Jay-Z had based the chorus from the song a line from Audio Two's " Top Billin'". T.I.'s "Bring Em Out", based on a line from "What More Can I Say", which Jay-Z in turn got line from The Notorious B.I.G.Lines from the album have been sampled by other artists into entirely new songs. Their collaboration led Jay-Z to executive produce Shinoda's solo debut, The Rising Tied, released under the name Fort Minor. The only officially released remix album is Collision Course, Jay-Z's collaboration with Linkin Park it was produced by Mike Shinoda and included a DVD featuring the artist and the band performing together. This incited many other remix albums made available on the Internet through file sharing. The latter gained attention due to its unauthorized use of samples of songs by The Beatles. An early attempt by Kev Brown, The Brown Album, was followed by Danger Mouse's The Grey Album. Kelly sample that was included in the beat.)Īn a cappella version of the album was released, with the intention of providing material for remixes and mashups. (Jay-Z is credited as the second producer on the track for finding the R.
9th Wonder saw a boost in popularity after producing "Threat" for the album. Longtime collaborators DJ Premier and Dr. The final album did feature a variety in producers, although Roc-A-Fella producers Kanye West and Just Blaze produced two tracks each, in addition to the two produced by frequent Jay-Z collaborators The Neptunes.
He also claimed that the album would have a different producer for each track, and early magazine advertisements listed a series of numbers (representing tracks) and a producer for each number. In early interviews, Jay-Z said that the album would be a return to his Reasonable Doubt sound (responding to criticism from some fans that his subsequent efforts were too commercial) and that it would be "for the streets", with no promotion or singles however, "Change Clothes" and "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" were both successful singles.