The album was considered a classic and Jay said it would be his last album. The Black Album was released and had three hit singles and 2 of them were top 10. The album sold 500k but it received mixed reviews. The first single was his most successful single worldwide for Jay since " Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)". The sequel followed in 2002 and had hits like " '03 Bonnie & Clyde", " Excuse Me Miss" both peaking inside the top 10 on the Hot 100. The Blueprint peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 400k, eventually reaching 2 million. In 2001 he released his classic album The Blueprint which spawned his first top 10 single " Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" which was produced by Kanye West. The album sold 500k first week and had the hit " I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" which peaked at number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart being his first single to reach that peak.
His next album The Dynasty: Roc La Familia was released shortly after Vol 3. Hits like " Girl's Best Friend" and " Big Pimpin'" were released and the later peaked at #18 on the Hot 100 earning a platinum certification by the RIAA.
Carter had hits like " Jigga My Nigga" which peaked at number 1 on the Rap chart and #28 on the Hot 100. Hard Knock Life to debut at number 1 on the Albums chart and selling over 5 million copies.
In 1998 he released the smash hit singles " Can I Get A." and " Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" which peaked at number 19 and 15 on the Hot 100 and had wide success worldwide, too. The album peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and it received positive reviews from critics. The next single " The City Is Mine was the most successful single of In My Lifetime, Vol. His next single " Wishing on a Star" peaked at number 13 in UK being his highest peak on the chart until Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). In 1997 he had success outside of the US with singles like " Sunshine" which peaked at number 25 in UK, 18 in Germany and 22 in NZ. The Brooklyn native rapper Jay-Z had success on the Billboard Hot 100 with singles from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt. Anupam's in great form, Sarika's impressive, Rahul Bose looks out of sorts.The singles discography of American rapper Jay-Z consists of 68 singles as a lead artist, and 51 singles as a featured artist, as well as 14 promotional singles. Innocent Tahaan's tryst with terrorism is indeed a gripping affair, specially since young Purav renders a heart-warming performance as the child who lives in war-torn territory and still believes in miracles. The trader fails to relent and the enterprising Tahaan ends up handling a grenade for his newfound terrorist friend, only because the gun-toting jihadis have promised to get his donkey back. He accompanies the avuncular trader and his yokel aide (Rahul Bose) on their business trips, into terrorist-infested land, to no avail. Young Tahaan, who lives with his mute mother and sister, after his father disappears, makes friends with the trader (Anupam Kher) who bought his donkey and tries to buy it back from him. The film is essentially a paean to Santosh Sivan's skills as a cinematographer, as his camera captures the seasons and the mood the Valley, like never before. He wants his donkey, Birbal, back after his mother (Sarika) is forced to sell it off when the going gets tough. Interestingly, he adopts a style that is quintessential to Iranian cinema and tells his story - death and destruction versus life, love and hope - through an eight-year-old protagonist, Tahaan (Purav Bhandare), who has just one mission in life. This time, he enters the killing fields itself and views life in the midst of guns and grenades juxtaposed against the sylvan mountainscape of the Kashmir Valley. Santosh Sivan has already proved his forte while handling the theme of insurgency in the award-winning film, The Terrorist.
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