With her apparent accusations of spousal infidelity on LEMONADE, Beyoncé had her fans lashing out at JAY-Z and trying to identify the woman involved, and with 4:44, he’s taking some time to respond.
“Kill Jay Z,” “4:44,” Family Feuds,” and “Legacy” all give insight — or at least the insight that Jay wants us to hear — into the usually extremely private life of the Carters, who just added twins to their family earlier this month.
The project’s introductory track “Kill Jay Z” immediately addresses the cheating rumors sparked by Bey’s visual project, LEMONADE.
“You almost went Eric Benét,” JAY raps, referencing the R&B singer/ex-husband of Halle Berry. “Let the baddest girl in the world get away/ I don’t even know what else to say/ Nigga, never go Eric Benét/ I don’t even know what you woulda done/ In the future, other niggas playin’ football with your son.”
(And yes, that last line is a reference to Russell Wilson and Future.)
On the album’s self-titled track, he opens up about how having a daughter has changed the way he views women. He also apologizes to his wife for not being as mature when they first met, and asks himself why he made choices that could have caused issues with his relationship with Queen Bey.
“You did what with who?” JAY says on the song. “What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate?/ You risked that for Blue? If I wasn’t a superhero in your face/ My heart breaks for the day I had to explain my mistakes.”
On the Beyoncé-assisted “Family Feud,” he responds to his wife’s infamous “Becky with the good hair” lyric off the LEMONADE track, “Sorry.”
“Yeah, I’ll fuck up a good thing if you let me/ Let me alone, Becky,” JAY spits, expressing unity with the lines, “Nobody wins when the family feuds” and “What’s better than one billionaire? Two/ ‘Specially if they’re from the same hue as you.”
The family theme continues in the album’s last track, “Legacy,” which starts with Blue Ivy asking her dad what a will is. He starts rapping about Black excellence and about keeping the “Carter money all in the family,” while discussing what should happen to his empire after he’s gone.
“She might start an institute,” the Brooklyn-bred mogul raps about his daughter. “She might put po’ kids through school/ My stake in Roc Nation should go to you/ Leave a piece for your siblings to give to their children too/ TIDAL, the champagne, D’usse, I’d like to see a nice piece fund ideas from people who look like we.”
Stream JAY-Z’s 4:44 here.
King HOV is back! It’s nice to see that King HOV didn’t let some white chick get in the way of his marriage. Meanwhile Nas leaves his kids broke and fatherless. Take L’s you broke and dusty Nas stans! To black excellence!
“Eminem murdered you on your own shit”
This officially, may be the official end to rap music from what we used to know. When Jay Z has to buy into the “Drake/Personal Flow” to keep relevance, The future of rap is leaning toward extinction.
King HOV is like Apple, may not be the first to do it but he perfects and makes it accessible to the masses. That’s why he’s he best to do it ever. Why don’t you listen tome Hip Hop is dead by that broke pass Nas.
Nas makes millions from his queensbridge venture firm MILLIONS!!! How the fuck he broke? Respect jay… but drakes flow???? Wtf?
AW HELL NAW – this is what has become of Jay Z? A grown man that’s scared of his own wife, forced to publicly apologise on his own record for something he didn’t do…anyone hear the record where Solange apologises for beating Jay’s ass?? The Knowles family are FUCKED UP
CHITOWN AND NO I.D. SAVED THIS PUPPET’S CAREER!!!! HAHHAHAAHAHA!!!!
This shit is gay af. Jay Z need to get some testosterone replacement therapy soon, because his old ass is sounding like a complete f aggot.
So Soulful???. $$$$$$$ Anyway, he sounds nothing like drake. If anything the beats sounds like Jcole beats.
Grown man rap….I’m mad my subscription just expired…Now I gotta drop that ten to get that Shyt started again…..
Impressed by Jigga, he has really grown and is taking responsibility and showing such matureness which the Black men in our communities lack.
I completely agree that King HOV not letting a white side piece getting the way of his relationship Beyonce, is a mature move. These wannabe stans want to support deadbeat broke dads like Nas.
What… Nas is NO dead beat… You have him confused with Future.
Excuse me if I don’t bum rush the Tidal app to hear Jay-Z’s musical equivalent of sucking his overrated wife’s toes in fear, how the mighty have fallen.
You are the epitome of imaturity. This man is on some GROWN MAN shit and you don’t even get it.
Yes, GROWN MAN shit is allowing your wife to air your dirty laundry on an album and then string the public along until your dog shit album comes out to respond, because that’s how a relationship works. You don’t work it out amongst yourselves in one of your 20 houses, you get a producer, writers, and make songs about it smh YOU are the epitome of stupid.
Yea…fallen onto a huge pile of money. If jay is fallen then sign me up. He aint fallin off that forbes list though
I don’t care if he’s a billionaire, as far as quality of music he’s completely fallen off.
hahahaha this is some soup opera bullshit, is jay z gonna cry? how weak and pathetic can it be?
this matches with the current scenario of hip hop were everything has turned soft and feminine, the manliness has disappeared and now is all about backtracking and being an emotional wreck and a pussy
He’s close to 50 years old, married, with kids… what the fuck do you expect him to rap about?
AINT NOTHING WRONG WITH MANNING UP AND APOLOGIZING ABOUT MISTAKES. ITS CALLED GROWTH YOU SMALL MINDED LITTLE MAN.
what about keeping your drama private instead of trying to profit with your personal issues?
Why do you think music is one of the most popular art forms? Because people take their pain and personal experiences and put them in song form to not only help themselves but to help others going through the same issues…. so your statement makes zero fucking sense. stop fam.
Furthermore, it would be disturbing if he didn’t and was still wanting to be the same person he was before children and when he was 25.
Dude is damn near a billionaire. He raps about is life and it is soft. He raps about the hood and he is fake. Go listen to 21 savage or something
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Yawn Carter
Who is this complete moron talking about Nas is broke? You know Jay z would laugh at you himself for saying that about Nas right? You know nas is invested in pretty much every big name company in silicon valley as a partial owner, every app your lame a$s uses, he owns to a degree. Your. An. Idiot. In the meantime, while you ride Jay z like a palomino pony he and nas laugh behind closed doors and continue making money via tech ventures your tiny brain couldn’t hope to understand
I notice how DX like to post pics of bey’s exposed titties.
“You did what with who?” JAY says on the song. “What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate?/ You risked that for Blue? If I wasn’t a superhero in your face/ My heart breaks for the day I had to explain my mistakes.”
Bwwwahahhaaaa….that is one of the corniest lines in rap history, keep on praising this wack AF cheating ass fraud.