Smile is the third and longest track on JAY-Z’s 13th album, 4:44 at 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Jay looks back onto bad memories and how they have helped him change his future for the better. It features a spoken outro by JAY-Z’s mom, Gloria Carter, whose homosexuality is publicly revealed during the song. The song samples Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today.” This is rather significant: industry veteran Deborah Mannis-Gardner pointed out in 2015 that Wonder had actually stopped clearing samples: “Stevie Wonder used to clear. I cleared his stuff for DMX, but then he stopped.… read more
Smile is the third and longest track on JAY-Z’s 13th album, 4:44 at 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Jay looks back onto bad memories and how they have help… read more
Smile is the third and longest track on JAY-Z’s 13th album, 4:44 at 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Jay looks back onto bad memories and how they have helped him change his future for the bett… read more
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is an American rapper and former president and CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records. He is more commonly known by a variety of stage names including Shawn Corey Carter, Jay-Hova, Jiggaman, Young Hov, Shawn C. Carter, Hov, Shawn Carter, The Carter Administration. He is regarded as one of the most prolific and successful American blend artists of the mid-90s and early 2000s and is known for his use of metaphors, freestyling abilities, word play, flow, and blending of street and popular hip hop. He is one of the mos… read more
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is an American rapper and former president and CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records. He is more commonly known by a va… read more
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is an American rapper and former president and CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records. He is more commonly known by a variety of stage names including Shawn Corey Car… read more