4:44 Album - *JAY-Z* (06/30/17).

[Busta Carmichael]

Damn now niggas gonna claim Jay got better discography than Nas..

I hope this new Nas album gonna be a classic

Jigga been had a better catalog.Nas hasn't dropped a good album since stillmatic

Foh you insecure prick

Once you figure out that 444 is Jay admitting that Nas was right on ether (Jigga didn't want to be embarrassed by girls)...you will accept that Nas is the goat

What song?

 

[Moore7s]

Damn now niggas gonna claim Jay got better discography than Nas..

I hope this new Nas album gonna be a classic

Jigga been had a better catalog.Nas hasn't dropped a good album since stillmatic

Foh you insecure prick

Once you figure out that 444 is Jay admitting that Nas was right on ether (Jigga didn't want to be embarrassed by girls)...you will accept that Nas is the goat

What song?

Title track... 4:44

 

[Trillfate]

Life is Good is immaculate tho

 

[Nah Son]

444>>>LIG

this will hurt feelings but aint no Summer on Smashs and weak Mary J Blige tracks on this joint

 

[CapitalB]

im hot cuh..

i have sprint..

went and downloaded Tidal and they aint lettin me play it..

FUCK YALL!!!

 

[Already Home_17]

procrastinating ass niggas gonna have to hold that L

 

[Shizlansky]

im hot cuh..

i have sprint..

went and downloaded Tidal and they aint lettin me play it..

FUCK YALL!!!

Exactly bruh. What the fuck is going on.

Im here listening at my friend house. Sad

 

[Busta Carmichael]

Hov has always been an inspiration of mine to invest and venture in to business.

"U don't know" has been in my rotation since middle school.

This album brought those memories back.

Bout to start on my business shit again.

 

[da-great1]

The hot trash that was Kingdom Come and Magna Carta kills all thatJay better than Nas talk. This album futher more proves it because when Kingdom dropped you niggas was screaming that "grown man for grown people" bullshit when 4:44 is exactly what Jay wanted to do with Dre but failed miserably.

Nas worse album would be Jays 4th best album and i think LIG is wack before you carmel stans get too emotional

 

[Busta Carmichael]

The hot trash that was Kingdom Come and Magna Carta kills all thatJay better than Nas talk. This album futher more proves it because when Kingdom dropped you niggas was screaming that "grown man for grown people" bullshit when 4:44 is exactly what Jay wanted to do with Dre but failed miserably.

Nas worse album would be Jays 4th best album and i think LIG is wack before you carmel stans get too emotional

Bruh Nas came out with two good albums and dropped duds until Jay had to slap his ass with takeover.

Then he dropped two ok albums and continued dropping duds.

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

There are a couple of Nina Simone samples – were those from Jay-Z's playlist?

Yes, that was definitely him. He put both of those on there. That's the score to his life. That's the core reason for using them. There's a million things to sample that could sound good.

This is where switching up the process helped me. Maybe before I go, "We can't use two Nina Simones! We can't use Steve Wonder!" But that's what he wanted. I left it up to him to do the rest of the business. It freed me up to just be creative and be told, "this is what I want." It's challenging as well.

"I held up classic albums and said, 'What were the good parts and what were the mistakes?'"

At what point did it become clear that this was going to be an album and it was actually going to come out?

We got heavy into it by accident. The first time it happened, I sent him the "Kill Jay-Z" record, and he called Guru, who happened to be in town, and that was the first record. But then the holidays happened. We both went away for the holidays. He had already asked me to work on Vic Mensa's album. I was juggling working on both of them. When we came back in January, we get deep in. Then I had to go for Chicago for a month because my dad had a spill at home and he was in the hospital. We took a good month off there. In March, I got back and we got back into the full stride. We had intended on dropping it on 4/4. That was the plan. Unfortunate circumstances slowed it down.

But it helped us in the sense that it gave us more time to make some really important records. A lot of the thought process was, I held up classic albums and said, "What were the good parts and what were the mistakes?" Sometimes these classics, the continuity is what makes them classic, and then you have these examples of reaching for the single or the radio record. Albums I was pointing to were like Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Confessions by Usher, [Jay-Z's] The Blueprint, [Nas'] Illmatic, [Kanye West's] My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I analyzed the mistakes and tried not to make those mistakes. We wanted 10 really good songs where at no point are you like, "I know what you're trying to do, you could've kept that one." Sometimes you look back 10 years later and you go, "I see why you did it then, but 'No, thanks' today." By March, we were into that [process].

So the concise 10-song length was important for that purpose?

Yes. There's three more songs that are coming out as bonuses. James Blake came in and joined into the process. There's more coming shortly that's equally as revealing.

That was a dope read. Less is more

 

[Dogowner14]

Allhiphop is the only hip hop site that would ban people from a tribute Prodigy thread (cracka admins does not care)

Secondly ahh is the only hip hop site that would say that Nas last good album was Stillmatic

Now you can ban me forever I already signed up on two other hip hop sites.

Fuck all ya bitch admins son of bitches

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

That Al sharpton pic is barely 2 weeks old.

Got me wondering how long it took for Jay to make this album

Probably one of the last songs he recorded. But wjen you in a zone you knock shit out with minimal effort.

 

[CeLLaR-DooR]

Life is Good has four dope songs, Intro, Locomotive, Daughters and Bye Baby but like most Nas albums post It Was Written, nuff of the album cuts were just bland and forgettable.

I think the two albums make for good comparison but like I said before, I think 4:44 is better

 

[GetoBoy]

Jay got the goat discography and this album shows it let another rapper drop a album like this like Kdot or Cole or hell even Nas and niggas would call it a instant classic but with Jay this is barely in his top 5 albums

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

I see people comparing this to AG a lot but to me its more like a follow up to BP1. From the soulful samples and loops to the way he raps about his standing in the game his achievements and personal life. Not saying its as good as BP was but it got a similar vibe

I agree as far as being compared to BP1. that his bars were simple bit hit hard and got the story he was trying to come off perfectly

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

Where do we rank this one?

1. BP1

2. 4:44

3. VOL.2

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

Now all we need is another unplugged....this a Jazz album will translate well to live instruments

Man this ×100!!!!

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

Damn now niggas gonna claim Jay got better discography than Nas..

I hope this new Nas album gonna be a classic

Jigga been had a better catalog.Nas hasn't dropped a good album since stillmatic

Foh you insecure prick

Once you figure out that 444 is Jay admitting that Nas was right on ether (Jigga didn't want to be embarrassed by girls)...you will accept that Nas is the goat

I said that in here when it first dropped. Think i got laughed at lol. As far as him talking about what a loss is.

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

Allhiphop is the only hip hop site that would ban people from a tribute Prodigy thread (cracka admins does not care)

Secondly ahh is the only hip hop site that would say that Nas last good album was Stillmatic

Now you can ban me forever I already signed up on two other hip hop sites.

Fuck all ya bitch admins son of bitches

Who is this faggot?