![]() ![]() It’s a remarkable synthesis of the old and new Jay-Z, the guy who made “Izzo” and the one who recorded 4:44 coming together in one moment of grown reflection. The album reached number 14 on the Billboard 200. On March 2, 2010, Khaled released his fourth studio album, Victory. ![]() ![]() Jay sounds more and more like the eloquent advocate for criminal justice reform he’s become in recent years as the verse heats up: “Back and forth on this turnpike, really took a toll on ‘em/Lot of fallen soldiers on these roads of sin/For those who make the laws, I’ma always have smoke for them.” He romanticized his own outlaw journeys on the interstate highway system for years these days, he’s stuck on the injustice. It produced the top-40 single, 'Out Here Grindin', which features Akon, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Lil Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood, and Plies, and reached number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100. ![]() Countless people have spent their lives in prison for the kinds of things he made billions rapping about, and that failed government policy’s disproportionate ongoing impact on Black people has been well documented. Project opener THANKFUL, featuring Lil Wayne and Jeremih, borrows the flute line from JAY-Z’s Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love). The irony of America’s shifting drug laws, and the human cost of that disconnect between past and present, isn’t necessarily what you expect from a DJ Khaled single, but it’s what Jay-Z wants to talk about. For hip-hop heads of a certain age, there’s an inescapable familiarity present throughout DJ Khaled’s 12th studio album, KHALED KHALED. 304,745 likes djkhaled GOD DID THE OFFICIAL ALBUM TITLE FOR MY 13TH STUDIO ALBUM COMING SOON I made this album for all the believers and non believers. ![]()
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