![]() Jay-Z made 4:44 with producer No I.D., whose beats luxuriate in burnished soul and jazz samples combined with the relatively light feature roster and the short running time, this makes for the most focused Jay-Z album since The Blueprint. It’s a reckoning with Jay’s own legacy but also as a prescription for black excellence, a rewriting of black America’s story. It’s about atoning for our shortcomings and shining a light for those who follow after us. This is an album concerned with legacy-about what we leave behind, about how we’re remembered. “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” That’s the hook from the last song in Hamilton, but it could just as easily be a line from Jay-Z’s 4:44.
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