After director Hidji World took to his IG story with some clues implying he was on set with the New York rapper on Sunday afternoon, rumors and reports of a possible new JAY-Z album quickly began to circulate on social media.
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First sharing a screenshot of a conversation in which he he was “shooting today” with JAY-Z, Hidji also posted a pic of a first-take film slate labeled “JAY Z -2024 ALBUM.” Soooo… you can’t entirely blame the internet for coming to that conclusion.
As rumors began to spread, Roc Nation was quick to respond. Replying to a post on X that had reported “A NEW JAY-Z ALBUM IS BEING TEASED FOR 2024.”
“That’s news to us,” Roc Nation wrote.
JAY-Z announced he planned to “retire” from releasing music in 2017 after dropping his last solo full-length album, 4:44. He then released Everything Is Love with Beyoncé as The Carters in 2018, which was the first joint set from the husband-and-wife duo.
Discussing the possibly of making music again in the future during an interview with Gayle King this past October, JAY said, “I’ll say I wanna make music, but it has to be something important. I don’t wanna just make a bunch of tunes. That’s not gonna serve me. It won’t feed me, first of all. I have to be saying something important. It has to mean something, you know? It has to mean something to a larger society.”
Adding, “Like 4:44, for example, was a personal story, but the amount of vulnerability in there allowed for a lot of people to explore the space."
While the shoot could be a varied number of things, and most likely Roc Nation knows what’s up, before giving up hope, we're gonna wait for an official denial from the man himself.