Why We Want A New Jay Z Album
Jay Z's 'All The Way Up' guest verse feeds our thirst for a new album.
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One minute, an album by Jay Z sounds enticing, and then the next you think back to his 2013 Magna Carta album — which was disappointing, more lyrically than sonically — and the bubble deflates.
When Fat Joe and Remy Ma premiered the Jay Z-assisted remix to their hit, “All They Way Up,” the thought makes one dream of an album in which Jay Z has something to say – so much to say that he wont mimic flows of other rappers or play too long off the latest trend but, instead, spit wordplay about his past and present life.
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“You know you made it when the fact/ Your marriage made it is worth millions/ Lemonade is a popular drink and it still is,” he raps, acknowledging Beyoncé’s album, Lemonade, which insinuates infidelity in their marriage. (The lyric is a flip of Guru’s line on Gang Starr’s 1992 album DWYCK; “Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is/ I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis”).
His featured verse on the “All The Way Up” remix feeds to our wavering thirst for another Jay Z album, because we know he has it in him: to continue to live up to his own legacy. He’s one of the elite few hip-hop artists who’s given fans a way of living, through his music and lifestyle. Some have remodeled their lives based on Jay Z, to a point that a story, whether not fleshed out thoroughly, is still more appreciated than nothing at all.
But, it’s a must to mention that Lemonade made many want an album from Jay Z even more, seeing that there was another side to a story to be told. On Lemonade, Beyoncé recounts betrayal and forgiveness. A woman scorned but with faith in her marriage strong enough still to make one fight—fight herself and fight her lover, presumably Jay Z, for love. “All The Way Up” is a taste to the truth, to a story, that Jay Z could unleash on an upcoming body of work. As we’ve seen with Lemonade, a story that’s true to the artist as it is to the listener, will be cherished.