The Gray Album
New Yorker article on Danger Mouse's new remix, the unlikely combination of Jay-Z and the Beatles:
Last December, he made an unauthorized remix of “The Black Album,” the most recent (and reportedly the final) record by the rap superstar Jay-Z. This is a common hip-hop practice: up-and-coming producers take the vocals from a hot record and reattach them to new backing tracks. Burton’s remix sprang from a simple pun: he decided to lay the vocals from “The Black Album” over musical bed created entirely with samples from the Beatles’“White Album.” The result, as any finger-painting kindergartner might guess, was “The Grey Album.
Posted by johndan at February 13, 2004 07:58 PM
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