Yet the rapper’s recent albums have been filled with empty expressions of self-confidence (even Jay-Z’s biggest fans concede that the beats were often more compelling than his lyrics). “That’s how I knew he was a special child.” But ballsiness is the foundation of hip-hop, and Jay-Z, a lyricist who gave himself the messianic nickname J-Hova, has perhaps the biggest balls in the business. “He was the last of my four children, the only one who didn’t give me any pain when I gave birth to him,” says Gloria Carter, mother of the Blessed One, Jay-Z, on the opening track of her son’s new CD. It is the pinnacle of ballsiness to open an album with your mama talking about your birth as though you were Jesus.
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