Jay-Z – Kingdom Come Details
Friday, September 15th, 2006
Here’s the Entertainment Weekly article in it’s entirety. Below are some details about potential tracks and a potential Eminem guest spot.
Kingdom‘s lyrics, too, come from a wide variety of sources. A track called ”Most Kings” is inspired by a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting (which he owns). ”Lost Ones” finds the man who once rapped about his inability to shed tears dealing with the car-crash death of a beloved relative. ”One of the most crushing things that ever happened to me was losing my nephew,” he says. ”As you mature you realize that being vulnerable isn’t weak. You realize that a man is himself.”
He doesn’t yet know who will guest-perform on the CD (”I take care of that at the end”). But one candidate is Eminem. The only rapper who can claim more success than Jay-Z over the past decade did produce a track, ”Moment of Clarity,” on The Black Album. But Eminem has kept an almost invisible profile since a spell in rehab and his short-lived remarriage to Kim Mathers. ”I speak to him from time to time,” says Jay-Z. ”He’s holding up. You know, he went through a tough time. He’s getting stronger.”
