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Artist News
Jay-Z begins work on new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 2 September 2011
Now he’s got a baby on the way, Jay-Z needs to earn a bit more cash. Babies aren’t cheap, you know. Luckily, he’s already started putting together a new album, the follow-up to 2009’s, ‘The Blueprint 3’. The news was revealed by producer and frequent Jay-Z collaborator No ID, who, by the way (because we forgot to mention this) has just become Exec VP of A&R at Mr Z’s previous employer, Universal’s Def Jam Records.
Producer of five tracks on ‘The Blueprint 3’, No ID told Billboard: “Jay has started again. He played me a couple of things. I gave him some music while we were at the ‘Watch The Throne’ sessions. But with Jay, you never know what he’s really doing, thinking, planning until it’s really done… I’m sure he’ll make a decision one day to make an album very quickly, like he usually does. He’s one of the best, period. I think he’s at a place where he has visions of what he wants to do, and it’s not really dependent on any of us. It’s dependent on his vision and he’s gonna do it, [and] hopefully I’ll be involved”.
