PLUS...
the jay-z stannery and perpetual slobbery of this man is quite sickening, to be honest. i feel like he has everyone fooled/brainwashed. i mean, he really has ppl worshipping him as "Hova"? WTF? that's on a whole deeper level than hip hop, it is spiritual! and that is a whole nother discussion that we won't get into for the sake of the thread.
as far as hip hop goes tho... the REAL hip hop heads know that there would have been NO WAY POSSIBLE for jay to take over the way he has if it were not for Biggie and Pac being conveniently taken out of the way so that Mr. Carter would clearly have no viable competitor to challenge/threaten his (and it will be this way as long as jay follows orders like a good mascot, which goes back to my OG point).
go back and listen to Makaveli. Jay-Z def did not want any of that and we already know jay wasn't better than Biggie.
"It's like an AIDS test, what's the results?
Not positive,
who's the best? Pac, Nas and Big
Ain't no best..."