Kanye West/Jay-Z "Watch the Throne" discussions

[dannyhatch]

So what do you guys think? It seems like already it's financially a huge success. By restricting advance copies to actual listening parties and releasing it on iTunes first they avoided the inevitable album leak and I read somewhere that this thing has already sold a million units in preorders alone, but musically I'm a little puzzled by it. I'm not so big into rap, with my familiarity with the genre restricted to Kanye and M.I.A., so I'm not really familiar with Jay-Z. That said, it's very catchy and smart stuff but from "the two biggest stars in hip-hop" it seems kind of low-key. So I just wondered what you folks thought.