4:44
| Jay Z
4:44
4:44 is the thirteenth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on June 30, 2017 through Roc Nationand Universal Music Group, as an exclusive to Sprintand Tidal customers. The album is the first in a planned series of music exclusives from the Sprint–Tidal partnership. For a short time, on July 2, the album was made available for free digital download in Tidal's site. A physical edition was released on July 7, including three additional tracks. On the same day, the album was made available to other streaming platforms, such as Apple Music, Google Play Musicand Amazon Music. The album received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its emotional and personal content.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
His occasional lack of vocal grace is the reason why 4:44 is so mesmerizing.
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Variety
Confession after confession..sounding genuinely broken.
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Consequence of Sound
An entire album that zeroes in on that incredible theme, the link between money and family.
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Pitchfork
The album is certainly built around a betrayal, but his duplicity, the corresponding apology, and his reassessment are vehicles for his own maturation
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NME
‘4:44’ feels like a revelation.
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Slant Magazine
An album concerned with legacy—about what we leave behind, about how we’re remembered.
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Crack Magazine
4:44 finds him delivering messages of black empowerment through the lens of commerce, with seminar-quality lessons about credit
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VIBE
a diary of tingling proportions that reminds never to idolize your heroes.
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Esquire
It's quieter and subtler
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DJ Booth
The flow has been refreshed and the wordplay is still stellar.
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Music Connection
Jay delivers a long-awaited opus which soulfully touches on personal valleys and peaks a well as issues in society and culture.
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Drowned in Sound
A giant masthead or open-diary of the man behind the unfathomably successful personality
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Paste
The importance of building generational wealth in the black community is a major theme on 4:44
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Kick-N-It
provides insight on how the Black Community can leverage its ability to rise above being systemically disadvantaged from the beginning of our country’s history.
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Vulture
smart, lean, mean, real, and grown
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The AU Review
4:44 isn’t a Jay Z album, it’s a Shawn Carter album. And a bloody good one at that.
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Pretty Much Amazing
4:44 is just about the safest way Jay-Z could have re-asserted his dominance
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PluggedIn
Confessing guilt and shame for choices he's made.
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HipHop DX
4:44 is the ultimate enthralling listen
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The Irish Examiner
4:44 is as much about Jay Z’s relationship with hip hop as with his wife
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Red Dirt Report
Instead of offering advice, it opens the door for audiences to his life.
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InspirEnrich
This album is one for the Hip-Hop pursuits, it goes against the grain of the current trends.
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A Gathering of the Tribes
The new Jay-Z is a philosopher of race and economics, a loving father, and, perhaps most significantly, a remorseful cheater.
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