Music Review: Is Jay-Z 4:44 Album Too Smart for today’s younger Hip-Hoppers ?

Music Review: Is Jay-z 4:44 Album Too Smart for today’s younger Hip-Hoppers?

50 Cent….was kinda right when he said this album is “too smart for today’s younger hip hop generation”. The album is creative and great, but not a club or dance tracks on this one. For the first time in Jay’s music history, he may not get a club banger off the album. Which is ok…..he’s hitting a different market and purpose this time. He’s trying to make you “Mentally Woke” not you shaking your ass. Thanks for this one HOV!

Here is some feedback from celebs regarding 4:44 from Jay-z

50 Cent….

“I listened to Jay shit, that 4:44,” 50 said in the video. “I thought the shit was aight. I liked the shit, but I’m gonna keep it 100 – the shit was a little … the shit was too smart. I felt like I was supposed to be wearing like glasses and shit and like a tie, a fucking sweater around my waist. It was like Ivy League shit.”

https://youtu.be/pqnTjzd1RH0

Meek Mill’s view on 4:44

“We rockin’ Off-White and HOV rockin’ Tom Ford. It’s just two different things, but at some point, you wanna pick up the Tom Ford. At some point, you wanna put the money down and invest. Get some credit. I remember when Ben Franklin never answered my call, so once in a while I have to talk to him,” alluding to HOV’s verbal jabs about putting money to your ear. Seems like Hov’s message has resonated with Meek Mill.

Lupe Fiasco wrote at Rap Review of 4:44

Album dropped when I was overseas, data plans & coverage limitations wouldn’t allow a decent listen, usually like to oversee when I be whippin, back from china on a American, long story I’ll take you back there again, for now let’s just focus on the pair of twins times 3, the 13th Jigga, had to make the review rhyme this time for you niggas, shit takes me back like Royal slippers, with sublime glimpses of that old spitter, baseline bully, he wouldn’t freestyle a whole album would he?, leave the speculation to the bookies, push me back to when we was rookies, chip off the old Roc, presenting my cookies to the cutter, the album is better than yours motherfuckers, hence why I peruse swift, and curse all ya gifts, Smile is the shit, 4:44 too personal for my opinion, but makes me wanna go up and apologize to random women, Blame Jay, the vibe checkered but dirty beats make it hard to sneak past the first 5 records, looped up the jewels viewing the clarity during a layover, right now awesome, give you the rest when I get to Boston…??

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The second half meditation, sounds like what happens when education meets decorations for mass that met black witchcraft and went half on calf, holy cow, MARCY ME!, had to put it in all caps, the artistry separates the bullshit from the Bulls Chips, partially, all facts, how he gone take it there? The beat feel like Sanaa Lathan hair…in slow motion, next to the ocean, wordplay gorgeous, 5 mics no sources, I ain’t publicly leaned back bopped in a while especially to this style of a portrait, vulnerable but not tortured, a fortress ain’t gotta force it, real time classic, a revival of the corpus, the Tribeca Jay cool but he like for the masses, the Brooklyn Jay a ghoul only suitable for the masters, MARCY ME so fucking stupid! Funny part is I know exactly how he do it, can even reproduce it, but just cuz you can imitate the bruises that don’t mean they Bruce’s, message to the hearer, Lee that boy alone, he’s fighting without fighting we just cuts inside his mirror! 10/10 Stop Hiding Behind Hooks & Fill Up A Rhyme Book….?

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Jay’s Story of O.J video from 4:44 album

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