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Product Identifiers

ProducerChris Flame, Mario Winans, The Neptunes, Shawn Carter, Just Blaze, L.V., No I.D., L.A. Reid, Diddy, Jermaine Dupri

Record LabelRoc-A-Fella

UPC0602517499898

eBay Product ID (ePID)8052297427

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Era2000s

Run Time2854 Sec, 3522 Sec

FormatCD

Release Year2007

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Rap & Hip-Hop

StyleEast Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap, Gangsta Rap

TypeAlbum

ArtistJay-Z

Release TitleAmerican Gangster

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

DistributionUniversal Distribution, Umg

Number of Tracks12, 15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

BassEd Goldson, James Lewis, Arden Altino

GuitarEd Goldson, James Lewis, Marty Reid

MixingKen "Supa Engineer" Duro, Chad Hugo, Victor Abijaudi, Ken "Duro" Ifill, Phil Tan, Hector Helgado, Jermaine Dupri, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton

Reviews4 stars out of 5 -- "AMERICAN GANGSTER sounds reassuringly expensive, with a hotshot production team including Just Blaze, Pharrell and Diddy's Hitmen crew.", "Jay-Z uses the film's story and period vibe to color his own elaborate legend....On 'Fallin',' the record's emotional climax, Jay-Z raps frantically as the walls close in.", Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "AMERICAN GANGSTER is tripped out on a Seventies-funk fantasia.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Here his favoured old soul classicism -- say, on 'American Dreamin' or 'ROC Boys' -- provides the best backdrop for his rhymes.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "With live horns, grooving on some kind of Afro-beat riff over Seventies rumble-in-the-jungle funk..."

Additional InformationRevered Rapper's 2007 Effort Takes Its Inspiration from Award-Nominated Film of the Same Name.

EngineerAngel Aponte, Andrew Coleman, Victor Abijaudi, Steve "Rock Star" Dickey, Jordan "Dj Swivel" Young, Darin Smith, Cedric Hollywood Jr., Andrew Wright, Ryan West, Derrick Selby, Seth Firkins, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton

VocalsKanye West, Shannon Jones, Jayms Madison, Adonis Shropshire, Leisa Johnson, Cheri Dennis, A.J. Walker, Angela Wood

KeyboardsArden Altino

PercussionBashiri Johnson

DrumsMario Winans, Still Phil

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo