Memphis Bleek is Holding Out Hopes for a Collaborative Challenge With JAY-Z

Memphis Bleek continues to be maintaining hope alive for a collaborative mission with JAY-Z. The previous Roc-A-Fella rapper ran into TMZ at LAX over the weekend, the place he mentioned his intentions to steer Hov to no less than accomplice with him for an EP.

“I don’t assume so. Hov too far gone, man! I used to be supposed to do that when he had $100 million, not a billion. If you received a billion, it’s arduous to get you within the sales space. Solely his spouse can do it,” Bleek admitted. In 2018, Hov and his spouse, Beyoncé, launched their debut collaborative LP, Every thing Is Love. The couple has a storied historical past of working collectively, with their classics together with “Loopy In Love,” “Improve U,” “Drunk In Love,” “Half II (On the Run)” and “Household Feud.”

Regardless of Hov probably by no means coming into the sales space for one more collaborative rap mission once more (he launched Watch the Throne with Kanye West in 2011), Bleak, born Malik Deshawn Cox, stays persistent.

“Maintain it ’trigger I’m attempting. I nonetheless ship him joints, I get shot down like a clay pigeon,” he added. “However one thing gon’ stick in the future, ya know? But when we may drop an EP collectively, that will be — c’mon, that will shut off the entire trilogy of the ‘Coming of Age’ story. [Fans] want one thing traditional.”

Cox has been buddies with Hov since their upbringing in Brooklyn’s Marcy Tasks. The 2 first collaborated on “Coming of Age” from JAY’s 1996 debut album, Cheap Doubt, adopted by “Coming of Age (Da Sequel)” on 1998’s Vol. 2… Exhausting Knock Life.

The 45-year-old went on to share that the 4:44 rapper will relocate his 40/40 Membership from New York Metropolis’s Flatiron District to Midtown, with plans to open subsequent summer season. Till then, JAY-Z followers can nonetheless get pleasure from his Ebook of Hov exhibit at Brooklyn Library’s central location till the autumn.