The Grey Album Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

In his controversial album, DJ Danger Mouse uses an a capella (voice only) version of rapper Jay-Z's Black Album and couples it with impressive sampling and mixing of The Beatles' White Album.

The album, which DJ Danger Mouse released privately, created a massive amount of controversy as EMI (who claims to be The White Album's copyright holder) never granted Mouse permission to use the Beatles' material. (Jay-Z's material, on the other hand, was freely released in a capella form for the express purpose of remixes such as The Grey Album.) The controversial album managed to provoke massive Internet-based anti-music label protest dubbed Grey Tuesday, due to a growing opinion that sampling is fair use and that a statutory license should be provided in the same manner as if a given song had been covered.

In spite of (or perhaps because of) the legal and ethical controversy created, the album quickly became extremely popular and well-distributed over the internet, and even received a very positive write-up in the February 9, 2004 issue of the The New Yorker. The internet release of the Grey Album spurred a series of copycat DJs to mix the acapella version of the Black Album with a variety of other artists, including Weezer (The Black and Blue album) and Pavement (The Slack Album).

Track listing

• Bastard Pop

• DJ Danger Mouse
• Grey Tuesday
• Cease and desist letter from EMI #1
• Cease and desist letter from EMI #2
• New Yorker: The Talk of the Town article

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