First, I would like to say that I was really impressed by this past week’s Friday Floetry effort by Powdered Sugar. She deserves big props for rocking Floetry from modern legends that have been doing it since OJ had Isotoners. Hopefully I won’t lose my Floetry job because of this great performance!
Speaking of Floetry, it has recently been announced that Jay-Z / Hov / Sean Carter is dropping a new album in November. The album is Jay-Z’s second since coming out of “retirement” last year. All the songs on the new album will be based on or inspired by the upcoming movie American Gangster. The Denzel Washington / Russell Crowe / Ridley Scott / Brian Grazer film tells the story of Frank Lucas who basically introduced heroin to Harlem in the early 1970s and made himself into a drug kingpin in a New York “industry” traditionally run by the Mafia.
The Jay-Z album is not the movie’s official soundtrack (the "official" soundtrack features Bobby Womack, Sam & Dave, and the Staple Singers). Producer Brian Grazer wanted the movie’s official soundtrack to have a 1970s feel, although over a year ago Denzel Washington pushed him to consider Jay-Z for the official soundtrack. The movie’s trailer does include Jay-Z’s previous work “Heart of the City”. It has to be seen whether any marketing promotions featuring both Jay-Z’s album and American Gangster will occur. Jay-Z’s decision to make an album came only in the past couple of weeks right after he was shown a copy of the film and felt some connection to it (growing up in Brooklyn, Jay-Z rapped and sold drugs).
The movie American Gangster drops on Friday November 2nd, and Jay-Z’s album should also come out in early November.
A lot more info on this story can be found by clicking here (it’s a New York Times article, best paper in this country, in my opinion).
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