The Chicago-native credits Beyoncé for giving Hov the courage to use the Sister Nancy-sample that featured reggae star Damien Marley on “ Bam.” The irony of it all, right?”, likely referring to Kanye West‘s recent releases of seven-song albums.
Ironically, we were trying to do a seven-song project. “He immediately said this would be the outro. revealed that the album was originally supposed to be seven songs long. “This might have been the second or third record we did.” he said. While discussing the song “ Legacy”, No I.D. “So I just started sampling songs off of that playlist that he gave me.” “On the proper 10-song album, Jay is credited as co-producer on five of those songs because he basically made a playlist of songs that he listened to at his house and it was in the spirit of the soundtrack that he wanted to capture.” he said. During the interview, he broke down the process of creating each song and even explained how Jay was given co-producer credits on half of the project. that Carter woke up to write the title track, but what exactly about that number so compelled him to make it the name of the album? As mentioned earlier, it may be due to his reflection on the past four years specifically it may bear significance to the perils of a forty-something but if JAY-Z’s three undeniable classics are currently Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, and The Black Album, 4:44 can certainly be argued as his fourth.Famed super producer, No I.D., shares memories of helping create JAY-Z’s 13th studio effort 4:44 on the album’s anniversary with TIDAL. ”Ĥ:44 is named after the exact time in the a.m. Or as Jay says in the album’s closer, “Legacy” -“ See how the universe works? / It takes my hurt and helps me find more of myself / It’s a gift and a curse. With lo-fi filters on all Jay’s vocals and No I.D.’s production consisting almost solely of brilliantly chopped soul samples, it has a murky texture that embarrasses the sterile sheen of previous albums.īut in all, the raw emotion and vulnerability of 4:44 wouldn’t have been possible without the Ozymandian Magna Carta era and the public accountability born from Lemonade. It’s an ode to his home neighborhood with a theme of staying true to one’s roots.
On “ Marcy Me ,” he’s at his most lyrically untouchable, with lines like, “Hold a uzi vertical, let the thing smoke / Y’all flirtin’ with death, I be winkin’ through the scope,” a clever bit of shade from an OG toward Lil Uzi Vert and the mumble rap scene. That’s why the lyrics throughout 4:44 are so beautiful sometimes all we need from the people we look up to is for them to tell us they feel lost too.
“Took me too long for this song / I don’t deserve you,” he laments, revealing that even couples that co-headline stadiums grow cold. On this album, Carter answers every question he used to elude-“Family Feud” refutes the idea of being “too old” for the rap game, and accepts that his fans aren’t getting any younger either “ Smile ” unveils his mother’s history as a closeted lesbian the title track takes on the task of apologizing for his infidelity. It’s the perfect index of what’s in store for 4:44. It’s an electrifying song, with a Clockwork Orange –esque instrumental and some of the most panicked lyrics imaginable from the smoothest man in the world, confessing regrets from shooting his brother as a young man to losing the trust of “ the baddest girl in the world ” herself. The grammatical Easter egg is clear-in this past four years as hyphen-less Jay Z, he’s done things he wishes to leave behind forever. “Kill Jay Z” i s the first song on JAY-Z’s thirteenth studio album, 4:44, and notice: Carter officially eliminated the hyphen from his moniker shortly after the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail, and later reinstated it some time before the release of 4:44, back to the way it’d been since the beginning of his career. His rollout of TIDAL and its “plutocratic” model only made matters worse, and by the time Beyoncé implicated his infidelity on Lemonade, he was left with but one option: Kill Jay Z. Struggling to relate to his fans any longer as a near-billionaire married to Beyoncé, and with the emotionally distant braggadocio of Magna Carta Holy Grail marking his greatest critical failure, Shawn Carter was at a creative crossroads.
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