Jay Z is a talented great artist, good business man, very lucky, I been following him a long time, heard his whole catalog. He has great shit, mixed in with a lot of weak and average shit. Name dropping and features with other famous people, does not make a song great. There are a lot of weak collabs featuring big names.
But niggas, always extreme with dick riding.
It hurts niggas to their soul that Kanye has way more money than Jay Z, without even trying hard to pass him. They rode that pony to the end, that Jay was the smartest, richest nigga in the hip hop industry. Threw it in every debate.
He is very successful, but Jay Z's music catalog is not the best I have heard from end to end, and he definitely is nowhere close to the best lyricist I have ever heard.