A previously unheard Jay-Z track has been circulating the net this week, but Hov insists that the song is an older recording, not something intended for an upcoming album.
The track, “Ain’t I,” (Click Here to listen) features a Timbaland instrumental and DJ Clue voiceovers that claim that the song is included on an upcoming Jay-Z album, Blueprint 3. If true, the disc would the third (fourth, if including Blueprint 2.1, the shortened version of the two-disc Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse) installment in Jay-Z’s Blueprint series. Lyrics like, “I took a pay cut to become a exec/ So the next mother—-er can earn his paycheck/ And even though these n—as talk greasy ’bout me/ Ask these n—as how they gonna eat without me!” seem to be blatantly alluding to his recently-ended tenure as president at Def Jam Records.
A previously-published Entertainment Weekly report states that the track was initially recorded for Timbaland’s 2007 album Shock Value, but that Jay and engineer Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton couldn’t finish their parts of the song before deadline. “Jay-Z, that’s my brother,”Timbaland was quoted in the article. “He disappointed (me).”
While the EW story says that Jay released a “No comment” through his publicist, a new report at MTV simply says that Jay’s representative confirms that the song was an older recording, and that he hasn’t made any announcements for a new album. The MTV report doesn’t, however, have any denial from the rep that Jay would or wouldn’t use the song in the future.
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