Is Kanye West's Collaboration with Jay-Z Coming Out Next Week?

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Watch the Throne — Kanye West's album with Jay-Z — could be coming out next week, if West's off-the-cuff remark on New Year's Eve is true. "Watch the Throne, coming in one week!" West blurted out in the middle of his performance of "Runaway" at the Marquee nighclub in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve.

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Though this collaboration with Jay-Z has been in the works for some time, no release date had been scheduled.

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Given that West has leaked a lot of his own music over the past several months — including tracks earmarked for Watch the Throne and most of his universally acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy before it hit stores — it wouldn't be completely out of character for him to drop the entire disc for free before putting it on sale.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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