JULY 12, 2017 | PUBLISHED BY EL SCRIBES

Joey Bada$$ recently sat down with Montreality to discuss some of his views concerning everything from Kendrick Lamar to mumble rap to suicide. Early in the interview, the 22 year-old MC also expresses his love for JAY-Z’s 4:44 album, as well as the belief that his own music has helped inspire the recent direction of JAY’s music, and touches on his sociopolitical influence, in general.

“I was glad that [4:44] was definitely [JAY-Z] just gettin’ on that ‘f*ck what everybody else is doin’, I’m about to do this,’” Joey says of the living legend’s acclaimed fourteenth LP at about the 4:00 minute mark. The Brooklyn native adds that Jay’s latest album is “a soundtrack” for the borough in a way that he believes 2013’s Magna Carta…Holy Grail was not. The Pro Era leader states that he thinks Hov was listening to his music, and it influenced Jay’s musical direction. “Honestly, I feel like I was an inspiration to that album… I put certain pressure on these O.G.s in the Rap game. Like, they know what they gotta talk about now, ’cause they got this young ni**a Joey Bada$$ coming out, talking about this sh*t before they got the chance to talk about it,” he added, presumably referring to the political content of his sophomore LP, All-Amerikkkan Bada$$.

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