I won't go too in depth cause my brehs in here that recognize this album off the rip as being a culture shifter, know whats up.
I did say, culture shifter. Take with that as you may. I can't help but to conclude that this thing we love, live, and breathe, on accident and on purpose, Hip Hop, ain't the same. We SHOULDNT HAVE TO feel like, "OMG, A JAY-Z album is such a breath of fresh air cause he's spittin" but here we are. I hope this album sparks minds, bodies, and souls to do better going forward. Its gon be detractors and deniers but that's always the case with us, right?
Jigga dropped an album addressing shyt that matters. Owning his faults, holding his L's as a grown man, missed opportunities, family, our community and placement as the world sees us etc all while still on his fly, "I'm that dude and I aint even gotta say it for you to believe it beyond one line" (Literally referenced himself in one line on some braggadocios shyt...I'll let you catch it) and yet, I feel like it's gon shift SOME but not enough.
Mad bodies got dropped on this album. We've NEVER heard Jay this blatantly truthful on an album. My dude said his mama is a lesbian. That was alot. When you came up with this shyt. From the 80's and 90's. That would have been a fatal flaw once upon a time. He's an OG so he's giving insight and game up with no hurdles. No care. Taking advantage of all this "openness" we see on the day to day.
The Al Sharpton/Bill Cosby bar in "The Story of OJ" was pivotal AF. Not because its shocking but the timeliness of it. This nygga wrote this album Monday man, i'm convinced!
Anyway, be on the look out for a shift in content, especially if everyone, like myself, acclaims this album...
It ain't even been a day but real ones been fiendin for real spit and Hov delivered masterfully.
A 10 track, no filler Jay-Z has never happened...Until today...Let us embrace it, digest it, and learn from it...Word to Illmatic.
Hov sending them shots
hov man
