![]() ![]() “I ball so hard on ESPN/ See my name come across CNN/ About six minutes you gonna see it again,” he later claims on “Crown”. Which is problematic, since here the “voice of the young people” seems bent on addressing the public. ![]() Only a small subset could acquire Magna Carta Holy Grail on its release date, and it seems safe to say that fewer still will relate to it in a meaningful way. The album is a celebration of unlimited financial privilege and power that even used its literally game-changing release as a Samsung Galaxy app to separate Jay-Z’s fans into haves and have-nots. It's one of the few lines here that scans as wishful thinking. Kanye infamously proclaimed “I Am a God” on Yeezus you could either gape in awe or call it heresy, but you couldn’t doubt his conviction. And just as the brutal and blasphemous Yeezus is true to its title, Magna Carta…Holy Grail offers a jumbled juxtaposition of the regal and divine- hear Jay-Z gasp “You in the presence of a king/ Scratch that, you in the presence of a god” on “Crown”. ![]() Two years later, both rappers have new solo albums that expound on the distinction. Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne was introduced by Frank Ocean parsing the respective qualities of gods and kings. ![]()
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