What the hell!

[Sinister]

Producer Combines Jay-Z's 'Black Album' With The Beatles' 'White Album'

Fri Jan 16,10:00 AM ET



Producer Danger Mouse has taken all of the vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album and recorded them over music from the Beatles' 1968 set The White Album, to create The Grey Album, which will be released in March according to NME.com.


Mouse, who sampled portions of the Beatles' set, maintains that all of the music from The Grey Album can be traced to The White Album.


In related news, Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella Records, and Island Def Jam suffered a legal setback in federal court on Tuesday (January 13) when a judge dismissed their motion for a summary judgment and ruled that a jury will decide if Demme Ulloa, who alleges that she came up with the melody for Jay-Z's chart-topping hit, "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)," is owed monetary damages. The parties are due back in court on May 11.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1499&ncid=689&e=8&u=/launch/20040116/en_launch/216431

[princessKT]

That will be pretty interesting, actually.. either that or total crap.

[Sinister]

I think the concept is sh*t myself, but there ya go.. I consider myself to be quite the old school Hip-Hop connoisseur, I just think this sounds a little wacko..

[princessKT]

I like both artists, but they have nothing to do with the project, so who knows.

[db44]

Have either of you ever heard of a band called Big Daddy? What they do is take the lyrics from one song and put it to the music of another. One example is they do "Once in a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads to the tune of "The Banana Boat Song."

Anyway, I bring this up 'cause they do Sgt. Peppers in this style, although I can't remember what songs are connected to the others.

[princessKT]

Nope, sounds interesting though.

Danger Mouse, why does that sound familiar? I wonder if Josh has talked about him before. Do you know who that is James?

[Bubble Tea]

Grey Album As KT said this will be either very kewl or extremely horrid!

[Sofie]

Originally posted by db44
Have either of you ever heard of a band called Big Daddy? What they do is take the lyrics from one song and put it to the music of another. One example is they do "Once in a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads to the tune of "The Banana Boat Song."

Anyway, I bring this up 'cause they do Sgt. Peppers in this style, although I can't remember what songs are connected to the others.

Isn't that basically what the Q Mix is about?

[Sinister]

Originally posted by princessKT
Nope, sounds interesting though.

Danger Mouse, why does that sound familiar? I wonder if Josh has talked about him before. Do you know who that is James?

Seems I'm a bit late, lol.. Sorry about that.. ;) No Katie, I've never heard of Danger Mouse. Josh probably knows who he/she is..

[princessKT]

Alright ;)

[luvsgtr22]

i think the idea is sh$% too. aren't there any copyright infringements here? as much as McCartney's ego has gotten swelled over the last few years, if it were me i'd bring about a major lawsuit

[Sinister]

Well, what do ya know, lol.

Producer Of The Grey Album, Jay-Z/ Beatles Mash-Up, Gets Served

It was an ingenious idea, and one that played so dangerously close to the third rail of copyright law that it was sure to get shut down eventually.

Cease-and-desist orders went out last week to the producer who created The Grey Album and the few independent retail stores that were carrying the CD.

DJ/producer Danger Mouse married vocals from Jay-Z's recent The Black Album with beats made from the Beatles' classic The White Album to create The Grey Album. The "mash-up" CD is one of several bootlegs created using vocals from Jay-Z's supposedly final LP (see "Remixers Turn Jay-Z's Black Album Grey, White and Brown"). But it was the only one that dared to use music from the Beatles' guarded catalog.

A representative for EMI Records served the cease-and-desist orders to Danger Mouse and stores such as Fat Beats and hiphopsite.com. EMI Records controls the sound recordings for the Beatles on behalf of Capitol Records Inc. The publishing side of the Beatles' catalog is owned by Sony Music/ ATV Publishing, a venture between Sony Music and Michael Jackson.

Danger Mouse said he created The Grey Album strictly as a limited-edition promotional item (only 3,000 copies were pressed), but it quickly caught the ear of everyone from Damon Dash to the Neptunes to Jay-Z himself, and copies found their way to hip-hop retail outlets and auction sites like eBay.

Danger Mouse said he's complied with the order not to distribute any more copies of The Grey Album. Because of the small number pressed, he didn't expect any further legal action to take place.

—Joseph Patel

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1484938/20040210/jay_z.jhtml?headlines=true

[princessKT]

Got a copy this weekend, finally, and it's interesting.. that's about all I can say about it. lol

[Sinister]

Got a copy this weekend, finally, and it's interesting.. that's about all I can say about it. lol

Well, what's the word Big Bird? Was it that bad? Give us a review..

[bekahbeans]

I heard part of it - it's pretty cool.

[princessKT]

It's cool, but weird. Not sure if I'm a fan of it. Not something I can really give a review on. I guess you need to hear it for yourself.

[princessKT]

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/danger-mouse/grey-album.shtml

I found a review of it. I agree with most of it. As far as being experimental, it's pretty cool. It's growing on me too. I don't know, if you're not a fan of Jay Z, you probably wouldn't like it at all.

[Sinister]

I don't know what it is about Jay Z that rubs me the wrong way.. I personally never thought he was on par with the early Hip-Hop greats like Rakim, KRS-One, yet he makes himself out to be some kind of rap don... Ah, who the hell cares anyway, lol.....

I guess I should listen to it before I knock it.. On the other hand, maybe I'll just knock it.

[princessKT]

I would just give it a listen for the hell of it. In fact, when I get home, and have my CD burner back, I'll make you a copy; unless you think you can find one pretty easily.

[Sinister]

Thanks Katie! I got it off of WinMX. Ummm, interesting, lol...

[princessKT]

Like I said.. lol It does tend to grow on you, and there's a couple of songs I kind of like.

[Sinister]

Like I said.. lol It does tend to grow on you, and there's a couple of songs I kind of like.

Well there's no accounting for taste, you do like Oasis after all. :p;) (JK)

sparkle would kill me if she saw this post, lol.