Yes, Just Blaze killed “Ignorant Sh*t.” Yes, both Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel skate on this track like they play for the New York Rangers.
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Thankfully, he would return full force the following year with Kingdom Come, launching a new era of his already storied career.” “Ignorant Sh*t” Feat. Over a nostalgic production by Just Blaze, Hov writes a breakup letter to the summer, in homage of the way that he would drop a new record or start the album cycle during the summer of every year. So that made “Dear Summer,” his solo song on Memphis Bleek’s album 534, particularly resonant when it dropped. In 2005, two years had passed since Jay-Z released what many believed was his swan song with The Black Album. Where the first verse sees Jay reflecting on his daughter’s birth, the second speaks to some of Jay’s trials growing up, including those with his father: “ Your Grandpop died of ni**a failure/Then he died of liver failure/Deep down he was a good man.” “The City is Mine” Feat. “ False alarms and false starts/All made better by the sound of your heart.”īut it’s the song’s 2nd verse that genuinely cements this as one of Jay’s most underrated. The feelings of a new father seep through lines like “ Your mama said that you danced for her/Did you wiggle your hands for her?” and deeply personal bars around previous miscarriages suffered by Jay and B. At the time of its release, Rolling Stone called the record “rushed,” but a more accurate description of the song is “pure.” Featuring the first sounds of his newborn daughter, the Neptunes-produced track is one of Jay’s most-open lyrically on wax. In the music blog era, the drop of “Glory,” Jay-Z’s tribute to the birth of his daughter, was a huge moment. “International Hov, I told you so/ 40/40s out in Tokyo/ Singapore, all this from singing songs” “30 Something” – Kingdom Come (2006) As Hov says on the song, any time Emory called him while inside he just wanted to hear Jay “ talk fly” and Hov does just that on the song’s 2nd verse: The song was said to have been critical in keeping Emory’s spirits up while serving his sentence. It wasn’t always this good, however, and Jay’s Do U Wanna Ride from his Kingdom Come album was a letter to his incarcerated friend, even beginning with a recording of a call Emory made to Jay while locked up. Now a successful executive at Roc Nation and entrepreneur with his ‘ Bet on Yourself‘ Puma collaboration, Emory has turned his life around.
But like a good friend, Jay never abandoned Emory, ultimately helping secure his early release with a job offer at Rocawear.
As the story has been told, Jay-Z’s close friend Emory “Vegas” Jones was sentenced to 16 years in prison, missing Jay’s meteoric rise to the top of the entertainment world.