Jay-Z's 'Open Letter' to be released as playable vinyl letter; studio videos of the <i>Magna Carta</i> sessions planned, but no collaborative album with Beyonce

A few updates on Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail have emerged from a new interview on radio station Hot 97.

We already knew that Jack White‘s Third Man Records will be handling the album’s vinyl release, following the label’s wax version of Jay-Z’s The Great Gatsby OST, which was pressed to gold and platinum discs and priced at a whopping $250. According to Jay, there will also be a limited vinyl version of ‘Open Letter’, a track that Jay-Z released earlier this year. Even better: it’s not a vinyl record, but a playable vinyl letter; similar, we suppose, to the vinyl postcard released by A Future Without last year.

On top of that, Jay-Z will release video footage of studio sessions for Magna Carta Holy Grail, including the star-heavy ‘BBC’. And although Watch the Throne II looks imminent, don’t expect a Jay / Beyonce collaborative album any time soon: all Jay had to say on that was “No way, you saw how that one [referring back to his disappointing Best of Both Worlds record with R. Kelly] ended.”

Speaking of disappointing, you can read FACT’s 1 star review of Magna Carta Holy Grail here.

Update: Complex reports that Jay-Z is currently in the midst of a “six-hour performance art piece” at New York’s Pace Gallery that finds him repeatedly rapping ‘Picasso Baby’; the performance will allegedly culminate in a music video for the song.

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