It’s the paranoia of not being a great dad.” … Of course my karma, the two things I need, I don’t have. “So he didn’t teach me to be a man, nor how to raise a child or how to treat a woman. “My pop left when I was young,” Jay Z tells us in a surprisingly compelling, teary-eyed confession. Not only did the rapper take the unprecedented step of teaming up with the company to distribute his album via download to a million Samsung phone owners before its official release, a commercial (for both the album and the phone) finds him reflecting on whether he’s really got what it takes to be a good dad. Indeed, Jay Z himself is stoking that curiosity with his much-publicized partnership with cellphone maker Samsung: It’s fair, then, to wonder how fatherhood might have impacted the life of a performer who’s spent his career spitting profanity-drenched raps about hustlin’ drugs and indulging worldly pleasures. In 2012, Shawn Knowles-Carter and wife Beyoncé had their first child, Blue Ivy. Jay Z’s twelfth studio effort is his first since becoming a father (and since moving the hyphen from his stage name to his real one).
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