Kelly collaboration Unfinished Business, a heinous, limp-cocked cash-cow pieced together from unreleased material to promote the pair’s joint touring venture that was about as sexless as Dane Bowers skulking around a nightclub clutching a palm of date-rape tabs. But rather than a glut of inspiration, his comeback was marked by the dubious R. When Jay-Z declared his retirement off the back of The Black Album in 2003, it was about as accomplished a conclusion to a career as one could hope for, with fanfare sounding as Carter sloped off to the confines of his Roc-A-Fella empire, beau in arm, safe in satisfaction of his co-ownership of beauty line Carol’s Daughter.Ĭarter returned to the fold all but immediately after the announcement. If ever a warning to musicians not to bother with the façade of some self-important mock-retirement existed, Shawn Carter is it.
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