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One very pointed lyric on Jail.“Told him, ‘Stop all of that red cap / we goin’ home’” was Jay-Z’s reference to MAGA, the political movement associated with Donald Trump’s signature red Make America Great Again hats.“I think we argued about this verse maybe two weeks after,” he said of West. “I was like, ‘This is why I didn’t wanna do this verse.’ It wasn’t easy.”“He was like, ‘The red line….
That’s how I feel.’”That left Jay-Z with a choice: change the lyric or stand behind it.
He chose the latter—but still gave West control over his own album.“I said, ‘I understand how you feel; you should probably take the verse off.
If you feel strongly enough about it, I’m not gonna change it, but respectfully, you should take it off because this is your project.
Everything on it should be the way you want it to be,’” Jay-Z recalled.In the end, neither man blinked.
The lyric stayed, and so did Jay-Z’s appearance on “Jail,” which became the second track on Donda.JAŸ-Z in 8, featuring Jay-Z in conversation with longtime friend and producer Rick Rubin, airs Fridays on HBO Max, with the finale arriving October 9.
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