--- title: JAY-Z Calls Out Kanye West on New Album 4 44 description: JAY-Z used the first song on his new album "4:44" to reference his longtime relationship with Kanye West. canonical: https://time.com/4841174/jayz-calls-out-kanye-west/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-30T14:26:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:03.928Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jay Z Calls Out Kanye West on New Album '4:44' og:description: Jay Z used the first song on his album to address his relationship with Kanye og:url: https://time.com/4841174/jayz-calls-out-kanye-west/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6a1bd134d280fe3/6988d4180a4a2209d79cee2b/jayz-kanye-west.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tidal Launch Event NYC #TIDALforALL og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jay Z Calls Out Kanye West on New Album '4:44' twitter:description: Jay Z used the first song on his album to address his relationship with Kanye twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6a1bd134d280fe3/6988d4180a4a2209d79cee2b/jayz-kanye-west.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jay Z Calls Out Kanye West on New Album _4:44_ > Sponsored content. 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Kanye West and JAY Z onstage at the Tidal launch event #TIDALforALL at Skylight at Moynihan Station on March 30, 2015 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images/Roc Nation by [Christopher Rosen / EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / EW Jun 30, 2017 2:26 PM UTC JAY-Z used the first song on his new album _4:44_ to apparently reference his longtime relationship with Kanye West, referencing [West’s infamous concert rant](http://ew.com/article/2016/11/20/kanye-west-blasts-beyonce-jay-z-hillary-clinton/) last year. “I know people backstab you, I feel bad too,” JAY-Z raps on the album’s first track, “Kill JAY-Z.” “But this ‘f— everybody’ attitude ain’t natural/ But you ain’t the same, this ain’t KumbaYe/ But you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye/ You gave him 20 million without blinkin’/ He gave you 20 minutes on stage, f— was he thinkin’?/ ‘F— wrong with everybody?’ is what you sayin’/ But if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane.” During a November concert in Sacramento last year, West left the stage after going on an extended rant that included comments about JAY-Z. “I’ve been sent here to give y’all my truth even at the risk of my own life, even at the risk of my own success, my own career,” West said. “I’ve been sent here to give y’all the truth. JAY-Z — call me, bruh. You still ain’t called me. JAY-Z, call me, JAY-Z — I know you got killers. Please don’t send them at my head. Just call me. Talk to me like a man.” West’s tour was later [canceled](http://ew.com/article/2016/11/21/kanye-west-cancels-saint-pablo-tour/). West also referenced JAY-Z during an October tour stop, when he discussed TIDAL and Apple Music and [quashed any hopes for a _Watch the Throne_ sequel with JAY-Z](http://ew.com/article/2016/10/20/kayne-jay-z-no-watch-throne-2/). “You know why?” he said, explaining he and JAY-Z could have appeared on Drake’s “Pop Style” before Drake’s album was sold to Apple Music. “Because that’s the reason I wasn’t on the song. I wasn’t on this song because of Hov. This is Tidal, Apple bullsh—. Y’all didn’t get what y’all are supposed to get when me and Drake on this song cause of some Tidal-Apple bulls—.” At the time, West claimed things became “political” over “some s— about percentages on songs.” He added, seemingly to JAY-Z, “I can’t take this s—, bro.” During that same show, West also said he was upset JAY-Z never met with him face-to-face after West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, was robbed in Paris. “Don’t call me after the robbery and say, ‘How you feelin’?’ You want to know how I’m feelin’? Come by the house, bring the kids like we brothers. Let’s sit down.” West’s last album, _The Life of Pablo_, was released on JAY-Z’s streaming service TIDAL last year. On his track “Saint Pablo,” West referenced negotiating between TIDAL and Apple Music and cited $20 million as a number while discussing JAY-Z. “When I was negotiatin’ with Apple, it was Larry and me/ Told Tim Cook to call me, I was scary to see/ I would’ve took a hundred million and gave 20 to Hov/ I heard it’s the way they did it when we only had a stove,” West rapped. Speaking about his new album, JAY-Z explained that “Kill JAY-Z” is not to be taken “literal.” “It’s really about the ego,” [he explained after _4:44_ debuted](http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/06/jay-z-breaks-down-meaning-songs-444-album/). “It’s about killing off the ego, so we can have this conversation in a place of vulnerability and honesty.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4841174/jayz-calls-out-kanye-west/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4841174/jayz-calls-out-kanye-west/"},"headline":"Jay Z Calls Out Kanye West on New Album 4:44","datePublished":"2017-06-30T14:26:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:03.928Z","description":"JAY-Z used the first song on his new album \"4:44\" to reference his longtime relationship with Kanye West","url":"https://time.com/4841174/jayz-calls-out-kanye-west/","keywords":["Music","Newsfeed","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6a1bd134d280fe3/6988d4180a4a2209d79cee2b/jayz-kanye-west.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christopher Rosen / EW"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6a1bd134d280fe3/6988d4180a4a2209d79cee2b/jayz-kanye-west.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tidal Launch Event NYC #TIDALforALL","caption":"Tidal Launch Event NYC #TIDALforALL","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images/Roc Nation","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/music/","name":"Music"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4841174/jayz-calls-out-kanye-west/","name":"Jay Z Calls Out Kanye West on New Album 4:44"}}]}] ```