JAY-Z ~ 4:44 (Discussion Thread)

[Cadillac]

We, The Gardian, gave it a 3/5

It's pretty good if you're a jay fan, it's just above average for every other music lover
Jay-Z: 4:44 review – a bracingly honest but conservative confessional

had this been a Kendrick album you would have gave the midget 5/5 said he did a 4peat and calling him the GOAT

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I think OJ=Kanye brehs

 

[JayGatsby]

I think OJ=Kanye brehs

Care to explain sir....

 

[Fani Willis fan]

Great album but it is overwhelmingly racist. And I'm scared to listen to it with my white friends so I canceled our planned listening party. We cant bop to this as a group.

i owe you a neg or a rep, cant tell if you're trolling lol

 

[TheGregReaper]

I need to know the age of all you nikkas that's in here complaining about the production/beats?

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Should I listen ASAP or wait until the hype dies down? I honestly was good with giving Jay his GOAT/Top 5 status and letting him retire from my playlists after MCHG. I was okay with the possibility of never hearing new music from him again.
Anyone who isn't a total Jay-stan wanna weigh in with an objective opinion here? this is fire???

As a casual Jay-Z listener I really like it...wasn't even anticipating it until it dropped.

In my opinion this is his most honest album, very little, if any drug dealer talk. Just him getting shyt off his chest with some relevant cultural events mixed in(Al Sharpton selfies, Future/Russell Wilson, Bill Cosby)

Plus he's dropping jewels all through the album, some black powernomics and generational wealth themes which I really dug

 

[Frida Giezman]

Damn what jay said about dumbo I felt his pain lol

And I'm broke as fukk lol

 

[THE 101]

hov might've dropped a classic

i did not expect this

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

I've been walking around like all day, behind this album.

The title track is my favourite joint by Hov in a minute.

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

Care to explain sir....

Yeah so I'm listening again. Kill Jay-Z he addresses the Ye situation and how he felt. The next track is The Story of OJ. To me OJ is a metaphor for Kanye because not only do they sound the same but Kanye is going through the exact same shyt forgetting his blackness, running around with Kardashians ect ect. Why would Jay talk about OJ in 2017 when Ye is really who everyone wanted him to address. Jay would never outright make as song about Kanye with his name in the title so I feel like it's his way of sneaking it in. You have to read between the lines. I could be wrong but even if he only did it for himself as his own inside joke I think The Story of OJ is The Story of Kanye 2017 just subliminally done

 

[Flight]

Introspective Hov..

The GOAT gave us another one.

 

[GeeEffKay]

solid after first listen, gonna need to play it several more times today

 

[Krazy]

If you need the CDQ link i got it

Could you inbox me please and thanks.

 

[eXodus]

Is there a way I can buy the album on tidal or otherwise????
The trial version of tidal won't like me play the album

 

[Gravity]

You doing to much...rap will be rap

New rappers don't look up to Jay and everyone that does look up to them is an old head already

at you accusing others of "doing too much" while you're on some unnecessary wet blanket shyt.