And as for material possessions, he could do with some Picasso and Rothko. Forget all them hoes, he wants a wife that can do him like a prostitute. Your dream performance venue? Jay would rather perform with his missy at the Museum of Modern Art. He don’t want a cassa, he gon’ get him a castle. While your favourite is rapping about getting a mansion, stretched Hummer or Lamborghini and some hoes – or whatever it is the youngins rap about these days – Jay’s on a completely different bar. There’s a reason why we all hail Jay as king. The Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” sample doesn’t hurt either. The J-Roc, The-Dream and Timbaland produced track is the sound you’ll remember from the initial Samsung commercial that even got Jay wondering, “What is that?” We still have no clue what it is but we know we love. And allow me to say, JT sounds better and better each time we hear him.
In it, Jay contemplates the price of fame as Justin Timberlake echoes his sentiments in what sounds like the new infectious hook of the year: “You’re so unfair / Sipping from your cup ‘til it runneth over / Holy grail”. It’s something of a retrospective “Empire State of Mind” both in its feel and its lyrical content. That said, this song should without a doubt be the first single off the album. The opening track on any album is, in my estimation, the most important song on the album simply because it lets you know whether or not you should listen to the rest of the record. You’ll be far less exhausted as I am after listening to it since you’ll be given a comfortable ride from my toiling below. But I write this straight after a gruelling nine hours of chewing, digesting and unpacking Jay-Z’s most densely packed album in terms of subject matter. The production on the art piece is out of your stratosphere and the subject matter compactly dense.Ī significant, but however not so large part of me, wants to say it really is this year’s biggest hip hop record.
Here are the facts: for one, it very definitely had the biggest PR campaign of the year and since Jay-Z is a god – yeah, he also said it – this isn’t unlikely. We called it the biggest hip hop record of the year before we had even heard it. Everything from Jigga’s wealth, intimate details about him and Beyoncé, his feelings about fatherhood and even the fact that even as you read this, somewhere in America, Miley Cyrus is still twerking, is all included in the 59-minuter. If you’re waiting until the 7 th of this month, like the rest of the world, you’ll want to read this also. If you were one of those users, you’ll want to read this. Jay-Z dropped his twelfth studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail yesterday exclusively to one million Samsung Galaxy users worldwide.
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