http://www.nme.com/news/103999.htm JAY-Z: 'NEXT ALBUM WILL BE MY LAST'

JAY-Z is to quit the music business - and his next record, 'THE BLACK ALBUM' will be his last.
In an exclusive - not to say slightly unusual - interview with NME he invited us aboard his customised private jet and told us he wants to follow in the footsteps of Eminem and act in a feature film.

Jay-Z told NME: "My plan is to make the next album, 'The Black Album', my last. There comes a time when you've got to go and challenge yourself with other areas, you know what I'm saying? Take myself out of my comfort zone. Take the safety blanket off.

"I'll make 'The Black Album' and release a book with it at the same time. It'll be autobiographical. I'll be working on writing it. Writing's tough, though. I've done basically everything and it's time to take on new and different channels. I feel that I'm at that point in my career."

When asked whether he had any special guests lined up for 'The Black Album', Jay-Z revealed: "I was trying to work with Prince on the last album, but I had to close it. But he let me use the sample in '03 Bonnie And Clyde' [from Prince's 'If I Was Your Girlfriend'] when Beyoncé sings the bridge. So we'll probably do a song. But probably the last album will be 90 per cent me."

As for the future, Jay-Z didn't rule out a move into films: "A feature length film would be cool. I haven't seen '8 Mile' yet. Maybe not the same storyline but maybe something. It's a natural evolution for artists.

"I've done pretty much everything in hip hop, you know what I'm saying?"

I don't like JAy-z very much...but cool!

I'M NOT A HUGE FAN OF JAY Z'S BUT I HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT.

HE MAKES BANGING TUNES AND HE ALSO SEEMS LIKE HE HAS A BRAIN COMPARED TO THE OTHER TRAILER TRASH HIP ARTISTS OUT THERE WHO CAN BARELY PUT TWO WORDS TOGETHER IN A CONVERSATION..

I WISH JAY Z ALL THE BEST AND AS LONG AS THE STUFF HE DOES IS WORTH LISTENING TO THEN I WILL BUY IT...

THE BLUEPRINT MAY NOT BE THE HARDEST HIP HOP ALBUM OUT THERE BUT ITS GOOD FUN TO LISTEN TO..

PEACE..

This is all for publicity. No way Jay-Z quits...

LondonGuy said:

i like hip hop and i think the only trailer trash hip artist is eminem, he sucks

It would be cool if they hooked up.

I wouldn't say that Jay is the greatest, but the brutha does have lyrical skills

Divo02 is right, he will give it away, but he will be back for sure (but not on top, when rappers give the game away for acting, when they return 2 music, they can never get back 2 their greatness musically, eg, Ice T, Ice Cube, LL, etc)

LOL Jigga was gonna quit after "Cant knock the Hustle" lil tired of his football shaped head ass..lol..he aint gonna quit..lol he cant... hes money hungry...without Jigga? Cock a fella's dead...

Who the hell is he?
He cant be that good if i havent heard of him!

It would be cool if Prince played a killer guitar solo there. He improved a lot as a guitar player in the last tour, you know what I am saying?

Well, I loved "the blueprint" a lot.Although the follow up ("the blueprint2") is not that good it is still fun to listen to.
I think it would b cool to have Prince and Jiggaman together on a record since I miss the times when Prince had a little more hip hop flavour in his music.
A return to this kind of music would b very nice 2 listen 2 (like it was on the 0(+> album).
'Though I think that is not something Prince has in mind... unfortunately!

"The Black album"? Hmmm, this is now, officially, the most overused non-title in music history!

my money is on that sucka jay-z really retiring "jay-z" and coming out with something under a different name. publicity whore. please, prince... don't work with this fool.

jigga wha?

I saw the video a few nights ago and I THOUGHT I heard some P in there. At first I wasn't sure if I was hearing a Prince melody. But when Biance went into a line or two. .I was like. . "oh-man. . .you're gonna get in TROUBLE!!"
But now I know that he had permission and that I wasn't crazy, I DID hear Prince in that there song.