So is it time to admit 4:44 has come and gone already?

[Dominic Brehetto]

Story of OJ alone kept 4:44 water cooler talk for months in the rap world. It did not fizzle out. You get 1 star.

Story of oj charted for 2 weeks then vanished. Nobody talked about it a week after the video was out.

 

[L@CaT]

Damn is the better album

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

the thing that made Jay Z great was

1. His ability to drop hit records consistently. From 96 - 2003 Jay Z dropped heat.

2. His ability to adapt to the times while maintaining a somewhat unique style.

After coming back from a 3 year hiatus, the times were changing. And while he still was able to make decent records, the demographics were changing.
Jay Z was never an introspective/social rapper. He may have dropped a song like "Song Cry" but that wasn't who he was.

4.44 wasn't shyt, but it honestly doesn't fit the brand he built and it doesn't fit into is collection of albums. The rap landscape has changed. This album won't be remembered in another 18 months.

 

[Ill-Mind]

Nope

 

[Cuban Pete]

I still like BAM and he got standouts like Adnis but its not a replayable album like that

 

[CrimsonTider]

Good album but boring so it won't have legs

 

[mikishere]

This isn't about your opinion of the album.


It's about why the album is free falling down the charts and why none of the singles caught on at all.

why would any of the "singles" catch on

anyway, continue with your real agenda for this thread, you aint low

 

[diggy]

I tossed it, back to money phone music for me

 

[Sauce Dab]

This thread definitely has a few posters triggered in here. It's hurting some of y'all that it came and went

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I think that's the case with a lot of albums though. Music(especially rap) is disposable now that it's stream based. Albums might have a good few week run and then die especially when somebody else drops.

 

[director_of_bands]

never heard it..I think my hate for beyonce translated into me not wanting to hear any jay z

 

[Preach Jackson]

nah 4:44 still my rotation with DAMN and Freudian.

 

[Wild self]

Its slowly changing how people think.

 

[mr x]

It's free falling down the chart because it's not available on the largest streaming platform.

It's actually outperforming a lot of more recently released joints in the traditional sales format.

Good on him to continue to grow his own platform over the extra streaming cash.
Jay-Z's Much-Dissed Music Service Tidal Now Third In App Store Revenue For Music Apps

As far as the music going.

Nah

 

[L. Deezy]

Im a Nas stan and the album still in my rotation.. yall generation has ADD.. this generation are decendants of Crackheads. ..