You probably have already memorized the lines on “Kill Jay Z” from Jigga’s newly released 4:44 album when he addresses his strained relationship with Kanye West.
Over a seething, No I.D.-produced sample of The Alan Parsons Project’s “Don’t Let It Show,” he raps: “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 the same, this ain’t KumbaYe/But you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye/You gave him 20 million without blinkin”/He gave you 20 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.”
Apparently, Kim Kardashian isn’t feeling the way that Hov aired out her husband. “She gets very protective of her husband, like a mama bear,” a source told HollywoodLife.com. “She thinks it was a low blow to diss Kanye and throw around words like ‘insane’ after all he’s been through. Kanye had a real difficult time last year and is still coming out of it, so to hit him like that wasn‘t cool.”
The Wests are not the only ones who are giving a side eye to 4:44. Both Eric Benet and Prince’s former attorney L. Londell McMillan had a few words about Hov name dropping them.
On “Kill Jay Z,” Hov raps: “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.”
In the song, Jay compares his relationship to the time Benét divorced the beautiful Halle Berry. But the R&B singer had some words for Jay. On Friday morning (June 30), he tweeted: “Hey yo #Jayz! Just so ya know, I got the baddest girl in the world as my wife….like right now!”
Benét has been married to Manuela Testolini, the ex-wife of the late Prince, for six years. Check out the tweet below.
Hey yo #Jayz! Just so ya know, I got the baddest girl in the world as my wife….like right now! ✌🏾
— Eric Benét (@ebenet) June 30, 2017
On the song, “Caught Their Eyes,” Jigga calls McMillan by name in reference to claims of the attorney foiling a deal he allegedly made with Prince before the singer’s death. He raps: “I sat down with Prince, eye to eye/He told me his wishes before he died/Now, Londell McMillan, he must be color blind/They only see green from them purple eyes…This guy had ‘slave’ on his face/You think he wanted the masters with his masters?/You greedy bastards sold tickets to walk through his house/I’m surprised you ain’t auction off the casket.”
In a since deleted tweet, McMillan responded to the verse, saying, “Yes, I heard the track! Not focusing on a diss track now. Focused on not letting WBR control masters. I do like the beat. #Emancipation2.”
McMillan is now an advisor to the Prince estate.
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