaze, Kanye West and more. The result is an album that manages to be extraordinarily varied (both sonically and lyrically) while also sounding like an album in the truest sense.
