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03 Bonnie & Clyde" features drums and live instrumentation such as bass instruments and guitar chords. [4] It also consists of a beat sampled from "Me and My Girlfriend". [6] The song was inspired by the 1967 American crime film Bonnie and Clyde [9] as Jay-Z and Knowles proclaim themselves as the current version of the criminal duo. [10]
"So Appalled" is a song by American rapper Kanye West from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The song was produced by West, along with No I.D. and Mike Dean, and features verses by Jay-Z, Cyhi the Prynce, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, and RZA respectively, who all receive writing credits.
The following is a list of songs by Jay-Z organized by alphabetical order. ... "So Ambitious" (The Blueprint 3, 2009) ... Jay-Z: Miss E... So Addictive
Slant Magazine listed "Hard Knock Life" at number 84 in their ranking of "The 100 Best Singles of the 1990s" in 2011, writing, "Jay-Z’s co-opting of a discordant, already famous showtune is a rare novel endeavor in a genre generally defined by following the leader; it’s pulled off so seamlessly that it’s easy to forget what a ballsy move ...
In the lyrics of the "Murder" portion, Jay-Z and West discuss black-on-black violence and police brutality without any questions. [ 3 ] [ 18 ] Jay-Z mentions the death of black power movement figure Fred Hampton on December 4, 1969, the same date the rapper was born and he references this by rapping that "real niggas just multiply".
In July 2009, Jay-Z confirmed The Blueprint 3 as the album's title during an interview with radio station Shade 45. [5] By November 2008, he had finished the album but with lengthy negotiations with Def Jam, he went on to reworking it. [6] In January 2009, Jay-Z confirmed continued production of the album and admitted the leak of several songs.
Fellow Voice critic Miles Marshall Lewis called Jay-Z "the best MC in hip hop" and Vol. 3… "the quintessential 2000-model hip hop album". [16] Soren Baker was less impressed in the Los Angeles Times , writing that the record lacks the "biting humor and spectacular wordplay" of his previous albums.
During a spot on Bill Maher's talk show, Jay-Z revealed the song was based on a true story, about real life events that occurred during a Mary J. Blige afterparty. AllMusic's Steve Birchmeier considers "I Just Wanna Love U" to be "a fun, playful song miles away from the rugged Ruff Ryder beats Swizz Beatz had been offering Jay-Z a year earlier."