My iPods consist of a variety of music from many genres, yet sometimes there will be one particular song that when played will stick to me more than others. So long story short, I decided to write about those songs. I don’t know how often I’ll be doing this given my schedule/propensity for being a lazy bum, so I invite all those who are interested in doing so to provide their own scribes as well. – Meka
With every song that has escaped the calculated mind of Shawn Carter throughout his decades-long career, some of his more harder lyrics have, understandably, ventured under the radar during his quest to become rap’s greatest monarch.
Jay’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life came during his career’s proverbial tipping point: known as a fully capable emcee, he too was caught in the same rapture that led to his former foe Nas donning a neon fuchsia suit for his own sophomore set in an effort to eschew the “street” rapper title-slash-curse. His 1998 album not only turned the hip-hop world on its collective ear, but also helped establish rap itself as a viable and – more importantly, financially profitable – commodity.
While the Annie-swacking “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” and the “why did we ever let these Amil and Ja Rule through the door again” chart-topper “Can I Get A…” receive the most notoriety, nestled in between the glitz and glamour of HKL was “It’s Like That,” which unofficially marked the debut of Jay’s Mariano Rivera-esque closing capabilities. Saved as the “final” song on the album (excluding the bonus tracks “Money Ain’t A Thang” with Jermaine Dupri and “It’s Alright” featuring perennial underachiever Memphis Bleek) the Wet Willie-sampling, Kid Capri-produced cut (which was also featured in Kid Capri’s largely ignored second studio album, Soundtrack To The Streets) was the album’s true gem, with Jay in his then-finely tuned “one take” flow, ripping off bar after bar of controlled insanity:
Rappers y’all, runnin’ around like I won’t gun ya down
Last ni**a that fronted, two shots spun him around
Lord, accept this offerin’ here’s somethin’ for your crown
I meant no malice, I just met his challenge and won.
Unassuming yet loaded with braggadocio, this was Jay at his finest, something he would master on 2001’s The Blueprint It’s sad, really: nobody is able to duplicate that high quality level of lyrical precision anymore. Not even Jay.
DOWNLOAD: Jay-Z – It’s Like That f. Kid Capri
Who’s gonna be the first one to call Meka a Fag?
Nah he was always overrated. Never had a truly classic album. It’s just that he always managed a successful radio single. BP and his debut do not hold up when you consider true rap classics.
nobody is able to duplicate that high quality level of lyrical precision anymore.
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sorry thats just wrong…elzhis elmatic just proved its still more than possible
an ur forgettin Common, finding forever, shiesty krist on the NWL album..and theres loads more
“To each his own some teachers teach us peace is shalom,
while others teach us it’s a brougham with the pieces of chrome.
Some of you dudes wear gold like tutenkamen,
while other dudes wear clothes like a buddhist shaman.
The way I drop jewels niggas is like this dude islamic,
but I rock shoes in hues that make Judas vomit.
See my aesthetic somewhere between Kemetic ascetic
and a dreaded heretic in a leather fitted.
And if the weather permited it I might have weathered blizzards,
I might have spitted where I rested but I never shitted.
Some will dissect my shit some will never get it,
some will say I was clever others whatever with it.
I’m like the nigga that meditated and levitated,
or like the nigga that’s medicated and never made it.
Some bitches handed me the apple but I never ate it,
my nodes control codes on which rap is predicated.
We live this rap shit but y’all niggas fabricate it,”-shiesty krist-
Sperm <reasonable doubt was classic, it had bring it on, cashmere thoughts, dead presidents, d'evils, can i live, regrets, CMON SON! it definetly holds up against the classics, at least have a REASON for y its not..dont just make airy statements..cos it had lyrics, structure, great story telling, personal songs, hard songs, great beats…i cud go on
Jay-Z been a corny rapper ever since he started…and u will hear a lot of his corny shit back in his songs….so no he havent made 1 classic album and I think he is 1 of the most corny rappers ever….Just think about his songs like “Anything” or “Girls”….probaly almost ever song that he ever made is corny as fucked and I think he even should be awarded for that…..oh yeah I allready know the stans are gonna be pissed of for saying this lol
@TheTruth^^
SO ur saying on resonable doubt :regrets, bring it on, brooklyns finest, devils, can i live, coming of age, 22 twos and dead presidents was corny??
and u sayin on blueprint…never change, renegade,song cry, all i need, momma loves me was corny???
i agree after his first album he had alot of fillers on his tracks tho.
lol watch all the jay z haters and illuminati stay at home nut jobs go to town on this one!
@TheTruth
hahahaha. God damn son! Do your read what you type before you post it? You sound like a fucking 2nd grader, and i mean one of those kids who had to go to the trailer outside the actual building for “special help.”
The Truth@ good job trolling.
tbh vol.2 was pretty bad compared to R.D and i dont consider vol.2 a classic u cud tell he was going for a more commercial sound..he even said in a fora.tv interview he wuda changed alot of stuff on vol.1 and 2. but reasonable doubt is a classic imo and vol.1 has sum classic songs on it like wishing on a star, where im from and you must love me and intro/a amillion and one questions (that beat is stewed to perfection *dave chappelle voice)
oH and meka…there still are loaooooods of rappers who have the technical skill of jay in vol.2 he wasnt even taht good on it..
lemme see i co sing the new elzhi tape 2 days ago up top sum1 said as an example.
meka- this is why i visit 2dopeboys. DROP KNOWLEDGE
Take R.D. probably Jay-Z’s best album. Around the same time/era, O.C. released Jewelz. Now, the point is, Jewelz as an album ‘feels’ a lot more classic than R.D. May not have had the single-power, but definitely a better album. And that’s just O.C.’s release. There are a hell of a lot of albums from that time that outdo RD, which is considered Jay’s best.
Oh ATLiens, same year as RD! Damn, why aren’t Outkast considered the GOATs.
Their discography shits on everyone!
Sperm@ i think atliens is amazing..outkast r my best rap group and probably their albums i listen to the most out of all my albums..but …it dont stop reasonable doubt being dope and classic to tho..
@theTruth u never know fag, Jay Z is one of the best lyricist ever in hip hop since he started, and all of ya kids think he’s illuminati or sumthing fag like u and keep hatin on him, but u have to know he’s one of lyric murderers he murdered u nigga along with many past niggaz like Nas nigga. fuck yall kids
Imo, Reasonable Doubt is easily up there with Ready to Die and Illmatic when you consider the best rap albums of all time. Feelin’ It, Regrets, Can I Live, Dead Presidents II, Brooklyn’s Finest, Coming of Age, Bring it on, D’Evils are all amazing songs. I still have it in my iPod.
Yeah that’s one of my favorite joints off of that album along with that bar. Theres always gonna be someone that disagrees. Part of the game.
Sperm, your a faggot, go listen to RD, BP1 and The Black Album.
@Sperm- ATLiens was definitely the shit. So was Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik before it, and Aquemini after it.
Stankonia sucked tho, and Outkast hasn’t been the same since.
and yea, Jay has just as many if not more classic albums
Greatest Rapper Ever…this guy “Sperm” shouldve remained that…why couldnt his mom just swallow for God’s sake?
$pence< i used to think that..but i realised all there previous albums were just sooo good it was hard to reinvent ur self so amazingly for the 4th time but it has amzing songs and is still probly 7.5/8 outta 10..THE thing was there was 2 maby 3 bad songs and they had 3 albums with not 1 bad song…which is hard to do..but they still had
so fresh so clean
b.o.b
xplosion
humble mumble
ms jackson
..classics…
oh and spence…the lovebelow/speakerboxx was dope!
wheres ghostface?
greatest rapper ever
Slapboxing with Jesus
Jay-Z could’ve been on Navy Seal Team 6… and everyone’s response would be……
“this isn’t his best work”
Damn theres a lot of blind hate going on in here.
REASONABLE DOUBT, THE BLUEPRINT, and THE BLACK ALBUM are all classic hip hop albums that each changed the genre as a whole. Theres really no arguing this point.
Person@lol…thats wat im sayin..if ur gonna say r.doubt aint classic..at least give..logically thought out..REASONS.
yes he has a those 3 classics but to say he’s tha best is bullshit & yall know it…most recognized most popular yes but never ever ever tha best…& to whoever thinks so #ETHER
Oh 7 meka to say no one is showin that kinda precision anymore…smh yea homie clever but fool aint never been tha best rapper technically he may say some slick cleaver shit but structure wise he rhymes schemes for tha most part aint never been shit to me then if u come pare him to other greats he just fails to me but thats my opinion #EHHLIFE
Probably not the best rapper, but his definitely the best representative of the genre as a whole. (RIP Tupac)
Definitely in my Top Ten JAY-Z tracks!!!
can we at least agree Jay stole Vanilla Ice’s swag and rhyme patterns.
Dudes love to forget the elephant in the room.
Ice Ice baby
^Hi troll.
Full Lyrics:
[Jay-Z]
Yeah, un huh, watch this y’all, come on,watch this y’all, Jigga
Roc-a-fella ya’ll, uhhhh, come on yea !
[Kid Capri]
It’s Kid Capri and Jay-Z, It’s Kid Capri and Jay-Z
Cause I’m Like That yo ! Cause I’m like that yo !
[Verse One: Jay-Z]
As a young and dumb man, gun in the waist
Sold crack to those who couldn’t take the pain
And had to numb it with baste
Couldn’t drink the henny straight, I needed somethin to chase
I needed something to chase
Nowadays I throw shots back,leavin nothin to waste
Life is like a treadmill, niggas runnin in place
Gettin nowhere fast, a whole year done past
> I vowed to never stop winnin, ’til the earth stop spinnin
Rock hot lenin, cop hot cars and hot women
If it’s not him then you got it confused, y’all not remembering,
My motto is simply I will not lose, abide by the block rules,
I buy my glock used, wit bodies on it, let me know anybody want it ?
I’m raised, illrational, way misunderstood,
If you ain’t live like I live then run with the hood
I done what i could, to come up with this paper ’til this day still
Run with the hood, guess it’s part of my nature, if hell awaits ya ?
Nigga I’m coming with the razors, still flashin ya shit
Try to pass me in a six, tight classy on the wrist
Every bit of 30 karats, this is not a game
This isn’t why I came, make these words find a spot on your brain
And burn, then I recycle my life
I shall return
[Chorus: Female voice and Jay- Z]
[Woman]
How tight is your flow ?
[Jay-Z]
Cause I’m like that yo !
[Woman]
How right is your dough ?
[Jay-Z]
Cause I’m like that yo !
[Woman]
How white is your blow ?
[Jay-Z]
Cause I’m like that yo !
[Woman]
Only writers you know
[Jay-Z]
Cause I’m like that
[Verse 2: Jay-Z]
I’m a hop, skip, a jump, from rippin the pump
Spittin a couple of curse words, and hittin you chump
Shit, I get digits in lumps, I’m a motherfucking problem is this what you want
?
Overachiever, I love chicks that puff chiva,
And reefer paper, I hate the one’s that blow up ya beeper
Cause I, go in ya deeper, I only bone divas
Inpregnate the world when I “cum” through your speakers (ha ha)
Fuck hot my records got the fever
Niggas kick dirt, get ya whole block sweeped up
I creep up when the beef heats up, caught him with his feet up
And shoes off, bout to snooze off
Hatin, cause you can’t turn the booze off
You dudes is too soft, when I fuck with you all
I might bark your ex, and spit at the locks
But, other than that I ain’t even fucking with cats
Just me tied B.I., thug it like that, me,dame and biggs
What’s fuckin with that ?
Y’all can never diss Jigga, get nothing for that
Other then a couple slugs in ya back,[huh huh]
Rappers y’all runnin around, like I won’t gun ya down
Last nigga that fronted, two spun him around
Lord, except this offer here’s somethin for your crown
I admit no malice, I just met his challenge, In one
[Chorus: Repeat 3x]
[Jay-Z: Repeat 2x til fade]
Girls and guns, all I want
stock exchange, rocks and thangs!
Like i said to start, those who are interested in doing their own are more than welcome to submit to me.
The Black Album is still my favorite Jay-Z album.. He has a lot of fillers on most of his albums, or maybe he knows you have to have commercial appeal to sell records. So many so called fans of hip hop are cheap as hell and don’t buy albums. The ones who do buy the album at least do that, but the rest bootleg it and make excuses for why they don’t like it. Then you wonder why rappers have to get their songs on the Billboard charts.
I aint hard to find, youll catch me front and center/ at the Knick game, big chain and all my spelendor!
@ Meka
You think Game’s “The Documentary” is classic? I think so but it was one of my favorite albums all time, so its an unfair vote.
This isn’t even his best verse, but a sample of one song at least:
“The Documentary” (Title track)
[Verse 2]
If i die my niggas, fuck it
I did a song with Mary Blige, my niggas
Got a hook from faith
No verse from Jay
I guess on westside story
He thought i spit in his face
I told Ed Lover & Moni Love
I was talkin to Ja
With that mayback line
It was payback time
Keep fuckin with me nigga
Ill put you under me
Take your car and trade it in
For eight 3 hundred C’s
If you cross my T
I dodt your eyes
You’d do life in a cementary
I’ll do mine with shyne
Come home sit in the thrown
With my legs crossed
And my air force
Middle finger rough
Fuck the world
Cause im fellin like puff
When life after death hit
Mo’ money, mo’ problems
And i lost my best friend
Im the second dopest nigga
From compton u’ll ever hear
The first nigga only put out albums
Every 7 years (haha)
I mean, theres so many albums. Im a 00′s baby, so I didnt grow up on that 90s music. I looked back at one point or another but I find it boring. So I name relatively newer music, for example; Eminem’s “Song for the Moment” off The Eminem Show.
These ideas are nightmares to white parents
Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings
Like whatever they say has no bearing, it’s so scary in a house that allows
no swearing
To see him walking around with his headphones blaring
Alone in his own zone, cold and he don’t care
He’s a problem child
And what bothers him all comes out, when he talks about
His fuckin’ dad walkin’ out
Cause he just hates him so bad that he blocks him out
If he ever saw him again he’d probably knock him out
His thoughts are whacked, he’s mad so he’s talkin’ back
Talkin’ black, brainwashed from rock and rap
He sags his pants, do-rags and a stocking cap
His step-father hit him, so he socked him back, and broke his nose
His house is a broken home, there’s no control, he just let’s his emotions
go…
[Chorus]
{C’mon}, sing with me, {sing}, sing for the years
{Sing it}, sing for the laughter, sing for the tears, {c’mon)
Sing it with me, just for today, maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you
away…
[Verse 2]
Entertainment is changin’, intertwinin’ with gangsta’s
In the land of the killers, a sinner’s mind is a sanctum
Holy or unholy, only have one homie
Only this gun, lonely cause don’t anyone know me
Yet everybody just feels like they can relate, I guess words are a
mothafucka they can be great
Or they can degrade, or even worse they can teach hate
It’s like these kids hang on every single statement we make
Like they worship us, plus all the stores ship us platinum
Now how the fuck did this metamorphosis happen
From standin’ on corners and porches just rappin’
To havin’ a fortune, no more kissin’ ass
But then these critics crucify you, journalists try to burn you
Fans turn on you, attorneys all want a turn at you
To get they hands on every dime you have, they want you to lose your mind
every time you mad
So they can try to make you out to look like a loose cannon
Any dispute won’t hesitate to produce handguns
That’s why these prosecutors wanna convict me, strictly just to get me off
of these streets quickly
But all they kids be listenin’ to me religiously, so i’m signin’ cd’s while
police fingerprint me
They’re for the judge’s daughter but his grudge is against me
If i’m such a fuckin’ menace, this shit doesn’t make sense Pete
It’s all political, if my music is literal, and i’m a criminal how the fuck
can I raise a little girl
I couldn’t, I wouldn’t be fit to, you’re full of shit too, Guerrera, that
was a fist that hit you…
[CHORUS]
[Verse 3]
They say music can alter moods and talk to you
Well can it load a gun up for you , and cock it too
Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude
Just tell the judge it was my fault and i’ll get sued
See what these kids do is hear about us totin’ pistols
And they want to get one cause they think the shit’s cool
Not knowin’ we really just protectin’ ourselves, we entertainers
Of course the shit’s affectin’ our sales, you ignoramus
But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our
checks in the mail
It’s fucked up ain’t it
How we can come from practically nothing to being able to have any fuckin’
thing that we wanted
That’s why we sing for these kids, who don’t have a thing
Except for a dream, and a fuckin’ rap magazine
Who post pin-up pictures on their walls all day long
Idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs
Or for anyone who’s ever been through shit in their lives
Till they sit and they cry at night wishin’ they’d die
Till they throw on a rap record and they sit, and they vibe
We’re nothin’ to you but we’re the fuckin’ shit in they eyes
That’s why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and
hold it
Cause we consider these minutes golden
And maybe they’ll admit it when we’re gone
Just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that you hear in our
songs and we can…
[CHORUS X2]
Hov def ain’t what he use to be, and I prefer Nas’ music more nowadays…
BUT you have a to be complete delusional moron to think this man does not have ATLEAST one classic album..
Blueprint? No?
how about Reasonable Doubt? huh??
niggas got they snapbacks on too tight..fuck the Illuminati shit, thats far too irrelevant..
On of my favorite Jay-Z songs ever..this shit is so dope, very under rated and forgotten joint.
This was always one of My fav songs on this album I hadnt looked as deeply into its structure as you Mek but I did always like that he seemed to bend the beat around his rhymes on this instead of the other way around.
@??????????/ yo whats the name of that song by shiesty krist?
First of all lets be real RD , vol 1 , BP1 , and American Gangsta were classic albums and maybe even vol 2 because yall are just looking at musically but you forget about the level of success and impact which also play a role whether you like it or not. All the other artist people are comparing to Jay are dope but not on the same authenticity level as Jayz because Jay is rapping about his real life , he aint just coming with clever bars. Any album you can bring up I can point out why RD and Vol 1 is better cause just with those two albums alone he had more then 30 verses that are all lyrically better and that effected the people so much that they still quote those verses today when people bring up the best albums.
Overrated…thats all i have to say. And the negro is corrupted, i dont trust em.
People hate on Jay cause he made the most money but if he wanted he could probably go on tour today doing nothing but R.D songs. People talking all this lyrical shit when there is no way that any dropped 2 albums back to back the are better then Jayz first 2 albums. You can bring up any artist you want or any album and I can tell you why Jay killed they shit. Only rapper who even comes close is BIG
@??????????/ yo whats the name of that song by shiesty krist?
Ypal
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its called ascension
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYlFsQBbriA
Soji_1< ur the definition of a hater. so hes corrupted now n u dont trust him? he never said u shud…y was he more trust worthy in his early days when he he was a crack dealer gun shooter and robber by his own admission haha u just mad he got money…shall i say EVEN more money
The YOUNG Hov< yea that em verse is immaculate. stewed to perfection
Even if you take the lyrics from Vol 2 with Jay saying shit like – run into Pac and ask him where we went wrong tell him life is miserable when your dealing in the physical form is everything thats invisible gone? I need to know… COMEONSON even on his most commercial album I could name jewels he dropped all over it. Stop playing cause its a reason why hes still number 1 and even at 41 rapping better then the hottest 20 year old out today.
marty mcfly< i think
outkast did a great job..dropping atliens then aquemini 2 back to back classics
wutang..36 chambers..then wutang forever..2back to back classics..
that doesnt take away from jay it just shows there was a bunch of great music all comin out round the same time
I don’t like Jay-Z BUT I respect the fact that he drops more USEFUL knowledge than any emcee of his era. Starting from RD, “If every nigga in your click is rich, you click is rugged. Nobody will fall cause everyone will be each others crutches” – Feelin’ It
@Truth Girls was a classic song… who else can put Biz, Slick Rick, and Q-Tip on the same track SYSAU… (shut yo stupid ass up) Girls was a business move to get the pop masses accustomed to listening to real shit. Girls like JAy’s other “filler” tracks aren’t meant for the hip hop heads who constantly pirate music. They are meant for the average dumb MF kid in the suburbs who actually buys albums. Hook, Line, and Sinker… those kids will then listen to the realer shit as they progress and get older.
yo yall niggas is fucking retarded.
hov = G.O.A.T.
@????? I can agree with you on that but all I can say is Jay is a solo artist and he doesnt have a partner to trade verses with. 2nd , Girls was a great song lets be real that shit is classic. There are other dope rappers but not all of them are in the same lane as jay and not all of them have put out the same amount of songs. BIG is in his lane but he died young , Nas is in his lane but hes not as commercially successful. CL smooth can even lyrically match Jays skill level and sophistication but he doesnt have enough albums. What im saying is Jay made it a point to cross every T and dot every I so that anybody else just cant compete when you look at the big picture of is whole discography.
damn i want to write one up.. but im too fuckin lazy.. sorry Meka
All these comments are beautiful but at the end of the day they are all opinions. We have to all meet at a common ground and say that Jay-z has done things in the rap game that have never been done before and might not ever be seen again. He has had classics, BP, RD,etc. but what we all forget is how he has made most of the rappers we all have talked about…He is the one that has carried the game on his back and has made a lot of these solo artist up their flow, or claim that they dont write, or claim they did it in on take. When he does concerts ,its hip hop’s version of Michael Jackson with all those array of hits. Watch fade to black and think to yourself who in the hip hop game can put on a show like that. waiting… then think who is the best rapper Biggie, Jay-z , or Nas . Dude is smart…that question alone puts a monument in the city of hip hop with his big lips poking out talking about…haha.
Jay-z Where im from
Verse One:
I’m from where the hammer’s rung, New’s cameras never come
You and your man houndin’ every verse in your rhyme
where the grams is slung, niggas vanish every summer
Where the blue vans would come, we throw the work in the can and run
Where the plans was to get funds and skate off the set
To achieve this goal quicker, sold all my weight wet
Faced with immeasurable odds still I GAVE straight bets
So i felt some more something, and you nothing check
I from the other side with other guys don’t walk to much
And girls in the projects wouldn’t fuck us if we talked too much
So they ran up to tonka and sought them dudes to trust
I don’t know what the fuck they thought, them niggas is foul just like us
I’m from where the beef is inevitable, Summertime’s unforgetable
Boosters in abundance, buy a half-price sweater new
Your WORD was everything, So everything you said you’d do
You did it, Couldn’t talk about it if you ain’t lived it
I from where niggas pull your CARD, and argue all day about
Who’s the best MC’s, Biggie, Jay-Z, and Nas
Where the drugs czars evolve, and thugs are at odds,
At each other’s throats for the love of foreign cars
Where cats catch cases, hoping the judge R and R’s
But most times find themselves locked up behind bars (that all)
I’m from where they ball and breed rhyme stars
i’m from marcy son, just thought i’d remind ya’ll.
Chorus:
Cough Up A Lung Where I’m From? Marcy Son (AIn’t Nothing Nice)(Been To many places but i’m brooklyn’s own)4x
So where You From? (Excerpt from Me and My Bitch Biggie Interview: From Lady Interviewer)
Verse 2
I’m from the place where the chruch is the flakiest
And niggas is praying to god so long that they Atheist
Where you can’t put your vest away and say you’ll wear it tomorrow
Cause the day after we’ll be saying, damn I was just with him yesterday
I’m a block away from hell, not enough shots away from straight shells
An ounce away from a triple beam still using a hand-held weight scale
Your laughing, you know the place well
Where the Liqour Stores and the bass dwell
And Government, fuck Government, niggas polotic theyselves
Where we call the cops the A-Team
cause they hop out of vans and spray things
And life expectancy so low we making out wills at eight-teen
Where how you get rid of guys who step out of line, your rep solidifies
So tell me when I rap you think I give a fuck who criticize?
If the shit is lies, god strike me
And I got a question, are you forgiving guys who live just like me?
We’ll never know
One day I pray to you and said if I ever blow, I’LL LET EM KNOW,
THE STAKES and exactly what takes place in the ghetto
Promise fulfilled, still I feel my job ain’t done
Cough up a lung, where I’m from, Marcy son, ain’t nothing nice
Chorus:
Cough Up A Lung Where I’m From? Marcy Son (AIn’t Nothing Nice)(Been To many places but i’m brooklyn’s own)4x
So where You From? (Excerpt from Me and My Bitch Biggie Interview: From Lady Interviewer)
Verse 3:
I’m from where they cross over and clap boards
lost jehovah in place of rap lords…Listen
i’m up the block round the corner and down the street
from where the pimps prostitutes and the druglords meet
We make a million off of beats cuz our stories is deep
and fuck tomorrow long as the night before was sweet
niggas get lost for weeks in the street twisted off leak
and no matter the weather niggas know how to draw heat
whether you’re four feet or Manute size it always starts out with
3 dice and shoot the five niggas thought they deuce was live
then i hit em with trips then i reached out for they money “Pa
forget about this” this time around its platinum like the shit on my wrist and this glock on my waist yall can’t do shit about this
niggas will show you love thats how they fool thugs
before you know it you’re lying in a pool of blood
Chorus:
Cough Up A Lung Where I’m From? Marcy Son (AIn’t Nothing Nice)(Been To many places but i’m brooklyn’s own)4x
Is anybody cringing at this clowns pseudo-intellectual analysis. Please you gotta come better than this. This was totally unecessary, seeing as how Jay-Z explained and contextualized many of the gems from his catalog in his book last year. And as far as that lyrical sample, please…. No one else can match that? Jay Electronica’s throwaways are shittin on that lyric.
Im a huge Jay Electronica fan but you wanna compare his few mixtapes to Hovs dominance over hip hop for the last 12 years? There are alot of Mcs with complex words but lyrics that are understood will always be more dope then lyrics thats are not understood.
Dont call it hate just because it sounds corny to reall niggaz ears!!!
fucking stans getting all emotional for having an other opinion…wtf do u even read the comments fo? knowing ur gonna start crying
Meka if you wanted to spark convo, you did a good job of doin it
If your saying the Jay-Z never had a classic, your a fucking idiot. You obviously havent heard or do not understand The Blueprint
@marty
Em’s first 3 albums are better than all Jay’s best albums. Ghostface dropped back to back classics with Ironman and Supreme Clientele. DMX with his first two in the SAME YEAR. Definitely BIG’s two albums. Jay ain’t the only one. Vol. 1 isn’t even that hot compared to his other albums like Blueprint, Black Album and American Gangster. I wouldn’t call Vol. 1 a classic.
Also, this so-called classic It’s Like That is in the bottom half of Jay’s catalog. He has so many tracks better than this. Even on Vol. 2 itself, for example A Week Ago, Ride Or Die and Reservoir Dogs.
Ems first three albums are no where near as dope as Jay because those albums were mostly jokes and punchlines. Jays music is serious real life. Alot of Ghostface lyrics on Supreme Clientele made absoluty no sense. Dmx 2nd album was not classic.
“But a lot of truth is said in jest” – Eminem
blueprint was honsetly a pretty damn good album but I cant consider it a classic with “H to the izzo” (or wahteva that song is called) and “girls” on it…..those songs are just to horrible and to fucking corny…if it wasnt for those songs I would call it a classic.
Wow!!! those are some long ass comments, for some haters!!! Get a job!
The Truth…er..ok 2 radio joints..and it aint a classic?
so wat wud u consider a classic album?
@hghghg Illmatic is a classic and so is Ready 2 Die or The Roots 2010 album – How I Got Over…just a few examples