Rainbow

Rainbow is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on November 2, 1999, by Columbia Records. The album followed Butterfly, in which she adopted a new image and fully transitioned into the urban contemporary market. Rainbow contains hip-hop–influenced R&B tracks and a variety of ballads. Carey produced the album mainly with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, who replaced Walter Afanasieff, the main balladeer Carey worked with throughout the 1990s. As a result of her divorce from Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola, Carey had more control over the musical style of Rainbow; she collaborated with several hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Master P and Mystikal as well as female rappers Da Brat and Missy Elliott. Other collaborations include Joe, Usher and boy band 98 Degrees. On Carey's previous album, Butterfly, she began incorporating several other genres, including R&B and hip hop, into her musical repertoire. In order to further push her musical horizons, Carey featured Jay-Z on Rainbow's lead single, "Heartbreaker"—the first time in her career that another artist was featured on one of her lead singles. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)