Jay-Z References Picasso, Rembrandt, & Rothko On Rick Ross’ “Maybach Music”

Date: 2008

Lyric: “The curtains are drawn perfectly like a Picasso, Rembrandt’s and Rothko’s/I'm a major player, 40-40's in Vegas at the Palazzo."

Complex says: True, one could argue that this Picasso reference is no more sophisticated than the reference he made over a decade before. But he also slips in references to lesser known modern artists Mark Rothko as well as Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt. Jay had obviously expanded his artistic palate.