10 years after working with Jay Z on The Black Album, Pharrell Williams discussed the process and what it meant to him with Life & Rhymes. Skateboard P discusses Jay with the utmost humility and labels him an artist’s artist. He speak from the perspective of a true fan.

Here’s what Pharrell had to say about The Black Album at the time it was made.

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