Jay Z - Magna Carta: Holy Grail

180-gram double LP

Tip-on style gatefold jacket, lyric insert

Concealed postcard flexi disc hidden within the back cover!

A Third Man Records vinyl pressing of Jay Z's latest studio album Magna Carta can only be fully enjoyed with a knife. Are you game?

Former White Stripes front man Jack White's Third Man Records has created this vinyl edition with a unique and rewarding special feature. Pressed on two 180-gram LPs, heavy as the material carved into them, complete with a printed lyric insert, poetic as the gatefold it's slipped between.

Most exciting about this double LP is its exclusive concealed postcard flexi disc hidden within the back cover and only accessible to those willing to take a knife to the iconic packaging. Once freed of its casing, the flexi disc plays the non-album track "Open Letter."

Magna Carta, Jay Z's 12th studio album, is a portrait of an emcee embracing fatherhood, marriage and strking a balance between a past spent coming up and a future shuffling around the top. Jay Z's newest album portends a future where hip hop enjoys the same clout as fine art, and even better, hip hop is alive, a part of the world, evolving and not cordoned off in a museum.

Production on the album was helmed largely by J-Roc, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy and others, and featured guest performers include Beyoncé, Rick Ross, Justin Timberlake, Frank Ocean, Nas and more.