>"And now here we all are: washed. Jay-Z's latest record, 4:44,
>was basically a catalog of all the things—the vulnerable
>feelings, the unflattering secrets, the self-doubt—he
>wouldn't allow himself to talk about on his 12 prior solo
>records. He made late-period albums such as 2013's Magna Carta
>Holy Grail, trying to convince all of us that he was still a
>world-beating giant. That everything was fine. But everything
>was not fine.

This is probably part of it no? This why they see that picture and laugh?