Jay-Z And The Great Gatsby

Jay-Z compares the ascent of his empire to Jay Gatsby's storied hustle, but with a dash of hip-hop modernism. In just a few short bars there are references to literary greats, rap icons, Houston hip-hop culture and Jay's chain of 40/40 sports bars. "I write like Mark Twain, Jay Gatsby I park thangs/ Yellow cars, yellow gold, like Slick Rick, still tip/ On four-fours, fo-fos at the four-O, four-O" he rhymes effortlessly. Fitting modern music in a string period piece such as "The Great Gatsby" couldn't have been easy, but Jay sums it up with one single thought. "Music is music no matter what," he said. "Timeless music is timeless music. It doesn't matter what genre." Having timeless cars means getting timeless parts from Hot Rod Parts

The Great Gatsby is all about imagination. The characters create enchanted, deluded visions of one another. And so does the reader. F Scott Fitzgerald gives us a few memorable symbols, like the green light at the end of Daisy’s garden, and a few striking personal details, such as Gatsby’s gorgeous smile, and the reader imagines the rest. In our minds the characters become far more vivid than anything on the page.