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Jay-Z’s new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, comes out in seven days. So what do we know about the album? Not much.

We know, from the first commercial that was released, that Samsung bought a million copies before it came out and that they’ll give those albums to the first million Samsung users who download the Magna Carta app. We know that Rick Rubin, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz worked on the LP. We know the tracklist and the lyrics of two of the album cuts.

Now we know some more. Swizz Beatz sat down with Mickey Fresh from VIBE and MissInfo and he dropped some more tidbits about the album. 

Speaking on the album’s direction, Swizzy said:

“This album represents Jay. It’s like… how do give somebody something authentic that they can go back pull from and give them something that’s ahead of its time? I think he summed that up very well. When you hear someone’s album, you always want to go back to the classics. You always have that hunger of ‘Man, why didn’t he didn’t he just… Man, he’s supposed to…’ It’s always going to be that. For the first time in a long time I think someone solved that problem and I think he did that with this album.” 

So what’s Swizz’s role on the project? He worked on it, right? 

“Why not, I didn’t do as much as I could but sometimes less is more. I was excited with what he did with Open Letter. The White House was speaking about it the next day.”

And finally Swizz talked about the decision that Billboard made not to certify the album platinum after Samsung bought the first million copies

“He was being innovative. So people they can’t relate to innovation. It’s his album, he can do what he wants to do. He’s earned the rights to do whatever he wants to do. He’s put enough time into this game with Billboard and any other outlet. He’s is his own boss and there’s a reason why he did it like that.”

No word yet on when we’ll hear a song of the damn thing.

SOURCE: VIBE, MissInfo