Official Album Art:
I paid for those titties, get your own / It ain't safe in the city, Watch The Throne
The collabo album from Kanye West and Jay-Z, following in the footsteps of Best of Both Worlds and Collision Course. Cover designed by Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy.
Official Track Listing:
Standard Edition Tracklist
1. No Church In The Wild feat. Frank Ocean (Prod. By Kanye West, Mike Dean & Ken Lewis)
2. Lift Off feat. Beyoncé (Prod. By Kanye West, Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker, Q-Tip & Don Jazzy) (Add Vocals. By Seal, Mr Hudson, Don Jazzy, Bankulli and Ricardo Louis)
3. Niggas In Paris (Produced by Hit-Boy)
4. Otis feat. Otis Redding (Produced by Kanye West)
5. Gotta Have It (Produced by The Neptunes)
6. New Day (Produced by The RZA)
7. Thats My Bitch (Produced by Q-Tip & Kanye West)
8. Who Gon Stop Me (Produced by Sham Sak Pase Joseph & Kanye West)
9. Murder To Excellence (Produced by Swizz Beatz & S1)
10. Welcome To The Jungle (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
11. Made In America feat. Frank Ocean (Produced by Sham Sak Pase Joseph)
12. Why I Love You feat. Mr Hudson (Produced by Mike Dean & Kanye West)
Bonus (Deluxe Edition only):
13. Illest Motherfucker Alive (Produced by Southside & Kanye West)
14. HAM (Produced by Lex Luger and Kanye West)
15. Primetime (Produced by No I.D.)
16. The Joy feat. Curtis Mayfield
FULL PRODUCTION CREDITS HERE.
Version Breakdown
- Standard CD - $13.99 - 10 tracks
- Standard Digital - $11.99 - 10 tracks
- Limited Edition Deluxe CD - $16.99 - 10 tracks + 4 bonus songs + Special Packaging
- Deluxe Digital - $14.99 - 10 tracks + 4 bonus songs
NOTES: Digital versions are exclusive to iTunes. The retail version of the deluxe edition is exclusive to Best Buy. For how long, or if it is indefinitely, is not known at the time.
You can take a peek at the Deluxe version's packaging here.
Release Date: August 8th, 2011 on iTunes and everywhere else retail and digital August 12th, 2011.
The Watch The Throne Tour
The old tour schedule has been revamped and pushed back a few months. So far, although pre-sales are on, they have not released a proper full new schedule as of yet. If you buy tickets to a show, you receive a redemption code from Ticketmaster for a digital download of the standard edition.
Why you should care:
- Great tracks like So Appalled, Monster, Power Remix and The Joy were initially meant to be on the album before Kanye yanked em (The Joy still is in, but it appears it is a bonus track now.)
- Its like one of those Blueprint, College Dropout, change-the-face-of-music type good. - Jay-Z
- Jay-Z and Kanye are doing a collaboration album goddamnit what more do you want
What we know:
- They've already recorded enough tracks to complete the album, in England and Australia (Part of the recording done in Peter Gabriel's studio. Pictured below.) As of now, it is pretty safe to assume it's completely done from various reports. In fact, they recorded the album 3 different times over, scrapping the previous version as they were not satisfied with the product. The third version is the one that has made retail.
- Every time you mention the Illuminati in this thread, someone who looks like a camel dies.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed in this thread!