Watch the Throne

Now that we're all caught up to the present I think it is time to review some music. I feel like there's nothing better out there right now than Jay-Z and Kanye West's project, Watch The Throne.

Almost everyone's heard of these two rappers. While Jay-Z's been around for a long time, Kanye has had his ups and downs and some people think he's at the height of his reign. Personally, I'm a big fan of Kanye's and I'm okay with Jay-Z even though I haven't really gotten into him, I know what he's all about.

Kanye and Jay-Z are both idols in America. Many a rapper have tried to imitate them and not many have been as successful. So this is sort of a super-group of rappers. So obviously there were some high expectations coming from this. Personally, the CD took a little while to grow on me, and while it was a highly talked about CD, it might not have reached the popularity some think it should have. H.A.M. was the first big song that came out of it, followed a little bit later with Niggas in Paris which became very popular.

Why are these guys popular? Old people hate them. They swear a lot and they make kids wanna do drugs and kill people, which is obviously their job as rappers. That's obviously not true, this CD did not inspire me to do anything illegal. But America loves them. I believe that a lot of people "look up" to popular musicians because the life they live is unreal. These celebrities are always good looking, and have millions of fans who will do a lot to see them and they constantly have cameras following them. The life comes with a lot of stress, which I think you can really hear if you listen to Kanye's most recent record.

Remember when Kanye took the microphone from Taylor Swift at the VMAs? That was SUCH a long time ago (time flies with pop music, I'm listening to Hey Ya right now and my roommate just commented on how old this song is). But Kanye went through that event which gained him a whole lot of haters (the entire Tay-Tay fan base), and was followed and preceded by a few other events that made Kanye America's favorite douche-bag. Or just the biggest asshole, pick whatever one you prefer. He made 808s and Heartbreaks at that time, and while a couple songs had success, a lot of people look down upon that album and thought he was finished. But Kanye wasn't done as be proved in the last year with his own album as well as his half of Watch The Throne.

He's just proving that everyone loves the bad guy, sometimes. And Kanye can make better music than most of the other pop stars out there, at least that's what it seems like. But Kanye, the guy who even says "my head is so big you can't sit behind me" is still popular thanks to the fact that Americans, who some would say are very full of themselves, choose people like Kanye to model themselves after. He's talented at making his songs, and rapping, and makes more money than any of us. Same goes for Jay-Z and any of those super-evil rappers that those damn kids are listening to.