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"Encore" is a song from Jay-Z's The Black Album. "Encore" received much popularity when it was mixed with Linkin Park's hit single "Numb" on the mash-up album Collision Course as Numb/Encore and eventually went on to win a Grammy Award.

[edit] Background

The song first was released with Jay-Z's album "The Black Album." It gained popularity when it was mixed with Linkin Park's song Numb and won a Grammy Award. The original song has an 'old-song feel' with several band instruments. This Kanye West produced track features uncredited background vocals by Kanye West, John Legend, Consequence and GLC.

[edit] Song information

"Encore" features vocals by John Legend, Don Crawley, GLC and Kanye West. The song was released by Roc-A-Fella Records and produced by Kanye West for KonMan Productions.

The production samples the trumpet intro to John Holt (singer)'s cover of I Will (The Beatles song), and this song is in turn sampled by Dutch hardcore techno DJ J.D.A. in his single Encore (Do You Want More). Coincidentally, the album which originally featured "I Will" would be mashed up with The Black Album by DJ Danger Mouse as The Grey Album (ironically, the remix of "Encore" did not sample "I Will"). also there is a freestyle by rapper Fabolous

[edit] Infamous Blueberry Lyric

In a lyric Jay-Z states "Out the country but the Blueberry still connect". Many think this is a blunder and he meant to say Blackberry but the line is actually a reference to the Apple iBook Blueberry Clamshell laptop. The model was discontinued in 2001. He could also be talking about the marijuana strand known as "blueberry"^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Trivia

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Also, the chorus goes "can i get a encore do you want more" the "can I get a .." is a reference to another Jay-Z single Can I Get A... off of Jay-Z's album Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life.

[edit] See also

• List of Jay-Z songs

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