12 Valuable Life Lessons You Can Learn From Jay Z's '4:44'

Jay Z's grown man talk on '4:44' contains a number of tools for your everyday life.

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You know how it goes: a new album drops, and the first thing you want to do is get photo shoot fresh and use some of the hottest lines as your latest caption on Instagram. We're not doing that today. Jay Z's recently-released Tidal/Sprint exclusive 4:44 is a little too grown for simple IG work.  You need to build your future to a number of these lines.

That's right, sit there on some "Hov is old and you're old, too, damnit," but in a few years, you'll be using tracks like "4:44" to help you get back with your significant other or get over your significant other. There's some game that is left out in the open on these 10 tracks. Hell, for all of the "Jay Z old af" jokes people crack online, he's truly the older MC you should be listening to, as he's got game for days weaved into these lines.

Don't believe me? Just watch. Grow old to these 4:44 lines that will change your whole life around.

"A man that don't take care his family can't be rich"

"I bought some artwork for one million/Two years later, that shit worth two million/Few years later, that shit worth eight million/I can't wait to give this shit to my children"

"Generational wealth, that's the key"

"What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate?"

"A loss ain't a loss, it's a lesson"

"I told 'em, 'Please don't die over the neighborhood that your momma rent in'/Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood—that's how you rinse it'"

"What's better than one billionaire? Two"

"You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit"

"My advice is just don't be too nice to niggas/Just set the price so niggas'll live your life, my nigga"

"I don't post no threats on the internet/I just pose a threat"

"Take those moneys and spread 'cross families"

"See how the universe works?/It takes my hurt and help me find more of myself"

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