“Bye” is right. Jay-Z should’ve retired after The Black Album like he said he would. None of his albums since justify their existence. This is one of his worst. Every beat is by No ID, whose choppy sample-dependent production has the tendency to annoy.
If there’s one song you should rip “off Tidal”, it’s Smile; a feel-good retrospection that owes its life to a Stevie Wonder ballad. Listen to the title cut if you care to hear Jay-Z’s response to the tea, or Lemonade, his wife Beyoncé spilled last year.
my rating : 2 of 5
2017