“I’d like to sit him down, play him some really great poetic music, some incredible, well-produced hip hop. He made a blanket statement. He hasn’t heard every hip-hop record and I haven’t heard every rock record so I can’t make a blanket statement and say rock doesn’t belong somewhere. I can’t say that. I can say Noel Gallagher rips off the Beatles. I can say that. Because I’ve heard his music. But I can’t say, rock music rips off the Beatles. It’s too general.”
the ever-reasonable Jay-Z