{"id":58267,"date":"2022-08-27T20:19:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jay-zs-verse-on-dj-khaleds-god-did-is-a-master-class-in-mature-lyricism-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T20:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T20:19:01","slug":"jay-zs-verse-on-dj-khaleds-god-did-is-a-master-class-in-mature-lyricism-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jay-zs-verse-on-dj-khaleds-god-did-is-a-master-class-in-mature-lyricism-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z&#8217;s Verse on DJ Khaled&#8217;s &#8216;God Did&#8217; Is a Master Class in Mature Lyricism \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012\">What does DJ<\/span>  Khaled do, exactly?  It&#8217;s a question that reverberates across the past decade and a half of pop music, with a number of possible answers.  He yells about who&#8217;s the best (trick question, the answer is always we);  he collects famous friends;  and every so often, he coaxes those friends into doing some truly inspired work, possibly by yelling at them that they&#8217;re the best.  Lil Wayne on \u201cWe Takin&#8217; Over,\u201d Ludacris on the \u201cI&#8217;m So Hood\u201d remix, Drake on \u201cI&#8217;m on One,\u201d Rihanna on \u201cWild Thoughts,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 on \u201cShining\u201d \u2014 what all these performances have in common is a hyped-up feeling of belief in oneself that&#8217;s as big and bountiful as Khaled&#8217;s own.  His hits are fun to listen to, and they sound like they were fun to make, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DJ Khaled - GOD DID (Official Audio) ft. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend, Fridayy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QugLZCp74GE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tThe verse everyone&#8217;s talking about on Khaled&#8217;s lucky thirteenth album, <em>Goddid<\/em>, isn&#8217;t one of those.  It comes instead from his close personal friend Jay-Z, who gets the marquee spot on the album, closing out the title track with a surprisingly moving four-minute soliloquy of a verse.  Jay starts with a bar that&#8217;s somewhere in his top 1000 regretful references to his early life of crime (\u201cPlease, Lord, forgive me for what the stove did\u201d), contrasted with the wealth he enjoys now (\u201cI left the dope game with my record clean\/I turned the <em>cocaina <\/em>into champagne\u201d).  \u201cWe corner boys with the corner office\u201d \u2014 that&#8217;s a story he&#8217;s been telling since the first<em> blueprint<\/em>if not since <em>Reasonable Doubt. <\/em>But he finds new twists in the old tale as the verse goes on, starting with a revealing acid: \u201cNow the weed in stores, can you believe it, Ty?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-content \/\/ lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-tb-2 alignnone\">\n<div class=\"injected-related-content-inner \/\/ lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-row@desktop-xl lrv-u-flex-direction-column@desktop lrv-u-flex-direction-column@desktop-max lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-b-00 lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-t-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"injected-related-content-primary \/\/ lrv-u-padding-b-1 lrv-u-padding-b-00@desktop-xl lrv-u-width-64p@desktop-xl\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-margin-l-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-l-125 lrv-u-margin-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-l-00@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-3x2 lrv-a-crop-1x1@mobile-max\" style=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tThe irony of America&#8217;s shifting drug laws, and the human cost of that disconnect between past and present, isn&#8217;t necessarily what you expect from a DJ Khaled single, but it&#8217;s what Jay-Z wants to talk about.  Countless people have spent their lives in prison for the kinds of things he made billions rapping about, and that failed government policy&#8217;s disproportionate ongoing impact on Black people has been well documented.  Jay sounds more and more like the eloquent advocate for criminal justice reform he&#8217;s become in recent years as the verse heats up: \u201cBack and forth on this turnpike, really took a toll on &#8217;em\/Lot of fallen soldiers on these roads of sin\/ For those who make the laws, I&#8217;ma always have smoke for them.\u201d  He romanticized his own outlaw journeys on the interstate highway system for years;  these days, he&#8217;s stuck on the injustice.  It&#8217;s a remarkable synthesis of the old and new Jay-Z, the guy who made \u201cIzzo\u201d and the one who recorded <em>4:44<\/em> coming together in one moment of grown reflection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tThis is a verse that&#8217;s also long enough to include some old-fashioned light blasphemy in the <em>Vol.  3 <\/em>tradition: \u201cThese ain&#8217;t songs, these are hymns, &#8217;cause I&#8217;m him\u2026\/Jesus turned water to wine, for Hov it just took a stove.\u201d  He clarifies that he&#8217;s still on good terms with former Roc Nation star Meek Mill, too (\u201cMe and Meek could never have beef\/I freed that n\u2014\u2013 from a whole bid\u201d).  But mostly this verse is about reminding people that even if he does n&#8217;t rap all that often these days, Shawn Carter is still one of the greatest to ever do it \u2014 an all-time champion of slick talk with levels to his knowledge of self.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<br \/><em>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on <\/em>Spotify.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n\t! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\tn = f.fbq = function() {\n\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t};\n\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '204436500352178');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does DJ Khaled do, exactly? It&#8217;s a question that reverberates across the past decade and a half of pop music, with a number of possible answers. He yells about who&#8217;s the best (trick question, the answer is always we); he collects famous friends; and every so often, he coaxes those friends into doing some &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jay-zs-verse-on-dj-khaleds-god-did-is-a-master-class-in-mature-lyricism-rolling-stone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jay-Z&#8217;s Verse on DJ Khaled&#8217;s &#8216;God Did&#8217; Is a Master Class in Mature Lyricism \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51663,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dj-khaled-hints-at-multiple-drake-jay-z-features-on-god-did\/","url_meta":{"origin":58267,"position":0},"title":"DJ Khaled Hints At Multiple Drake &#038; JAY-Z Features On &#8220;God Did&#8221;","date":"August 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The 46-year-old's 13th studio album is due out this coming Friday, August 26th. 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