IHeart Radio will play a few tracks from the album, then a few chart-topping hits in between. Fans can also listen to the album through.
The album will continue to play throughout the day on iHeartRadio’s Urban and Rhythm radio stations until July 1 at midnight (along with commentary from the hip-hop titan). EST, the 35-minute album will air in its entirety across iHeartRadio’s 160 Pop, Rhythm and Urban radio stations throughout the country. You can still get jiggy with Jigga thanks to iHeart Radio.
Jigga’s partnership with Sprint locked the gate in the face of last minute Tidal subscribers, who tried to sneak in the door early Friday morning hoping to listen to the album with a free trial.īut, no worries. Love who you love, because life isn’t guaranteed.”Ĥ:44 is currently available exclusively via TIDAL and Sprint.On Friday (June 30), JAY-Z released 4:44, his 13th studio album and it has Hip Hop fans in a frenzy and Apple Music subscribers feeling salty as McDonald’s french fries. Carter delivers a spoken word monologue on “Smile” where she declares “life is short, and it’s time to be free. After Jay a verse where raps, “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that she’s a thespian,” his mother appears on the track herself. But how, when you have some type of success, to transform that into something bigger.”Īnother notable song on 4:44 is “Smile,” where Jay’s mother Gloria Carter comes out as a lesbian. We all make money, and then we all lose money, as artists especially.
Jay says the track “is really a song about we as a culture, having a plan, how we’re gonna push this forward.
Jay says that “It’s really a commentary on the culture and where we’re going.”Ī video for “The Story of OJ,” co-directed by JAY-Z and Mark Romanek, was released in conjunction with 4:44 this morning as well. On July 7, a physical version of the album featuring three additional tracks was. Prior to 9/11, when a Jay-Z album dropped you went to the store EXPEDITIOUSLY to buy it that day. He moved his album up due to bootleggers. Ironically that was not the scheduled release date. It’s about killing off the ego, so we can have this conversation in a place of vulnerability and honesty.” The new song “Moonlight” was inspired by the Oscar Best Picture mishap between La La Land & Moonlight. Jay-Z provided song commentary via iHeartRadio upon the albums release. Jay-Zs Blueprint was released on Tuesday September 11, 2001. People had a lot to say after the third listening party for Kanye’s highly anticipated DONDA album. The rapper/mogul pointed out that “Kill JAY-Z” is “not to be taken literal. Kanye West Slammed For Replacing JAY-Z With DaBaby During Third Donda Bash Aug 27, 2021. Jay also discussed every song on 4:44 in an exclusive interview for iHeartRadio. Our nationwide world premiere of 4:44 will reach tens of millions of JAY’s fans across the country – while creating millions of new ones.” 06-30-jay-z-explains-444-song-meanings-iheartradio-album-world-premiere/. “He’s once again proved that he’s a true innovator, and we are honored to partner with him on the historic launch of his first album in over four years. I am reading about how his album just dropped but I cant seem to find it. “We have a long history of partnering with JAY-Z in innovative ways, and he was one of the artists to join our first-ever iHeartRadio Music Festival in 2011,” said Bob Pittman, Chairman/CEO iHeartMedia Inc, in a statement. The album will continue to play across iHeartMedia’s Urban and Rhythm formats until 12:01 a.m.
ET June 30, iHeartMedia, in conjunction with TIDAL X Sprint, is playing the full album with an exclusive 35-minute Album Roadblock on more than 160 Pop, Rhythm and Urban iHeart stations. JAY-Z released his 13th album, 4:44, this morning and teamed up with iHeartMedia for a special premiere event of the record.