I Didn't Watch SNL, Despite Jay Z's Performance

For many, many years, Jay Z was my favorite rapper. Many a positive, and negative, personal time in my life was survived on his music. I went and saw him and Beyonce in the run of "first" shows at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Jay Z is my favorite rapper ever. Or he was at least. I can't even claim that anymore.

I did not watch Jay on Saturday Night Live's season premiere on Saturday. Why? Well, there's two reasons to be honest:

1. I just didn't love this new album he put out. "4:44" just wasn't my favorite Jay Z album. Gone is the guy from Marcy, and in his place is someone apologizing for being Jay Z. I get it: rappers out grow the persona they start out with. They have to, if they are successful. The evolution of Jay Z was inevitable, as was the complaints of cranks like myself.
2. I'm tired of the soap opera that is him, Beyonce, and her sister, and he brought it up on this album. The minute he "co-apologized" for Solange's physical attack on him in the elevator at the Met, I was just kind of not there as a fan anymore. There's no justification for it, regardless of what he did before hand. Then Beyonce had to put out an album about their marriage issues, followed up by this album of his, also addressing the situation. Enough already. Terrible as this is, if I were him, I would have sent divorce papers over the next day and filed charges on Solange, so there's that. I just lost respect for them both after that. 

So, I skipped watching the SNL season premiere, and his performance on Saturday night. I feel kind of weird about that, and I know a lot of folks probably would disagree with me about the situation. I just didn't find much interest here.