Watch The Throne

Just bought Watch The Throne, the new cd by Jay-Z & Kanye West. I've only listened to it once through, so opinions may change later. I think usually for Jay-Z, I need to listen to a song several times before I get a grasp on how I like it. But once through, here are my first impressions:
- this is one of the most disappointing albums I ever purchased, probably the most disappointing (doesn't mean it's the worst album)
- kanye is getting better. Ever since his first album hes been going down, here is my ranking of his work: 1) College Dropout, 2004 2) Late Registration, 2005 3) Graduation, 2007 4) Watch the Throne, 2011 5) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, 2010 6) 808s & Heartbreak, 2008. With a huge huge gap between 4 and 5.
- Jay-Z is really cool. I thought Kanye could ruin the cd with autotune/ all the garbage music he's been making for the past couple years, but Jay-Z did his thing as king, Kanye as jester.
- I think the album favored Kanye, basically his music and they did a lot of back and forth rhyming where Kanye could just spit out random one line punchlines, his strength. But Jay-Z destroyed him in pretty much every aspect, he might be the second best rapper alive (Eminem is #1 in my mind)
-They worked well together, you could tell they both put time and effort into doing it.
- I've heard that Jay-Z never writes his rhymes, I wonder if he did with this because some of his stuff was going off what Kanye said, so I feel like some planning was needed.
-Favorite song - Otis    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEKWtgJQAU&ob=av2e
-I like 3/16 songs on the album, this will probably change in time
- I was expecting 'harder' songs, I thought the beats could have been better. That being said, they both did a good job talking about how awesome they were, as usual.
-The last cd I bought - Distant Relatives, another collaboration with Nas and Damian Marley. I liked that one better than this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGd3mAfl-0&ob=av3e