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WHat up youtube.
Topaz Yates back with another album review.
This time to Jay Z 4:44 and I am giving this one the green light.
Now am I saying that people aren't overhyping it right now?
As I have seen on twitter people claiming this is an instant classic and top 5 or 1
album so far this year.
Nah, it isn't that good.
Its the lyricism and the substance matter that makes this project a must listen but
the music isn't like that.
It is the production, the delivery, and the flow utilized that take away from these songs.
As I have said over the years that you coud have the greatest lyrics but you number one
goal is to entertain.
You music needs to be good on the surface layer or else the depth will be taken away.
It reminds me of Reasonable Doubt how he is being very complex with his own unique point
of view but the difference is the production was much greator.
And I know a lot of people love No ID.
Not to knock him he has had his hits, looking just at Jay Z catalog he did run this town,
d.o.a, death of autotune yet honestly I have never been a huge fan.
As you can also tell by the inspirations he recently named on twitter that this is how
the sound came about from Kendrick Lamar to Jay Electronica.
Specifically can point at To *** A Butterfly and I really wasn't big on that either.
So I am going to breakdown every single song off this project but I won't have enough time
so the second half of this review will come later.
So lets start from the top with Kill Jay as this was
self explainatory.
Not in terms of anyone hurting him but how he wants
to shed the ego that made him Jay Z
yet he looks at
his
so
called friend in Kanye West to point
at why he
has
his ego.