The Throne’s ‘Watch The Throne’ is now available on iTunes. After eight months of work, we’ll finally get to hear this masterpiece of hip-hop right here with more than 100 people invovled on the album (only in production credits from LMFAO to Seal and many more). According to the digital booklet, Pharrell wasn’t only invovled on The Neptunes produced ‘Gotta Have It’ (samples three James Brown Tracks ‘Don’t Tell A Lie About Me & I Won’t Tell The Truth About You’, ‘My Thang’ and ‘People Get Up & Drive Your Funky Soul’), nope he also Co- Produced ‘Lift Off’ featuring Beyoncé and I’m pretty sure you would recognize what exactly Pharrell did on the tune right after the ‘lift off’ in the tune (break beat), it’s a pretty dope album though, I would give it a 8/10, so Make sure to cop it on iTunes and if i’m remember correctly this is the first time since Nas’ 1994 Illmatic that an album didn’t leak right before the official release!
The Throne – Watch The Throne (2011)
01 – No Church In The Wild feat. Frank Ocean (Kanye West)
02 – Lift Off feat. Beyoncé (Kanye West, Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker, Q-Tip, Don Jazzy, Pharrell Williams) (Add Vocals. By Seal, Mr Hudson, Don Jazzy, Bankulli and Ricardo Louis)
03 – Niggas In Paris (Hit-Boy)
04 – Otis feat. Otis Redding (Kanye West)
05 – Gotta Have It (The Neptunes) (Add Vocals. Kid Cudi)
06 – New Day (The RZA)
07 – That’s My Bitch (Q-Tip)
08 – Welcome To The Jungle (Swizz Beatz)
09 – Who Gon’ Stop Me (Sham ‘Sak Pase’ Joseph)
10 – Murder To Excellence (Swizz Beatz, S1)
11 – Made In America feat. Frank Ocean (Sham ‘Sak Pase’ Joseph)
12 – Why I Love You feat. Mr Hudson (Kanye West)
13 – Illest Motherfucker Alive (Kanye West)
14 – H•A•M (Lex Luger)
15 – Primetime (No I.D.)
16 – The Joy feat. Curtis Mayfield (Pete Rock)
Production Credits
Lift Off feat. Beyoncé
(K. West, S. Carter, J. Bhasker, M. Dean, P. Williams, B. Mars, S. Samuel) (BMI/ASCAP) Produced by Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop since 1978, Jeff Bhasker, and Mike Dean for Dean’s List Productions. Co-Produced by Q-Tip and Pharrell. Additional Production by Don Jazzy. Orchestral engineering: Pawel Sek. Recorded by Noah Goldstein at Barford Estate, Sydney, AU. Additional programming by LMFAO, Anthony Kilhoffer and Hit-Boy for Very Good Beats. Mixed by Noah Goldstein, Mike Dean, LMFAO and Anthony Kilhoffer at (The Mercer) Hotel, New York. Additional vocals: Seal, Mr Hudson, Don Jazzy, Bankulli and Ricardo Lewis. Beyoncé appears courtesy of Parkwood/Columbia Records. Seal appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records.
Gotta Have It
(K. West, S. Carter, P. Williams, J. Brown, J. Roach, F. Wesley, T. Pinckney) (BMI/ASCAP) Produced by The Neptunes. Co-Produced by Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop since 1978. Recorded by Noah Goldstein and Mike Dean for Dean’s List Productions at Tribeca Grand Hotel, NYC and (The Mercer) Hotel, New York. Mixed by Mike Dean for Dean’s List Productions and Noah Goldstein at (The Mercer) Hotel, New York. Additional vocals: Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi appears courtesy of Universal Motown Records. Contains samples from the recording “Don’t Tell A Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell The Truth About You” as performed by James Brown. Courtesy of Polydor Records, under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Contains elements of “Don’t Tell A Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell The Truth About you” (J. Brown/J. Roach), Dynatone Publishing Company (BMI) & Intersong-USA, Inc. (ASCAP). All rights on behalf of Dynatone Publishing Company (BMI) administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Contains samples from the recording “My Thang” as performed by James Brown. Courtesy of Polydor Records, under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Contains elements of “My Thang” (J. Brown), Dynatone Publishing Company (BMI). All rights on behalf of Dynatone Publishing Company (BMI) administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Contains samples from the recording “People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul” as performed by James Brown. Courtesy of Polydor Records, under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Contains elements of “People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul,” written by J. Brown, F. Wesley and T. Pinckney, published by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music Inc./Donna Dijon Music Publications/Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI)
Samples
James Brown
* Don’t Tell A Lie About Me & I Won’t Tell The Truth About You
* My Thang
* People Get Up & Drive Your Funky Soul
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne (Trailer 1)
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne (Trailer 2)
*itunes.apple.com
*watchthethrone.com