THE FIRST EVER TRACK OF THE DAY




The Track: Public Service Announcement by Jay-Z

I felt like this was an appropriate song for the return of the undisputed king of starting multiple projects and then dropping them to start new ones. Anyway, the blog is back with a new name (of a blog I had started previously and dropped) - more on that later though. From the Black Album, all these years later this song still slaps, enjoy.

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