I think he just got older

That verse changed my life

Still in disbelief about the d*** riding here

4:44 was great but so much of it was just s***ting on the younger generation who are doing the same s*** he rapped about.

Kendrick and Cole are viewed (and rightly so) as the "big brothers" in rap because they actually took time to sit with the kids first before they came up with a response to kids being kids.

while he's quickly moving into old man yells at cloud territory. from as far back as "can't wear skinny jeans 'cause my nuts don't fit".

it feels like Jay-Z just wants to have the image of "i'm looking out for you" without actually looking out for the kids and getting his hands dirty, because you know, it might f*** with his business interests. a lot of the advice on 4:44 just felt like empty platitudes.

that's not to say i didn't enjoy it. i did. thoroughly.

but i do wish he would just own up a bit more that he's playing an image the way most modern artists do. this passing himself off as being everything he raps about is played out. we've watched his life unfold and seen that he's not.

Ah well that then absolves him from selling crack I guess

Jay a goat but the d***riding really is crayz fr

i'm saying bruh. this dude was my idol growing up, i studied this man lol, but at a certain point the contradictions kept piling up..

like instead of attacking the very same system that forced people into depravity, which he himself claims to have suffered from and experienced, he jumps on 4:44 and says "no, capitalism is good, this system will save us, we just gotta play it right". like what? that's the knowledge you've picked up in your 40+ years on this earth?

i don't buy it.

Don’t forget his Basquiat cosplay era

His black capitalism gimmick wouldn't be so annoying if he didn't constantly pose as a revolutionary. Fred Hampton turning in his grave fr

there's a context in which this is viewed as corny as Drake's antics over the years. i just don't have the words for it.

Jay made WTT with Kanye and he turned artsy

Kendrick dropped TPAB and he turned into a revolutionary

Ye was the first billionaire?

Rob Markman is a Zane Lowe tier interviewer

He’s a professional rider

I thought it was “cus my knots don’t fit” (money)

RT

But at the end of the day, besides The Coup (loooooove Boots, RIP Pam) how many socialist/communist rappers are even out here lol.

Imo it's rly not that different from when white conservatives and liberals appropriate MLK. In a way you could say it's worse since he's doing the whitewashing of his own people's history

I mean you don't have to be a socialist to at least not whitewash the black panthers legacy so overtly as Jay has

Black people wont have nothing begging the white man for it.. you ask your former enslaver to save you??? Jay teaching these niggas to empower themselves and provide themselves #hovdid

lol y’all want him arrested?? ktt been getting weird lately fr

Commies foaming at the mouth rn

Not at all but saying well he didn't tell other people to sell crack is a weird justification for selling crack

You’re not even wrong tho lol