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The Black Album

Name: The Black Album
Author: Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

Stuck in a lackluster community college after a less-than-ideal high-school career, music-loving Shadid Hasan strives to impress two incompatible camps in his conservative Muslim neighbors and radical lecturer Deedee Osgood. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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This album was mashed up with The Beatles' White Album by Danger Mouse to create The Gray Album, leading to its eventual takedown by EMI.

He famously in 2004 did a mashup of the Beatles White Album and Jay Z's The Black Album and called it The Gray Album.

— Episode: Selects: How Music Sampling Works

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This album was mashed up with The Beatles' White Album by Danger Mouse to create The Gray Album, leading to its eventual takedown by EMI.

He famously in 2004 did a mashup of the Beatles White Album and Jay Z's The Black Album and called it The Gray Album.

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He mentioned it in the context of a hypothetical *Sabotage* album by Michael Jackson which would be filled with the worst music, similar to the *Black Album* by Jay-Z.

It'd be funny if you put out, you know, they have the white album. Jay-Z has the black album. Can you imagine if Michael Jackson did like this sabotage album and just put out the shittiest?

— Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcas...

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