{"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"audio review : Smile ( song ) ... 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