top 100: jay-z moments

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100. ain't tryin to be rude, dude... give a nigga some spacccce

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:37 (twenty years ago)

99. You only get half a bar/ Fuck y'all niggas - The Takeover

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

98. I was on the Peter Pan bus/ Ya'll was puttin' Peter Pan up in your room/ Y'all fuckin' with whom?

97. You dudes is noodles/ I got more ziti to bake/ You dudes is cake/ I keep two bisquits on the waste/ Razor blades under the tongue/ I will eat your face/ Appetite for destruction/ I am starving today/ I got a money-hungry lawyer that'll eat the case/ And that's just food for thought/ Don't let it go to waste/ Nigga, bite the bullet until you stuffin' your face/

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

96. I think I might wife her, Y'know, powder blue Roc-a-Wear suit, white Nike her, Add mami to the cypher

― pher (pher), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

95. I'm not a businessman, I'm a BUSINESS, man!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 14 January 2006 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Top 100 things you love about HOV

and it almost got to 100

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Saturday, 14 January 2006 07:06 (twenty years ago)

94. Males shouldn't be jealous, that's a female trait

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 14 January 2006 08:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm about a dollar / What the fuck is 50 Cent?

― lurk hard for my money, Saturday, 14 January 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

92. Fifty grand I get this in one take!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

91 "maybe not the fortune"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

90. "When I was pushin' weight/back in '88/you was a ballerina/I got the pictures I seen ya"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

89. http://img233.echo.cx/img233/9403/33165132005123218rg.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

88. http://www.gurtler.net/images/blog/phishjayz.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

87. Whats the dealings? (huh) its like New York's been soft
Ever since Snoop came through and crushed the buildings

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

86. I know they gone criticize the hook on this song
Like I give a fuck I'm just a crook on this song

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

85. When he rhymed "triage" with "beeyotch"

I think at least 25% of mine would come either from The Takeover or from U Don't Know

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

84. In Momma Loved Me, when the beat drops out and he makes a beat on the table.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

83. an' keep one eye open like C-B-S YOU SEE ME STRESSED RIIIIIGHT

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

82. It always crossed my mind that Feds be tappin the lines like Gregory Hines

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

81. We tote guns to the Grammy's, pop bottles on the White House lawn /
Guess I'm just the saaaame ollllld Shawn

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

80. But I-sis, liked this, Broadway life
She loved the Gucci sneakers, the red green and whites
Hangin out the window when she first seen him fight
She was so turned on that she had to shower twice

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

79. And when he called collect and I heard his name
I quickly accepted, but when I reached the phone
he's talkin reckless, I can sense deceit in his tone
I said, "Damn dawg, what, nine weeks and you're home?"

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

78. I’d do a bid, loose a rib, bust a cap, trustin' that
Run up to heaven doors, exchange my life for yours
Leave a steak out the door, mi casa, su casa
Just remember to turn the lights off in the hall

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

OK I killed the thread with Jay being serious, resume posting pictures.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

77. Word to the hyphen in my name!

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

76. i'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

75. and if even jehovah witness, he'll never testify.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

74. Drunk in the club/ Singin' off key/ "And I wish....I never....met her at all"

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

73. Bein' broke is childish and I'm quite grown

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

72. Creep through your block fuck a glock I step
Through your neighborhood armed with nothing but a rep
I'm giving these ladies something they can feel cause I'm real
Ya man get outta line and it's kill kill kill

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

71. Y'all better run to the post office and get a job, MUHFUCKAS!

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

70. Face facts, fake rap cats can't take what I took back to the Brook, look

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

69. When I come back like Jordan, wearin' the four-five, it ain't to play games with you

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

68. Your little homey Jungle's just a garden to me

― R. J. Greene, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

recognize bitch jay to tha Z!!!

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

look at your casket, feeling sarcastic/ "look at him, still sleepin'"

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 15 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

67. You know the type/Loud as a motorbike/But wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

66. Conan O'Brien singing Big Pimpin on his accoustic guitar in the NY subway.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 15 January 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

The question I ask you is how bad you wanna know?

― Goran Pavlov, Sunday, 15 January 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

65. Knowin' i'm supposed to style/i'm the hustlers poster child/rock lizards and croco-dile

― ELLI$ HARVELL, Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

64. When Puff was in that tub spillin' moe'/i was at my video, cris' on the speedboat/"in my lifetime", nigga - go do yer research/same times', my nigga, that was me first

― ELLI$ HARVELL, Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

63. http://moneycentral.communities.msn.com/_Secure/0YADYAt0cFWNR0KDoWVddBb3HNjxIA7PCXSUnSXJR65T57Nkxcxsf2VddsvF6*BqWIpOPdhdthJdVdY2s34!w*UCSwKUgcv3fvC7Bds*MyYZqWVN0n3ienJiFwGG3GseJ0XHbZGFaW4Gecl0CTW96aQ/Jay-Z%20&%20Beyonce

― ELLI$ HARVELL, Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

62. We tote guns to the Grammy's/pop bottles on the White House lawn/
Guess I'm just the same old Shawn

― ELLI$ HARVELL, Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck
That's twenty-two twos (too, to) for ya'll muthafuckas out there

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Though that should really have been number 22, obviously.

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

61. Evisujeans cover the rectum/
I kick game just like David Beckham

― bojan (bojanm), Sunday, 15 January 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

60. From the start of Unplugged:

Welcome to Jay Z's poetry reading.
Art. Who goes there?
It was the winter,
It was cold,
It was the cold winter.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I did 62. already

60. Last seen out of state where I drop my slang
I'm deep in the South kickin up top game
Bouncin on the highway switchin fo' lanes
Screamin through the sunroof - money ain't a thang

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 15 January 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

59. Girls, Girls, Girls

I got this black chick, she don't know how to act
always talking out her neck, making her fingers snap.
...
"All you need to know is I'm not a ho
and to get with me you better be Chief Lotsadough"
...
I got this Chinese chick, had to leave her quick
cos she kept bootlegging my shit.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

you're twitchin ... dont DO that

― hvuhvduhihczvuiczxiud@Huifdhu, Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

57. I get defensive when i'm in interviews/ because the percentage that doesn't understand is bigger than the percentage who do/ so ask yourself, what percentage is you?

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

56. Not guilty, he who does not feel me is not real to me / Therefore he doesn't exist / So poof...vamoose son of a bitch

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

55. i'm a hustla homie/you a customer crony/got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

54: I sold it all from crack to opium, in third person / I don't wanna see 'em, so I'm rehearsing with my peoples high to GM / from a remote location in the Beam / scopin the whole situation like, damn / metamorphic, as the dope turns to cream / but one of these buyers got eyes like a Korean / It's difficult to read 'em / The windows to his soul / were half closed / I put the key in

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:52 (twenty years ago)

53.

I'm leading the league in at least six statistical categories right now Best flow, Most consistent, Realest stories
Most charisma, I set the most trends
And my interviews are hotter
Holla

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:55 (twenty years ago)

52. "Flyer than a piece of paper bearing my name / Got the hottest chick in the game, wearing my chain"

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

51. The question I ask you is how bad you wanna know?

Forgot to number it upstairs.

― Goran Pavlov, Monday, 16 January 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

50. "Death is a hard thing to digest/ It's a slow process/ And I ain't got nothin' but time"

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 16 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

49.
My mind's like a flower in bloom
Peep how my eyes just scower the room
I'm alert, plus I paid the clerk

― Some Guy, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

48.
You're a candle in the sun
That shit don't even out

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

47
"6:00 i be digging her out/ 6:15 i be kicking her out."

― joannab, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

46. "I got a condo with nothin' but condoms in it/the same place where there rhyme's invented"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

45.
time to separate the pros from the cons
the platinum from the bronze
that buttersoft shit from the leather on the fonz

― Some Guy, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

44. "Yeah I sampled your voice you was usin' it wrong / You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song"

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

43. I suggest that niggaz invest in a vest when I come through with the glock jet black you betta step back.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

everyone here could probably reel off another dozen if they wanted to. this thread is a great answer to jay-z doubters. if you underestimate the power of a good one-liner, consider the longevity of groucho marx.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

had to take off the blazer, loosen up the tie / step inside the booth, Superman is alive

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

41. magazines say i'm shallow, never learned to swim/ still they put me on their covers cause i earn for them

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

40. Having Lt. Cedric Daniels from The Wire (aka actor Lance Reddick) in the "'03 bonnie and clyde" video.

― -JE$$ICA HARVELL 4 U BABY, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

39. freestyle with big l

― s>c>, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

38. the courage to show his face in public after "ether"

― s>c>, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

37. I came to take this shit and I did, handle my biz, I scramble like Randall with his, Cunningham

― 100% Pure Pizza, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

36. "I seen hoops dreams deflate like a true fiend's weight."

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

35.
"Label owners hate me, I'm raising the status quo up
Overcharging niggas for what they did to the Cold Crush
Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoe'd us
We can talk, but money talks, so talk mo' bucks"

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

um, I mean "hoop"

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

34.
"Pop died, didn't cry, didn't know him that well
Between him doing heroin and me doing crack sales"

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

(okay, I'm going back to work now)

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

33.
Life ills, poison my body
I used to say 'fuck mic skills'
And never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti

― Some Guy, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

32.
Go somewhere private where we can discuss fashion
Like, Prada blouse, Gucci bra
Filth Mart jeans, take that off

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

31
You crazy, think your little bit of rhymes can play me?
I'm from Marcy, I'm varsity, chump, you're JV

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

30. They say you can't turn a bad girl good
But once a good girl's gone bad
She's gone forever
...and more forever
I gotta live with the fact I did you wrong forever

― R. J. Greene, Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

29. 'i know you gonna criticise the hook on this song / like i give a fuck, i'm just the crook on this song'

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

28. Pump it Up (remix) - "I'm not the Mike Jordan of the mic recordin' / It's Hovi, baby / Kobe, maybe/ Tracy McGrady/ Matter fact, you Harold Miner/ J.R. Rider/ Washed up on marijuana"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Did 29 already.

ctrl+f, folks.

― deej...., Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

27. Yes sir / I'm cut from a different cloth / My texture / Is the best fur / Chinchilla.

Also, forget Ether, that he was able to step out after he got smoked on his own track via "Renegade" shows loadsa self-confidence.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

27. The luau was sharp, right Jay? "On the strength money!"

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't really think he got smoked on Renegade. They have really different styles, and Eminem's is more obvious, but Jay has some great lines in that song.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't know, I always fastforward to Em's verse.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

SIDE QUESTION:

Am I the only one that thinks "Ether" is kinda meh...I like the Takeover like 1 million times more...but the general consesus is that Jay got pwned by Nas...I don't get it....Same thing w/LL Cool J and Canibus...Second Round KO kills LL's responses, but I always chalked that up to LL being more popular and Canibus never sold.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Motherf***ers
Say that I'm foolish
I only talk about jewels
(Bling bling)
Do you fools
Listen to music or
Do you just skim
Through it?
See I'm influenced
By the ghetto you ruined
That same dude
You gave nothin'
I made somethin' doin'
What I do through
And through and
I give you the news
With a twist
It's just his
Ghetto point-of-view
The renegade
You been afraid
I penetrate pop culture
Bring 'em a lot closer
To the block where they
Pop toasters
And they live
With they moms
Got dropped roasters
From botched robberies
Niggaz crotched over
Mommy's knocked up
'Cause she wasn't
Watched over
Knocked down
By some clown
When child support knocked
No he's not around
Now how that
Sound to ya?
Jot it down
I bring it
Through the ghetto
Without ridin' 'round
Hidin' down duckin' strays
From frustrated youths
Stuck in they ways
Just read a magazine
That f***ed up my day
How you rate music
That thugs with
Nothin' relate to it?
I help them see they way
Through it, not you
Can't step in my pants
Can't walk in my shoes
Bet everything you worth
You lose your tie
And your shirt

26.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

M@tt - otm, but you forget that Canibus brags about his "ass-eating" skills which may have had unintentional effect.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Jay's style is much less rhythm-heavy -- almost talky -- so it doesn't hit you as hard next to Em's, but I actually like Jay's verse better. It's a little like putting Steve Cropper next to Eddie Van Halen in a guitar-off.

xpost Yeah I always thought Ether was weak too, especially next to Takeover.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

M@tt - otm, but you forget that Canibus brags about his "ass-eating" skills which may have had unintentional effect.

haha i forgot about that! canibus is such a nutball! but some of that shit is awesome...watch me rip the mic from your arm, stab you in the groin, stick you for your vanguard award....99 percent of your fans wear high heels.....trained to run 50 miles through soft sand....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

99% of your fans don't exist! OHHHHH

...that line didn't even make sense. You're right.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

xpost
takeover was lousy music criticism set to a beat. ether was slow and methodical, dismantling jay as a person and as an artist. i like jay, and feel pretty silly debating this in 2006, but facts remain.

― s>c>, Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

'cockafella' 'gay-z' = dismantling jay as a person and as an artist?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Jay-Z vs. Nas threads: The Next Generation

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:35 (twenty years ago)

wait, who actually thinks "Ether" pwned Jay-Z? That song sucks.

And yeah, I always cringe at the ass-eating lines in "2nd Round K.O." (too bad, 'coz the rest of the song is surprisingly fucking convincing)

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

ether = lot more than just calling jay gay. the third verse of that song not only dissed jay, it defined him. it provided listeners with a context for seeing jay as emotionally weak and vulnerable, artistically derivative and shallow, and ethically and morally challenged. it was personal and savage, and did a lot more to humanize jay than jay's own attempts on the black album did.

― s>c>, Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

See to me when he got all personal like that it just came off as desperation. "You're ugly" - thats the best you've got? Speaking of washed up new yorker rap beef, you know Cam just dissed Jay right? He also calls Jay-Z ugly. And he talks shit about his sandals. And says he looks like Joe Camel.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

deej, no disrespect, but read the third verse again:

http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/nas/still/ether.nas.txt

most methodical, witty and painful diss ever, by a long shot. there's a reason that the term ethered has become a hip-hop synonym for owned.

besides, all jay really said was that illmatic was nas' only hot album (so not true) and that "the world is yours" wasn't a hot song (once again...).

yeah, i heard that cam is dissing jay. i don't know...new york rap is dead cuz people still make cock-rocking threads about jay-z, biggie and nas. this is like the second thread on ilm recapping jay's 100 best lines (and they're pretty bad selections, btw) and this is one of the only like three or four threads on ilm about hip-hop. i love jay, biggie, nas, etc...i like them a lot...but nyc hip-hop has collapsed under the weight of their history and fiddy's greed. sorry for the tangent. i'll blame the patron.

― s>c>, Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

roffle did you say you'd blame Patrin?

No but seriously I agree w you about NYC rap being lame now, but uh 1) my quotes werent bad! 2) "The World Is Yours" is pretty awful 3) yeah I don't agree about the album thing but I just thought Jay's performance was a lot more effective because it seemed so effortless. Nas sounded mean but humorless and it sounded awkward and creepy to me.

I actually went back and read the diss on ohhla after you posted, I know there's more to it. I just dont think he pulled it off. (And there's plenty of wrong shit he said too - Jay stole Nas' style? Whatever) Agree to disagree about that one. Esp. because its 2006 and we're debating Ether vs. Takeover!

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait never mind what I said about "World is Yours" I was thinking of "If I Ruled The World." "World is Yours" is classic of course.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

it provided listeners with a context for seeing jay as emotionally weak and vulnerable

uh, which is what makes him great. moron.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:26 (twenty years ago)

i love jay, biggie, nas, etc...i like them a lot...but nyc hip-hop has collapsed under the weight of their history

I think you're kind of OTM about that, actually.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually not sure he's dissing "World is Yours" there, he's just showing how he did more with one idea.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

Nas on Ether kind of reminds me of John Kerry responding to Bush/Swift Boaters/any other attacks -- he always sounded angry more in a frustrated than a tough way. Jay's attack on Nas in takeover sounds focused and self-assured. Nas in Ether sounds like he's just trying to come up with every diss he can think of. He has some moments but then blows them by tossing out all these other weak lines.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

hahaha...yeah, i'll blame nate. i've been waiting so long for him to turn in his aceyalone review that i've been driven to debating nas vs. jay. you hear that, nate?

and whatevah gabb. jay z's personna, if not always his lyrics, was until that point based on him being arrogant and untouchable. just read the examples given in this thread. but i'll stop now, cuz just like jay said about argueing with fools...

― s>c>, Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

BTW Nas also gets the wrong Rockefeller in that song which is kind of dumb.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

xpost
nas sounded authoritative on ether. if you want frustrated anger, see jay z on superugly. i still have the mp3 of when jay showed up at hot 97 after the supposedly definitive phone poll re: nas v. ether. after jay loss, and by a pretty wide margin, he sounded sad.

and after superugly came out, when his mother called up the radio station and made jay apologize on air...classic. that's my jay z moment #25 actually.

― s>c>, Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Dude I turned that Aceyalone review in almost two hours ago. (On a 1/20 deadline, rite?) It woulda been sooner but I had to concoct a better closing line than "damn it when is RJD2 gonna produce that Ludacris record he always wanted instead".

― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

jay z's personna, if not always his lyrics, was until that point based on him being arrogant and untouchable.

uh, if you don't understand the concept of 'subtext'. or if you ignore multiple textual examples, like, oh, "frail nigga, I couldn't much work with my hands," or, you know, rapping over the FRIGGIN ANNIE SOUNDTRACK

Nas on 'Ether' is a straight-up homophobe, and little else. And you know what we'd call any white person who talked that way about Jay's lips.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

24. But right there under my nose
Was the flow of all flows
Not a demon but a rose in the cement.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:15 (twenty years ago)

23. the proper etiquette
when i drop the subject, verb, then the predicate
with this rich nigga rhetoric

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Haha Sterling judging from that one "Things That U Do" is the Tenacious D "Best Song In the World" of rap.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Things That U Do is arguably his best song, lyrically

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

big x-post

"If I Ruled The World" is great! How can you dis it? It doesn't make sense to me.

― R. J. Greene, Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Cheesy and awful. Nas doesn't need to force it like that.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

22. Go against jigga yo ass is dense/I'm about a dolla what the fuck is 50 cents?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

21. While y'all was playin yo-yo, I was sittin on low pros
Dippin the po-po, gettin that dough-dough
No, no I ain't stupid I take loot kid
What's in the bank? Shoot it
Lose it like I ain't do it
You wanna play Jigga nigga what you drank fluid?
Got a full tank now you wanna pull rank?
I clap still, act ill, Jigga shoot thee
Give you chest pains, leg sprains absolutely

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell
I am a hustler baby, I'll sell water to a well
I was born to get cake, move on and switch states
Cop the Coupe with the roof gone and switch plates
Was born to dictate, never follow orders
Dickface, get your shit straight, fucka this is Big Jay
I will, not, lose, ever.. FUCKA!

― Nick1094819041824, Sunday, 5 February 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

19. i break bread / with the late heads / picking they brains for angles and all the evils that the game will do

― PDS, Sunday, 5 February 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

18. my hand around her collar / feeding her cheese / she said the taste of dollars was shitty so i fed her fifties / abattles whereabouts i wasn't convinced / i kept feedin her money til her shit started to make sense / who could ever forsee? / we used to stay up all night at slumber parties / now i'm tryin t'rock this bitch to sleep / . . . / i'll take away your miseries and make it mine

― PDS, Sunday, 5 February 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Jay z and Nas interview on mtv together.

― Nickk08789689, Monday, 20 February 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

17. linnen shorts so my balls dont get hot haaaaaaa

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 18 June 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

16. Im a eighties baby, mastered Reganomics/school of hard knocks. everyday is college

― Quinn (quinn), Sunday, 18 June 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

15.

He 2-ways her, so she writes back
Smiley faces after all of her phrases
Either she the one or I'm caught in "The Matrix"
But fukkit, let the +Fish-burne+
Red or green pill, you live and you learn, c'mon!

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 18 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

14. "Hov's a living legend and I'll tell you why--everybody wanna be Hov and Hov still alive."
The worst song on Kanye's first album, redeemed by 17 words.

13. "I got a hustler's spirit, nigga, period. Check out this hat, yo, peep the way I'm wearin' it."
Did he really just rhyme "period" with "wearin' it"?

12. "Everytime your name was brought up I would act all nonchalant in front of an audience--like if you was just another shorty I put the naughty on. But, uh, truth be told you do me for a loop, this Hov; I'm too old to be fronting when I'm feeling, Denzeling, acting like you ain't appealing when you are, stunting like you ain't my only girl when you are: I'm ready to stop when you are."
Best 7-line guest spot EVAR.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hawaain Sophie.

― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

27. The luau was sharp, right Jay? "On the strength money!"

-- deej.. (clublonel...), January 18th, 2006 8:03 PM.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

wth is the story behind #89?

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 19 June 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

That's The Man meeting with his latest hit signings Fall Out Boy (I wish I was kidding).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

hey what's #12 from?

― Sym Sym (sym), Monday, 19 June 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Pharrell's "Frontin'"

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

11. any of a number of sexual positions with Beyonce.

10. hooking up with that bearded dude to do that kick ass 99 problems song.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah--go bearded dudes!

― max (maxreax), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

9. Hewlett-Packard commercial

― New Media Intern (New Media Intern), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

hooking up with that bearded dude

it took me a second to figure out that you weren't referring to Rick Ross.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

That's The Man meeting with his latest hit signings Fall Out Boy (I wish I was kidding)

To be honest, that photo pales into comparison with the photo of Fall Out Boy "hanging out" with Rihanna.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

8. http://www.geocities.com/glynne3/Midis/bigpimpin.mid

― neustile (neustile), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's The Man meeting with his latest hit signings Fall Out Boy (I wish I was kidding).

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 18th, 2006. (later)

ugh
i feel obliged to post some lines to make up for this

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

7.
i got no passion
i got no patience
and i hate waiting

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

6.
(this one's all about the delivery of the last line,worth going back and listening to)

my mamis dedicated
They never tell me no, the most they said is "not here"
I got they ears studded, both wrists baguetted
I got a main chick, a mistress, and a young bitch
Forget it I'm the don

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

5.
the bit on dead presidents where he ends loasd of lines in a row with an "oh" sound,then implies the continuation of the rhyme with
"my doe flip like Tae-Kwon
Jay-Z The Icon"

i'm probably not explaining it that well,listen to it and you'll see what i mean

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

4.
difficult takes a day,impossible takes a week
i do this in my sleep

(i've seen this quoted a few times without the second part,which i think makes it)

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

3.
the end of his verse/start of biggies verse on brooklyn's finest

squeezed off on him, left them paramedics breathin soft on him
what's ya name?

Who shot ya mob ties like sinatra

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

jesus there's so many isn't there?
you could probably get 1000

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

2.
for nine six the only mc with a flu
yeah i rhyme sick,i be what you're trying to do
made a fortune off peru,extradite,china white heron
nigga please,like short sleeves i bear arms

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

2=*

Music business hate me cause the industry ain't make me
Hustlers and boosters embrace me and the music I be makin
I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars
They criticized me for it yet they all yell "HOLLA!"
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
lyrically, Talib Kweli
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did five mill' - I ain't been rhymin like Common since
When your cents got that much in common
And you been hustlin since, your inception
Fuck perception go with what makes sense
Since I know what I'm up against
We as rappers must decide what's most impor-tant
And I can't help the poor if I'm one of them
So I got rich and gave back, to me that's the win/win
So next time you see the homey and his rims spin
Just know my mind is workin just like them...
... rims, that is

{*NB:- Don't want to do 1, that would feel like eating the last After Eight)

― iain macdonald (the_article_don), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

1. You shut your mouth, how can you say I go about things the wrong way?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

fuck it,we'll keep going
while i agree that eminem does somewhat show him up on renegade,in that he's just spent a whole album going on about how he's the best rapper alive and then the only person who can prove him wrong shows up,i still think his verses are really strong

so...
0.
My pops left me an orphan, my momma wasn't home
Could not stress to me I wasn't grown; 'specially on nights
I brought somethin home to quiet the stomach rumblings
My demeanor - thirty years my senior
My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin green up

(you could pick loads of lines really,the whole thing is good,but the my demeanour thirty years my senior bit is a great line)

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

-1.
fuck you got a flow thats cool with me
you got a little dough thats cool with me
you got a little cars little jewellery
but none of ya'll motherfuckers can fool with me

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

-2. it's like the streets call you:
how could you leave me after all I done for you?
who else would employ you?
I made you feel royal
all it took was some oil, some water, some baking soda to make you Hova
My first taste of power
I'm numb off the feeling
I'm done off niggas I can't stop dealing

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 30 June 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

-3. Natural - Can I get at you?
Saw a spot on the body look nice with a tattoo
With my name, but didn't want to jump the gun
I Didn't Know how many niggas was humping hon
I said I never seen a face like yours before
And I been around some cute whores before..

― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

introducing me to the phrase "bird-ass niggas"

― Jordan Sargent, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

-4. Friend or foe
Yo, state ya biz
Hmm, you tend to dough, ah
There it is
Me, I run the show, oh
And these kids
Don't like nobody comin' around here
Fuckin' with they dough for shit
You enterprisin' though, and I like it
But fuck with the big dogs yo, I gotta bite ya
Look, it's outta my hands
And you gettin money 'round here
Is not in the plans
Don't hop your ass outta that van
Head back to Kansas
I'm sending niggas back up in campuses
Chances slimmer than that chick in Calvin Klein pantses
Let me guess, they said it was money round here
And the rest is my stoppin' you from gettin' it, correct?
Sorry to here that
My guess is you got work at the hotel
I'll take care of that, you'll also see,
Now please, give me the room key
Ya twitchin', don't do that
Ya makin' me nervous, my crew
Well they do pack, them dudes in murderers
So please, would ya, put your hands back in sight
They don't like to see me nervous
You can understand that, right?
You draw, better be Picasso, you know the best
Cause if this is not so, uh, God bless
You leave me no choice
I leave you no voice
Believe you me son
I hate to do it just as bad as you hate to see it done
Now calm your boys
Cause I'm findin' it a little hard to concentrate with all the noise
Get the point
I'll let you go, before you leave
I guess I outta let you know
I need those keys
And a promise you neva, no matter the weather,
Eva eva eva eva eva eva eva come around here no mo'

― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

-5. I'm from the place where the church 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 Liquor Stores and the base well
And Government, fuck Government, niggas politic 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, Let 'em know
the stakes and exactly what takes place in the ghetto
Promise fulfilled, but still I feel my job ain't done
Cough up a lung, where I'm from, Marcy son, ain't nothing nice

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 23 August 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Friend or Foe OTM

― poortheatre, Thursday, 23 August 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

-6 "What you eat don't make me shit"

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 6 December 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

get yr independant ass outta here................question?

― Darryl Strawberry (The Reverend), Sunday, 28 September 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

I got extensive hoes with expensive clothes
and I sip wine and spit vintage flows

that second line is possibly my favorite hov easter egg

― 12HOOS2012 (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

The lyricist who just keeps on giving.

― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

niggas kick dirt/ get your whole block sweeped up

― cloaca darkness (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:40 (sixteen years ago)

"See Jesus, see Judas/See Caesar, see Brutus"

― ess.dot, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

and fuck that autotune 'cause we OOOoooooOOOoooooooon

― Tonytta! Tonitta! Tonétta! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:09 (sixteen years ago)

this thread is top jay-z moments iirc

― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:45 (sixteen years ago)

srsly

― how is "babby" horribly formed????? (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:48 (sixteen years ago)

yall want his old shit, buy his old albums

― Tonytta! Tonitta! Tonétta! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

the AutoTune tease in the "Put On" remix is a billion times funnier than that (or the whole of "D.O.A.")

― some dude, Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

^^^

― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Thursday, 4 March 2010 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

81. We tote guns to the Grammy's, pop bottles on the White House lawn /
Guess I'm just the saaaame ollllld Shawn

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:37 PM Bookmark

had this in my head all day

― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Thursday, 4 March 2010 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

I use to give a shit, now I don't give a shit more
Truth be told I had more fun when I was piss poor
I'm pissed off, and this success song is about
a bunch a niggas acting like bitches with big mouths
All this stress, all I got is this big house
Couple of cars, I don't bring half of them shits out
All of this ace of spade I drank just to piss out
I mean I like the taste coulda saved myself 6 hours
How many times can I go to Mr. Childs, taos mobu
Hold up, lemme move my bouwls
I'll shit on y'all niggas, OG tell these boys
(Ya ain't about to shit on my nigga)

I got watches I ain't seen in months
Apartment at the Trump; I only slept in once
Niggas said Hova was ova, such dummies
Even If I fell I'll land on a bunch of money
Ya ain't got nothing for me

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 04:06 (sixteen years ago)

whoops, terrible transcription I cut and pasted there

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 04:07 (sixteen years ago)

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