Less than a week after he released his 13th studio album "4:44," JAY-Z released three bonus tracks to the platinum-selling album.
One
of the tracks, 'We Family' which featured Hov and Beyonce’s daughter
Blue Ivy, he references Benin, Lagos, Fela and drops in a mysterious
‘Dapo’ in there.
See the lyrics below:
"‘I got bloodlines in Benin, that explains the voodoo’
Already ahead of your end, in the foreign bumping Fela, feel me?
Lagos, all the barrios ’round me, feel me?"
Colombian ties, shout out to Dapo!"
Jay-Z
and Beyonce's affinity for Africa and Yoruba culture has become more
evident in recent years, with Beyonce’s Lemonade album containing
elements regarded by many as a tribute to the Yoruba goddess Osun.
Beyonce
have recorded a full-length album based on the Nigerian’s material. Her
recent African-themed baby shower also had Fela’s music as part of it’s
soundtrack.
“We did a whole Fela album that didn’t go up,” Producer The-Dream wrote, in an entry for Beyoncé song End of Time on lyric annotation site Genius. “It
was right before we did [album] “4.” We did a whole different sounding
thing – about 20 songs. She said she wanted to do something that sounds
like Fela.”
Less than a week after
its release, Jay-Z's critically acclaimed new album "4:44" has already
been certified platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA).
The rapper released
his new album – his first since 2013's Magna Carta Holy Grail
– exclusively to his streaming service, Tidal, June 30, 2017.
RIAA tweeted
the news with a picture of Jay and the company's chairman and CEO Cary
Sherman standing beside the platinum plaque for the album.
"Props to JAY, he’s done it again!" Sherman said in a statement. "Another Platinum album adds to an already iconic career."
"4:44" is now Jay-Z's 13th platinum solo studio album — the most of any hip-hop artist in history, according to RIAA.
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