Jay-Z! Still?

Though there's a lot of debate over the lyrical and musical quality of the leaked BP3 tracks, I'd like to take a second to silence the music and check the rhyme:

Thought Shawty was the truth, found out she was a cheater,
we were supposed to takeover, I caught her bumping Ether!
I thought shawty like Mike, found out she like Prince,
thought she was Adrian, it’s been Rocky ever since,
My dollars was down, she left me for some Euro’s,
Took my whole flavour, I call her coke zero,
Co-MVP like Kobe and Shaq,
left me for the Heat,
we were winning back to back,
said I partied too much, shawty got fed up,
shawty got Britney shaved her whole head up,
we used to make out, kissing each others face off,
Fell for the ponzi scheme, damn shawty just Made-off.

(third verse on Venus vs Mars).



The ironies are a bit Kanyeezian, but still with an utterly Jay-Z sensibility. I don't think he's at the point where anyone can really call him washed-up. If he's no longer the greatest rapper alive (Wayne? Drake? Soulja Boy?), he's the greatest old rapper alive- sorry Rakim.


What remains worrisome, though, is the blandness of the Timbaland tracks on BP3. Of all the leaked songs, the Timbo tracks are getting the most thumbs down, and often because of the music. Uh Oh. What I think is going on? Timbo has moved on. Give him a J.Timberlake, Keri Hilson, Nelly Furtado- he'll make some dancefloor madness. His days of rap jams, may be passed him. Thoughts?