Also, we know someone up there wants him to succeed. That someone gave this track to Pusha T, who unloads a blistering (though rather brief) verse over glowing synths.

He eulogizes a failed relationship in grandiose terms: "hoping, honest, I resist / oceans, timeless, the abyss." How'd this unlikely collaboration end up happening? Here's what O.W.S. had to say on the subject, via Jay Z's Life + Times blog: