On Friday, JAY-Z released the video for “Adnis,” featuring Mahershala Ali and Danny Glover. Named after Hov’s late father Adnis Reeves, the track first appeared on the physical edition of 4:44.
In the newly released accompanying footnotes, JAY-Z candidly explains how he learned to transform his disdain for his father into sheer respect. “All my songs up until this point have been about anger with my dad,” Hov recalls. “As an adult looking back, now I have a different perspective of it. I started thinking, ‘Man, my dad married my mother at a time when everybody was leaving.’ He tried.”
He continues: “My mom had two kids before him. She had four kids by 20. I was the youngest child. They were young. That don’t check the box of what I thought. That don’t check the box of somebody who wasn’t shit. You married this woman with four kids and they was together for 11 years. Now the story gets different.”
(source: billboard)
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