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Behati Prinsloo wants more children with Adam Levine. All rights reserved. Jay singles out his ego, separating himself from the persona that led him to shoot his own brother as a young teen, or cheat on his wife. Dre, who recorded the original track, along for the ride. The electric guitar-powered beat during the second half would sound at home on Vol. He returned home to a mess.
Also, Nas had tried to lynch an effigy of his former rival at Summer Jam before being blocked by Hot Kelly, of all people, to sing about innocence. Shawn Carter plays hype man for his better half on this standout from Everything Is Love. He goes at it for less than four minutes, but I could listen to Hov spit over this beat for hours.
Here, he opens up about a close friend and fellow hustler who snitched once he got snagged by police. Jay is a ghetto griot here, sharing a story about how a group of tenacious kids with big aspirations and limited options find themselves in the coke game.
Ball till your days is up. The song ends in a place of peace, acceptance, and forgiveness. Jay, Beans, and Bleek indulge their love for hot wheels over a thumping beat, saluting the road warriors and auto aficionados who know the real party goes down at the let out. DJ Toomp provides a stirring, cinematic backdrop — these two really should work together again. But music matchmaker DJ Khaled paired them up proper, allowing Hendrix to lay down an inescapable hook and Hov to spit cloth talk of only the highest thread count.
And this final song on the collaborative album is a neat, bow-wrapped resolution that leaves the past in the past. Over a crescendoing organ riff, the two rap legends grumble about the misfortunes that come along with being filthy rich. These horn flourishes and xylophone taps are the perfect sound-bed for a retelling of how a kid from Marcy Projects massively succeeded against all odds.
Jay is nervous, unsure, maybe even neurotic — a type of vulnerability previously unseen, a tip of the transparency iceberg that was to come.
Blue Ivy is gonna be. The Marcy lyricists narrate scenarios that prove in the streets, wolves can take on many different forms. While Kanye rotates women and extols the merits of birth-control pills, Jay gives all glory to Gloria Carter, his mom.
But the track is heavy-handed in its execution, an approach that Jay reveals was intentional in his book, Decoded. The trio brings exactly that over this bouncy Rick Rock production — the best example of their gratifying synergy.
But as his storied career proves, he could never definitively say good-bye to music. Jay-Z preys on cultural stereotypes to describe his many women and — perhaps most shamefully — reveals himself to be a viewer of sophomoric comedy flick Deuce Bigalow.
Still, the chipmunked Tom Brock sample is undeniable. Simpson as a worst-case scenario. Jay pays it forward, urging listeners to strive for investment, ownership, and wealth that can be passed down to descendants. But producer B-Money helped make a solid first impression by hooking up an alluring clarinet melody that could charm a cobra. Hov slithers about, lamenting the plummeting stock of rap lyricism. Jay had a pimp name and persona — Cashmere Jones — that he employs here, setting out to drop the slickest rhymes he could think of.
Either way, this is another masterful pairing with the great Frank Ocean. His skill is undeniable here, as he raps about his need for money by any means, seemingly not yet percent sold on rap as a full-time hustle. This Black Album adieu sounds like a tropical vacation, with dancing strings that Jay skips across in double-time.
The spoken outro may or may not have inspired Kanye to rant at the end of The College Dropout. But the way he puts his words together is so irresistible — at one point Jay mouths the sound of a money counter, hitting each syllable like a stone skipping across a lake.
The bulk of the action takes place in their minds, building up with suspense and ending in reality — a promising musical career for Bleek. The beat, which sounds like a monophonic 8-bit ringtone, burrows its way into your brain — these days, it evokes the earlys perfectly. His moratorium was issued over an insane guitar-and-brass medley that was just begging to be sampled.
But this Roc classic is most significant for introducing the world to Freeway. His elevated vocal pitch is sui generis. Every verse here deserves a flame emoji — but leaving it at that is no fun. Propelled by an urgent bass line, Kanye and Jay-Z offer strikingly different musings on religion. Jay contemplates ancient Socratic philosophy, while Kanye praises polygamy, cocaine, and Red Bull.
Frank Ocean ties it all together by singing a string of rhetorical questions, but sounds great nonetheless. He does a convincing job. A jubilant anthem, perfect for toasting to advancement, comradery, or prosperity, and then getting wasted at the bar with friends.
Whereas the original is sonically rougher around the edges, this Jaz-O-helmed revamp, with its pretty chimes and Soul II Soul sample, feels musically polished. Boy, was he right. No one quite anticipated that the first release from Watch the Throne would be helmed by the newbie producer who had been creating trunk-rattlers for Rick Ross and Waka Flocka Flame.
If the Throne set out to make a statement, well, mission accomplished. The year-old was killed in a car accident while driving the Chrysler that Jay bought him. But he finds solace in the fact that his nephew — who Jay has periodically rapped about over the course of his career — was expecting a child.
The same track finds Hov tackling his fallout with Damon Dash and addressing a seemingly failed relationship, supposedly with actress Rosario Dawson. Carter : Fresh off of the quintuple-platinum success of his best-selling album, Vol.
It was the first time Jay-Z truly opened up his closet for the world to see his skeletons. Hayes on more than one occasion throughout his recording career. Biggie 's hit "Warning" famously turned this laid-back jazz gem on its head, transforming it into a gritty story about a heist gone-awry. It remains one of the best songs Biggie recorded in his lifetime. It's also one of the spookiest rap songs ever. It's a memorable song, in large part to its lineage to the emotional energy of Hayes' "Hung up on My Baby.
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