JAY-Z ~ 4:44 (Discussion Thread)

[AAKing23]

I also feel like if you under 32 this album probably aint gonna touch you like it will older J fan's.

Or if you a still out in the streets immature or on some BS.

This album is pretty much anti immature shyt.



Hella props for speaking from a more black empowerment point of view as well.

I'm 24 and this shyt is touching me

 

[The Mad Titan]

I'm 24 and this shyt is touching me

 

[MK25toLife]

So where is Adnis Reeves and how does the whole boxing promo tie in? Is there more to this?

 

[BigMan]

 

[Mr. Negative]

GROWN grown man rap.

I'm only on the title track (4:44), and that's only because I kept rewinding the shyt, but this shyt is damn near perfect and very much needed.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Jay's gonna be the goat of this rapgame again.

 

[JP_614]

So how does it work for clearing samples? For like the songs he sampled Stevie wonder and Nina samone

 

[Mr. Negative]

holy shyt I listened to this 4 times already and I didn't even catch this. I feel like an idiot.

 

[larryshogunz]

shyts crazy. Peeping comments on twitter like "Jay Z is pretty smart" or "Jay Z is well educated"

Stupid ass millenials exposing their minds saturated with basic mumbling as a definition of hiphop.

 

[Colin X]

Man Jay wanna be fukkin childish with this distribution method. Can someone pass the mustard?

 

[STEVE]

Pretty cool album.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

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.

ehh, just cuz the people who appreciate real rap are happy don't mean content is gonna shift, everyone says this after any popular album of "substance" gets dropped. nikkas still gonna make lean, bytches, trappin and stuntin songs, uzi/carti/designer/future gonna continue to mumble, and that XXL freshman class gonna continue to be

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

ok this like the 30th link. Im falling back after this, too much work

Dog let me in

 

[AAKing23]

Jay better than 100 percent of these new wack rappers still

Jay even got @Supreme Leader Reinscarf listening to hip hop

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

So how does it work for clearing samples? For like the songs he sampled Stevie wonder and Nina samone

Jay is one of the few artists that can still afford an album full of samples