
Listen to every song Jay-Z sampled on his new album 4:44
Magna Carter sample grail.
The rapper’s latest album, produced entirely by No I.D., features 18 samples, according to a new Genius video. These range from the classic – Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, dancehall legend Sister Nancy – to the obscure – a recording of Joseph N. Welch’s 1954 testimony during the McCarthy Communist witch hunt hearings, plus an obligatory nod to his wife Beyoncé.
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Check out the 4:44 tracklist and samples below, and listen to our Spotify playlist, so good they deserve to be released on a compilation album of their own.
‘Don’t let it show’, The Alan Parsons project 1977
‘Four Women’, Nina Simone 1966; ‘Kool is Back’, Funk Inc 1971; ‘Kool Back again’, Kool and the gang 1969
‘Love’s in Need of Love Today’, Stevie Wonder 1976
‘Baltimore’, Nina Simone 1978; ‘Army-McCarthy Hearings’, Joseph N. Welch 1954
‘Late Nights and Heartbreak’, Hannah Williams & The Affirmations 2016
‘Ha Ya’, The Clark Sisters 1980
‘Bam Bam’, Sister Nancy 1982; ‘Temenet Yard’, Jacob Miller 1976
‘Fu-Gee-La’, The Fugees 1995
‘Todo O Mundo E Ninguém’, Quarteto 1111; ‘Unbelievable’, The Notorious B.I.G.
‘Someday We’ll All Be Free,’ Donny Hathaway 1973; ‘Glaciers of Ice,’ Raekwon 1995
‘La Verdolaga,’ Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores 1984
‘Pillow Talk,’ Sylvia, 1973; ‘Partition,’ Beyonce 2013