"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian / Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate / Society shame and the pain was too much to take / Cried tears of joy when you fell in love / Don't matter to me if it's a him or her / I just wanna see you smile through all the hate," Jay-Z raps in one verse.
The song ends with a spoken word performance by his mom. "Even if I'm not with you here today, smile / Good morn' or evening, friends / Smile / Here's your friendly announcer / Smile." "Bad times turn to good memories, smile / Even when I'm gone and you remember me, smile / Good times never fade away, smile," they rap in the chorus. "There are gonna be bad times, and those bad times can do two things: They can get you in a place where you're stuck in a rut," Jay-Z said of the song, which features Stevie Wonder's vocals, "or it can make your future that much better because you've experienced these things." "I turned that two to a four, four to an eight / I turned my life into a nice first week release date / Y'all out here still takin' advances, huh? / Me and my n-as takin' real chances, uh / Y'all on the Gram holdin' money to your ear / There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah." "Financial freedom my only hope / F-k livin' rich and dyin' broke / I bought some artwork for 1 million / Two years later, that s-t worth 2 million / Few years later, that s-t worth 8 million / I can't wait to give this s-t to my children / Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine / But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99," Jay-Z rapped in the song. But how, when you have some type of success, transform that into something bigger." "We all make money, and then we all lose money, as artists especially. "'The Story of OJ' is really a song about we as a culture, having a plan, how we're gonna push this forward," Jay-Z said. "I'm a field n-a with shined cutlery / Gold-plated quarters where the butlers be." like, 'I'm not black, I'm O.J.' / OK / House n-a, don't f-k with me," he said. Simpson, the former football player who was accused and acquitted of killing two people, served as Jay-Z's inspiration.
Jay-Z even calls out his frenemy Kanye West, rapping, "I know people backstab you, I feel bad too / But this 'f-k everybody' attitude ain't natural / But you ain't the same, this ain't KumbaYe / But you got hurt because you did cool by 'Ye / You gave him 20 million without blinkin' / He gave you 20 minutes on stage, f- was he thinkin'?/ 'F-kin' wrong with everybody?' is what you sayin' / But if everybody's crazy, you're the one that's insane." It's about killing off the ego, so we can have this conversation in a place of vulnerability and honesty." "You almost went Eric Benét / Let the baddest girl in the world get away," he rapped, later reminding fans, "Never go Eric Benét." The song is "not to be taken literal," the 47-year-old rapper told iHeartRadio. The altercation, which was widely rumored to have been about fashion designer Rachel Roy, led Jay-Z to a realization: "But you gotta do better, boy, you owe it to Blue / You had no father, you had the armor / But you got a daughter, gotta get softer." Seemingly confirming that he did indeed cheat on his wife, he also name dropped Eric Benét, who split from Halle Berry in 2003 amid rumors of infidelity.
"You egged Solange on / Knowin' all along /All you had to say you was wrong," he rapped. Jay-Z referenced his famous elevator fight with sister-in-law Solange Knowles after the 2014 Met Gala. Jay-Z is the most nominated artist at the 2018 Grammys, where his most personal album yet will compete in such categories as Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. iHeartRadio's The Beat shared exclusive audio of Jay-Z explaining the meaning behind his lyrics. The trailer for the album featured cameos from Oscar-winning actors Mahershala Ali, Danny Glover and Lupita Nyong'o, and the album itself features tracks with Beyoncé (who is also a co-writer), Frank Ocean and Damian Marley-as well as the rapper's mom, Gloria Carter. Jay-Z turned lemons into Lemonade with his 13th studio album.Ĥ:44, first released on TIDAL in partnership with Sprint, features 10 original recordings, many of which were seemingly written in response to his wife Beyoncé's deeply personal visual album.
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