News on Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch The Throne Album

The world has been waiting a long while for the confirmed drop date of the Jay-Z and Kanye West collabo EP, Watch The Throne, and news just hit the net confirming when the fans would be able to get it. The two heavy weights hosted a listening session for the album on Thursday, July 7th, and the news is that the album would be dropping on August 2nd. They dropped a single from the album, H.A.M some time ago, but they have plans for shooting the video for another single. Beyonce, Jay-Z's wife recently dropped her album, 4, which is currently at the top of the Billboard Top 200 Album charts; i guess that's why they have decided to shoot the video to the single that she featured on. So, "Lift Off" featuring Beyonce is going to be the official first single from the album.

Read some other info on the album below-

"Living So Italian" samples "Ave Maria," while "Otis Redding" opens with a Blade of Glory sample and back-and-forth lyrics between the two (via KanyeToThe.com). "Black on Black" focuses on intra-racial violence, while Hov expressed disappointment with "H.A.M." and said it wouldn't make the final cut of the album. "It's just so big and so much, you don't want that sh-- screaming in your house," he said. "If we don't make records that we like and represent the culture, we would be over."

Jay said that the version of the album he played was the "third iteration of the project" and that previous records were scrapped for "being too big and calculating." He also explained that he has already begun work on his next solo album, one of which features Frank Ocean - a connection made after he heard his Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape.

If jay said they have reshuffled the album three times, then i am sure it is going to be a dope album. I just think since its just like 9 tracks, you can't go wrong if you have been working this long. I was really disappointed with the Bad Meets Evil EP- I thought it being just a 9 tracker, that at least 90% of the tracks would be dope. But, i give that album a 7...or maybe a 6.5. There are songs that weren't meant to make the final cut. I am not saying there were not super dope songs up in there, but an album is as good as its weakest link.