Jay Z Named One Of The “Most Powerful People In The Art World”
Jay Z, “Takeover”
Producer: Kanye WestAlbum: The Blueprint
Lyric: “You said you've been in this 10, I've been in it 5/Smarten up, Nas/Four albums in 10 years, nigga? I could divide/That's one every, let's say 2/Two of them shits was doo/One was "nah," the other was Illmatic/That's a one hot album every 10 year average"
Why It’s Dope: You didn’t think we were going to leave this off the list, did you? Perhaps the most notorious reference to Nas’ classic on this list, this line is particularly wild because it is a part of one of the greatest diss tracks in the history of hip-hop, and perhaps the greatest unintended show of respect in hip-hop history. If a dude you’re beefing with acknowledges that the album is hot, it must be hot.
Despite Drake not being too fond of Jay Z's artsy bars, The Guardian seems to have a liking for Hov's taste in the art world. They have complied a list of the "Most Powerful People in the Art World," and have included Jay Z as one of those people.
With the list ranging from people like Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Emmanuel Perrotin, Larry Gagosian, Ai Weiwei, and Cindy Sherman, Hov managed to get himself on the list alongside these art titans.
For Hov's inclusion on the list, they wrote: "In one video he rapped in front of a Takashi Murakami painting and a sculpture of Tim Noble and Sue Webster (featuring a flashing dollar sign). His Picasso Baby, filmed in Pace Gallery and featuring too many curators and artists to count, was not the art world's finest seven minutes."