Anyone with a decent taste of music is a fan and/or has respect for this guy. I was originally planning to write this post about Jay, how ive always been a fan & talked him up like everyone else without the depth of knowledge others may have possessed. I recently re listened to reasonable doubt and the blueprint duo and everything in between, virtually every album up to the blueprint 2 and after 5 years of maturing it feels like ive heard them for the first time. I was in literal awe. Now prior to the re listening i thought the race between the two was relatively close. I can say i think now believe otherwise.
Unless youve been exiled from the general public or in outer space you know wayne, what he can do, and your most likely a fan. We've seen what he's done in the remixes of 'knuck if you buck' & both "get em's" ill go as far to say that it is now a symbol that an artist's engineers and protools have succeeded if Wayne has chosen to make their song his own. The early birds recognized the foreshadow Dedication carried. that this mans lyrics and flow were a force to mark a new era and just maybe a new king of hiphop. D2 dropped and the masses grew. Drought 3 followed and broke the flood gates. The two disc set added the suburban population and the uniformed remainder of the hood to the hardcore hiphop heads. The entire country and dare i say most most of the world were now witnesses. Droughts 4-6 followed along with the other tapes combined to make Carter 3 the most anticipated album of our time; sending it straight to platinum in the first week.
I believe a number of things make Jay-Z better than Wayne. The first is history. Jay has simply contributed more to the rap game then wayne. MC's model themselves off of everything Jay has done. He chopped a line from Nas's 'The world is yours', used it as the hook on dead presidents II and when Nas got disrespectful shut him down with the famous "you made it a hot line, i made it a hot song" MC's do those two things to this day. Hov simply sets precedents. He's not out of line by any means by referring to himself as the godfather of rap, because he is. B.I.G or Pac would be but they were taken away. Not to say that its by default either because Jay's absolutely earned the title. He's gained the respect of the world by being the best LP rapper of all time in dropping TEN classic solo albums every year since 1996. All of Jay's albums mesh together perfectly, each album fits together like interlocking fingers. Wayne's best album was 'Tha Carter II', and a rapper must create hit records. Mixtapes are good, but, mixtapes are like how you play in practice, and Albums are how you play in the game and the fact is Albums not mixtapes win awards. And drought 3 was wayne's best performance
Hov plays story teller every time i drops a verse, he intelligently paints a vivid depiction of what he'd like us to see. Wayne brilliantly uses similes & metaphors to talk about money cars violence and drugs. Im not saying its not great, and im not saying its not entertaining. Im not saying i havent stopped a song halfway through on my first time hearing it to catch my breath in disbelief of how he talks about these topics. But what I am saying is that the bottom line is that after each time i listen to one of Jay's songs i feel a little wiser, not smarter like i learned something in class, but rather as if an older relative conveyed a life lesson to me through a rhythmic tale. I exit 4:40 later wiser than when i entered, more humble. Lets be honest you can count the amount of wayne's songs that have actual meaning on both if not one hand. For example, Wayne's "Ignorant Shit" verse with drake is full of exactly what Jay's hook criticizes in the original. I look at Music as something in my life that i need to be able to relate to. I have substance, taste, intelligence and wit. It cant just be entertaining I hold rap at a high standard, I demand to be intelligently entertained, im more complex than everyone else therefore i require lyrics with a certain level of complexity and value. If you hold yourself to the same standard the victor is crystal clear.
Hov plays story teller every time i drops a verse, he intelligently paints a vivid depiction of what he'd like us to see. Wayne brilliantly uses similes & metaphors to talk about money cars violence and drugs. Im not saying its not great, and im not saying its not entertaining. Im not saying i havent stopped a song halfway through on my first time hearing it to catch my breath in disbelief of how he talks about these topics. But what I am saying is that the bottom line is that after each time i listen to one of Jay's songs i feel a little wiser, not smarter like i learned something in class, but rather as if an older relative conveyed a life lesson to me through a rhythmic tale. I exit 4:40 later wiser than when i entered, more humble. Lets be honest you can count the amount of wayne's songs that have actual meaning on both if not one hand. For example, Wayne's "Ignorant Shit" verse with drake is full of exactly what Jay's hook criticizes in the original. I look at Music as something in my life that i need to be able to relate to. I have substance, taste, intelligence and wit. It cant just be entertaining I hold rap at a high standard, I demand to be intelligently entertained, im more complex than everyone else therefore i require lyrics with a certain level of complexity and value. If you hold yourself to the same standard the victor is crystal clear.
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