As part of the rollout for his new album, 4:44, JAY-Z released a powerful short film on Monday focused on the black experience in America. Called “Footnotes for ‘The Story of O.J.,’” the mini-documentary features interviews with prominent black celebrities like Chris Rock, Will Smith, Michael B.
Jordan, Kendrick Lamar, and Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, and builds off the themes of its namesake song, “The Story of O.J.”“We tend to, as black people — because we never had anything, which is understandable — we get to a place, and we just think we separate ourselves from the culture,” JAY-Z says in the film, which is called a 4:44 Short and touted as “Episode One.” “Like O.J. would get to a space where he’s like, ‘I’m not black, I’m O.J.’ Like Tiger Woods would get to a space…
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