Production: RadicalMedia / Roc-A-Fella Records / Paramount Vantage / Paramount /Īn intimate look at hip-hop artist Shawn Carter, Jay-Z, revealing the multiple Grammy Award winning artist as never before, from his background and rise to fame to the recording of his last album.Window = 'AOuZoY4xl7OiJlpdFt-jHxiVRShVnykwfQ:1686297162555' _WidgetManager._Init('//_WidgetManager. For a minute, he's not a mogul or an icon. (Timbaland, who is also smitten, does a big, jiggly.) Jay-Z even makes a face. The best moment in the film comes when he first hears the mysterious, powerful, synthesized beat that would eventually become "Dirt off Your Shoulder." He does a little dance. His beats are expensive, and Jay-Z walks away with one. In the case of Timbaland, we see that the process is like shopping. We see how many of the best songs on the record were chosen and show that Jay-Z is something of a savant (he commits no words to paper). The film follows Jay-Z through an Oz-like journey from one major producer to another - the Neptunes, Timbaland, Rick Rubin, Kanye West. The revelation in "Fade to Black" is the recording of "The Black Album," none of whose songs appear in the show. Fade to Black Movie CLIP - Kanye Did His Job Blige and another with Beyonce, which is sort of the halftime act, doing her best Ikette impression to date and reminding us that she and her boyfriend are in dire need of public chemistry. There are other cameos, including one by Mary J. And when Memphis Bleek joins him on stage, Jay-Z becomes a dazzling performer, playing with the speed and pitch of his rhymes. "H to the Izzo," for example, becomes something that wouldn't sound out of place on a Jackson Five record. Every song Jay-Z does while backed by the live band, led by drummer Ahmir Thompson, is open and transformative. Kelly leaps onto the stage suddenly feels surreal. Now, the show in the film looks like another concert. Kelly imploded, incidentally, at the Garden. Of course, "Fade to Black" comes out a week after his post-retirement tour with R. (Unidentified smoke rose from the masses like geyser steam.) For all they knew, this was to be their last live encounter with Jay-Z. For one thing, the crowd flooded the arena that night like sad people attending a colleague's very loud, very starry retirement party. This is not entirely the fault of the film. It turns out that the concert is only intermittently electrifying. But the film wisely spares us much of the drama of the life story, taking us right behind the music and housing us at the Garden show. As the camera flies over New York, Jay-Z tells his life story as if he is already dead. The film chooses a way to tell a story that feels eerily similar to the beginning of many hip-hop thrillers. Watch also: Kanye West Jeen-yuhs Trilogy full documentary Season 1 The backstage celebrity testimonials are so thick you could chip a tooth know that no matter how much you love him, Usher, Common and Ghostface Killah love Jay-Z even more. Its editing is shoddy - jumps between the concert and the studio break up the flow - and it contains the usual concert movie hype. It's a conversation worthy of its own movie.ĭirected by Patrick Paulson and Michael John Warren, the film has the good sense to stay focused on the music. A classic scene between Jay-Z and his friends ends with a protégé confessing that he feels compelled to rap about guns when he hasn't shot anyone. The film is also broad enough to allow for rumination. "Fade to Black" chronicles the life and times of Shawn Carter (the rapper's birth name) - but only in the months before his likely retirement in a corner office at Def Jam Records, and while he was recording "The Black Album," his smartest and most vivid work. Jay Z Fade To Black Full Documentary Trailer ''Put on a suit and shrink it.'' It's the advice of a man about to walk off the street and into the meeting room. One of the lighter songs on ''The Black Album,'' which he swore was his last record (he lied), challenges his fans and peers to consider a makeover. Jay-Z is the coolest man in pop music and, lately, the classiest guy in rap. Never during his extremely complete performance did he even break a sweat. ''Dirt off Your Shoulder'' isn't just a song about transcendence for him. In some T-shirts, his torso drags, and nothing ever seems to get to him, not the sight of his girlfriend Beyonce, not the knowledge that Madison Square Garden shows the movie captures are supposed to be his last. His face has about two expressions (rapping and not rapping). Jay-Z may be hip-hop's greatest lyricist, but to see him in the enlightening new concert documentary " Fade to Black", you'd never know he was a star.
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