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Best track on 4:44?

Started by RetiredAccount, Dec 10, 2020, in Music Add to Reading List

Best track?

  1. k--- Jay Z

  2. The Story of OJ

  3. Smile

  4. Caught Their Eyes

  5. 4:44

  6. Family Feud

  7. Bam

  8. Moonlight

  9. Marcy Me

  10. Legacy

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  1. Buddha
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    Buddha

    Dec 11, 2020
    I voted for Moonlight

    But my opinion has changed over time. Since it dropped most of the songs had a period of time in my brain when I thought it was the best track on the album.

    f--- me I can’t believe it’s been 3.5 years since this dropped.
     
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  2. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Dec 12, 2020
    Love Moonlight, but Smile and Legacy are great too.

    No ID did an amazing job on the production :wow5:
     
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  3. Martha Stewart
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    Martha Stewart Don't @ me

    Dec 12, 2020
    Surprised nobody chose family feud
     
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  4. Michael Myers
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    Michael Myers Moderator

    Dec 13, 2020
    "Nobody wins when the family feuds"

    Words to live by TBH
     
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  5. GOLOVKING
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    GOLOVKING

    Dec 13, 2020
    Jay-Z hasn't dropped a 5/5 classic since 2003's The Black Album. He had a rare moment of greatness in 2007 with American Gangster but that wasn't a proper original Jigga album because he adapted the movie into his own album's story.

    Kingdom Come 3/5
    American Gangster 4/5
    BP3 3/5
    MCHG 2/5
    4:44 3/5
     
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  6. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Dec 13, 2020
    American gangster is definitely better than the black album and 4:44 could arguably be there as well
     
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  7. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Dec 13, 2020
    I don’t even love 4:44 like that, it’s very good but low tier Jay imo. Equal to BP3 tho? Can’t co-sign that.
     
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  8. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Dec 13, 2020
    American Gangster is way better than the Black Album ftr
     
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  9. Michael Myers
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    Dec 13, 2020
    Not sure about way better but both are classics to me
     
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  10. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Dec 13, 2020
    I loved Black Album once upon a time but I don’t feel like time has been very kind to it. Feels a little hollow now considering he didn’t retire.
     
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  11. Michael Myers
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    Dec 13, 2020
    I feel you. Specifically 'What More Can I Say'. Love the song but considering he still makes music 17 years later that kinda brings it down.
     
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  12. skip
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    skip

    Dec 13, 2020
    I think it’s a bit disingenuous to assume he’s talking about like drakeo or greedo or any of these up and coming artists. Prob more in reference to guys famous Dex and s--- who go from having radio charting singles one year to being a literal dying junkie barely breaking 20k views on songs the next. No ones making these rappers waste multiple years salaries in a few months.

    I agree jay has definitely gotten boujee, but I think he also acknowledges the system that got him his success is hugely imperfect and given how easy it is for the rich to get richer at least some of these new money rappers could get richer too. He’s arguing for uzis to turn into meeks imo, not for f---in zelooperz to rent out apartment complexes
     
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    skip

    Dec 13, 2020
    like jay telling rappers w over 7 figures to not needlessly squander their earnings is not the same as ur conservative uncle giving a bootstraps lecture
     
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  14. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Dec 13, 2020
    @Ordinary Joel can't help but notice you liking all of WPG's posts... you got something to say?
     
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  15. Vos
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    Vos

    Dec 13, 2020
    Hmmm OJ, Smile, Marcy Me are probably my favorites. 4:44 is a good album but I don't think it's up there with Jay's best albums like I previously thought. It's definitely better than BP3, MCHG and Kingdom Come, which to me are Jay's only duds.

    Anybody else love Volume 3 btw? I've been playing it a lot lately and I think it's up there with Jay's best albums...Jay's rapping is phenomenal throughout the entire album, even on the weaker songs like S Carter and Things That U Do. Snoopy Track >>> *
     
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  16. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Dec 14, 2020
    there is no way 4:44 is better than the black album. i’m on the record about the latter—or at least the vein of jay’s work it represents—being overrated relative to his other stuff, but that album has 99 problems, psa, allure, lucifer, my 1st song... come on now.
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    Reasonable Doubt: 5 mics
    Vol 1: 4
    Vol 2: 4
    Vol 3: 4.5
    Dynasty: 4
    Blueprint: 5
    Blueprint 2: 3
    Black Album: 3.5
    Kingdom Come: 2
    American Gangster: 3.5
    Blueprint 3: 2
    MCHG: 2
    4:44: 2.5
     
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  18. Mikey
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    im not sure.
    It is a very forgetful album. Not awful but i dont think it is good.
     
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    Martha Stewart Don't @ me

    Dec 14, 2020
    Love both but yeah TBA is better imo
     
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  20. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Dec 14, 2020
    I think it’s very close and TBA narrowly edges it out but imo it’s definitely close
     
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