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Kanye West and Jay-Z – collectively dubbed “The Throne” – debuted their collaborative album Watch The Throneto fans who have been eagerly awaiting the album.
Some have been searching feverishly for leaks and snippets, which “The Throne” and their media team have successfully kept secure from bootleggers. There was even an event where an uninvited blogger leaked five low quality rips of the album and posted them to the Web after a Watch The Throne listening party. Prior to it's release full snippets of the album were available online but later removed. It appears that Watch The Throne is the first big album in some time to avoid the dreaded leak.
Kanye’s career ascension to top billing artist status is a remarkable one. Although employed for some years as a producer for Roc-A-Fella providing smashes for Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel and others, the Chicago product had designs on being a rapper. 2004's The College Dropout showcased a much more humble version of the artist than we’ve witnessed in recent times with glaring moments of humility from front to end. Each subsequent album from Yeezy showed a bolder side of the artist, gaining him both fans and a certain amount of infamy.
Kanye’s 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was Yeezy at his most creative and perhaps zaniest. With Watch The Throne, listeners could assess that Kanye intends to go even harder than he did on his last solo record and claim his place amongst the best to ever do it.
Kanye’s partner in rhyme Jay-Z has already addressed how their album avoided the clutches of hackers and blogs far too eager to blast out their wares. Jay-Z even mentioned that this unprecedented effort to keep Watch The Throne safe from premature release was a nod to the fans that support the pair. Whatever the case, “The Throne” has made history as this would be the first album between the two to not see early release. Going forward, they have altered the landscape of the recording industry with clever staggering of dates and heavily monitored listening sessions.
Watch The Throne is shaping about to be one of the biggest and most historic music events ever. Will other big names follow in footsteps of the pair and their blueprint? Time will tell.

This wasn't the original plan. These musicians thought they'd handled business back in 1979, but events of the recent past had united them once more to do battle with an old foe.
"We didn't think we'd have to be doing this 32 years later," remarked vocalist-guitarist John Hall.
Well, if you have to repeat yourself -- you might as well do it in a highly memorable fashion. And, clearly, the 11,000 fans that came out on Sunday to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View aren't likely to forget the return of No Nukes.
Hall, who went from recording pop-rock hits with the Orleans to representing upstate New York in Congress, was joined in this reprise by many of the same friends that stood beside him in 1979 at Madison Square Garden during the original No Nukes concerts, which were recorded and later released as both a documentary film and a triple live album.
The other veterans were Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Doobie Brothers and Bonnie Raitt, who made the short drive down from her home in Marin. The newcomers included Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, young heartthrob Jason Mraz and a cappella troupe Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Most fitting, there was multi-instrumentalist Kitaro, representing Japan and connecting the crowd to the most recent nuclear power disaster -- the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which were triggered by an earthquake and tsunami back in March. Money raised from this
concert went to relief programs in Japan, as well as to fund organizations working to promote safe, non-nuclear energy across the globe.
Together, these artists stood together -- just as some of them did back in 1979 -- as Musicians United for Safe Energy (or MUSE).
Although each of the players spoke their mind from the stage, the overall feel of the event wasn't as preachy as one might expect. That was due to the strength of the performances which ranged from pretty good (Mraz) to stellar (Morello) -- and even an ardent nuclear power supporter would've probably had to admit that there was some pretty fine songs played at Shoreline.
What the concert lacked, unfortunately, was another big name on the bill. If organizers had been able to land Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor or Tom Petty -- all of whom performed at the original No Nukes shows -- or even a younger gun like Dave Matthews or Jack Johnson, then they'd clearly have done better at the gate. As it stood, the lineup consisted mostly of acts that, at best, could headline a winery or theater in Northern California. The only legitimate amphitheater headliner was Mraz.
The musicians made up for the lack of star power by cooking up a number of tasty collaborations, most of which seemed to include Browne, Raitt and/or Graham Nash.
Some of the highlights in that regard included Browne -- who, at 62, still looks about 39 -- joining young folk-rocker Jonathan Wilson for a fun cover of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money"; David Crosby lending sweet harmony to Raitt's always-touching take on John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery"; and Raitt guesting with Sweet Honey on the traditional "Midnight Special" (which this crowd probably knew best from the popular Creedence Clearwater Revival version).
They performed in front of a house band and we're surprisingly well rehearsed, having joined together on Saturday at Shoreline to work out the kinks in the program. And they seemed overjoyed to be playing together in front of the Mountain View crowd as well as -- in a sign of how times have changed since the days of triple live albums -- a worldwide audience streaming the show online.
"This is such an incredible reunion for all of us who were on the MUSE stage 32 years ago," Raitt said.
The two most powerful sets came courtesy of the Doobie Brothers -- who mainly stuck to their A-list hits -- and Morello, who first perplexed, then wowed the crowd with his militant take on protest rock. The latter's epic guitar lead at the end of Bruce Springsteen's "Ghost of Tom Joad" might have been the best two minutes of live music I've seen all summer. Right up there, however, was Stephen Still's electric guitar work, which highlighted the otherwise anticlimactic closing set by CSN.

The creator of "Desperate Housewives" and an ABC executive officially announced on Sunday that the show's next season will be its last.
"I'm very aware that some shows overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen with 'Desperate Housewives,'" Cherry told reporters during at the Television Critics Association conference. "We wanted to go out in the classiest way possible."
"Desperate Housewives" will have run for eight seasons by the time it bids farewell. The show premiered on October 3, 2004 and has won multiple Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
It has also launched careers for some castmembers and revitalized the careers of others.
Eva Longoria was previously unknown before joining the cast of "Desperate Housewives" as Gabrielle Solis, a spoiled former model who can be reckless and manipulative but who is ultimately a sympathetic character.
On Sunday, Longoria confirmed the end of the series in the following Twitter message:
It's confirmed! We are filming our last season of Desperate Housewives! I am so grateful for what the show has given me! We always knew we wanted to end on top and I thank ABC for giving us our victory lap! And a special thanks to Marc Cherry who forever changed my life!#DesperateHousewives
Teri Hatcher, who is the face of "Desperate Housewives" as Wisteria Lane's girl-next-door Susan Mayer, thought her career was over before being cast in the show -- after Mary Louise Parker turned down the role.
"I couldn't have been a bigger has-been," Hatcher said in a 2005 interview. "Two years ago I was crying on my kitchen floor thinking I'll never be able to pay my mortgage."
Rumors of the series' swan song had been circulating for several weeks before they were confirmed this weekend.
"We want to make sure it has its victory lap," ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee said of the upcoming eighth season.
Cherry personally called all of the castmembers to break the news.
"It was bittersweet and lovelym" he said. "There was a touch of shock, but not completely."