That’s what’s crazy to me lol. Nas already made Life is Good and just like always, jay z gets influenced by him to make 4:44 and his fans act like he discovered the wheel

4:44 isn’t even that great too. It’s a good album but a lot of it has aged horribly

The issue is over-inflating the stance of outliers in a smaller scaled base and painting these ideas with a broad brush as if the majority believes it lol

Nas has been introspective like life is good for a while. Jay hasn’t. That’s why

444 is aging well and I say this as someone that found it overrated when it came out.

Some issues with flow and a few songs are meh, but the album is good.

And for everyone criticizing the financial part, you’re definitely exposing your income and background.

Life is Good mentioned itt great album

Yes because a lot of jay z fans are clueless. You can’t label something a classic cuz your favorite rapper finally caught up to other people

One of my most played albums oat

You not there yet lil bro give it time

It's good, a few great songs.

But I think it gets some grace because he dropping a lot of trash for a while so when he made a good album it was getting overhyped

it’s just a good album? like what is there to say about it that hasn’t been said

What aged horribly?

i never understand why this site hypes up mid or trash albums (e.g. UTOPIA) but want to go over with a fine tooth comb any albums that are generally well received

only place that does this dumb s*** so much

He went just as hard if not harder than Kanye on most of the songs

What songs did he get lapped on?

That’s drive to work the morning after it dropped

Niggas think because they don’t go back to it it’s “aged horribly” yap season itt

Any bar from him about financial advice. a lot the production, jay z’s voice was whack on it too. Only songs I can listen to are Smile, caught my eyes, and Marcy

this myth that he was washed on WTT comes from scorned Kanye fans that only really like hip-hop because of him and Drake fans that feel the need to downplay him any chance they get

he was mostly fine on that album

Eminem was making 12 steps program anthems. It was an epidemic

I can’t be mad at a rapper for bragging about being a billionaire, crazy rich, capitalism. That’s a key part of rap and how people raised in his era (and probably most today) were promoted to feel proud about.

Unfortunately for Jay with the subject matter of 4:44, the broader subject matter of the album that attracted people so crazy about it also attracted a minority of people who would be morally offended by his wealth talk.

What bar exactly are you talking about

Exposing ourselves for being members of the vast majority of the worlds population, what a gotcha

Man you know what I’m talking. Stop playing 21 questions. It’s littered throughout the album

No Church in the Wild (Jay verse was def better)
NIP
Otis
Gotta Have it
Why I love You

Only songs where I can think Kanye’s verse was significantly better if probably Lift Off and Who Gon Stop me otherwise it’s pretty equal imo