Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170702:22:47:00
"4:44" does not only look inward. jay challenges the notion that successful black americans can simply transcend their race, comparing that to the house field divisions of a plantation and rapping that he will stay in the field even after success. he says, go shine cutlery. go play the quarters where the butlers be. i'm gonna play the corners where the hustlers be. now that plantation duality he speaks of is a tribute to malcolm x's famous 1963 speech arguing that the house and the fields still apply. and he declared, malcolm x, that he identified with the field. but "4:44" is not just a colle...
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