Now Jay-Z knows how Nas feels

Harry B

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Jay lost to Kendrick Lamar who made better music and sold more, he was nominated for 8 Grammys meaning he was like top 5 in 8 categories according to them and he’s 50 years old with 21 Grammys. How can Nas relate to that :mjlol:

These weirdo ass Nas stans can’t exist in real life brehs :russ:
 

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Jayz and Beyonce both made similar black power albums just to ride the wave since they saw the acclaim kendrick and cole got.

Nothing wrong with growing, but it was more of a marketing tool. His campaign of cheating on Beyonce reeked of desperation.
Jay-z been talking that shyt for over a decade. It’s you slow nikkas who need reviewers to tell you what he’s talking about.

Black power album my ass, it was like 5 bars on the whole album. Might as well call it a gangster album. And Beyoncé black power album, when? :dahell: Because she said you better call Becky with that good hair, ironically, she’s Malcolm x?
 

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Jay-z been talking that shyt for over a decade. It’s you slow nikkas who need reviewers to tell you what he’s talking about.

Black power album my ass, it was like 5 bars on the whole album. Might as well call it a gangster album. And Beyoncé black power album, when? :dahell: Because she said you better call Becky with that good hair, ironically, she’s Malcolm x?
As far as the concepts and themes goes, it was an attempt at a black power album.

If you dont see what both Bey and Jay tried to do with those albums, then you need to go back and see how businesses work. They fasho had a plan.
 

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As far as the concepts and themes goes, it was an attempt at a black power album.

If you dont see what both Bey and Jay tried to do with those albums, then you need to go back and see how businesses work. They fasho had a plan.
What do you mean with Black Power, was it more Black Power than WTT or Magna Carta? Cause the "black things" were on the same topic. Black wealth, black family and black business. Now more condensed and better executed on that tip, plus even a full song or two. But Beyonce lol, nope.
Also I don't think Jay-z fans give a fukk about Beyonce and only hard core Beyonce fans would run to Jay to see what he's saying.

Beyonces album previous to Lemonade did better, she released the thing without singles and shyt and the singles she released were not radio friendly.
Jay-z always talks about his life, always did. As far as marketing goes, I don't know what happened between them. I only know Jay-z wasn't treating her right. As far as the cheating shyt goes, they both played on that. No one said anyone cheated, no one admitted anything but them talking around it got people to talk about it even more.
 
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if Jay was inspired by Life Is Good we would have got another Magna Carter.

LIG was great but has its faults so it just ended up being a looked at as really good album from Nas. it was seen more of a step in the right direction for what people wanted from him but here we are years down the line with the next chapter nowhere in sight.

theres a couple songs on LIG i like more than all of them on 4:44 but i'll take 4:44 as a body of work.

:yeshrug:

and in fairness to Jay he's been trying to make his "grown man" album for a while.
bits and pieces always been there and this time he pulled it off because he's finally got nothing to prove.

Kingdom Come: pressure of coming out of retirement and rivals chipping away at some of your cool.
MCHG: pressure to still prove you're the top dog in a changing game.

4:44 is stripped down and concise.
just Hov and some good beats from the one producer getting his thoughts out.

no forced single, no checklist of certain songs to do, no features for the sake of them.

thats why people are going to bat for it so much. it just felt different than your usual Jay-Z album.
you usually know what you're getting out of a Jay album..this time we didn't and people took to it in a way they haven't in some time.
 

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Jay-Z finally grew up and expanded his worldview somewhat in recent years and nikkas praised him to high heaven for it. Meanwhile Nas been on that shyt since the start of his career :mjlol: same shyt Jay-Z clowned as "so you trying to kick knowledge?" :mjlol:

Lol word that nikka jay waited til he was almlost 50 to be woke
 

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if Jay was inspired by Life Is Good we would have got another Magna Carter.

LIG was great but has its faults so it just ended up being a looked at as really good album from Nas. it was seen more of a step in the right direction for what people wanted from him but here we are years down the line with the next chapter nowhere in sight.

theres a couple songs on LIG i like more than all of them on 4:44 but i'll take 4:44 as a body of work.

:yeshrug:

and in fairness to Jay he's been trying to make his "grown man" album for a while.
bits and pieces always been there and this time he pulled it off because he's finally got nothing to prove.

Kingdom Come: pressure of coming out of retirement and rivals chipping away at some of your cool.
MCHG: pressure to still prove you're the top dog in a changing game.

4:44 is stripped down and concise.
just Hov and some good beats from the one producer getting his thoughts out.

no forced single, no checklist of certain songs to do, no features for the sake of them.

thats why people are going to bat for it so much. it just felt different than your usual Jay-Z album.
you usually know what you're getting out of a Jay album..this time we didn't and people took to it in a way they haven't in some time.

Lig is better
 

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Only a Nas dikkrider would say Jay Z thought about Untitled, Life is Good, or Distant Relatives when making 4:44.
 
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