Jay-Z: Solo Record, Second 'Throne' Album Possible in 2012

Jay-Z performs during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York.

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Jay-Z has been hinting about an upcoming solo album, his first since 2009's The Blueprint 3. Now he says there also may be a second Watch the Throne project from him and Kanye West in 2012.

"We – I say 'we' because I'm in Throne mode – we're in a great place creatively," Jay told MTV News. "You might see a Jay, then Kanye and a Throne album next year . . . We really found our zone."

Before Watch the Throne was released in August, Jay-Z told reporters that he already had two new tracks done for his next solo record, but he's been quiet about it since.

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“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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