Cathy Iandoli revisits the evolution of Jay-Z and why he's often considered a larger-than-life superhero, minus the cape and mask.

When you think over 25 years, it's amazing to revisit Amlat Jay.

You forget sometimes when you see Jay now in his Basquiat era and being the person who, you know, we call like the superhero when there's social

It's a classic.

Ignorance was bliss during that time.

We didn't know Tupac was going to die in September.

And we didn't know that Biggie was going to die the next March.

And I feel as though that project was giving us the promise of this renaissance that we didn't get to have until years later.

Cathy Ian Doley, author and journalist, likens the relationship between Dame Dash and Jay-Z to the left and right sides of the brain.

I think every artist or every project needs a left brain and a right brain.

And I think Dame Dash with the left brain.

artists struggle like when an artist is putting together a project and they're the ones who are handling the creative and the money it's sometimes an impossible feat you need somebody whispering in your ear every success story regardless of how long it lasts is anchored by having a left brain and a right brain and it's impossible for one person to be both