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[Abm] JZ's latest album, 4 [N]'44", is seen by many as his most mature and vulnerable body
of work to date.
While some may poke fun calling it dad rap, it does shed new light on Hov's evolving
relationship with his own father.
With the release of the highly anticipated bonus track, Adness, named after his father
[Em] Adness Reeves, the footnotes, released via Tidal, detail how Carter's lyrics wrestle
with the feeling of abandonment caused by an absentee father.
All my songs [Gb] up to this point [Bm] have been about anger with my dad.
You left and I [E] didn't see you for all these years and you ain't shit and I don't fuck with you.
But as an adult looking back, now I look back on a situation and I have a different perspective of it.
[F] Life experiences always give us new perspectives.
And in JZ's [Abm] case, newfound respect.
[E] [Em] [D]
[B] But disrespect wasn't always given.
It had to be earned.
On Jay's debut album, 1996's Reasonable Doubt, Hov uses a clever bar in Can't Knock
the Hustle to encapsulate this feeling of [F] estrangement.
[Bb] [C]
[Bb] Hov went at it again three years later on This Life Forever, off of the little known
project, Black Gangster.
[Ab] [C]
[E] These bars contain the bravado of a man who was left to forge it alone, closely guarded
and seemingly invulnerable.
But the pain always manages to seep through.
On 1999's [G] Volume 3, Life and Times of S.
Carter, we hear this pain loud and clear on
the outro, Hov's song.
[Gm] Retrospect ain't been the same since I lost my dad.
[Gb] He still alive?
Fuck [E] you, don't cross my path.
Jay's feeling of estrangement began to [Gb] evolve into a rage.
On 2000's The Dynasty, Rock La Familia, joined by then-label mate Beanie Sigel, Jay
penned an angry screed to his absent father on Where Have You Been.
[E] [Bb] [Em]
[Bb] The same album [Db] gave the streets his talking, where Jay quickly explained a departure that
served as a foundation for his life.
I [Ab] lost my pops when I was 11, 12 years old.
He's probably somewhere where the liquor's taking its [Abm] toll.
But I ain't mad at you dad, holla at your land.
In a [F] 2001 follow up to Where Have You Been, Sigel and Jay strike a softer tone towards
their paternal figures on Still Got Love For You.
I'm a mess, dad.
[Gbm] Still I love you no less, dad.
Hope [Fm] you didn't think success would make me less [D] mad.
In 2002's Meet The Parents, Hov doesn't outright make the song about his father, but
it's pretty much implied.
Daddy never fucked with him, so the streets raised him.
Ice is blaming herself, she wished she could've saved him.
Damn near impossible, only men can raise men.
He was his [Dm] own man, not even him to [B] save him.
Jay-Z continues here to tell us what happens to a young man forced to live with an absentee father.
In 2003, with the help of his mother Gloria, Jay-Z and Adnis finally close a 20 year rift.
And just in time.
[Db] Once me and my pop, before he passed away, had a conversation and I was able to tell
him everything that I felt and everything that was on my mind.
I was able to let all those feelings go.
Reeve's death had a profound effect on Hov.
And noticeably around this time, his lyrics towards Adnis became more vulnerable and introspective.
That same year, he [D] freestyled on 50 Cent's If I [Em] Can't.
[Am]
[Em] [C] We [Bm] hear this pain on December 4th off of the Black album.
[B]
In a moment of [Db] clarity, Hov shares even more context for what caused his father to leave.
[Dbm] [Ab] [Dbm]
[Db] [B] Uncle Ray was Adnis Reeves' brother.
And Ray's death due to a stabbing changed Adnis and Jay-Z's life forever.
I put my dad in this weird place.
Obviously he went through [G] a depression, he started using [Gb] drugs and it became this slippery
slope and he couldn't face his children at some point.
Jay-Z also raps [Dm] about this in 2007's Pray off of American Gangster.
This mama taps her toes as she rolls her J's.
And my papa just left the house in search of the killer of my uncle Ray.
As well as No Hook.
[B] Call me, dad was gone, finally got my [G] dad back.
Live or die, he wouldn't live long.
He snatched [Eb] my dad back.
It is always said that one will never know what a parent goes through until they have children themselves.
This hit Jay especially hard.
2011's new day off of Watch the Throne features Carter yearning to right [Bbm] the wrongs of his
father even while Blue Ivy was still a twinkle in his eye.
[F]
[Fm] [Ebm] Blue Ivy Carter was born January 7, 2012.
After all the years of dealing with the anger and abandonment regarding his father's departure,
Hov now had the pressure of [Bm] being a father thrust upon him.
Two days later, Jay put the pressure into words on Glory dedicated to his newborn daughter.
[A]
[A] Deep down he was a good man.
God damn I can't deliver [Gb] failure.
Jay-Z has two more children now, a set of twins named Rumi and Sir Carter.
Congrats!
And [Cm] Hov is determined to use the hindsight of his past relationship with his own father
to be a strong influence in the lives of his three children.
Who would have thought [D] I'd be the dad I never [Eb] had, be the husband I've become, [D] usually nothing
comes from that.
[Eb] I forgive you as I live through the [D] beautiful present of the past.
[Eb] I'm Jacques Morel with Genius News, bringing you the knowledge behind the music.
Peace!
[Cm]
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ JZ's latest album, 4 [N]'44", is seen by many as his most mature and vulnerable body
of work to date.
While some may poke fun calling it dad rap, it does shed new light on Hov's evolving
relationship with his own father.
With the release of the highly anticipated bonus track, Adness, named after his father
[Em] Adness Reeves, the footnotes, released via Tidal, detail how Carter's lyrics wrestle
with the feeling of abandonment caused by an absentee father.
All my songs [Gb] up to this point [Bm] have been about anger with my dad.
You left and I [E] didn't see you for all these years and you ain't shit and I don't fuck with you.
_ But as an adult looking back, now I look back on a situation and I have a different perspective of it.
[F] Life experiences always give us new perspectives.
And in JZ's [Abm] case, newfound respect.
_ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [B] But disrespect wasn't always given.
It had to be earned.
On Jay's debut album, 1996's Reasonable Doubt, Hov uses a clever bar in Can't Knock
the Hustle to encapsulate this feeling of [F] estrangement.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Bb] Hov went at it again three years later on This Life Forever, off of the little known
project, Black Gangster. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [E] These bars contain the bravado of a man who was left to forge it alone, closely guarded
and seemingly invulnerable.
But the pain always manages to seep through.
On 1999's [G] Volume 3, Life and Times of S.
Carter, we hear this pain loud and clear on
the outro, Hov's song.
[Gm] Retrospect ain't been the same since I lost my dad.
[Gb] He still alive?
Fuck [E] you, don't cross my path.
Jay's feeling of estrangement began to [Gb] evolve into a rage.
On 2000's The Dynasty, Rock La Familia, joined by then-label mate Beanie Sigel, Jay
penned an angry screed to his absent father on Where Have You Been.
[E] _ _ [Bb] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [Bb] The same album [Db] gave the streets his talking, where Jay quickly explained a departure that
served as a foundation for his life.
I [Ab] lost my pops when I was 11, 12 years old.
He's probably somewhere where the liquor's taking its [Abm] toll.
But I ain't mad at you dad, holla at your land.
In a [F] 2001 follow up to Where Have You Been, Sigel and Jay strike a softer tone towards
their paternal figures on Still Got Love For You.
I'm a mess, dad.
[Gbm] Still I love you no less, dad.
Hope [Fm] you didn't think success would make me less [D] mad.
In 2002's Meet The Parents, Hov doesn't outright make the song about his father, but
it's pretty much implied.
Daddy never fucked with him, so the streets raised him.
Ice is blaming herself, she wished she could've saved him.
Damn near impossible, only men can raise men.
He was his [Dm] own man, not even him to [B] save him.
Jay-Z continues here to tell us what happens to a young man forced to live with an absentee father.
In 2003, with the help of his mother Gloria, Jay-Z and Adnis finally close a 20 year rift.
And just in time.
[Db] Once me and my pop, before he passed away, had a conversation and I was able to tell
him everything that I felt and everything that was on my mind.
I was able to let all those feelings go.
Reeve's death had a profound effect on Hov.
And noticeably around this time, his lyrics towards Adnis became more vulnerable and introspective.
That same year, he [D] freestyled on 50 Cent's If I [Em] Can't.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [C] We [Bm] hear this pain on December 4th off of the Black album.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
In a moment of [Db] clarity, Hov shares even more context for what caused his father to leave.
_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Dbm] _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [B] Uncle Ray was Adnis Reeves' brother.
And Ray's death due to a stabbing changed Adnis and Jay-Z's life forever.
I put my dad in this weird place.
Obviously he went through [G] a depression, he started using [Gb] drugs and it became this slippery
slope and he couldn't face his children at some point.
Jay-Z also raps [Dm] about this in 2007's Pray off of American Gangster.
This mama taps her toes as she rolls her J's.
And my papa just left the house in search of the killer of my uncle Ray.
As well as No Hook.
[B] Call me, dad was gone, finally got my [G] dad back.
Live or die, he wouldn't live long.
He snatched [Eb] my dad back.
It is always said that one will never know what a parent goes through until they have children themselves.
This hit Jay especially hard.
2011's new day off of Watch the Throne features Carter yearning to right [Bbm] the wrongs of his
father even while Blue Ivy was still a twinkle in his eye.
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] Blue Ivy Carter was born January 7, 2012.
After all the years of dealing with the anger and abandonment regarding his father's departure,
Hov now had the pressure of [Bm] being a father thrust upon him.
Two days later, Jay put the pressure into words on Glory dedicated to his newborn daughter.
_ [A] _
_ _ [A] Deep down he was a good man.
God damn I can't deliver [Gb] failure.
Jay-Z has two more children now, a set of twins named Rumi and Sir Carter.
Congrats!
And [Cm] Hov is determined to use the hindsight of his past relationship with his own father
to be a strong influence in the lives of his three children.
Who would have thought [D] I'd be the dad I never [Eb] had, be the husband I've become, [D] usually nothing
comes from that.
[Eb] I forgive you as I live through the [D] beautiful present of the past.
[Eb] I'm Jacques Morel with Genius News, bringing you the knowledge behind the music.
Peace! _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _