The Playlist: Essential Tracks from Jay-Z and Kanye West
At one point, Kanye West was near the top of my mountain of music artists. Kanye was the underdog, the up and comer, the guy who had to produce first to get a chance to rock the mic. His big brother Jay-Z was pretty much a titan of the game since his debut in 1996.
Jay-Z had some dustups early in his career of being famous and his even-more-famous wife did "out" him (kind of) in her music and we all saw that elevator video. But he's been able to stay above board and not tap out to that submission specialist called celebrity. As for Kanye, that has not been the case. While his music is still wildly popular, Kanye the human has said so many foul things that a lot of his day ones have peaced out.
If you heard our episode of 50 For 50 on Watch The Throne, as well as the Top 5 episode on them, Mike and I still have trouble to listening to his stuff pre-fallout.
But Mike sucked it up and still put out a playlist for both artists; albeit, I'm sure it was more fun to search Jay-Z catalog.
Enjoy.
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