The breakout song, “Apeshit,” had a similar sound and intensity as Throne’s top track: “N****s in Paris.” While it wasn’t called Watch the Throne: Redux, it might as well have been. Two years later, in 2018, Jay-Z and Beyoncé would release their first collaborative project, Everything Is Love. By the end of 2016, West, during a concert in Seattle, would ( among other things) bemoan the state of their relationship, admitting their daughters had never played together (Blue Ivy Carter was born in 2012, and North West in 2013). West didn’t appear on Jay’s 2013 album Magna Carta Holy Grail, nor Jay on Ye’s 2016 Pablo project. “The Throne” hadn’t been seen together much at all or heard from. Despite the decade-long friendship, Jay and his wife, Beyoncé, were conspicuously absent from West’s 2014 wedding.
2012 had reports of the two clashing while on tour. The “Otis” video was a perfect distillation of the album’s barbaric yawp, its echoing victory cry.Īfter 2011, the brotherhood shared by Hov and Yeezy began to fray. From money, to material goods, to women, to respect and prestige. Two men who came from nothing celebrating the limitless everything they had attained. The 12-tracks were lyrical showcases of just that. And what’s a king symbolize? Power and wealth. The project was a joint declaration that the pair were at the top of the rap game. When the “Otis” video dropped, Kanye and Jay-Z were only three days removed from the release of their collaborative album, Watch the Throne. Most of the video consists of the duo in the front seat, driving recklessly, while models in the backseat laugh and hang on for dear life. What would be a lifetime achievement for most of us-to own a Maybach-is nothing more than a gag to Jay and Ye. They’re wealthy enough that it doesn’t matter to them. “Deconstruct” is probably too gentle of a word. The two deconstruct it, chopping off the roof, the doors, and more. And this isn’t any car but a 2004 Maybach 57 with a price tag of $350,000. The video begins as Jay and Kanye approach a car. If you zoom out, the message of The Life of Pablo is that family and God will redeem and enrich you in ways nothing else can. The other forces you to not just confront those weaknesses, but fight them, overcome them. One lets you ignore everything that’s wrong with you. That same duality is present on The Life of Pablo, as the titular character is torn between living a sinful life of indulgence or giving himself over to faith and family. When his vision returned, he accepted a baptism and set off as an apostle of Jesus. For days, without sight, cared for by Christians, the stricken man contemplated his life to that point. Until one day on the road to Damascus when God appeared before Paul, blinding him, to question Paul’s behavior. The story typically goes that Paul was originally known as Saul, a non-believer who attacked and even murdered Christians. While fans and media had speculated “Pablo” referred to the duality of the artist Pablo Picasso and drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, West corrected the “memes.” Pablo was his version of Paul the Apostle.
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