Matty Healy has been struggling with religion ever since he and the rest of The 1975 emerged onto the music scene.

Bre Offenberger, “I mean, if it was You that made my body, You probably shouldn’t have made me atheist.” - “If I Believe You” by The 1975 Just two tracks earlier on “Dead for Days,” he admits, “I can’t believe she stayed as long as she did.” By the end of this track, he’s asking her for one last night together before they say goodbye forever, and then Kinsella can channel his pain the one way he knows how: into song. They’ve tried couples counseling, but he’s discovered every time they thought something was solved, it would always have another unearthed layer the following week, and there’s never any progress. The only constant in Kinsella’s life right now is the gloomy guitar accenting his aching words as he watches his marriage fall apart. Nine albums later, on The Avalanche, he has somehow reached his most poignant form, getting better and simultaneously sadder with time. The world keeps going in circles - at least for Mike Kinsella, who hasn’t found a sliver of splendor since at least 2001, when Owen’s self-titled debut made it to shelves. “I’m in therapy / She’s in therapy / Turns out all the answers are just questions for next week’s sessions.” - “The Contours” by Owen In between those projects, he grew his empire, helming Roc-a-Fella Records and spearheading various film, clothing, sports management, and production deals. He returned in 2006 with Kingdom Come, and followed it with heavy output, including 2017’s lauded 4:44. JAY crafted his initial farewell statement on 2003’s The Black Album-with production from the soon-to-break-out Kanye West -but couldn’t stay away. Carter), proving his acumen for the charts.

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He went on to amass further hits like “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” (from 1998’s Vol. JAY’s debut album, 1996’s Reasonable Doubt, established his hustler attitude. He rose from a tough childhood in Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects to earn over 20 Grammys and sell over 100 million albums, all the while perfecting the frank NYC flow established by predecessors like Biggie Smalls. If ever there were a reasonable doubt that JAY-Z didn’t have the chops to thrive in hip-hop, his modern mogul status proves otherwise.

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