See, I never heard him on the radio, though. Like I said twice-- I sat through a whole 40 minute set at Bonnaroo last year. He was in his element, with his fans, in an uncensored environment, so I'm pretty sure my experience with him was quite legitimate as far as an opportunity to really see an artist perform what represents him.
I highly doubt that everything he was playing was his "mainstream" stuff. In fact, I KNOW he threw in quite a variety, since there were points during the set I heard his fan-boys go "OH SHIIT, WHAT'CHU KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE?" or "OHH SHIT, THAT'S THAT NEW-NEW!"
And I said he had some talent, I'd be an idiot to deny that. I just simply stated that you saying he was an "Amazing rapper" and "Best rapper out now" to me was laughable, which it was. That's nothing against you, that's just such a big clash against my preference that I couldn't do anything but laugh.
Edit-- Yeah, Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt is to this day one of the greatest hip-hop albums in my opinion. From beginning to end, it was fire. But because of what he is now, it's kind of hard to explain to people who didn't grow up listening to him, "Hey, he was/is actually pretty good...it's just that he's a business man now." He's become so irrelevant, it's crazy.
This post was edited by Pelican on Mar 31 2013 10:42am