Dos Un and I were having a chat while traveling to a meeting for our day jobs. We were discussing how we thought 4PL was slightly disillusion with his recent outward diss of Hov’s American Gangster project. Although admittedly neither of us has completely listened to the concept album straight through, the feedback we’ve received from others we trust and the singles we heard led us to once again shoot the Jay-Z flag up the flagpole.

So today I had a free moment at my desk and thought hey let me go on iTunes and download that American Gangster real quick and when I go to the gym I’ll have time to really examine it. BUT THEN I REMEMBERED…Hov had put the cabash on iTunes sales.

I once again had to revisit why? Was it really because Jay didn’t want his fans to purchase his artwork in bits and pieces? Well if you dig deeper its not hard to realize that this has something to do with Universal (the parent company of Roc-A-Fella/ Def Jam) is in a heated money fued with Apple/iTunes. Did Jay play the docile negro here I thought? Jay is too business savvy to have made such a miscalculation.

The days of the LP have come and gone…digital files are here at least for a minute. Did Jay just totally miss this fact and leave all that iTunes money on the table because to be quite honest I’m not sure now that the convenience of iTunes is not at my disposal to purchase American Gangster, the probability of me owning it (legitimately) have dramatically dropped because the next time I go to Best Buy its probably to purchase gifts and I KNOW I’m not alone.