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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. Martha Stewart
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    Martha Stewart Don't @ me

    Dec 14, 2020
    The main thing for me is just how many songs on TBA I still love and play even thought they’re almost 20 years old, as for 4:44 I’m barely playing it nowadays maybe a couple times a year I’ll listen to Marcy Me, k--- JayZ and OJ.
     
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  2. Martha Stewart
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    Martha Stewart Don't @ me

    Dec 14, 2020
    Plus Lucifer and 99 are amongst the top rap songs ever imo
     
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  3. Martha Stewart
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    Martha Stewart Don't @ me

    Dec 14, 2020
    Blueprint still his best
     
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  4. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Dec 14, 2020
     
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  5. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Dec 14, 2020
    Lucifer is so smooth esp the brown sugar part
     
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  6. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Dec 14, 2020
    yeah the more i think about it, the crazier it seems to compare this to the black album: both stake themselves largely on first-person introspective s--- and black album washes 4:44 in that regard. this doesn’t have anything approaching the honesty of allure or moment of clarity, both of which have somewhat embarrassing revelations rendered in a way that’s so tortured. the reason oj is head and shoulders above the rest of the songs on 4:44–aside from having by far the best beat—is that it’s a return to that post-RD, pre-bp1 conversational flow that’s so great. by contrast i find a lot of the other rapping on the album messy in a kind of thoughtless way.
     
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  7. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Dec 14, 2020
    im glad you like this and agree: definitely one of the best produced songs of all time.
     
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  8. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Dec 14, 2020
    the most unintentionally funny line of em’s career is when he was like “i did beats for jay-z for free!” and it’s like, no, yeah, we heard them
     
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  9. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Dec 14, 2020
    ironically, that's one of em's best verses.
     
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  10. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Dec 14, 2020
    @WPG's babadook is 2003-era em lines off old dj kay slay mixtapes

    we never outrun our stan past, friends..
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  11. GOLOVKING
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    GOLOVKING

    Dec 15, 2020
    If you think The Black Album is not a classic then you don't know what a classic is. It's Jay-Z's most polished album and the masses still play and remix that s--- to this day.
    Change Clothes, PSA, 99 Problems, Dirt Of Your Shoulder and Encore (albeit through the Linkin Park remix) have all entered into modern-day pop culture.
    TBA made Jay-Z into an international superstar and he toured the world and did white people festivals in the UK with that album.
     
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