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A Jay-Z HBO Documentary Is Coming This Fall

A Jay-Z HBO Documentary Is Coming This Fall


Jay-Z’s year of offense continues. With today marking the official 30 year-anniversary of Reasonable Doubt and fans gear up for a Jigga Summer with his impending takeover of Yankee Stadium for a full weekend in July, it appears Jay has plans to keep his run of being outside so to speak going well into the fall. HBO just announced a new documentary, Jay-Z in 8, directed by Rick Rubin where the legendary rapper and legendary producer sit down—in a casually rich and ornate setting, of course—to discuss Jay’s “music, lyrics, life experiences, and creative process.”

This is a big deal for the simple fact that Jay doesn’t really talk, at all. Before his April GQ cover story, it had been close to a decade since his last honest-to-goodness interview. Now he’s gotten the bug to keep talking, and to a yapper like Rick Rubin, for an eight-part series.

Jay and Rick are no strangers when it comes to chopping it up on camera. Rick provides one of the most memorable scenes of Jay’s 2004 documentary Fade to Black when he gushes over Jay’s process as they create what would become “99 Problems.” Years later in 2013, when Jay-Z wanted to offer fans a peek into his mindset during the Magna Carta…Holy Grail sessions, he concocted a commercial series where he played Rick the finished album and they unpacked the themes behind certain tracks.

The teaser is light but one assumes that, again, an eight-part series—which Rick also directed—is going to offer plenty of insight into the art, and also Jay’s intimate thoughts on the myriad of stuff swirling around him in the past few years. Who knows what unprecedented venture the Year of Offense might bring us next… new music perhaps? Fingers crossed, until then, watch the trailer below.



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