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Jay-Z Is Lost in the Shuffle on ‘I Want You Forever’
His new song with D’Angelo and Jeymes Samuel feels like a ten-minute sound bath.
That makes every new song feel like an event, with Jay leaving knotty phrases for diehards to unpack across the ensuing months of talent management, Netflix projects, and a gig executive producing the Super Bowl halftime show. Seizing the reins of the musical direction for the NFL’s biggest night softens the league’s image one star-studded spectacle at a time, and dropping gems that can only be found on soundtracks looks to restore the feeling of being lured into ’90s event films by classic loosies from Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and DMX. D’Angelo and Samuel brought a strong cast of players along for the track: Black Messiah and Funkadelic’s Kendra Foster, Philly soul vet Andre Harris, Voodoo bassist Pino Palladino, guitar wunderkind Isaiah Starkey, and James Poyser of the Roots.
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