1. You do realize that the man is 43 years old right?Whats hating about that? He said if he could he would "rhyme like Common". Now he can and he is going even more Euro. The music he makes is at odds with the music he claims to want to make and there is no reason why that should be that isn't within his power. He could do a RD tour and sell out worldwide, demand is not the problem. Hes worth half a billy, food on the table is not a problem. He is the head of his label, politics are not the problem. Why hasn't Jay made the album he claims he wants to make?
Is this false? Most people who buy dude's discs are not downloading them, or they are and copping anyway. They prob own a couple of his discs and cop within the first month of release. Those are loyal fans. It wasn't a swipe, it is what it is
I dont hold a grudge with Jay fans, I am a Jay fan. I bump AG & WTT, Im not one of those "he needs to go back in time" nikkas
But as a fan I'm insulted by the premise that by enjoying his new shyt I'm dumb, as well as the lie that he went commercial because he had to, as opposed to him going commercial because he wanted to/it was an evolution of his sound and natural progression in line with his life. He couldn't reconcile with the evolution of his sound, so he blamed his fans
Im insulted by the gross hypocrisy of his blatant marketing ploys... i.e. The "Black Album", a no promotion album coupled w/a world tour"Death Of Autotune" on TBA and then Ghetto Techno + Drake features on BP3
Just cause I'm a fan doesn't mean I can't call BS when I see it, and I'm that way w/any artist I like
I hate fans who treat their favorite rappers like their dads... shyt even when my dad is on some bullshyt I call him on it. You nikkas need to stop taking shyt so personal its just music
Now hes rich, hes got the critical acclaim, hes got the fanbase that will buy a million discs, where is the straight spitting disc? Where is the album full of Grammy Family freestyles? shyt when's the last time Jay did a free mixtape?
Jay is one of them, but even if he wasn't why would it matter?
2. That he is trying to do different shyt, with different albums. BP3 was for world tours, foreign awards, grammys, he wanted to make an album that even cats that can't speak English will fukk with and he did it successfully. And there was no gimmick in it, where was the auto-tune on it? Where was the techno on it? The album before that was what his longtime fans got which was American Gangster.
3. What is straight spitting? Jay-z is an artist, not a Lloyd Banks type of rapper.
He's never been a "straight spit" artist, he makes songs. Concepts, flows, deliveries etc. He proved that with BP1, which he claims he didn't rap like Common but it's better than any Common album and Common is generally a top 10 rapper.
Jay doesn't have a lot of time left (unless WTT was his last project as a top tier rapper then it's already over), most rappers, tastemakers and shyt already consider him top 3 when it comes to skills. So him not doing what he's done a bunch of times before is kinda understood. And it's also the reason to why he stays on top and is the top 3 most interesting rapper year after year. If he did the same spitting game over soulful samples, in his comfort zone he'd not be very interesting. He'd be out now doing 300k (if that) and getting 4 mic reviews (and have some stans calling it classic music). Or not dropping music at all. And you can figure out which rappers belongs to which group.