{"id":68737,"date":"2017-08-17T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68737"},"modified":"2020-12-10T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:01:49","slug":"audio-review-smile-song-jay-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68737","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Smile ( song ) &#8230; Jay-Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smile, the one notable song from Jay-Z&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68024\" title=\"audio review : 4:44 ( album ) ... Jay-Z\">4:44<\/a> album, is a feel-good retrospection. The rapper shines; these bars stand among his all-time best; but the overall aesthetics must be credited to No ID and Stevie Wonder as the former samples a soulful ballad from the latter to create quite a delightful groove.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mama had four kids, but she&#8217;s a lesbian,&#8221; Jay-Z says, though I&#8217;d argue that probably means she&#8217;s a bisexual, &#8220;Had to pretend so long that she&#8217;s a thespian.&#8221; She also recites a poem, though the song would be better without that final bit, which abandons the unique rearrangement of the Stevie Wonder sample.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 4 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68024\" title=\"audio review : 4:44 ( album ) \u2026 Jay-Z\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/68024-1.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : 4:44 ( album ) \u2026 Jay-Z\" title=\"audio review : 4:44 ( album ) \u2026 Jay-Z\" style=\"height:100px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smile, the one notable song from Jay-Z&#8217;s 4:44 album, is a feel-good retrospection. The rapper shines; these bars stand among his all-time best; but the overall aesthetics must be credited to No ID and Stevie Wonder as the former samples a soulful ballad from the latter to create quite a delightful groove. &#8220;Mama had four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Smile ( song ) &#8230; Jay-Z<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9762],"tags":[55,7325,234,4224,177],"class_list":["post-68737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-4-of-5-rating","tag-faces","tag-gloria-carter","tag-jay-z","tag-no-id","tag-stevie-wonder"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68737"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102416,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68737\/revisions\/102416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}