Kingdom Come by JAY-Z Song Info
This is the title track from Jay-Z’s 2006 “comeback album.” It was one of the first tracks he recorded for his post-retirement release, and its recording influenced the album title: I didn’t have the title until I made a song called ‘Kingdom Come.’ I was like, Wow, that’s so powerful. Maybe it should be an album title. The track embodies the loose concept that the name was taken from. Kingdom Come was a comic book mini-series created by DC that brought back older super heroes in a time of need. It was Young Guru who gave Jay the idea for the concept, and Jay ran with it heavily on this track. Produced by Just Blaze, it samples “Super Freak” by Rick James, as well as “100 Guns” by Boogie Down Productions. Blaze spoke at length about the way he made the beat here. It’s funny because some people’s criticism was like, oh, Just Blaze used a 10-month old beat from his MySpace page. But actually it was done shortly after I put it up. He has said that it was Questlove of The Roots who first directed Hov to his MySpace page to listen to the instrumental.