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It’s so clear Jay-Z wants to be positioned as a Miles Davis, Basquiat-like Black genius figure but… 😬
The catalogue & legacy just don’t rise to that level if we’re honest
His legacy is more about being a businessman than an artist & his ability to earn money beyond rapping
As far as cultural impact, there’s just not the same longevity there & that’s reflected in the discussion happening now
Outside of this orchestrated press tour, who was thinking of it being 30 years since Reasonable Doubt or how it relates to 2026? Who felt like it’s been a long time since we’ve seen or heard from Jay-Z?
That’s why it’s out of sync with the times & the vibes right now
@gasbabii Better rappers: Mick Jenkins, Denzel Curry, Joka Beezy, IDK, Black Thought, Sauce Walka
Better artists: none
He got that old lyric "I know some rappers using big words
To make their similes curve
My simplest shit be more pivotal
I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals"
@KendrickData They're compared bc GNX short af for a Kendrick project, it felt like an EP. If the dude give a full length project that should be the basis. Every other album been atleast 11 min longer got 2 medium length 50 to 60 min and 3 are super long over an hour. 🤣
Remember when Black Lives Matter activists said what they were trying to fix affects everyone, just Black people first? Remember when Black scholars said anti-Black policies eventually always end up hurting others? Remember when Black journalists said it wasn’t economic angst?
@MUSICANDBUILDS Ay and the Kendrick subs on Big Stepper are more effort rapping. Its like i love 21 style of writing and delivering but he makes so much better feeling music when he puts effort. The whole excessive nonchalance and stagnancy on the first half of the project are goofy..
@TD_Mani Its the fenty dealing let white boys say nigga sell out no code Gangsters that fw Drakes side of the 'culture'
Every juneteenth BBQ theme shirts in chicago was not like us...
They love Drake music everywhere tho too tbh
@TD_Mani As someone who has been inside the federal system and talked to game changers who are the basis of this entire culture from liberation to current street culture, the real ones definitely fw Kendrick
They purposely killed the Blackberry because you could remove the battery and disable every surveillance feature on the device.
Your current device is permanently on, listening and following you.
Few understand this.
When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.
America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.
It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.
This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.
And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.
If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.
Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.
But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.
And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.
We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.
America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.