The GOAT has returned—Jay-Z came back off a FOUR-YEAR hiatus to hold us down for yet
another summer and the first impression reviews are in: this album is fucking great.
And that's the widespread opinion across the board, not just from a Stan like me.
We're all still wrapping our heads around 4:44—there is ~a lot~ to unpack on this
album, despite being Jigga's shortest project to date.
But while we're still digesting to write a formal, official review, there's a lot
to talk about when it comes to first-impressions: Namely...this is Jigga's rawest, most revealing
and intimate album to date.
I knew it would be so after just hearing 15 seconds worth of "Adnis."
Jay's discography charts a steady trend of growing more confessional with each album,
especially in his post Black Album-Wizards era.
When LEMONADE dropped, it set the stage for Hov to match his wife with an equally therapeutic
album, and he did not disappoint.
When the rollout for 4:44 began with a clip centering on Jay's dad—whose abandonment
Jay has been very vocal about throughout his career—it was proof positive that Jay was
indeed going to go #there.
Of course, everyone from sites deeply entrenched in the culture to basic magazines with a surface-level
comprehension of rap are tripping over themselves to decode the "LEMONADE responses."
Let's be clear about one thing here: Beyonce and Jay live in the same house.
They aren't "responding" to each other with subs from the east and west wings of
their Hidden Hills mansion, my guy.
But they are mining great art out of whatever issues they worked with and clearly eventually
overcame in their marriage.
We still don't know the whole story and we don't really need to: but Jay goes so
far as to open the album with bars about Solange and the elevator.
He name-drops Becky...ON A SONG FEATURING BEYONCE.
He shuts down a popular theory that Beyonce's pregnancy was in vitro, calling the twins'
natural conception a miracle.
The song from which the album derives its title is named after the wee hour in the morning
that he woke up to write a soul-baring apology to his wife.
This, from the same man who once wrapped "Me give my heart to a woman?
Not for nothing, never happen, I'll be forever mackin."
Wow.
But there's so much more on this album besides infidelity scandals.
The album also opens with an inevitable jab at Kanye for his 20-minute rant against the
Throne.
Are they cool or is there beef?
Dont' forget Ye was seen visiting Jay's home with Kim after the tour incident.
The sweetest moment on the album comes from Jay rapping to his mother over a beautiful
Stevie Wonder sample.
Jay raps: "Mama had four kids but she's a lesbian...Cried tears of joy when you fell
in love/Don't matter to me if it's a him or her."
Gloria finishes the song with a poem about living your truth.
"Adnis" doesn't appear on the album but Jay addresses other skeletons in his family
tree, like his grandfather abusing his aunt.
It's heavy deep stuff, but confronting tragedy, shame, and morality are the major themes of
the album.
On the intro Jay raps "You can't heal what you never reveal."
By 4:44's closing moments, he's found his absolution, rhyming "See how the universe
work?
It takes my hurt and helps me find more of myself, it's a gift and a curse."
Jay opened himself up, let us in and the result is his most focused project in years, maybe
ever.
Mission accomplished, Jigga.
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