Jay Z's new album was released in the wee hours
of this morning and it is all the rave at the
moment. The 4:44 album was dropped
exclusively on Tidal, a music streaming service
owned by Jay Z and some other music artists.
This is Jay Z's 13th studio album and it appears
to be really personal just like Beyonce's
Lemonade. In it, Jay Z revealed quite a lot,
including admitting that he cheated on his wife,
Beyonce and it affected her and their child, Blue
Ivy. He said it took Blue being born for him to
realize the value of his marriage.
He also rapped about that infamous elevator fight
with Solange and kind of acknowledged that it
had to do with him cheating. He called out his
former best friend Kanye West, OJ Simpson,
Rapper Future and more.
Following his revelations, the Beyhive went in on
the rapper specifically because he cheated on
their queen. The Beyhive aside, a lot of people
have praised the album as a work of genius and
one of the best in recent times.
The first song on the album is titled Kill Jay Z and
it makes reference to the death of the former way
of spelling his name without the dash. The new
spelling will now be JAY-Z, all in capital letters
and with a dash.
Calling out Kanye West in the first Song, Jay Z
said: "Ye' has changed. You dropped outta
school, you lost your principles. I know people
backstab you, I feel bad too. But this fuck
everybody attitude ain't natural. But you ain't the
same, this ain't KumbaYe."
Addressing the 2014 elevator fight with his
sister-in-law Solange, Jay Z confirmed in the "Kill
Jay Z" track that she attacked him because he
cheated on her sister and refused to acknowledge
his fault.
He rapped: "You egged Solange on. Knowin' all
along, all you had to say you was wrong."
Jay Z expressed remorse for cheating on Bey. In
the track Family Feud, he makes reference to
Becky, a name Beyonce mentioned in one of her
songs, "Sorry", from the Lemonade album when
she said, "better call Becky with the good hair".
Jay Z raps: "Yeah, I'll f*ck up a good thing if you
let me / Let me alone, Becky / A man that don't
take care his family can't be rich."
He continued in the track 4:44 "Look, I apologize,
often womanize / Took for my child to be born /
See through a woman's eyes / Took for these
natural twins to believe in miracles / Took me too
long for this song,"
"I don't deserve you, I harass you out in Paris,"
he added in "4:44". "Please come back to Rome,
you make it home. We talked for hours when you
were on tour. Please pick up the phone, pick up
the phone."
The father-of-three continued to address his
infidelity on the track titled "Kill Jay Z". He said
he could have lost his family from his cheating
ways. He went on in the same track to shade
rapper Future for letting his relationship with
Ciara end.
"You almost went Eric Benét.. Let the baddest girl
get away... In the FUTURE, other niggas playin'
football with your son," he says making reference
to Future's son with Ciara, Future Jr., whose
stepfather is NFL star Russell Wilson.
He also addressed his mother's sexuality and
finally acknowledged that she is a lesbian (read
here )
On the track titled "Family Feud", Jay Z talks
about Rev. Al Sharpton's mirror selfie that hit the
internet just last week (read here). This is an
indication that the 4:44 album was only recently
completed.
There are 10 tracks on the 4:44 album and they
include: Kill Jay Z, The Story of O.J., Smile,
Caught Their Eyes, 4:44, Family Feud, Bam,
Moonlight, Marcy Me, Legacy.
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