![]() ![]() (Remember Jay-Z’s album-length hookup with R. Superstar collaborations almost inevitably disappoint. These two deserve about half the glory they heap upon themselves, which is saying a lot. ![]() But “Watch the Throne” is actually as accomplished and outrageously entertaining as it is un-progressive in matters of gender roles and humility. With heads these big in the room, it almost seems superfluous for an outsider to jump in with anything positive to say. Later, escorting a woman he describes as “Mary Magdalene from a pole dance” around a club, he adds, “That second girl with us, that’s our wife.” Leave it to West to advance the fight for marriage equality, as long as it involves threesomes. “You know how many hot (B-words) I own?” counters Kanye, less monogamously inclined than ever. “I got that hot (B-word) in my home,” raps Jay. ![]() West’s head isn’t any less large than his partner’s, so the main difference in attitude between the determinedly entitled stars is in how they relate to women. The missus is also cited - as is protege Rihanna - in the preceding number, “Illest Motherf- Alive,” which has Jay-Z reaching previously unaccessed levels of anti-self-effacement: “Elvis has left the building, now I’m on the Beatles’ ass / (N-word) hear ‘Watch the Throne,’ yeah, it’s like the Beatles back / Bey Bey my Yoko Ono, Rih Rih complete the family / Imagine how that’s gon look front row at the Grammys.” A recurring theme is how Jay-Z deserves all his riches to assuage the pain he experienced in his rough youth - and in the bonus track “H-A-M,” he includes his spouse among the rewards: “Try to walk around in these shoes / See the s- I saw growing up / And maybe you can take a peek at Bey’s boobs.” ![]()
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