Posted on 08/24/2009 12:47:09 PM PDT by pissant
So you think you’re all cool and hip, huh? Well, you are not as cool as famous rappers Jay-Z or Drake — and you are certainly not as cool as Jay-Z and Drake together. This is the central thesis of “Off That,” the newly leaked Drake collab from Jay’s upcoming The Blueprint 3, and it’s hard to argue with. Just accept it: Whatever cutting-edge trends you think you’re inventing, Jigga and Drizzy already discarded as played-out years ago. Facts are facts.
The fizzy beat behind “Off That” comes from Timbaland; while he and Jay-Z have done more ground-breaking work in the past, those two are evidently still incapable of creating a bad track when they team up. Drake’s contributions to the song are limited to the hook, which he handles competently. And Jay? His ever-changing flow is on point as per usual, and he even sneaks a few smart lines into what is essentially a silly flossing anthem: “Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back/Tell Rush Limbaugh/To get off my balls/It’s 2010, not 1864!” I love party jams that come with stealthy political undertones, so I just about stood up and clapped when I heard that verse.
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What a genius this guy is
“Jay-Z or Drake”
Who? and Who?
I am so not cool.
Jay-Z has no reason to fear Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. It’s just part of the demonization of people who don’t agree with the Left.
I wasn’t aware that Rush had a problem with Jay-Z or that other guy. Whatsamatter Jay-Z can’t take the heat Rush puts on your bro? Time for a Bo Snerdley rebuttal yo yo.
I’m not either, to old I guess. who the hell are these two?
Written by a Jewish Ape?
Bill Shakespeare has finally been dethroned.
I wonder if I can get them to 'diss' me too! I want on the list!
Next thing you know they will be lying dead in some ditch shot by another 'Rapper'. BIG DAMN DEAL! Live by the thuggery, die by the thuggery.
Has Obama had them at the White House yet for music appreciation?!
Still look for the Smart.
Then again, reading this article made my head hurt too.
So this is the type of entertainment writer that finds a rap hit like that to be "politically smart".
One would think that critical comments from a jerk like Jay Zee, would be compliments to men like Rush & O’Reilly.
I love it when rapper's stealthy political overtones make them look like illiterate, history-challenged, ijits.
I wouldn’t know either of these gentlemen if they were shining my shoes.
These dudes aren’t cool. Cool is eternal.
Jame Brown was and is cool. These turkeys are cool like Chic.
Jay-Z is mediocrity personified. He’s like Puff Daddy, but for an even dumber generation with even less discriminating taste. The man’s incapable of making two songs (and I use the word loosely) that don’t sound exactly alike.
I have no clue who the Drake fella is. He hasn’t been busted in the club wit a gat yet, so I haven’t heard of him.
And take heart... uncool is the new cool. Knowing who these nobodies are is no badge of honor.
I did not understand any of that.
Frankly, I don’t want to.
How did Jay-Z make all his money? U.S. capitalism. It wasn’t socialism, and it wasn’t stimulus money.
Or can tell you how long ago it was.
nowhudahmsay'n?
I have a problem taking seriously anything coming from one who calls himself “Jay-Z”.
So will this song fall under the “talk radio” rules when it gets played on the radio?
That's funny... In 1864 we were in the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln was re-elected, and the DEMOCRAT Party was trying to figure out how to surrender to the Union.
In 2010 we're in the middle of a war on terror, Obama is President, and the Democrats are trying to figure out how to surrender to the terrorists.
Some things never change.
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