The bars at the end of the article are some of my favorite in hip hop. Jay Z is tackling the claims that the most skilled rappers don't sell head on...
He's taking our assumption that good art isn't the most popular art, or that pop isn't skill, and deconstructing it while making a platinum record, his best selling of the decade.
He's taking our assumption that good art isn't the most popular art, or that pop isn't skill, and deconstructing it while making a platinum record, his best selling of the decade.
Chapelle talks about listening to that line on the Black Album with Common, Kanye, and Talib Kweli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4SYIfhzMmU
Maybe it happened that way and maybe not, funny story though.