“Kill Jay Z” is the opening track from Jay’s 13th studio album, 4:44. In an iHeart Radio interview JAY-Z described the song as a killing of his ego. Throughout the song he brings up past troubles, many of them highly-publicized incidents from recent years, and criticizes how he handled those situat...
[Verse]
Kill JAY-Z, they'll never love you
You'll never be enough, let's just keep it real, JAY-Z
Fuck JAY-Z, I mean, you shot your own brother
How can we know if we can trust JAY-Z?
And you know better, nigga, I know you do
But you gotta do better, boy, you owe it to Blue
You had no father, you had the armor
But you got a daughter, gotta get softer
Die JAY-Z, this ain't back in the days
You don't need an alibi, JAY-Z
Cry JAY-Z, we know the pain is real
But you can't heal what you never reveal
What's up, JAY-Z? You know you owe the truth
To all the youth that fell in love with JAY-Z
You got people you love you sold drugs to
You got high on the life, that shit drugged you
You walkin' around like you invincible
You dropped outta school, you lost your principles
I know people backstab you, I felt bad too
But this 'fuck everybody' attitude ain't natural
But you ain't a saint, this ain't kumbaye
But you got hurt because you did cool by 'Ye
You gave him twenty million without blinkin'
He gave you twenty minutes on stage, fuck was he thinkin'?
"Fuck wrong with everybody?" is what you sayin'
But if everybody's crazy, you're the one that's insane
Crazy how life works
You got a knot in your chest, imagine how a knife hurts
You stabbed Un over some records
Your excuse was "He was talkin' too reckless!"
Let go your ego over your right shoulder
Your left is sayin', "Finish your breakfast!"
You egged Solange on
Knowin' all along, all you had to say you was wrong
You almost went Eric Benét
Let the baddest girl in the world get away
I don't even know what else to say
Nigga, never go Eric Benét!
I don't even know what you woulda done
In the future other niggas playin' football with your son
You woulda lost it
13 bottles of Ace of Spade, what it did to Boston
Nah, JAY-Z
Bye, JAY-Z
Kill Jay Z was written by JAY-Z & No I.D. & Eric Woolfson & Alan Parsons.
Kill Jay Z was produced by No I.D..
JAY-Z released Kill Jay Z on Fri Jun 30 2017.
The first song is called ‘Kill JAY-Z’ and obviously, it’s not to be taken literal. It’s really about the ego. It’s about killing off the ego, so we can have this conversation in a place of vulnerability and honesty.
We got heavy into it by accident. The first time it happened, I sent him the ‘Kill Jay-Z’ record, and he called Guru, who happened to be in town, and that was the first record [we made for 4:44.]
[When] I listened [to 4:44] and heard ‘Kill Jay Z’ I thought ‘Wow, this is interesting.’ A man like him, who’s survived this long in any industry and being the reigning king in terms of that, and having the access to wealth and everything that he has. It’s almost like an apology to something in his...
During his appearance on the TIDAL-exclusive Rap Radar podcast, Hov revealed that he began the track on January 3, 2017, along with “The Story of O.J.” They were the first two tracks he recorded for 4:44.