The rapper dropped a 30-second snippet of his track 'Adnis' online Sunday. Ahead of 4:44s release, JAY Z has been dropping short snippets and keeping his fans on their.
Prose is never pen, they stayed in my head.”ĭue to the branding on the trailers, we know that whatever “4:44” is will appear on Tidal as part of its partnership with Sprint, which saw the company investing some $200 million to purchase 33 percent of the struggling streaming service earlier this year. There's still plenty of mystery surrounding Jay Z's new project/album, 4:44, but we at least know now that it's coming. The album wouldn’t be teased again until 2021, on the song, Jail, off from Kanye’s upcoming tenth studio album, DONDA, where JAY-Z and Kanye reunite on the track for the first time. A jazzy instrumental track plays while Jay reels off four lines, apparently with a tenuous Father’s Day connection. In it, we see more noir-ish footage (maybe it’s the same footage?) of Mahershala Ali hitting a punching bag while a trainer, portrayed by Danny Glover, holds it. This one appeared on Tidal with the song title above it - and ( gasp!) it lists Jay Z’s name with the hyphen that he officially removed in 2013, while the clip renders his name “Jay:Z.”
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As you may recall, this all began two weeks ago with a series of billboards in New York and Los Angeles, then came a trailer, then more posters on Friday, and now another clip. Late Sunday (June 18), he released the latest in a string of trailers for whatever this forthcoming project called “4:44” might be. And now, as the world seeks official word that his twins were indeed born last week, even Fathers’ Day takes a hit. JAY-Z’s 13th studio album has already gone platinum, but fans will be able to purchase physical copies with additional tracks starting tomorrow (July 7). He released his last album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” on the 4th of July in 2013.
He holds an annual music festival in Philadelphia on Labor Day weekend. He resigned as president of Def Jam at 6 p.m. Jay Z seemingly has never met a holiday he didn’t want to disrupt. x ‘4:44’ album x 6/30 #TIDALXSprint /zwaUlFrbwx UPDATED: Just after midnight ET on Monday, Tidal announced that “ 4:44” is Jay Z’s next album and will be available exclusively on the service June 30.