Jay-Z Releases Highly Anticipated 4:44 Album and the People Can't Stop Talking
Finally.
Jay Z dropped his 4:44 album at midnight and it has been trending non stop! Fans and haters alike have been toiling over the album's one-liners and subliminal messages all day, attempting to decode the messages and stories behind some of JayZ's most cryptic lyrics from the album. One verse in particular that has everyone buzzing is from track "4:44", where Jay Z alludes to infidelity and even hints at the Solange elevator situation:
"Let go your ego over your right shoulder. Your left is sayin', "Finish your breakfast! You egged Solange on Knowin' all along All you had to say you was wrong. you almost went Eric Benet. let the baddest girl in the world get away. I don't even know what else to say -- n**** never go Eric Benet. I dont even know what you woulda done in the future other n****s play in' football with ya son..."
Jay also piqued everyone's interest when he apparently addressed Kanye West, who as you may remember took shots at Jay Z during an October stop on his Saint Pablo tour.
“I know people backstab you, I feel bad too / But this fuck everybody attitude ain’t natural / But you ain’t the same, this ain’t KumbaYe / But you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye / You gave him 20 million without thinkin’ / He gave you 20 minutes on stage, fuck was he thinkin’? / ‘Fuck wrong with everybody?’ is what you sayin’ / But if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane.”
If the album wasn't enough to have us thinking, Jay Z also dropped the visuals for his single, ‘The Story of O.J.’ which dives right into everything from race relations to gentrification to economic empowerment. The video plays as a sepia-toned film and is filled with black face/minstrel like characters in settings that include cotton fields, the back of a segregated bus and — just in case you thought racism only took place in the South — the Brooklyn Bridge.
The entire album is def worth listening to and gives you a ton of food fort thought! Right now, the album is only streaming on TIDAL. (As if it would be anywhere else).