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Jay-Z Officially Announces Release of His New Album, American Gangster, Due November 6
posted on Sep 25, 2007
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On November 6, Roc-A-Fella Records and Jay-Z will release the new album
AMERICAN GANGSTER. Separate from the official motion picture
soundtrack, this collection of all-new original material is a musical
journey and lyrical interpretation of snapshots from the upcoming
motion picture "American Gangster," which stars Oscar® winners Denzel
Washington and Russell Crowe.
Washington stars as Frank Lucas, a brilliant entrepreneur and
self-made embodiment of the American Dream who comes from nowhere to
rule the inner-city drug trade, and Crowe is Richie Roberts, an outcast
cop zeroing in on who is outfoxing and outplaying all the familiar
Mafia families as he closes in on this unexpected new streetwise
superstar. Based on the true story of criminal mastermind Frank Lucas,
who came up from the streets of New York in the ’70s, the film is
produced by Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer and directed
and produced by Ridley Scott. The film opens on November 2.
The
album balances the line between pure entertainment and real life as
Jay-Z draws upon past experiences, speaking to the harsh reality of the
drug trade and the lasting effects of drugs on a community still taking
place in our nation's cities.
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