Jay-Z released ‘In My Lifetime, Vol. 1’ after the death of The Notorious B.I.G. In the mid-1990s, The Notorious B.I.G. had already become a well-known rapper, while Jay-Z was working to launch ...

With vivid storytelling and two music videos full of flash, women, and champagne, Jay-Z's 'In My Lifetime' became the blueprint for hip-hop in 1995.

Jay-Z has millions of fans, but there is one album in the Brooklyn-bred rapper's collection that even he won't listen. On the cusp of his highly-anticipated 'Blueprint 3' release, Jay stated that ...

While JAY-Z's discography is literally the library of a legend it isn't perfect. He recently revealed that In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 still haunts him to this day.

The revisionist history which frames Jay Z’s pre-Hard Knock Life career — placing Doubt as an instant classic and In My Lifetime as the “sophomore slump” — is unfairly reductive to Vol ...

One night in the fall or winter of 1996, JAY-Z and The Notorious B.I.G. were relaxing at Daddy’s House, the studio that Bad Boy owned in Midtown. This was almost certainly after the car accident ...

Jay-Z has said before that his sophomore effort In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 is one of his least favorite works.Despite eventually going platinum, sales-wise the album failed to perform, only selling ...

When Jay-Z tweets, you might as well buy a lottery ticket. After sending a total of zero tweets in both 2019 and 2020, Hov sent a meager five to the three million followers of his @sc account in 2021.

Diddy featured Jay-Z on the track “Do You Like It, Do You Want It” from his “No Way Out” album, while Combs appeared on “In My Lifetime, Vol 1,” Carter’s second album.