33. “New Day”
Jay-Z & Kanye West
Watch The Throne
Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam
When former GQ editor Sean Fennessey described the RZA-produced “New Day” as “a devastating song rapped to Kanye and Jay’s unborn sons,” he wasn’t kidding. The beat itself is enough to draw tears from the strongest hearted of men, and Jay-Z’s somber confessions to his (still) unborn son is truly gut-wrenching sh*t. Taking a break from having sex with overzealous females in shopping mall bathrooms is one Kanye West, who all but begs his future male offspring to never do the things he did. The bare honesty in Ye’s tone makes “New Day” worth the while, but “I might even make him be Republican/so everybody know he love white people”? Priceless.
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