![]() ![]() I spoken before about why statements like these are not endearing, but rather a wrinkle in the cycle of a abuse. The second was the line about finally feeling shame for his actions because of his daughter, Blue Ivy. She was speaking from personal painful experience. ![]() (Since the release of 4:44, I haven’t been able to listen to Beyonce’s music) Now knowing what she was/is dealing with added a crushing gravity to each song. For me, and even more so for black women, that’s what hit the hardest. Suddenly listening to her music was painful, because her pain was real. This trauma, in all its variations, black women know all too well. Beyonce wasn’t just speaking about her mother’s pain or empathically channeling the generational pain of black women, she was drawing from personal trauma. I think that the viscerality of their reactions stemmed from the speculation becoming concrete. Meanwhile women (and LGBTQ folks of all genders, to some degree) immediately identified with the deep pain of Beyonce’s trauma. I also saw the more, “woke” black men praise Jay for his candor and honesty. I saw men joke about how if Beyonce could get cheated on, NO black woman can or should reasonably expect a black boyfriend/fiance/husband. The gender (and to some degree, sexuality) divide of the reactions was the red flag. But that was just the start of why the 4:44 is so dangerous. It deeply disturbed me, and I remember posting “this is some Beauty and the Beast Stockholm shit”. Intuitively, I picked up on the abusive patterns in both his past actions and current apology. But there was something way more sinister between the lines that I did not quite have words for when I first read the lyrics. ![]() So while 4:44 is supposed to read like a grandiose apology and a commitment to do better, it ended up reading like far too little far too late. A man who could have been a father of four, five, or six children vicariously killed them because he did not care enough about their mother. In 4:44 (the track)itself reveals the cause of Beyonce’s rumored miscarriages: His repeated infidelity. The reactions were shock, awe, and the inevitable “duh, she JUST released Lemonade.” It was a late night talking-pointĪnd then the details came out. Particularly, the attention focused on Jay-Z’s admission of cheating on Beyonce. When 4:44 dropped at midnight on June 30th, the buzz was immediate surrounding. Real name Dion Wilson, No I.D was previously the head of A&R at Def Jam Records, and has worked with JAY-Z on the Kanye West and Rihanna collaboration "Run This Town," and 2013's "Holy Grail" featuring Justin Timberlake.Jay-Z, The Footnotes, and Performative Vulnerability Since Jay has just become a father for the second time, might the album take on a familial theme? No I.D. Indeed the first couple of bars previewed in JAY-Z's trailer is about a letter the hip-hop titan never wrote to his dad. "Adnis" immediately makes us think of JAY-Z's father, Adnes Reeves. The first song on the album will be "Adnis" The full film is out on the same day as the album. Suggesting 4:44 might be a visual album, like Beyonc?'s last album Lemonade, 4:44 has a trailer starring Moonlight's Mahershala Ali, Lupita Nyong'o, and Donald Glover. Tidal, a music-streaming service owned by JAY-Z, Kanye West, Rihanna, and about 20 other stars, costs ?9.99 a month - the same as Spotify premium. ZAC JThe album will be a Tidal and Sprint exclusive ![]()
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