JAY-Z ~ 4:44 (Discussion Thread)

[dready]

you flirting with death im winking through the scope = line of the year.DOPE ALBUM.

 

[Insensitive]

Anyone notice the contrast between the flow he uses on "BAM" vs when he's rapping from the perspective of Shawn Carter ?
Jay-Z is smooth, controlled and filled with confidence while Shawn is a less controlled style focused on getting his point across over pushing a cleanly delivered studio friendly verse. Even
how he projects his voice changes and
I totally believe this was on purpose adding another layer to this already dope album.

Dope use of flow and further cements the difference between Jay-Z the rapstar and Shawn Carter the husband and father.


Killed Jay-Z (for the second time and still brought him back to show the difference).

 

[Cuban Pete]

Listening to the whole thing on radio album is fire more on it later

 

[TRY GOD]

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.

You are either a cracker or a c00n then

 

[HiiiPower]

Mercy Me is too short

These songs are getting better with each listen tho I love the flow of it all

 

[TrifeGod]

again its very smoove..a easy listen with slick bars..nothing seems forced like his last album

nikkas gonna kill me with this next comment but don't get it twisted....this album reminds me of some Lil B shyt in a sense where he's just flowin over the beats...there are many pauses a lot of shyt his verses are straight stream of conscious and I love it because he's showin these young nikkas again how you suppose to do it..thats the only reason why i brought up Lil B

you take a thought and build off of it and black out...these nikkas are literally thinking in a loop and its regurgitated when they rap .if nikkas aint gonna write they need to work on their stream of consciousness...and its sad because most of these nikkas are high as fukk yet producing poor quality lyricism...it doesn't even have to be complex to come off dope

 

[Sister Mary Clarence]

Mixing/mastering is sketch

I noticed the beat is hella low... you think this is intentional so the lyrics really stand out?

 

[dontreadthis]

LIG is nowhere near as good as this...and this isn't a Nas vs Jay thing but it's the truth. I never played LIG more than 3 times. I've played this album over 5 times in 12 hours

damn, you lost.

 

[Brady-Carter]

Mercy Me is too short

Way to fukking short. shyt, I could have listen to a 10 minute Marcy Me..

 

[Dwight Howard]

I noticed the beat is hella low... you think this is intentional so the lyrics really stand out?

Nah they probably gonna fix it. The beats don't really hit hard enough

 

[Guvnor]

Hov in rare form spitting on this shyt but is there a video attached to this? People were saying that's why that actor Ali was a boxer in the commercial.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Jay is really got one wit this one

 

[Cladyclad]

Bam sound like Shawn Carter channeled the soul of 01' Jigga

His arrogance is on another level.

I kno niqqas that think it's one way but it's really another way listening like this right now

 

[TrifeGod]

My favorite tracks, Legacy, 4:44, Marcy Me and Caught Their Eyes

 

[FukyourFort]

the beat on the story of OJ makes me do the