Jay- Z Stop Telling Me How Rich You Are
Jay-Z stop telling me how rich you are, I already know. With Jay-Z’s last two records I almost fell asleep listening to them. All Jay seems to want to talk about is designer clothes and luxury cars. I’ve never shopped for high end clothes, so I can’t even listen to Jay and understand his music. He seem too have exhausted this topic already and it’s making his music stale. Jay- Z also is not helping when he refers to himself as an inspiration.
Its so difficult to listen to a Jay-Z album when he is making references to high end brands. These brands aren’t even the type the regular people consider high end. Jay-Z is talking about the super elite brands, the type no one who listens to his records can afford. I’m sorry I don’t have five hundred dollars to afford a shirt. The normal hip-hop listener won’t even recognize these brands because they are so exclusive. I could have done without a song entailed “Tom Ford.”
It seems like Jay-Z has exhausted his subject matter. I can see how this happened Jay-Z released his first commercial project in 1996. He has since been living the life of the rich and famous. Jay-Z hasn’t had any more like experience as a normal person to draw from. Life as multimillionaire has been such a long percentage of Jay-Z’s life that he hasn’t really had much to draw from. Personal experience tends to make for a lot of the best music.
Since Jay’s life as a drug dealer has been so thoroughly explored in his sixteen albums span. He seems to have spoken on what he knows. This is to say he focused on his life in the ‘one percent’. Unfortunately standing on people for an hour is not that exciting or compelling to me. I don’t want wealth to validate myself to other people, so this message does nothing for me.
Jay-Z’s message only gets worse when he refers to himself as an inspiration in his music and his media appearances. I’m not saying that Jay-Z doesn’t inspire people. I’m not even saying that Jay needs to be humble. To me it comes off as arrogant to say that your an inspiration. I’ve heard people give Kanye West flack for similar comments. I think its only right to treat Jay-Z to the same standard and say that this is out of line.
Jay I know your rich,you’re the god emcee and all that; I just wan better records from you. With all your music about super rich people problems, I can’t connect with the music. I’m listening to the music specifically to connect to someone. If your out of personal experience you should reach out into new concepts for anything please. I’m tired of hearing how rich you are.