In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
Production
- Jay -Z
- Ski
- Daven " Prestige" Vanderpool
- DJ Premier
- DJ Irv
- Big Jaz
- Buckwild
- Kareem " Biggs " Burke
- Tedy Riley
- The Hitman
Studios
- Late 1996 - mid 1997
- D & D Studio
In My Lifetime, Vol 1 is the second studio album by American rapper Jay -Z. It was released on his record label Roc -a- Fella Records on November 4, 1997. Critics recorded the album mixed. The album is mostly mainstream -oriented than its predecessor. The album debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard 200 album charts and was awarded by the RIAA platinum in the United States during the year.
Musical style and content
Worked on the album and rapte Jay -Z with various artists and producers in the hip hop scene like Fox Brown, Babyface, Blackstreet, Teddy Riley, Too $ hort, Lil 'Kim and Puff Daddy. The producers DJ Premier and Ski who already worked on Jay -Z 's debut album Reasonable Doubt, produced numerous new beats, which should make the songs radio USEFULLY for mainstream audiences. Puff Daddy gave the album the ultimate touch for Jay -Z breakthrough in the U.S., he produced almost all the songs and the album and posted it then at Bad Boy Records. The promotion for the album also took on Puff Daddy. The album is held in the Mafioso Rapstil the late 1990s. The contents of the album refers to life in the ghetto and in the urban scene of New York City, also located on this album many personal songs on which he usually simply called by the pseudonym " Jiggy ", which for some time Jay -Z stage name was.
In My Lifetime, Vol 1 was released in a time during which played the "Mafia " image a large role in the hip- hop scene. Jay -Z was then inspired by the other Mafia -inspired albums like Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwons ..., Nas It Was Written and AZ's Doe or, as he told in later interviews. There are also connections with The Notorious BIG, the long the gangster pseudonym Frank White was a time, which is also represented on In My Lifetime, Vol 1. As singles the songs Who You Wit ( Always Be My) Sunshine and The City Is Mine were selected. At all three songs music videos were filmed.