Tag: 4:44

New Video: Jay-Z – “Family Feud” Feat. Beyoncé [WATCH]

Nobody wins when the family feuds is the message Jay Z preached on his “Family Feud” single featuring his wife, Beyoncé. The winning collaboration is a complete family affair with Blue Ivy also contributing in the cinematic video for the ‘4:44’ single.

Ava DuVernay directs the star-studded visuals, which includes cameos from Michael B. Jordan, Omari Hardwick, Jessica Chastain, Thandie Newton, America Ferrera, Brie Larson, Rosario Dawson, Rashida Jones, Mindy Kaling, and more.

It also includes a score by Flying Lotus and an opening quote from James Baldwin that says, “The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life all that they have.”

Watch below.

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Jay-Z Shares Three New Videos For ‘4:44’ Singles [WATCH]

For a few consecutive weeks Jay-Z was releasing music videos for ‘4:44’ singles every Friday at 4:44 p.m. He eventually slowed that down and took a break from dropping visuals as he focused on his current “4:44 Tour” amongst other things.

Before Black Friday, Hov had dropped visuals for “The Story of OJ,” “4:44,” “Bam” featuring Damian Marley, “Kill Jay Z,” “Moonlight,” and one of the bonus tracks in “MaNyFaCedGod.”

Revisiting his 13th studio album, Jay dropped three new videos for “Smile” featuring his mother Gloria Carter, “Marcy Me” featuring The-Dream, and “Legacy.”

For the 8-minute “Smile” video Jay-Z nabbed Dominique Fishback to play a young version of his mother Gloria Carter, while the real Ms. Carter also shares a poem at the end of the emotional video. The video was written and directed by Miles Jay. It also stars Isi Laborde, Taylor Thomas, and Guy Lockard.

Watch below.

Next up Is “Legacy,” which is essentially a mini-movie that includes a cast of Susan Sarandon, Jesse Williams, Ron Perlman, Aldis Hodge, Kwame Boateng, Edi Gather, Jonathan Tucker, Marque Richardson, and Emile Hirsch. It is written and directed by Jeymes Samuel, who focuses on the prison system, mass incarceration, rehabilitation, and recovery.

Watch below.

Finally is the video for one of my favorite songs on the album, “Marcy Me.” In it a police helicopter is featured throughout the clip giving viewers a bird’s eye view of the Marcy Projects and different boroughs in NYC.

Watch below.

Jay-Z will continue his “4:44 Tour,” which will continue through December 21st when is stops in Los Angeles at the STAPLES CENTER.

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Jay-Z Opens Up About Love, Manhood & More In Footnotes For “MaNyfaCedGod” [WATCH]

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Hov continues to open up and spread knowledge in the footnotes of his ‘4:44’ singles. Keeping the trend going, an introspective Jay-Z opens up about love, manhood, therapy, and more. Additional commentary is provided by Chris Rock, Meek Mill, Jesse Williams, Anthony Anderson, Mack Wilds, and others.

Watch below via TIDAL.

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Jay-Z Talks About His Father’s Trials & Tribulations In “Adnis” Footnotes [WATCH]

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Jay-Z continues to unveil footnotes for the singles on his critically-acclaimed ‘4:44’ album. Having already shared more than half of the footnotes, Hov moves forward with “Adnis.” As you may know “Adnis” is a bonus cut off the album.

“Adnis” is inspired by Hov’s estranged father, Adnis Reeves. On the footnotes he reflects on his dad’s lifes and discusses his father’s trials and tribulations, while looking at things through Adnis’ scope.

“When you look at it through that scope, through that lens, you don’t look at it in such a harsh view,” says Hov. “You look at it like, ‘Man, life fucked you up. I’m sorry that happened to you. I wish you would have told me. I wish you could have said something to me. I could have helped you.”

Along with Jay, the Adnis footnotes includes additional commentary from Chris Rock, Mahershala Ali, Will Smith, Bill Burr, Mack Wilds, DJ Khaled, and Kevin Hart, who all share their own stories of their fathers.

Watch below.

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Jay-Z Admits To Letting Go Of His Ego In “Kill Jay Z” Footnotes [WATCH]

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Every Friday Jay Z has been sharing a new video off his ‘4:44’ album. Along with the video Hov gives his ideology behind the single with footnotes. This past Friday dropped the visuals for “Kill Jay Z” and now we’ve got the footnotes.

A standout off the album, “Kill Jay Z” has Hov getting personal with listeners by talking about nearly killing his brother, cheating on Beyoncé, dissing Kanye West, and more. One of the standout things Jay admits in the footnotes is “killing off” his ego.

It’s really about the ego,” He says in the video. “Killing off the ego so we can have this conversation in a place of vulnerability and honesty. JAY-Z the public persona couldn’t have this conversation. It’s really Shawn Carter speaking to JAY-Z. And he has to convince him to move aside.”

The footnotes includes additional commentary from  Chris Rock, Charlamagne Tha God, Mahershala Ali, Van Jones, Trevor Noah, Anthony Anderson, and Michael Che share their thoughts on how ego affects people.

Watch below.

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New Video: Jay-Z – “Kill Jay Z” [WATCH]

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Jay-Z drops the fourth video off his ‘4:44’ album. For four weeks straight he has released a new visual from his ‘4:44’ songs, which began with ‘The Story of OJ’. From there Hov fed the people with ‘4:44’, ‘Bam’ featuring Damian Marley, and now he’s unleashed the black-and-white clip for ‘Kill Jay Z’.

Directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the 2-minute video begins with Hov’s vocals and a blacked out scream. In correlation with the No I.D.-produced instrumental, you see a teenage kid running as the beat drops, wearing a shirt that says “Stay Black.” Aerial shots then show a man in the desert, while another man swims in the ocean.

Hov’s ‘4:44’ album has already reached platinum certification and currently sits at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Jay made history with the album going No. 1 earlier this week. Read more here.

Watch the video below.

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Jay-Z Makes History By Topping Billboard 200 With ‘4:44’ Album [PEEP]

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In just two weeks of its release, Jay-Z’s 13th studio album, ‘4:44’ earned RIAA platinum certification. Since then it has received a double platinum certification and Jay-Z has made history by topping the Billboard 200 chart and in-turn becoming the artist with the most No. 1 albums among solo artists of all-time. Hov has the second-most chart-topping albums of all-time behind only The Beatles, who have a total of 19, respectively.

Hov did numbers the first week of eligibility selling 262,000 equivalent album units (174,000 traditional sales). Those numbers also became the fourth biggest week for any 2017 album release. Even though

It’s quite an extraordinary feat considering ‘4:44’ was only available on TIDAL exclusively for the first week, which took away from sales. In addition TIDAL didn’t turn-in first week numbers to Nielson Music, making it ineligible for the chart that week. Since then the album has been made available on all formats and physical copies are now available and include three additional bonus tracks.

Beginning in 1998 with Hov’s ‘Vol.2… Hard Knock Life’, all his solo albums have reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. His collaborative albums with Kanye West (‘Watch the Throne’), R. Kelly (‘Unfinished Business’), and Linkin Park (‘Collision Course’) have also all reached the top spot.

CONGRATS, HOV!

Check out the Billboard 200 Top 10 below.

BILLBOARD 200 TOP 10

1. JAY-Z – 4:44 – 262,000
2. 21 Savage – Issa Album – 77,000
3. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. – 54,000
4. DJ Khaled – Grateful – 50,000
5. Ed Sheeran – ÷ – 36,000
6. Imagine Dragons – Evolve – 35,000
7. Him – Something to Tell You – 32,000
8. Calvin Harris – Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 – 30,000
9. Various – Moana Soundtrack – 29,000
10. Drake – More Life – 29,000

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New Video: Jay-Z – “Bam” Feat. Damian Marley [WATCH]

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Hov heads to Kingston, Jamaica in the video for “Bam” featuring Damian Marley. The two hang in the slums with village people as kids play soccer and others look-on in the imperative, documentary-style video. This video follows last week’s visuals for “4:44.”

Look out for the footnotes for “Bam” coming soon. While you wait watch the visuals for “Bam” below.

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Jay-Z Professes His Love For Beyoncé & Opens Up About Their Relationship In “4:44” Footnotes [WATCH]

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In the 11-minute footnotes for Jay-Z’s heartfelt “4:44” single, he opens up about his relationship with wifey Beyonceé and professes his love for her. Hov also recounts meeting his father for the first time and how that helped him realize how special his relationship with Bey was.

“What I thought when I met my dad was, ‘Oh, I’m free to love now,’” Hov explains in the video. “But it’s like, ‘Yeah, but how are you gonna do it? You wanna do it, I get it, but how are you gonna do it? You’ve never won this before. No one informs you how to do it. You don’t even have the tools to do it.’ ‘I don’t know. But I’m gonna do it.’ That’s why I say, ‘You matured faster than me. I wasn’t ready.”

Along with Jigga’s annotations, the footnotes include commentary from Kendrick Lamar, Chris Paul, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Meek Mill, Michael B. Jordan, and Aziz Ansari. Each individual speaks on experiences in their relationship and how they can relate to certain parts of “4:44.”

Hov’s infidelities were a secret to many people before the elevator incident with Solange, which brought it to light. On “4:44” Hov gets personal and goes into full detail of his flaws as a husband, human, and partner, while also apologizing to Bey.

These footnotes follow “The Story of OJ” footnotes. Earlier this week Hov announced his “4:44 Tour” and Friday at 4:44 pm EST he will drop the visuals for “Bam” featuring Damian Marley.

In the meantime watch the footnotes for “4:44” below.

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Jay-Z Announces “4:44 Tour” [PEEP]

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Partnering up with Sprint and Puma, Jay-Z has announced his “4:44 Tour” on the heels of his critically-acclaimed ‘4:44’ album going platinum.

Set to begin October 27th at The Honda Center in Anaheim, California, Hov’s 30-date tour will hit cities in North America like Brooklyn, Miami, Toronto, Chicago, and Boston, before reaching its conclusion at The Forum in Inglewood on December 21st.

This will be Hov’s first tour since his “Magna Carta World Tour” back in 2013. The tour comes in support of ‘4:44’ and is part of Jay’s lucrative deal with Live Nation, which reportedly was signed in May and will pay Jay $200-million over 10-years.

Before the tour, Hov will hit deifferent festivals through the summer like “Made in America” on Philly, “The Meadows Festival” in the UK, and more.

Tickets went on sale to TIDAL members today starting at noon EST. Citi cardholders will also have a pre-sale before tickets are released to the general public this Friday, July 14th at 10 am on Live Nation.

Check Hov’s full “4:44 Tour” itinerary below.

“4:44 Tour” Dates

Oct. 27 – Anaheim, Calif. – Honda Center
Oct. 28 – Las Vegas, Nev. – T-Mobile Arena
Nov. 1 – Fresno, Calif. – Save Mart Center at Fresno State
Nov. 3 – Phoenix, Ariz. – Talking Stick Resort Arena
Nov. 5 – Denver, Colo. – Pepsi Center Arena
Nov. 7 – Dallas, Texas – American Airlines Center
Nov. 8 – Houston, Texas – Toyota Center
Nov. 9 – New Orleans, La. – Smoothie King Center
Nov. 11 – Orlando, Fla. – Amway Center
Nov. 12 – Miami, Fla. – American Airlines Arena
Nov. 14 – Atlanta, Ga. – Philips Arena
Nov. 15 – Nashville, Tenn. – Bridgestone Arena
Nov. 16 – Charlotte, N.C. – Spectrum Center
Nov. 18 – Detroit, Mich. – Little Caesars Arena
Nov. 19 – Cleveland, Ohio – Quicken Loans Arena
Nov. 21 – Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
Nov. 22 – Toronto, Ontario – Air Canada Centre
Nov. 25 – Boston, Mass. – TD Garden
Nov. 26 – Brooklyn, N.Y. – Barclays Center
Nov. 29 – Washington, D.C. – Verizon Center
Dec. 2 – Uniondale, N.Y. – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Dec. 5 – Chicago, Ill. – United Center
Dec. 6 – Lincoln, Nebr. – Pinnacle Bank Arena
Dec. 9 – Edmonton, Alberta – Rogers Place
Dec. 11 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
Dec. 13 – Seattle, Wash. – KeyArena
Dec. 14 – Portland, Ore. – Moda Center
Dec.16 – Oakland, Calif. – Oracle Arena
Dec. 17 – Sacramento, Calif. – Golden 1 Center
Dec. 19 – San Diego, Calif. – Viejas Arena
Dec. 21 – Los Angeles, Calif. – The Forum

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New Video: Jay-Z – “4:44” [WATCH]

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While fans wait for physical copies of Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’, which will include three bonus songs, Hov shares the visuals for the title-track, “4:44.” On the song Jay touches on his infidelities and gets personal while asking for forgiveness and admitting he “wasn’t ready” for a relationship.

In the video a collage of clips appear of Hov and Beyoncé performing together on tour and also of their 5-year-old first daughter, Blue Ivy. A Jean-Michel Basquiat interview is also featured, along with a child singing Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good,” which was sampled on the single.

This video follows last week’s “The Story of OJ” video and footnotes. It’s been announced that footnotes for “4:44” will come with the video, so while we wait for those, watch the video below.

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Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’ Goes Platinum [PEEP]

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Less than a week from its release, Jay-Z’s 13th studio album, ‘4:44’ earns RIAA platinum certification. In doing so Hov earns his 13th solo platinum certification, making him the hip-hop act with the most platinum albums.

Roc Nation first announced the news with a tweet that read, “.@S_C_ has earned 13 Platinum solo studio Album awards, more than any other hip-hop artist in @RIAA Gold & Platinum history. .”

It’s quite a extraordinary feat considering it’s only available on TIDAL exclusively and Hov also shared a link for a free download, which would take away from sales. On Friday the album will be made available on iTunes and Apple Music. Physical copies will be released later and include three additional bonus tracks.

This Friday Hov will also drop the video for “4:44” along with the footnotes for “4:44.” Over the weekened he shared the footnotes for “The Story of OJ” with commentary from Kendrick Lamar, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Van Jones, and others.

CONGRATS, HOV! What a feat!

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Jay-Z Shares Footnotes Of “The Story Of OJ” Feat. Kendrick Lamar & Will Smith + Offers Free Album Download [PEEP]

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When Hov dropped his 13th studio album, ‘4:44’ last week, he simultaneously released the animated visuals for “The Story of OJ” single. The song emphasizes the race separation, social injustices, and abuse of power that exists in the world. To take things further, Jigga shared an eight-minute clip of commentary about the song.

Commentary in the footnotes video is provided by Kendrick Lamar, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Mahershala Ali, Michael B. Jordan, Trevor Noah, and Jay-Z. Each person shares stories about their experiences and provide insight on the issues Jay tackles in the song.

In the video K. Dot tells a story about witnessing a man getting killed by a police officer in front of him when he was five-years-old.

“The disrespect and the manner that this officer—he was a bad officer, I would say that for sure—that he approached my mother with was completely out of line,” said Kendrick.

Aside from the knowledge that is communicated in the clip, there is a preview of the video for “4:44,” which drops Friday at 4:44 pm. In addition Jay offered a free download of the album via TIDAL. Follow the directions below for the free download and watch the footnotes below as well.

https://twitter.com/LALeakers/status/882001122566651904

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