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What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate? "Īnd if my children knew, I don't even know what I would do I will be emotionally available if I invited you overĪ likely response to Bey's closing line in "Don't Hurt Yourself: "Uh, this is your final warning/You know I give you life/If you try this shit again/You gon' lose your wife. The lyrics include: "You ain't trying hard enough/You ain't loving hard enough/You don't love me deep enough/We not reaching peaks enough/Blindly in love, I fucks with you/'Til I realize I'm just too much for you/I'm just too much for you. Perhaps an acknowledgement that what Bey sang in "Don't Hurt Yourself" (presumably about him) is right. Like the men before me, I cut off my nose to spite my face They're also made a habit of posting their lavish vacations on social media.Īnd then we in a space where the dark stops We're supposed to laugh 'til our hearts stopsīey and JAY-Z are music's highest paid couple. We're supposed to vacay 'til our backs burn Not meant to cry and die alone in these mansions I apologize, our love was one for the ages and I contained usĪnd all this ratchet shit and we more expansive Thinkin' of all the time you wasted in on all this basic shit Your eyes leave with the soul that your body once housed I apologize 'cause at your best you are loveĪnd because I fall short of what I say I'm all about
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Toyed with you emotions because I was emotionless 'Cause I wasn't present, your body wouldn't accept it Literally the week before I went to the doctor, everything was fine, but there was no heartbeat." I flew back to New York to get my check up, and no heartbeat. I envisioned what my child would look like, I was feeling very maternal. "About two years ago, I was pregnant for the first time, and I heard the heartbeat, which was the most beautiful music I ever heard in my life. I still mourn this death, I apologize for all the stillbornsīeyoncé opened up in her 2013 documentary Life Is But a Dream, sharing that she'd had a miscarriage. That was your 21st birthday, you mature faster than meĪs Genius notes, a reference to how Bey and JAY-Z first started going steady at her 21st birthday party. Said: "Don't embarrass me," instead of "Be mine" Took for these natural twins to believe in miraclesīey just gave birth to twins, the couple's second and third children. "When Lisa Bonet was Beyoncé of her day, I had divas, y'all," he rapped on 4:44 track "Marcy Me". Before he settled down with Beyoncé, JAY-Z called himself something of a player. Perhaps a reference to the cheating rumors around the couple (and that Bey herself called out in Lemonade, particularly its track "Sorry"). You can stream 4:44 here on Tidal if you have a subscription. so it's possible their own experiences also influenced the lyrics. "It's the title track because it's such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I've ever written." The rapper co-wrote the song with Karan Keeney and No I.D. The Brooklyn mogul also shared a TIDAL playlist of songs that inspired the track, including James Blake’s “Retrograde,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Bold as Love,” and Playboi Carti’s “Magnolia."So it became the title of the album and everything," JAY-Z continued. He’s been releasing trailers for the album periodically via TIDAL and recently purchased a prominent billboard ad in Times Square.
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JAY-Z first teased 4:44 with a series of ads on NYC subways and prominent music websites. IHeartRadio later released an interview with the Brooklyn rapper in which he breaks down the project track by track. The director has previously worked on music videos with Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Jay himself, and also helmed films like One Hour Photo and Never Let Me Go: He also shared an animated video for the “The Story of O.J.” which he co-directed alongside Mark Romanek. (Death of Auto-Tune)” and “Run This Town” featuring Kanye West and Rihanna. It’s produced entirely by No I.D., who has worked on previous JAY-Z hits like “D.O.A. The project runs 10 tracks and features Frank Ocean, Damian Marley, and his mother Gloria Carter. It’s been nearly four years since JAY-Z’s last project-2013’s Magna Carta Holy Grail-and the Brooklyn rapper returns today with his 13th studio album 4:44.