back when flex was going after Dame Dash, we learned from Dame that flex is just a puppet. He said he has not beef with flex and understands that flex needs to make a living so he will do what hes told to do. The whole beef was with Lyor and Dame
I dont know why lyor and hova is beefing but flex is just a tool
what made u stop being a fan
I stopped being a fan because his appeal to the culture pr run because he was really a sellout to save face run failed.
that started in the vh1cycle of rap/hiphop documentaries.
I was already on some bullshyt, going back to actually like jayz.
when, originally I never liked him at all.
it just so happened, around the worst second cycle of low quality rap record releases In history after 83 till criminal minded.
which, started around the time the has one love remix vinyl dropped, and was going hardcore in mid1996.
awaiting the release of the delayed common resurrection twelve. Is where, the quality of rap records declined so exponentially and culturally things were starting to go in disarray.
by the time hiphopsite.com became a staple. Rap was pretty much on lifesupprt and the only quality listen was jayz.
As, everyone was selling out the culture in some capacity.
to capitalize on rap's global marketing push from Leo Burnett.
so, the quality of music was down and a sonic landscape shift occurred in rap from sonic quality and even bpm's to elements.
in that time jay was ramping up in skill and the only guy who was wholely proficient in that sonic landscape change.
that was consistently making material that was featured in arenas rap previously could not be welcomed in.
I was younger, a corporate beast driving a luxury car.
Number one in sales for chicago's oldest and largest ISP.
I dressed in an environment that allowed us to dress like who were in a corporate setting. From a past strict corporate setting based background.
in that though, I never gave jay a pass for being a jiggy sellout.
I just realized I liked his music the most at the time and everyone did in 1998.
as volume I, was a release that grew on me, as well as reasonable doubt, from 97.
yet, as the real stories started to be unveiled about jay.
really, not being who he always portrayed and him being a sellout.
meeting with certain groups in Chicago and seeing first hand it was a lie.
so, I just went back to being a purist culturally as far as jayz was concerned.
Jay can't construct a pass system to culturally be accepted the way he wants culturally with the real.
As, there are to many variables of him selling out to.ignore.
Plus, he never apologizes genuinely in a cultural sense to make up for his bullshyt, either.
jay is not the first artist who I had to abandon support of.
It has been legions of rappers I have stopped supporting over my close to forty years on earth.
Jay is no exception.
nor is he as special as some of the other names, either.
Art Barr