JAY-Z referencing Nat Turner on a track featuring the son of Bob Marley. "Niggas could not be further, I fathered your style / Birth of a Nation, Nat Turner style" ("Bam")
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Michael JordanĬ’mon, he’s the most referenced basketball player of all time next to maybe Kobe, and half of those are by Kanye. "I'll watch Godfather, I miss that whole shit / My consciousness was Michael's common sense" ("Family Feud")Īnother double name-drop (Al Pacino), by now there should be no surprise in a Godfather character getting name-dropped in a song from this guy. The older JAY-Z gets, the more educational his music gets from an art and history perspective. "Marie Antoinette, baby, let 'em eat cake" ("Smile") Just another major label executive caught in the crossfire of Hov’s lifelong conquest, Lucian makes it off rather unscathed, just being mocked for the fact that he’s not an ill emcee. I’m seriously considering doing a separate Absurdly Detailed Investigation on Jimmy Iovine references in hip-hop. "Respect Jimmy Iovine / But he gotta respect the Elohim as a whole new regime" ("Smile") and I’m not going to try to get into it in one sentence.
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I know none of our readers younger than 25 probably know who Jimmy Hoffa is. "Launderin' dirty money like the Teamsters, huh / Shout out to Hoffa back home, he in the church" ("Smile") Of course, the original Jay gets love on Hov’s tribute to the streets that birthed him. "Back when ratchet was a ratchet and a vixen was a vixen / And Jam Master Jay was alive I was mixin'" ("Marcy Me") “Marcy Me” alone is packed-hell, the verse this reference occurs in is packed. Okay, I’m starting to take back what I said about the light sports references. "Cookin' coke in the kitchen / Back when Rodman was a Piston / Mike was losin' to Isiah, but he soon would get his sixth one" ("Marcy Me") If not, hit me up on Twitter, my grandma would love to talk to you. I similarly have nothing quippy to say about the inclusion of Hov’s grandmother, Hattie. Eric, the rest to B for whatever she wants to do" ("Legacy") "Take those moneys and spread 'cross families / My sisters, Hattie and Lou, the nephews, cousins and T.T. This one is amazing because Eric Benét actually responded, bragging about the fact that he is now with.Prince’s ex-wife. "You almost went Eric Benét / Let the baddest girl in the world get away / I don't even know what else to say / Nigga, never go Eric Benét" ("Kill Jay Z") Hov’s former plug and longtime friend got a few mentions on 4:44. "Turn my vocal up / That's how you feel, Emory? / Turn my vocal up some more" ("Family Feud") "But he gotta respect the Elohim as a whole new regime" ("Smile")Įven the big guy upstairs got a name-drop by his Hebrew namesake, adding to JAY-Z's repertoire of ways to refer to himself as God. More of a play on feeling stupid than a cry for help over some oversized ears, the way Hov manages to implicate characters from the farthest stretches of pop culture is insane.
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I suspect that Jay knows that, too, which is why he’s probably going to keep the mystery behind his album’s title intact."That same building today is worth 25 million / Guess how I'm feelin'? Dumbo" ("The Story of O.J.") Regardless of whether this is the actual explanation or simply a cosmic coincidence, it really is more fun for everyone if 4:44 is a reference to Le Bain’s address. (Both claims seem dubious, but they are nonetheless his official explanation, which it is our duty to report.) Jay-Z, for his part, told iHeartRadio that 4:44 referred to the time in the morning he woke up to write the album’s title track, which he believes is one of the best songs he’s ever written.
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4, part of their daughter’s name (Ivy) is a reference to the roman numeral IV, and the couple’s wedding anniversary is on April 4. Many believe that the title merely refers to the significance of the number four to the Knowles-Carter family: Jay-Z’s birthday is Dec. It’s just another theory in an ever-growing list. For now, and most likely forever, the meaning of 4:44 will be a mystery.
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