Music
On July 8, 2008, Jones' released "The Good Shit" featuring production from Ron Browz and a guest appearance from fellow ByrdGang member NOE, as the first offering off the album. It was intended to be the first single, but was just used for airplay and promotional purposes. "Pop Champagne" a song Jones recorded with Juelz Santana and Ron Browz was leaked late in the summer of 2008. It quickly became a club banger and hit single, and was released as the lead single on September 4, 2008. On January 1, 2009 a song titled "Na Na Nana Na Na" was premiered and on February 17, 2009 was released to iTunes. It serves as the second single and features up and coming singer Brittney Taylor AKA Bree-Beauty.
In a listening session a few tracks were revealed. The "Intro" was originally titled "Across 110th Street" and "How to Be a Boss" was originally titled "Follow this Blueprint". On the sixth track, titled "Frienemies", Jones' addresses his strained relationships with Cam'ron and Max B. "My My My" is a song he recorded his deceased friend Stack Bundles. Jim Jones says he likes to call this track "Emotionless Pt. 2". According to Jim Jones, "My My My" is one of the hardest songs for him perform because of his emotions. The passing of Stack Bundles was one of the main inspirations for the album Pray IV Reign.
A track that was rumored to be on the album was the remix to MGMT's "Electric Feel":
| “ | They did a show up in Washington Heights, the initial conversation was just that it was an honor to meet them, I think they're kinna cool. And from there it led into me saying, It'd be crazy if I remixed "Electric Feel". They were like, Yeah, that would be crazy. So I said, Let me get the beats and shit. | ” |
A bonus track on the album was "Jackin' Swagga from Us" featuring Twista, Lil Wayne and NOE, a direct diss to Jay-Z and T.I. mocking their song "Swagga Like Us".
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)
“Good-by, my book! Like mortal eyes, imagined ones must close some day. Onegin from his knees will rise—but his creator strolls away. And yet the ear cannot right now part with the music and allow the tale to fade; the chords of fate itself continue to vibrate; and no obstruction for the sage exists where I have put The End: the shadows of my world extend beyond the skyline of the page, blue as tomorrow’s morning haze—nor does this terminate the phrase.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)