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  Jay-Z Goes Hard on J. Cole's "Mr. Nice Watch"

  September 15, 2011 – Jay-Z has been all about collaborations lately. First he teamed up with Kanye West for their chart-topping album Watch the Throne; then came news at the MTV Video Music Awards that he and Beyoncé were expecting a baby. Now Jay has added a supremely scornful verse to a new track by North Carolina rapper J. Cole, who previously appeared on Hova's own 2009 LP, The Blueprint 3. Hear it here, via Consequence of Sound. "Mr. …
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  Track by Track: 'Watch the Throne' Pt. 2

  August 23, 2011 – The second half of Watch The Throne is where the album really starts to come together, and where Jay and Kanye's rapper-rich provincial worldview begins to fall apart. …
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  Jay-Z and Kanye West: No. 1 on Charts

  August 17, 2011 – Jay-Z and Kanye West have snagged the No. 1 spot this week for their collaborative album Watch the Throne, selling 436,000 copies, according to Billboard. It's the second-largest first-week sales for an album this year: Lady Gaga holds the top spot with 1.1 million for Born This Way. Jay-Z and West — along with their parent label Def Jam — had an unconventional marketing strategy for Watch the Throne's release. …
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  SPIN's Track-by-Track Take on 'Watch the Throne'

  August 13, 2011 – Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative album Watch The Throne is finally in stores. August 12 also marks the day that the painter Jean Michael Basquiat died, 23 years ago. It's an oddly appropriate time for a money-grubbing, deeply considered, pop-art rap album full of shiny, expensive message-music to drop. …
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  Jay-Z and Kanye West, 'Watch the Throne' (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam/Roc Nation)

  August 12, 2011 – They are both obscenely wealthy; you, in all likelihood, are not. Let us neither over- nor underemphasize this aspect of Watch the Throne, the long-threatened, full-length Jay-Z/Kanye West summit, garish and glorious, exquisite and exasperating. Quick litmus test: Does the phrase "I'm planking on a million," which spills joyously from the lips of one Shawn Carter, fill you with revulsion? …
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  WATCH: Jay-Z and Kanye Debut Spike Jonze's 'Otis'

  August 11, 2011 – Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative album Watch the Throne is garish and glorious, exquisite and exasperating, the kind of expensive-sounding record that pisses excellence even as it pisses you off. So naturally the hip-hop titans would need a flashy, big-ass music video to match their over-the-top album - and they've roped in none other than film wizard Spike Jonze to direct the clip for the first single "Otis," which premiered on MT …
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  Kanye & Jay-Z Rule Charts, Lil Wayne Tease + More

  August 9, 2011 – Within one day of its release on iTunes, Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne has hit the No. 1 spot on the music service's charts in 23 countries. While iTunes hasn't released sales figures, Billboard predicts the set is on track to sell between 400-500,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. That would make it the second-largest first-week sales of the year, behind Lady Gaga's Born This Way, which moved 1.1 million copies. …
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  Kanye and Jay-Z Debut Epic, Reflective Album

  August 2, 2011 – There was a mysterious Eyes Wide Shut feeling to Monday night's listening party for Kanye West and Jay-Z's much-anticipated Watch the Throne collaborative album. After handing over any and every device that could possibly record audio or video, an excited clump of writers, rappers, models, and nebulous industry types filed into the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York's Museum of Natural History for an hour and a half of sipping …
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  Jay-Z, Kanye West Announce Massive Fall Tour

  July 25, 2011 – With their collaborative album Watch the Throne now due out August 8, Jay-Z and Kanye West have announced plans to tour behind it — and the duo, calling themselves "the Throne," will hit the road for a massive 24-date nationwide arena tour that kicks off September 22 in Detroit. Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster and Live Nation starting August 8, and fans who purchase seats will also receive a digital copy of the album. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  July 23, 2011 – This week, Red Hot Chili Peppers ended their five-year hiatus by releasing the first single from their upcoming tenth album I'm With You, MTV previewed the fall comeback season of Beavis and Butt-Head, and Jay-Z and Kanye sampled soul singer Otis Redding on the latest track from their highly anticipated collabo LP Watch the Throne. …
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