Jay z 444 song list
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“I’m clear why I’m here, how about you?/ Ain’t no such thing as an ugly billionaire, I’m cute”
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“It’s the title track because it’s such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” “4:44′ is a song that I wrote, and it’s the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album,” he told iHeart Radio. Fast forward to today, Hov’s a father, husband and businessman, and while infidelity played a part his marital issues, JAY-Z throws all pride out the window and uses the nearly three-minute confessional to apologize for his wrongdoing, addressing Beyonce’s miscarriage and his absence. On his most famous emotional ballad, “Song Cry”, young Hov laments the end of a relationship, where the trappings of success – “It was the cheese, helped them bitches get amnesia quick” – and his pride caused him to lose his woman. “I wasn’t ready so I apologize/ I’ve seen the innocence leave your eyes/ I still mourn this death, I apologize for all the stillborns/ ‘Cause I wasn’t present, your body wouldn’t accept it” JAY-Z discusses how society caused his mother to mask her sexuality, and how seeing his mother living her true self brought the rapper to tears. The first verse of “Smile” centers mainly on JAY-Z’s mother Gloria Carter, who comes out as a lesbian on the track through a spoken-word piece at the song’s end. “Mama had four kids but she’s a lesbian/ Had to pretend so long that she’s a thespian/ Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate/ Society shame and the pain was too much to take/ Cried tears of joy when you fell in love/ Don’t matter to me if it’s a him or her/ I just wanna see you smile through the hate” But how, when you have some type of success, to transform that into something bigger.” “We all make money, and then we all lose money, as artists especially. “’The Story of OJ’ is really a song about we as a culture, having a plan, how we’re gonna push this forward,” JAY-Z explains. Money, power, and race are all factors that cause a rift amongst artists in the hip-hop community. “Light n-a, dark n-a, faux n-a, real n-a/ Rich n-a, poor n-a, house n-a, field n-a/ Still n-a, still n-a” JAY-Z ponders on what his infidelity could’ve done to his relationship with his children, as he references the demise of Future and Ciara’s rocky relationship, with Ciara later marrying Seattle Seahawk quarterback Russell Wilson. “I don’t even know what you woulda done/ In the future, other n-s playing football with your son/ You would’ve lost it” On “Kill Jay Z”, the rapper compares his marital woes to that of R&B singer Eric Benet and his most famous relationship, with then-wife Halle Berry – which ended due to Benet’s infidelity. JAY-Z’s infidelity with “Becky with the good hair” was the cornerstone topic of his wife’s album Lemonade. “You almost went Eric Benét/ Let the baddest girl in the world get away/ I don’t even know what else to say” Speaking on the song’s message in an interview with iHeart Radio, JAY-Z explains that in “Kill Jay Z,” he’s “killing off the ego, so we can have this conversation in a place of vulnerability and honesty.” The album’s opener finds a pensive JAY-Z in a tete-a-tete with himself, as he faces the demons of his formative years while also grappling with the what-ifs of his actions. “And you know better, n-a, I know you do/ But you gotta do better, boy, you owe it to Blue/ You had no father, you had the armor/ But you got a daughter, gotta get softer” Well, the album is finally here, and JAY-Z has given us the answers. Scroll below for the rapper’s most introspective lyrics from his 4:44 album.