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Originally Posted by pheurton
He did cover a song from the musical Annie, that's something lucrative right there.
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Indeed, it almost seems like the guy's whole career has been built on lucrative pop-hop collaborations etc.
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I voted No. I don't really question his huge success because mainstream rap is a joke but I still don't understand why he has some sort of credible rapper aura about him that Kanye does.
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This is true, though the strange thing is that in the case of Kanye West, any actual fan of him with a shred of knowledge about MCing and wider rap generally seems to acknowledge that his musical skills do not really lie in the rhyming/rapping department. But when it comes to Jay-Z, people genuinely think he's all-round amazing - and for what?