The Telegraph — Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne is a hard-hitting, thrilling album. more info

DrownedInSound — Watch the Throne frequently surprises with its potency. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Kanye West and Jay-Z premiere the new Spike Jonze directed video for 'Otis,' the first single from their collaboration, "Watch the Throne." more info

Pop Crunch — Most of the songs on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s new collaboration, “Watch the Throne,” are pretty morose. But “Otis” breaks with the album’s tradition. Here’s how MTV describes it: Name-brand-dropping [...] more info

Stereogum — Let’s watch together, as a family. Directed by Spike Jonze… JAY Z and Kanye West – Music – More Music Videos more info

VH1 Blog — “Otis” is huge. (As Funkmaster Flex put it, “This record might keep the summer warm till December.”) Kanye West and Jay-Z‘s Watch the Throne is almost omnipresent and all but guaranteed to hit #1 on the Billboard 200. How do you make a musi... more info

Impose Magazine — Let us briefly recap what the pop illuminati have been up to this week: Ben Gibbard discovered Ride and covered "Twisterella," Nicki Minaj joined the ranks of the "nip-slip" club on an episode of GMA last Monday, while Jay-Z and Kanye competed with S... more info

Pop Crunch — Down he goes! The Cosmic Gods have sent another giant “Up Yours” to self-professed musical genius Kanye West. Yeezy — who is winning rave reviews for his Jay-Z collaborative effort, [...] more info

ContactMusic — Jay Z and his 'Watch the Throne' collaborator Kanye West dominate the top of Forbes Hip-hop earners list 2011, placing first and third with combined yearly earnings of $53 million. The list, which does not take into account the remaining months of th... more info

Guardian Music — Jay-Z gets all the best lines, but it's Kanye who seems to be in creative charge here, says Alexis PetridisYou have to be impressed with Jay-Z's resolve when it comes to the matter of collaborative albums, perhaps the one chequered area in an other... more info