![]() ![]() Before I can ask her a question, she asks where I am. ![]() She asks about me, about my novel-writing processes, about parts of my life, which I touch on briefly. She wants to know about you as much as you want to know about her. There’s something about Adele that feels like she’s quite quickly searching for some affinity, some common ground. He had been ill for a while, it was alright.” It’s as though she’s reassuring both of us that she’s OK. It wasn’t that much of a shock when he passed. We got our peace and stuff like that, but thank you. When I tell her that I’m sorry to hear about the passing of her dad, in May, she smiles sadly and says, “Ahhh, that’s OK. I wonder if she’s an artist who puts her feelings into her music, so is instead emotionally pragmatic when it comes to her real life. There’s an intelligence to her that surpasses her 33 years – and there’s a melancholy, too. There’s a grounding to her that puts you at ease, even though you’re very aware that you’re talking to one of the most famous women in the world. She’s very quick to join the page you’re on. ![]() Here they are, naughty little boys,” she says, holding them up to the camera. “Now they’ve shut up! They were arguing over a bone. “Absolutely not… absolutely not!” She’s telling the dogs off as she returns into view. She rolls her eyes and explains that they’re fighting over a bone, then excuses herself and gets up. When Adele eventually appears on my computer screen, dressed as I’d seen her online a few minutes earlier (black T‑shirt, gold hoops in her ears), I can hear her puppies, brothers Bob and Freddie, barking loudly right next to her. That informal, 42-minute Q&A became meme fodder and the single, when it dropped a week later on 15 th October, set a new Spotify record for most streams in a day, its 24 million comfortably beating the 20.9 million achieved by BTS’ Butter when it was released in May. It lifts before, in fact, when her PR texts, five minutes before our Zoom interview, to tell me that “she’s on Instagram Live at the moment!” I head over and see a make-up-free Adele sitting in her house in Los Angeles, playing a snippet of Easy On Me, the first single from 30. When we speak the next day, though, the veil of secrecy and concealment is removed immediately. My phone is confiscated before I walk into the listening room. Instead, I’m driven to the Sony Music offices in West London to listen to five songs from her new album, 30. I can’t tell anyone it’s happening and I’m not allowed to be sent any of her new music. The singer-songwriter was referred to as “AA” in all correspondence before our talk. I’ve never had to be as confidential about anything as I have in the lead up to interviewing Adele. Taken from the new print issue of THE FACE. Shawn's father abandoned the family when he was 11, the first of many things that led. Shawn Carter, Jay-Z, grew up in Brooklyn's Marcy Projects, a New York housing project. Four singles were released, with the most successful being "Ain't No Nigga" and "Can't Knock the Hustle." Reasonable Doubt has received strong critical reviews and has been heralded as Jay-Z's "crowning achievement," "a seminal work" and an "undisputed classic." Over the years, the album has appeared on a number of famous publishers "best of" lists, including The Source, which selected it on their 100 Best Rap Albums, Blender, which included it on their 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die, and Rolling Stone, which ranked it number 248 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album peaked at number 23 on the Billboard 200, received platinum status in 2002, and sold 1.5 million copies as of 2006. (1995), Reasonable Doubt incorporates a mafioso theme, while it also integrates topics such as betrayal and reminiscence. Similar to Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Blige, and The Notorious B.I.G., among others. The album features production by DJ Premier, Ski, Knobody and Clark Kent, and guest appearances from Memphis Bleek, Mary J. Excerpt: Reasonable Doubt is the debut album of American rapper Jay-Z, released Jon Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States and on Northwestside Records in the United Kingdom. Hard Knock Life, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, The Best of Both Worlds, Jay-Z: Unplugged, Streets Is Watching, Black Is Back. ![]() Carter, The Black Album, Jaydiohead, Collision Course, Kingdom Come, In My Lifetime, Vol. Chapters: Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint 3, American Gangster, Unfinished Business, The Grey Album, Vol. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ![]()
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