He is an extremely talented producer, one of the best in music today. He is also one of the few mainstream hip hop artists who have lyrics which make sense. In terms of main stream artists, you have Jay-Z and Eminem. After those two, you have Kanye West and then guys like Lupe and Nas who though they don't get on the radio all that much, they still are very popular. Lil Wayne, Drake, almost all of Young Money, they don't make sense when they rap. They try to make cultural references that usually don't make any sense. "I got a city that I Carey like Mariah." That's a line from one of Drake's songs. That is just a little play of words, it's not a good punch line by any means. You can tell that rap music is down just by listening to jamn94.5 now. I remember 10 years ago, you would hear Q-Tip, Biggie, Tribe, actual rap music. Now, Justin Bieber, Drake, Lady Gaga on Jamn? Actual rap music is slowly fading out.