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Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first

“My 1st Song” is the final track on Jay-Z’s 2003 retirement album which finds Hov using a "Reasonable Doubt"-era flow. The concept of the track was inspired by the Biggie interview sampled at the top, with Hov recording it in a mindset of it being his first ever song: "That’s actually the last song on the album, but it’s really the first song. It’s about having the same focus throughout your whole career, about me treating my first song like my last and my last song like my first." Co-produced by Aqua and 3H, the song samples 1969’s “Tu y Tu Mirar…Yo y Mi Canción… read more
“My 1st Song” is the final track on Jay-Z’s 2003 retirement album which finds Hov using a "Reasonable Doubt"-era flow. The concept of the t… read more
“My 1st Song” is the final track on Jay-Z’s 2003 retirement album which finds Hov using a "Reasonable Doubt"-era flow. The concept of the track was inspired by the Biggie inter… read more

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