“Jay-Z would go to the treadmill in the early morning. Knowing Jay-Z liked to leap into a song the first thing in the early morning, and being a savvy songwriter, Dion ensured that the timing was right, and that there was always new music ready for him while awakening in the morning. “ left the studio immediately,” he said, “woke up the next day at 4:44 in the morning and started writing the words.” Jay-Z “Then I played it for him, looked at him and said, `So, what are you gonna do now?’ “That inspired me to make the music exactly as you hear it,” he said. Inspired by this direction, he immediately crafted a track. Making the music honest was the goal: “That was the theme: what is necessary to live a good life.”
“My job is to see something in him, and then provoke it to come out with music.” “I view songwriting with Jay-Z like scoring a movie,” said No ID. If moved by these tracks, Jay-Z gets to work, and starts writing the words.
To this he added his own music and more, all with the mission of inspiring Jay-Z to express himself more openly than ever before. No ID, the architect of every beat and wizard of sonics, created a crazyqulit of samples from records by The Fugees, Stevie Wonder and Nini Simone. It’s the title track because it’s such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” So it became the title of the album and everything. And I woke up, literally, at 4:44 in the morning, 4:44 am, to write this song. “‘4:44’ is a song that I wrote,’ he said, “and it’s the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album. He wanted to answer Beyonce’s songs about the problems in their marriage. The song emerged after Jay told No ID (the Chicago producer-writer Dion Wilson) that he wanted to write songs about things he’d never talked about before. The first single from his 13th album of the same name, released in 2017, the song “4:44” is exactly 4:44 in length. “I just believe it’s one of the best songs I’ve ever written,” said Jay-Z about the forthright and mystic “4:44.” It’s a song of love and apology to his wife Beyonce, and a response to songs on her album Lemonade, where she called him out for his infidelities.
The album is expected to be made available physically and on other services - a source close to the situation confirmed that one will be Apple Music - this Friday (July 7), after its week of exclusivity on Tidal ends.By Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter, Ernest Dion (No ID) Wilson and Kanan Howard Keeney “4:44” was released just after midnight on June 30, exclusively to Tidal and Sprint members - and in a move that angered many fans, people who signed up for Tidal after the album’s release initially could not access it, although that decision was reversed and it was made available to all Tidal members on Monday.
(An earlier version of this article incorrectly omitted the Sprint download component.) Fans participated, took action and downloaded Jay-Z’s album offered by Sprint.” In other words, the arrangement sounds similar to Jay’s 2013 deal with Samsung for “Magna Carta: Holy Grail,” which saw the company purchasing a million downloads of that album. However, a source close to the situation said that “a sale counts toward a certification if purchased directly by the customer - or a business can purchase the album or song and offer it to fans, who must take affirmative steps to acquire the album or song. A rep for the organization told Variety it does not break down its certification numbers - at least not publicly - and at press time a rep for Tidal had not responded to Variety‘s request for clarification. 1, 2016, using a formula similar to that of Nielsen Music’s whereby 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale (the organization began incorporating streaming numbers into single certifications in 2013). The RIAA began incorporating streaming numbers into album certifications on Feb.