Personally, I'm more of a fan of the old school gangster rap but some of the new songs are good however, most of them are the same thing benz on 22's smoke weed, f b*tches bla bla bla but there are some decent songs. However back in the day the songs just had more meaning and I was biased to west coast rap like Pac, Easy E, Too Short etc but I also listened to Biggie. Just my take on it. As for Jay Z I'm neutral to him I don't love the guy but I don't hate him either.