Carter June 16, 2017įurther cementing his hip-hop elder status - and in true dad-on-Twitter form - Jay then ended his rap scroll in astonishment that “black people really are magic.” Except he didn’t actually stop there.
But he couldn’t quite work out how to properly tweet.
He listed all the greats (Rakim, Tupac, Wu-Tang), his modern contemporaries (Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Nicki Minaj), and recounted old memories from his decades in the rap game. In June last year, during a rare (and allegedly sober) tweetstorm, Jay-Z broke his social media silence to thank all the rappers who’ve inspired him as he prepared to become the first rapper ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Mac Miller died at 26 of a reported drug overdose on Friday, and if the immediate reactions from his hip-hop peers prove anything, it’s that Miller was a rapper’s rapper beloved by anyone in the community who knew him, listened to him, or was just getting familiar with his work and story - so much so that even Jay-Z fell into the latter camp.
