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Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West
, released on August 8, 2011, by Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc Nation, and Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions for the album took place at various recording locations and began in November 2010. It was produced by West, 88 Keys, RZA, Swizz Beatz, Jeff Bhasker, and Mike Dean, among others.
Expanding on the dense production style of West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne incorporates orchestral and progressive rock influences, unconventional samples, and dramatic melodies in its sound. Jay-Z and West's braggadocio lyrics on the album express themes of opulence, fame, materialism, power, and the burdens of success, as well as political and socioeconomic context.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 436,000 copies its first week. It has produced two singles, "HAM" and "Otis", both of which attained Billboard chart success. Upon its release, Watch the Throne received generally positive reviews from music critics, who commended its production and the rappers' performances, although some criticized the subject matter and the album's cohesiveness.
Jay-Z and West will promote the album with a concert tour during October to December 2011. The album has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and, as of September 2011, has sold 902,000 copies in the United States.Julian Benbow of The Boston Globe writes that the album's music is as massive, dour, and relentlessly unconventional as that of West's previous 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Music writer Robert Christgau describes West's production as a funkier and less ornate variant of the prog-rap of 2010's acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.Music journalist Jody Rosen characterizes the music as vast, dark and booming,commenting that West continues in the sonic vein he introduced in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, lacing the songs with rock dynamics, layering his beats with eerie vocal chorales, piling on proggy flourishes.
Conversely, Matthew Cole of Slant Magazine finds West's knack for dramatic, melodically sophisticated tracks channeled away from the Olympian scale of his previous album and toward the more commercial vein of Jay-Z recent work, which he attributes to West splitting production work with several other producers.On the songs structure, Cole states, every track eschews the standard verse-hook-repeat format in favor of more dynamic material. Music journalist Alexis Petridis comments that the album incorporates unlikely samples.
Jon Caramanica of The New York Times writes that the album's production can be roughly segmented into three categories, noting Southern-inflected tracks such as Niggas in Paris and HAM, moody and harsh numbers like "Who Gon Stop Me and Why I Love You, and the nostalgia that creeps over much of this album, giving it a sonic through-line and mission statement.Pitchfork Media's Tom Breihan perceives pure orchestral excess on some of its songs and describes the album's musical scope as "a tribute to West's distinctive taste and sense of style.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 436,000 copies in the United States.It serves as Jay-Z 12th number-one album and West's fifth number-one album in the US. Its debut week serves as the second highest debut week of 2011, while its first week digital sales of 321,000 downloads serve as the second highest one-week sales tally in digital history. The album had the biggest one-week digital tally ever for a rap album and broke the United States iTunes Store's one-week sales record when it sold nearly 290,000 downloads in the first week via the retailer.
by: Amanda Harrison
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