11/30/2022 0 Comments Jay z 444 album youtube![]() ![]() In the same interview referenced above, JAY-Z spoke about how he reportedly found out his father had been living just 10 minutes away, at JAY-Z's grandmother's house, the whole time, hiding in plain sight. Of course, another interpretation of the old man in the video is that he's not appearing behind the punchbag so much as he is hiding behind it. It feels like the rapper is suggesting that his father's absence was a sort of training in that it forced him to be independent. He looks just as much like a boxer's trainer as he does a father and that's important. This would also suggest why the older male figure is ambiguous. It supports Beyoncé's husband's thesis, that his father leaving him hurt him immeasurably, but also made him stronger. We see this here, with the Moonlight actor's performance - he's both intensely focused and isolated. I was already a shy kid, and it made me a little reclusive. This brought to mind another part of the Oprah interview for me, when the Tidal artist-owner also revealed how his father's departure changed him, stating: It made me not express my feelings as much. And that, as such, the old man in the video isn't just any elderly citizen, but the protagonist's father.ĭid you notice the way that Ali's character is seemingly alone in the room, but how the old man appears now and then behind the punchbag, but never in the same shot as Ali - almost as if he's not quite real? This felt like the video touching on how you can be haunted by loss and forced to wrestle your demons alone (but demons that someone else is at least partially responsible for). This is a big assumption, but the fact that the teaser premiered on the evening of Father's Day lends weight to the fact that this album will be focused on what could be JAY-Z's most difficult relationship. I carried that feeling throughout my life, until my father and I met up before he died.Īs such, I'd argue Ali's boxer character is a stand-in for JAY-Z, and the fighting is a metaphor for his relationship with his dad. Never wanting to let myself get close to someone like that again. So I remember just being really quiet and really cold. In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, he revealed: Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again. After all, it's no secret that he has a tumultuous relationship with his father, who left his family when the rapper was just 11 years old. ![]() In the teaser, Shawn Carter raps, "Letter to my dad that I never wrote, speeches I prepared that I never spoke." Given that the rapper doesn't have any special affinity with boxing and the fact that the old man in the video appears just before JAY-Z starts on the phrase "Letter to my dad," I'd argue that, much like Lemonade, this is going to be the rapper's most personal outing to date. But if the teaser below is anything to go by, there's going to be significant overlap between the two projects. Rolling Stone has already reported that 4:44 isn't just the new JAY-Z album, it's also a Tidal-exclusive film that will boast the cream of Hollywood: We're talking Mahershala Ali, Lupita Nyong'o, and Danny Glover. But clues about JAY-Z's 4:44 from the "Adnis" teaser are a little complex to unpack. Yeah, do that.If you've already heard the good news and digested it a little, you're probably ready to dive deeper. Practice supporting other muthafuckas other than yourself. See, I ain’t no hater, I love the game for what it’s worth-the young niggas and the old niggas. But my homie sent it to me, you understand me. I went to iTunes looking for his album and I couldn’t find it. I’m on iTunes and shit cause, I don’t understand that. But you know what? I don’t got TIDAL, so a nigga had to bootleg it to me. I want to shoot a shout out to JAY-Z just dropped another muthafuckin’ hot album, 4:44, fo’ fo’ fo’. Snoop also admits he wasn’t aware Hov had a streaming service called TIDAL. In a new video, the Doggfather commended JAY for dropping another classic album while also encouraging younger and older artists to start supporting each other more. So like many he pirated it, and he’s come clean about it too. Despite being one of hip-hop’s biggest earners in history, Snoop Dogg found himself a bit vexed about having to sign up for a TIDAL account in order to hear Hov’s new 4:44 album. ![]()
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