I agree with the second part of your post, but this connection Jay trying to make like his work was this super sophisticated stuff and he wasn't a purely capitalistic mainstream rapper that more or less helped usher in this hyper materialistic and shallow climate of hip hop we see today is amusing.
When you become a father, man.
His kids still gonna hear Big Pimpin, and Super Ugly one day, do they own research and contrast it with the man they grew up with and no amount of PR will pretty up how he's truly depicted to them