![]() ![]() Jay z gave Future slight tackle and Percocet twitter didn't even cry. " In the Future, other ni**as playin' football with your son" – Jay Z on 'Kill Jay Z' (Track 1) #444 #Ls /SYRMEGpZasįuture after he heard Jay Z bar about playin football with ya son" #Tidal #444 /jWdDoyDdH4 The Brooklyn rapper delivered a witty pun at the expense of Future. #444Īnother hot take from Jay Z that had the internet shook was him taking shots at the state of hip hop. I feel honored to be apart of an era where Beyonce and Jay-Z can drop albums about their lives, and teach life lessons in the process. Lemonade wasn't a lie, BEYONCÉ WAS GOING THROUGH IT ALL. Solange: beats Jay Z in an elevator for cheating She was going THROUGH IT /NXqIF8GT16īumping Jay-Z's album even tho he basically confirms he cheated on Bey. Jay Z said It took Blue being born for him to realize the value of his marriage… no wonder Beyoncé made lemonade. Hov was refreshingly honest in speaking about his marital transgressions brought to the surface on his wife Beyoncé’s last project – and yes, Becky was addressed. Let’s start with what everyone was waiting for: his response to Lemonade. ![]() So of course, there was a lot to unload here. Now, we know the only time The Carters address highly personal or opinionated thoughts is on wax. In the wee hours of this morning, the rapper/mogul ended his musical dry spell with the release of his highly anticipated album 4:44. And when white folks tell us we can’t sit at their table, we can create our own.It’s been four years since Jay Z released a studio album. It provides longevity of authority and access for us to cement our legacies. We always hear about white nepotism, but I see generational black wealth as something different. When JAY says, “We gon’ start a society within a society,” I imagine my parents, five siblings, aunties, and all the other black folks who had a hand in raising me expanding their excellence and dreams with old money that can stretch so long nobody that has to worry anymore.Īmerica milks black people’s consumer power while the structures in this country aren’t set up for us to economically thrive. The cultural and spiritual endowment of the people who came before me is immense and those riches alone have sustained me, but financially taking care of my family, now and in the future, really does keep me up at night. It may seem trivial, but that type of comfort spoke to the financial security that they’d inherited and it was inspiring. I never experienced that - we moved a whole lot - but friends of mine had families who penetrated society’s upper-mid echelons and they'd had the privilege of stability. I want my children to know what it’s like to come back home to the bedrooms they grew up in. May our ground stay fertile - and the Starbucks on Eastern Parkway wash away. With a very appropriate sample of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Me” and an angelic outro from falsetto-king The-Dream, JAY’s “Marcy Me” is a graceful sonic salute to his home borough of Brooklyn. Dedicated to the city’s southern borough, it's filled with quips about Old Brooklyn™ (“not the new shit that feels like a spoof”), blocks that are virtually unrecognizable to longtime locals yet are now hotspots for real estate agents (Myrtle, Nostrand), and allusions to today’s new school of rappers (“hold the Uzi vertical, let that thing smoke”). As systematic and white-people-serving gentrification continues its attempts to erase Brooklyn’s deeply rich black and brown history, “Marcy Me” serves as JAY-Z’s reminder that, 20 years later, he’s still from Marcy, son, and there still ain’t nothing nice here. “Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant, the livest one/ Representing BK to the fullest” is a Biggie line that can almost surely be engraved on the tombstone of any true Kings County lifer - and now JAY-Z has further immortalized it on the intro to this three-minute lyrical miracle from 4:44. Backed by Wonder’s harmonies, she recites, “Love who you love/ Because life isn't guaranteed/ Smile.” Gloria’s moment in the sun and out of the shadows feels not just honest, but a key to understanding how a family heals and grows overtime. More notably, he reveals that his mother recently came out as lesbian, a fact that she later confirms herself in a moving poem. "Love by itself is hollow." The same thinking - that love itself needs the attention, devotion, and reassessment that living things require - is evident all over 4:44, but gets a special viewpoint on “Smile.” Over a beat that chops up Wonder’s classic anthem, JAY-Z raps about the power of good memories and triumphing over his adversaries. "For love to be effective it has to be fed," he said of the song’s inspiration during an interview in 2015. ![]() On a grey winter’s day in New York, Stevie Wonder wrote the iconic “Love’s In Need Of Love Today,” moved by the presence of his pregnant wife and some heady thoughts about love.
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