You gave him 20 million without blinkin’/ He gave you 20 minutes on stage, f- was he thinkin’?/ ‘F- wrong with everybody?’ is what you sayin’/ But if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane I know people backstab you, I feel bad too/ But this ‘f- everybody’ attitude ain’t naturalīut you ain’t the same, this ain’t KumbaYe/ But you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye He also takes Kanye West to task after Yeezy slammed him on stage at a concert in the lead-up to his breakdown: Jay Z’s new album takes a confessional and at times apologetic tone, but it’s not all about his past transgressions. Yeah, I’ll f–k up a good thing if you let me / Let me alone, Becky / A man that don’t take care his family can’t be rich. His direct response to Beyonce’s “He better call Becky with the good hair” lyric in Sorry, which drove the internet into a frenzy as people tried to uncover who “Becky” was, comes in Family Feud. I’ve seen the innocence leave your eyes / I still mourn this death, I apologize for all the stillborns / ‘Cause I wasn’t present, your body wouldn’t accept it”.
While 4:44 may not be his greatest album, it is a much valued deviation from the norm, a surprising feat considering his kaleidoscopic catalog. He also reflects on Beyonce’s miscarriages, appearing to blame himself. Examined in totality, the emotional vulnerability and naked transparency of 4:44 contrasts heavily with the infallible image JAY-Z has built over two decades. What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate? He also mulls over what Blue and the couple’s twins – whose names have been revealed – will think when they hear about her father’s infidelities one day.Īnd if my children knew, I don’t even know what I would do Look, I apologize, often womanize / Took for my child to be born / See through a woman’s eyes / Took for these natural twins to believe in miracles / Took me too long for this song/ I don’t deserve you In title track 4:44 he outright apologises to Bey, and reveals he didn’t fully appreciate his wife or marriage until Blue Ivy came along in 2012. You almost went Eric Benét / Let the baddest girl in the world get away / N-a, never go Eric Benét You egged Solange on / Knowin’ all along /All you had to say you was wrong On Kill Jay Z, he appears to blame himself for the elevator fight with Solange: The rapper also makes not-so-subtle references to his Met Gala fight with Beyonce’s sister Solange, and directly responds to Beyonce’s now infamous ‘Becky with the good hair’ line in her song Sorry.
how their relationship started) and an apology for his past womanizing. Jay Z appears to have admitted to the cheating Beyonce alluded to on Lemonade via the lyrics of his new album released today, 4:44. 4:44 by Jay-Z song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position.