The Brown Album is an album by rapper/producer Kev Brown. Recorded inside a week, it was the first unofficial remix of Jay-Z

Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...

's The Black Album

The Black Album (Jay-Z album)

The Black Album is the eighth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released November 14, 2003, on Roc-A-Fella Records. It was promoted as his final studio album, which serves as a recurring theme, although Jay-Z returned to solo recording with Kingdom Come in 2006.The album debuted at number one...

, and one of many remixes of that album, released by various, mostly unknown, producers. Featuring 8 songs and an introduction, the album omits several of the original album's 13 songs and includes edited versions of the Jay-Z acapellas. Brown also restructures the chorus of the originally club-driven "Dirt Off Your Shoulder", adding his own background vocals over a warm, mellow groove. With a limited number of copies pressed, the album can now mainly be found on file sharing

File sharing

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 networks, or for sale on eBay

EBay

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Track listing

1. "Intro"
2. "December 4th"
3. "99 Problems"
4. "Threat"
5. "Encore"
6. "Lucifer"
7. "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"
8. "Allure"
9. "Moment of Clarity"

See also

• Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
  Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...
  
   - The Black Album
  The Black Album (Jay-Z album)
  The Black Album is the eighth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released November 14, 2003, on Roc-A-Fella Records. It was promoted as his final studio album, which serves as a recurring theme, although Jay-Z returned to solo recording with Kingdom Come in 2006.The album debuted at number one...
  
  (2003)
• Danger Mouse
  Danger Mouse
  Brian Joseph Burton , better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American musician, songwriter and producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, which combined vocal performances from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from The Beatles' White Album.He...
  
   - The Grey Album
  The Grey Album
  The Grey Album is a mashup album by Danger Mouse, released in 2004. It uses an a cappella version of rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album and couples it with instrumentals created from a multitude of unauthorized samples from The Beatles' LP The Beatles...
  
  (2004)
• 9th Wonder
  9th Wonder
  Patrick Douthit , better known as 9th Wonder is a hip hop record producer, record executive, DJ, professor, and lyricist from Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. He began his career as the main producer for the hip hop group Little Brother, and has also worked with Mary J...
  
   - Black is Back! (2004)

External links

• The Brown Album at Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...