Pusha’s unique voice and delivery is unmatched. So many lines but when he rolls out “Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins” I got goosebumps. And Jay’s verse is one of his best. Two of the greatest story tellers here.
"Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists/ Therein lies the peace of God.../ I always knew I was a profit/prophet, but I couldn't find a decent Job/Jah" Fucking phenomenal.
“Shattered all of your misconceptions, Hold all of the missing weapons, You thought I would miss my blessing, The ultimate misdirection...” - Pusha T 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ngonidzashe Rungano People will flock to what’s fake all the time. What’s popular and what seems important will always appear that way to the untrained mind and there’s nothing you or I can do about it. A man who keeps his word for the sake of truth and honor is more admirable than a man who lies and fakes for money, power and respect. No one is going to pat you on the back for being honest and authentic but yourself and the other true real ones, YOU have to believe in that truth because it’s the only thing that really exists. Fake is fake. It does not exist. That’s God’s peace. It’s not Jay’s original line, he took it from A Course In Miracles, but it still speaks volumes in this song. It moved me.
Also a honest man has nothing to hide. If you’re living your truth you have absolutely nothing to worry about because the truth will stand the test of time, but if your a fraud or try to tell a lie on someone who is authentic you can’t hurt them with fiction because they live in reality not fantasy. So everything you say will fall on deaths ears and no existent to someone who lives there truth.
The layers of meaning that HOV can put into just one line has to be his greatest skill. I'll listen to one of his songs a hundred times and catch 2 or 3 meanings only to find another meaning to it years later. His use of entendres is absolutely unparalleled and iconic. The difference references, the different layers and the fact that everything in this verse is 💯 fact makes this an amazing verse and arguably one of the best he's done. 27 years into the game and he'll still eat up a beat like he's starving.
@@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl Melanin is the skin pigment, it controls the color of your skin, hair and eyes So by saying that line he means when you are black (your melanin's got a tint) , you be treated like you are a child of a lesser god
@@machiel5888 definitely isn't lol. It's a play on those "Damn Daniel" viral videos where the guy holding the camera said "Damn Daniel, back at it again with the white vans". Jay flipped it into being what he said to talk about the FBI coming with the DEA in drug vans lol. That line was super weighted lol
@@machiel5888 he said "I always knew I was a prophet cuz I couldn't find a decent job. Damnn Daniel, FBI keep bringing them all white vans through" Prophet/Profit: Job and Daniel were both prophets in the Bible. Also Damn Daniel the meme and all white vans could be also about the meme "What are those"... qnd to make it worse he was telling the future with Takashi (Daniel) ratting to the Feds lol
Then why dont he talk about that on his new albums. Nobody wants to hear his pretentious picasso shit. But the Reasonable Doubt typa shit was crazy no doubt. But you know how it goes "I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars, they criticize me for it, yet they all yell Holla". Oh well... you were good while you tried Jay
@Nehemiah Israel white is as much of a blanket term as pagan. Let's be specific. Zionists, G7, Bilderberg. Our distractions amongst eachother and unwillingness to unite is why problems persist.
These types of songs I feel are for the people who can appreciate lyrics man, none of that mainstream pop shit, just make it sound good and push it out, nah.. This is rap, makes you rewind bars, gives you wisdom, game I mean.. Really happy there are people out there who still like this. Stay healthy man
America's nightmares in Flint children of a lesser God when your melan has got a tint and I can't even mention what I send or what I spend cuz my name on 18wheelers is evidence
+Jiemel Gould I'm not sure that I even know what's considered"new school". BUT... I'll say this and then u can tell me who's new school k? Last album I bought was Royce's Trust the Shooter EP, and Layers
“The paper trail is gorgeous” you can tell he was really proud of that line haha it makes me smile every time he says it. From the corner to that corner office
Pusha T is the dopest of his genre nobody has his punchlines when it comes to cocaine rap the Clipse was in a league of there own and we got it for cheap vol 1 was a classic record...
For the longest time I always felt Jay didn't deserve the goat status. I always felt that his style was one dimensional, just stunting in different songs. Man I gotta say as I got older... I understand the man alot more. Verses like this one make me understand why so many people regard this man as thee GOAT. This shit is just undeniably incredible. Preach
Trust and believe he is the greatest. You don't have to love him but he checks all the boxes. No other rapper does what hov does OVERALL..yes I said none
i think it means that he sinned (dealt these drugs), and therefore is unable to “cast” the first stone into his house, so he made it completely glass, which also displays the wealth he made off of dealing
What separates jayz from a lot of other rappers is you see everything he raps about. He’s not putting random words together for rhymes sake. All of this stuff is real and can be verified. The pic of him in a Benz back in the 80’s. Transitioning to legitimate businesses (rocafella, rocawear), Employee stubs (tidal, roc nation), 40/40 club, opening studios (bass line studios). The part about Emory Jones doing time. Life made him ambidextrous (lucky lefty, able to use both hands, he’s awkward he boxes lefty..etc). The news clip about him being a former drug dealer is the icing on the cake. Even if another rapper is able to match him lyrically, he separates himself with his realness. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a rapper who’s raps and real life match up this perfectly
Jay z flow is so smooth and technical, plus he's lyrical ! even if he is known to be one of the greatest to ever do it , i still think there is too many People who don't realize how great jay is !!!
@@jasonramos6957 Because Nas, Rakim, KOOL G RAP, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and I can keep Going.. are still alive bro... but you’re Right Jay is one of the great if not The Great...
UN FUCKING MATCHED!! JAY CAME OUT IN FUCKING 1996 and he could drop a album in 2026 and it still go multi plat and have the CHARTS AND STREETS on lock. IF THAT AIN'T THE GOAT WHAT IS? Jay the only one who can go on tour with no album, no press, no singles and sell out a world tour and still have the streets on lock. Hova
“Even before reasonable doubt dropped the jury/jewelry hung” …. Prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt , Jay-Zs album was Reasonable doubt, he had jewelry even before his music career. Jury hung, if the jury can’t get a verdict. Amazing
Hov is flowing beyond known intelligence thus far. "Life made me ambidextrous, countin with my right, whipping white with my left wrist". It's like a clearly defined noise on incredible rhythm and notes. He wasn't lying when he said, "Hova flow holy ghost now steup up off your seats", he truly flows godly. It's an architectural marvel in sound, truly never for sale.
This beat is so good it can make you visualize abstract concepts. This beat makes me feel like I'm walking through a dark foggy forest. Ominous, dark, haunting beat. PERFECT
"My accountant so good I'm practically living tax free" he's always talking about it lol to me that's some fly shit especially considering how much guys at that level generate.
REDANDSILVER741 it's mostly cuz he commercialized hiphop. He changed it big time. Because of him we now have so called rappers like Lil Wayne, Drake, Lil uzi (uzeless), and many others.
"Damn Daniel, the FBI keep bringing them all white vans through" HOV a genius with his pen, this was the time when the 'damn Daniel white vans' meme was big
@@mr.h1389 Jay whole verse went over your head so it’s “trash” that what those say about this verse that only listen to lil Boosie Lmfaoo .. Yall just don’t know enough to catch all his references in the verse .. Those of us that live for double and triple entendre’s and get all the over head bars knows that this is one of Jay best verses .. Y’all fear what you don’t understand .. I get it
I have listen to thousands and thousands of hours of every single hip-hop song you could ever listened to. This is the greatest hip-hop song of all time.
RIP to my homie Aaron. Back when the Clipse first came out, we were in high school and we would make jokes about them and Hov doing a track. Lol we joked that the track would be the ultimate coke rap track. He passed away before the song came out. Every time I hear this I think of our jokes. He would love these bars!
Hov top 5 all time, this shit was ridiculous. So many references that people missed because they focused on the ambidextrous line and the "Damn Daniel." His shit goes over people's heads.
"who deserves the medal of freedom is my accountant, he been hula hoopin through loop holes workin round shift, IRS should had the town houses surrounded". hula hoop, loop holes, round shift, surrounded, in less that 4 bars this man worked in 4 lines about circles... without trying! To further establish the mans point, if you got a tight knight organization, you have a small circle. That is 5 references in less than 4 bars. Jay z is the god, Push is the king.
we got store fronts.. we got employee stubs, we been opening studios and 40/40s up, the paper trail is gorgeous... JayZ tellin y’all how to launder cash, nigga’s drug talk was crazy on this joint
This song is justifies why RAP is art! "Tried to build a cell around me Snatched my nigga Emory up Tried to get him to tell about me He told 12, “Gimme 12” He told them to go to hell about me Drug dealers anonymous Y’all think Uber’s the future, our cars been autonomous Mules move the drums, take ‘em to different spots We just call the shots by simply moving our thumbs"
You missed the entire bar. “ He been hoolahooping through loopholes working ROUNDshifts, IRS shouldve had the townhouses surROUNDED” that bar was INSANE. He implented like 4 different wordplays on round and circle. Hoolahooping, loopholes, roundshifts, surrounded. All in one sentence to get an actual logical point across that made sense. Jay is nuts
"Date I stopped still has asterisk after it, after all, I can make a call, I can baptize a brick, as I wash away my sins like a catholic "....smfh. Nasty.
Care to explain so the uninitiated can enjoy the genius? I catch about 90% of em and jays entendras as I break down each song carefully like a poem. But this was lost on me. Could you expound plz?
"when your melanin's got a tint" He's saying if your black, "children of a lesser god" you are viewed as not as equal. As if a black human must have been a lesser gods creation
The line when he said before he dropped reasonable doubt the jury hung means reasonable doubt was his first album and ppl didn’t know whether if he was good or not so using legal terms the court had a hung which indicating ppl didn’t know if jay z was good or not
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This song is too underrated
7 million views how is that underrated?
This song is in the wrong era. This would’ve been a hit in the early 2000s
For real son!! ☝💪😎
Hip hop is dead it died in 96-97
Basically
This beat is straight MENACING
Ahmad Nounou has someone else sampled it or something....i recognize it from somewhere else its driving me insane
iRRichiee same man! What is it? I can't find it!!!
@@iRRichiee check "typa way" remix by t.i. beat goes similarly hard!
@@Sehr3st1 typa way. Rxch homxe quan..
Much better remix ruclips.net/video/Aia9fh4-Qns/видео.html !!!
This is one of Jay's best verses. "I always knew I was a profit but I couldn't find a decent job."
Prophet
Look up JOB in the bible a humble man.
I remember I heard that from a different person on the radio in a song, it was different from this
Yeah thats a dope line. It is unfortunate how true it is in todays society
Thought he said "always knew I was a profit but I couldn't find a decent jar"🤔
Pusha’s unique voice and delivery is unmatched. So many lines but when he rolls out “Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins” I got goosebumps. And Jay’s verse is one of his best. Two of the greatest story tellers here.
idk why....push always brings the best outta hov
Sounds like his brother so not that unique
yeah bro he got that diddy party voice
Pusha T been that guy!!!!
"Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists/
Therein lies the peace of God.../
I always knew I was a profit/prophet, but I couldn't find a decent Job/Jah"
Fucking phenomenal.
Mind blown🤯 and humbled all at the same time🙇♂️🙌
Crazy
Illuminati shit. Dope bar but a shot at those that believe or know God.
@@adisaoxendine2201 lol, nobody "knows god". Such an entity doesn't exist
@@ClaytonJonesImages every body knows God, they’re just too misguided to realize it.
YUGHH!! That new Neck & Wrist is so hard!! Made me come back to this classic !! 🕊
Hell yea the same just heard it...they are two of the games.goats
Yeah, I do like this song better tho, I think.
Yeah I do too, jay’s verse on this is one of my favorite features from him
I'm tell'ya
Exactly what I done
“Shattered all of your misconceptions,
Hold all of the missing weapons,
You thought I would miss my blessing,
The ultimate misdirection...” -
Pusha T 🔥🔥🔥🔥
SHYT!
He fucking snapped!!!
wordz smith 🔥🔥
Nothing was said there lmao
King PUSH
Not to ignore their amazing verses but this beat is just fucking insane, it’s so distinct and dark
it's really eerie, my fav
That's real.
DJ Dahi killed this beat
Bro I been tryna figure these drums out for like 4 years lol
Love the Futuristic baseline used for the Hook
“Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. And therein lies the peace of God”...... Dopest line ever spoken in this shit thus far!
Luis Colón l don’t get it can you explain it to me???
Ngonidzashe Rungano
People will flock to what’s fake all the time. What’s popular and what seems important will always appear that way to the untrained mind and there’s nothing you or I can do about it. A man who keeps his word for the sake of truth and honor is more admirable than a man who lies and fakes for money, power and respect. No one is going to pat you on the back for being honest and authentic but yourself and the other true real ones, YOU have to believe in that truth because it’s the only thing that really exists. Fake is fake. It does not exist. That’s God’s peace.
It’s not Jay’s original line, he took it from A Course In Miracles, but it still speaks volumes in this song. It moved me.
Ser Davos Seaworth What most people don’t know is Jay is an avid book reader.
A course in Miracles
Also a honest man has nothing to hide. If you’re living your truth you have absolutely nothing to worry about because the truth will stand the test of time, but if your a fraud or try to tell a lie on someone who is authentic you can’t hurt them with fiction because they live in reality not fantasy. So everything you say will fall on deaths ears and no existent to someone who lives there truth.
pusha T is so under-rated
One of the most underrated
MOST UNDER RATED
Him and fab man
+Persona what does that have to do with his rapping ability? lol
Top 10.
"nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exist".... It's like the older i get the more i respect and appreciate jay
Keep trying to tell people, he's a damn poet. How he puts his thoughts together is mind blowing
That's a actually a quote from the book, a course in miracles. Nevertheless, Jay seems like a sharp tool in the shed box
real
Same here bro at 26 I truly appreciate jay more than when I was 16
A course in miracles
I don’t think Push gets the credit he deserves...he’s easily 1 of the best doing it right now
This song is masterpiece
IRS SHOULD'VE HAD THE TOWN HOUSES SURROUNDED
this is some real talk right here
This song is a forgotten GEM
That Federico Fellini =fed(RICO) felonies 🔥 jay z is something else Fam
Most slept on song in 2016. Should have won a Grammy.
I can baptize a brick....gotttt damn push!!!!!!!
jplacriola now this is what u call riding music
Sean Simps also smoking music
i dont think a song about dope dealing wouls sit well with the white folks voting
Colby Lynes lol right
"the money count is the only moment of silence; 'cause hush money balances all this drugs and violence"
whew fire
The layers of meaning that HOV can put into just one line has to be his greatest skill.
I'll listen to one of his songs a hundred times and catch 2 or 3 meanings only to find another meaning to it years later.
His use of entendres is absolutely unparalleled and iconic.
The difference references, the different layers and the fact that everything in this verse is 💯 fact makes this an amazing verse and arguably one of the best he's done.
27 years into the game and he'll still eat up a beat like he's starving.
And he don't even write. Its all in his head.
"children of a lesser god when your melanin's got a tint" my god, listen to this man!
do what thou wilt
Love that line!!!
What does that mean ???
Im Autistic Lol :(
@@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl Melanin is the skin pigment, it controls the color of your skin, hair and eyes
So by saying that line he means when you are black (your melanin's got a tint) , you be treated like you are a child of a lesser god
Also God - G.
So a lesser G produces a lesser product when it isn't as white. The double entendre is pretty bold when you think about it.
Life made me ambidextrous, counting with my right, whipping white with my left wrist... 🔥
Word
Dammnnn Daniel
wrisssss
That was dope (no pun intended), HOWEVER that's a borrow from Nas on Eye 4 an Eye off or Mobb Deep's classic Infamous album.
The streets will never forget this jay verse bruh
Jim Jones could never in life fuck with Pusha T this verse alone destroy his whole catalog
Nobody ever took that serious,not even people from Harlem
😂@@thomasholmes3622
😢🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
📠📠📠📠📠📠
This is Jay Z at his best literally every line has a meaning
the Damn Daniel bar is pretty cringe tho
@@machiel5888 definitely isn't lol. It's a play on those "Damn Daniel" viral videos where the guy holding the camera said "Damn Daniel, back at it again with the white vans". Jay flipped it into being what he said to talk about the FBI coming with the DEA in drug vans lol. That line was super weighted lol
@@machiel5888 he said "I always knew I was a prophet cuz I couldn't find a decent job. Damnn Daniel, FBI keep bringing them all white vans through"
Prophet/Profit: Job and Daniel were both prophets in the Bible.
Also Damn Daniel the meme and all white vans could be also about the meme "What are those"... qnd to make it worse he was telling the future with Takashi (Daniel) ratting to the Feds lol
Facts! That shit was topical and clever
@@ArtisanWindchimes holy shit
the songs that give Jay the chance to speak about his dealer days, he always kill.
Everytime.
he killed it...medal of freedom belongs to my account....bars....
Real shit
Then why dont he talk about that on his new albums. Nobody wants to hear his pretentious picasso shit. But the Reasonable Doubt typa shit was crazy no doubt.
But you know how it goes "I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars, they criticize me for it, yet they all yell Holla".
Oh well... you were good while you tried Jay
monk i feel you. He should make an albulm where here speaking crazy but idk he still hov tho
Jay z is the wittiest human alive
Jay & Em. Thankfully I got to see them both on the SAME 4 show tour. 2 in the D and 2 in NY
+Chris Tucker He had to be maiin stream.
+Chris Tucker HOV's net worth keeps skyrocketing and this nigga aint put out a hit in a while.
***** It doesnt i just felt like commenting LOL
Ab Soul? Earl Sweatshirt? Lupe Fiasco?
Had to come back to this after listening to Neck and Wrist. Pusha T and Jay Z go really well together
Same here. I don’t know what it is, but when Push has a verse with Jay it really highlights how good Push is.
@@demetriuspjr facts
@@kamikazi5144 This song is still better regardless
@@NoName-yy3wb true, the other one has a more catchy beat and pharrell tho
Pusha better
"Children of a lesser god when your melanin got a tint" - One of the realest and coldest lines - PUSH!
@Nehemiah Israel He didn't mean it in that context. He didn't mean we are a children of a lesser God literally. He's saying that's how we're viewed.
@Nehemiah Israel when people finally push past "divisions", the "elites" will fall.
Race, creed, and gender are agendas of economic contenders. o7 one
@Nehemiah Israel white is as much of a blanket term as pagan. Let's be specific. Zionists, G7, Bilderberg. Our distractions amongst eachother and unwillingness to unite is why problems persist.
These types of songs I feel are for the people who can appreciate lyrics man, none of that mainstream pop shit, just make it sound good and push it out, nah.. This is rap, makes you rewind bars, gives you wisdom, game I mean.. Really happy there are people out there who still like this. Stay healthy man
Makes you say, "Damn, did you hear what this nigga just said?"
4real you ain't ever lie!#Salute to all the hip hop heads around the world
These are the type of songs that made me call in love with rap LYRICS
"Drug dealers anonimous,
y'all think uber's the future,
our cars been autonomous!"
Josh M 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Brazy bar!!! 💨💨💨
Deadass💯💪🏽
FACTS🤝🏾💯✔
i don't get it
That JAY-Z verse lives rent-free in my head. That such a lyrical tour-de-force is introduced as a response to Tomi Lahren makes it even better.
one hovs toughest verses in the past 5 yrs...easy. straight fire
hiphophead555 "renegaded" ? Fuck outta here with that bullshit
Nah his best verse gotta be we made it with jay electronica.
Longer than that
Eminem renegade is trash.
Fuckin factz!!
everyone talking bout Jay's verse, but damn Pusha verse was too ill
America's nightmares in Flint
children of a lesser God when your melan has got a tint
and I can't even mention what I send or what I spend
cuz my name on 18wheelers is evidence
because hov is the goat. everybody was wanting to see was he was gonna say
+Jiemel Gould Hov ain't the goat. It's arguable he might be the goat LIVING, arguable...
Mikey Clark who do u feel the best rapper is from the new school
+Jiemel Gould I'm not sure that I even know what's considered"new school". BUT... I'll say this and then u can tell me who's new school k? Last album I bought was Royce's Trust the Shooter EP, and Layers
Jay and pusha should make an album together they feed off each other so naturally , jay sounds revitalized
Watch the Trap
“The paper trail is gorgeous” you can tell he was really proud of that line haha it makes me smile every time he says it. From the corner to that corner office
Jayz verses on this is phenomenal, like no words to describe it man , real legend 🔥🔥
This verse is trash, duke.
@@gerardfitzgerald1317 whats your reasoning for it? I genuily thought this verse was great
@@ves138 JUST A HATER........
It's a top 3 all time jay verse... if for no other reason than the fact he's just rubbing it in tomi lahrens face...gotta love it
It's incredible. Rap at it's absolute pinnacle. Quite possibly Jay's greatest verse out of many.
The wordplay and double meaning of "before reasonable doubt drop, the jewelry (jury) hung. " 🔥
N. Getzey its actually reasonable doubt and hung jury. Reasonable doubt gets u the hung jury.
Lol it's both and its dope.
Bling Bling
A "hanging jury" means that they have yet to make a decision on a murder case. It's a legal term. It wasn't a play on words for jewelry.
@@PaulBunyun it absolutely was a play on words with jewelry. As well as the hung jury motif.
Two lyrical geniuses! 🤔
Jay Z is the reason why I write, not just to write for the sake of it. But to stretch the mind. Man is the GOAT.
Naw you just a stan. Stop worshipping humans
Write for me bae
Pusha T is one of a few rappers that can hold his own with Jay Z. I actually prefer his verse ✔
You right and that hurts me cuz Jay is my favorite rapper next to Pac
Who deserves the medal of freedom is my accountant.. I feel pusha but y’all crazy
💯
they both went crazy
tha1man744 you’re right I was just saying pusha didn’t smash jay like the first two comments
"and i cant even mention what i sent or what i spent, cause my name and 18 wheelers is evidence" -push ah T
That some GOLD
Eli Wealth not really though
Pusha T is the dopest of his genre nobody has his punchlines when it comes to cocaine rap the Clipse was in a league of there own and we got it for cheap vol 1 was a classic record...
Absolutely
I can agree, but Jay's verse absolutely destroyed Push.
NO KAP!!!
For the longest time I always felt Jay didn't deserve the goat status. I always felt that his style was one dimensional, just stunting in different songs. Man I gotta say as I got older... I understand the man alot more. Verses like this one make me understand why so many people regard this man as thee GOAT. This shit is just undeniably incredible. Preach
Trust and believe he is the greatest. You don't have to love him but he checks all the boxes. No other rapper does what hov does OVERALL..yes I said none
imagine recording this verse in one take... i understood he records his verses in one take...
Sorry nas won the battle
💯 Been tryin to tell my Homie this since The Black Album dropped and I was convinced his vision was deeper
@@rayjones1113 winning a rap beef that is still debatable does not make Nas better by any stretch
“Let he without sin cast the first stone , so I built that all glass quad first level home” - Pusha
What do it mean tho
@@charlesodote4099 don't throw stones if you live in a glass house.
Let he without sin cast the first stone
@@charlesodote4099 no one can't say shit cuz we're all sinners. He's so sure of it he built a glass house.
i think it means that he sinned (dealt these drugs), and therefore is unable to “cast” the first stone into his house, so he made it completely glass, which also displays the wealth he made off of dealing
Sick🤬🔥💯💪🏾
You can't tell me Jay not top 5 all time..
he's 1st tbh
+sean24833 yea 1st👌💯
W's
Jay not top 5 all time
+414MILboy L
Children of a lesser God when your melanin got a tint
King Push 🙌
What separates jayz from a lot of other rappers is you see everything he raps about. He’s not putting random words together for rhymes sake. All of this stuff is real and can be verified. The pic of him in a Benz back in the 80’s. Transitioning to legitimate businesses (rocafella, rocawear), Employee stubs (tidal, roc nation), 40/40 club, opening studios (bass line studios). The part about Emory Jones doing time. Life made him ambidextrous (lucky lefty, able to use both hands, he’s awkward he boxes lefty..etc). The news clip about him being a former drug dealer is the icing on the cake. Even if another rapper is able to match him lyrically, he separates himself with his realness. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a rapper who’s raps and real life match up this perfectly
Nas does it his mentor
Yes!!!
No filler just bars
Well put ,your comment is underated !!!
@@rozellrandall8003 nas wasnt his mentor stop.. jay was a fan at most thats it.
"Your husband was a drug dealer. For 14 years, he sold crack cocaine!" EPIC. What an introduction 🔥🤣
Fuck tohmi larhren
@@NHBYOUNG20S I would, no doubt
@@lemarjames9546 I agree, just make sure not to call her the next day lol
@@lemarjames9546 I agree, just make sure not to call her the next day lol
Pusha t sent that to jay along with his verse lol might be the reason he got on the track
Jay z flow is so smooth and technical, plus he's lyrical ! even if he is known to be one of the greatest to ever do it , i still think there is too many People who don't realize how great jay is !!!
that's how you know he's truly great - if everyone got it, he wouldn't be... but their favourite rappers know. they know.
And Push still got em on this one...
@@slecastre you should study hip hop a little more
@@Roy_MO mAyBe yOu ShOuLd StUdY... maybe you should stop gatekeeping and trying to passive aggressively insult people for their opinion...
Mans out here getting harvard degrees in hip hop
I dont understand how a hip hop head doesn't rank Jay z as the GOAT....... his catalog and longevity is unmatched
Facts
@@jasonramos6957 Because Nas, Rakim, KOOL G RAP, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and I can keep Going.. are still alive bro... but you’re Right Jay is one of the great if not The Great...
Facts!!
UN FUCKING MATCHED!!
JAY CAME OUT IN FUCKING 1996 and he could drop a album in 2026 and it still go multi plat and have the CHARTS AND STREETS on lock. IF THAT AIN'T THE GOAT WHAT IS?
Jay the only one who can go on tour with no album, no press, no singles and sell out a world tour and still have the streets on lock.
Hova
@@christopherpaul1003 man really said snoop dogg
“Even before reasonable doubt dropped the jury/jewelry hung” …. Prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt , Jay-Zs album was Reasonable doubt, he had jewelry even before his music career. Jury hung, if the jury can’t get a verdict. Amazing
Jay comes up with bars that sometimes take a couple years to catch.
“I always knew I was a prophet (profit), but couldn’t find a decent job”…..
Your analysis of this bar is impeccable and spot on, it flew over my head, but I get it now
Wowwww yea that's why he said bling bling after.... That is incredible and you're razor sharp to catch that
Double entandre extraordinaire 🔥
Hov is flowing beyond known intelligence thus far. "Life made me ambidextrous, countin with my right, whipping white with my left wrist". It's like a clearly defined noise on incredible rhythm and notes. He wasn't lying when he said, "Hova flow holy ghost now steup up off your seats", he truly flows godly. It's an architectural marvel in sound, truly never for sale.
This beat is so good it can make you visualize abstract concepts. This beat makes me feel like I'm walking through a dark foggy forest. Ominous, dark, haunting beat. PERFECT
The crazy thing about Jay-Z's lyrics, they are true, and I say that as a tax attorney
"My accountant so good I'm practically living tax free" he's always talking about it lol to me that's some fly shit especially considering how much guys at that level generate.
He been said a long time ago every year he fires his accountant....think about that 😉
"the IRS should've had the townhouses surrounded"
Jon Davis But thanks to his lawyers😊
He clearly is paying attention in the boardroom. #grownmanbusiness
My favorite song, the production, Pusha’s verse, Jay’s verse, everything’s just perfect
I don't care what anyone says, the "Damn Daniel" line from Jay Z was clever
Back at it again with the white Vans
clever af
too fucking clever. HOVA the GOD☈
not really, but ok...
***** hater
all the jay z love on this comment section makes me happy. he's a lyrical genius. pusha is dope too
Nerd Soup you in here too! :0
Nerd Soup never understood the Jay Z hate
REDANDSILVER741 it's mostly cuz he commercialized hiphop. He changed it big time. Because of him we now have so called rappers like Lil Wayne, Drake, Lil uzi (uzeless), and many others.
Pusha T > Jay-z
Syed Isamuddin What are you talking about? Hip Hop got commercialized when the Sugar Hill Gang came out with Rappers Delight.
Jay-Z gets better with time!! Still flowing crazy
"Damn Daniel, the FBI keep bringing them all white vans through" HOV a genius with his pen, this was the time when the 'damn Daniel white vans' meme was big
Hardest line in the song.
Overtime that bar gonna be one of them "you had to be there lines" kuz if u know...nuff said
One of jay's dopest verses IMO
Few rappers in history can go verse for verse with Jay-Z. King Push is one of those
U high j azz
@@mr.h1389 You delusional
@@mr.h1389 Jay whole verse went over your head so it’s “trash” that what those say about this verse that only listen to lil Boosie Lmfaoo .. Yall just don’t know enough to catch all his references in the verse .. Those of us that live for double and triple entendre’s and get all the over head bars knows that this is one of Jay best verses .. Y’all fear what you don’t understand .. I get it
@@Kaustic410 I've actually never heard this or any other jz verse ever .🤷🏾♂️
lol cap
"l can baptise a brick" DEEP!!
Take a one one
Whats so deep about cooking crack?
His son is Brixx
One of Hov's most underrated guest appearances ever!!! .... PLUS MANY MORE!!!!!!!
GOD!! Hov shouldve caught a charge for that verse lol
Luis M I also did a remix to this check it out bro let me know what you think! ruclips.net/video/8gZWaxzO0UQ/видео.html
👍🏽
Found this banger by chance and I’m stuck on repeat mode🔥🔥🔥
Stuck
Still
Better late than never, this been my shit
@@liukang3479 same
SAME. Found this song completely by an accidental click, and I’m like “HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD THIS SHIT?”
#1 - This song gives me the damn chills...
#2 - Nothing makes me want to get money more than this song right here.
Period
I have listen to thousands and thousands of hours of every single hip-hop song you could ever listened to. This is the greatest hip-hop song of all time.
Biggie would have slaughtered this beat
😯 and now I'm mad I can't hear his voice on this 🤦🏾♂️
Yo you fuck me up wit that one
yo dude...was listening to biggie and meth..THE WHAT..this beat is so reminscent of that one..just listen to them back to back
Maaaaan I can hear him flowing & hear his adlib on the track 🔥🔥🔥 Pusha's flow always been inspired by BIG if you listen closely.
I would love to here jezzy on it to d talk
Hov and push together? Lord is it my birthday?
Razorcat112 mines to bra lol
Yes it is
Yes son it is your birthday, everyday is your birthday if U think it is lord says.
They definitely are a good match
Razorcat112 it was mine when this was dropped
"How many Madonnas can that Mazda fit" - Just when I thought Pusha ran out of clever ways to talk about product..
What does madonnas stand for?
@@julian3274 Madonna --> White Girl --> "White Girl" --> Cocaine
Lol
So many ppl missed how brilliant that line was
Nev'a run out of product😁
RIP to my homie Aaron. Back when the Clipse first came out, we were in high school and we would make jokes about them and Hov doing a track. Lol we joked that the track would be the ultimate coke rap track. He passed away before the song came out. Every time I hear this I think of our jokes. He would love these bars!
Hov top 5 all time, this shit was ridiculous. So many references that people missed because they focused on the ambidextrous line and the "Damn Daniel." His shit goes over people's heads.
Every bar is pure fire by both
Lol that's why we can listen to it over and over if we miss something the first time around we can listen to it again but high...😍😍😍😁😁😁🤗🤗🤗
BIG FACTS
AND he does that often, it just go over peoples head, these days is about melody’s not lyrical ability
Analyzing Jay Z rapping is like looking at fine art in a museum...
@@Treemeister5 straight flames
Yeahh...I literally be catching the *THIRD* meaning of his lines like 3 years later 🤦🏿♂️😂 #TripleEntendre
@@Bmore2Htown 🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️
Samuel Ellison but still, he got Ethered
@@maxnieves4641 and he still runs the industry
"who deserves the medal of freedom is my accountant, he been hula hoopin through loop holes workin round shift, IRS should had the town houses surrounded". hula hoop, loop holes, round shift, surrounded, in less that 4 bars this man worked in 4 lines about circles... without trying! To further establish the mans point, if you got a tight knight organization, you have a small circle. That is 5 references in less than 4 bars. Jay z is the god, Push is the king.
"Marbled" the foyer
Dining on "oysters"
Walked through the garage "multiple choices".
I pray I'm reaching...
Jeff Bridal best bars
Thats only 2 bars btw
1. King Kendrick
2. K. Dot
3. Paula's oldest son
4. Cornrow Kenny
5. Mr. 1-5
6. Kung-Fu Kenny
7. "Good Kid"
8. Kendrick Lamar
And the IRS is the internal revenue service. Revenue is money which makes the world go AROUND 😮
Pushin T 🔥🔥🔥
Song giving me an eargasm..... Best Jay Z verse I’ve heard in a long time. This shyt slappz🔥🔥
we got store fronts.. we got employee stubs, we been opening studios and 40/40s up, the paper trail is gorgeous...
JayZ tellin y’all how to launder cash, nigga’s drug talk was crazy on this joint
Life made me ambidextrous, counting with my right whipping white with my left wrist..
Tough tough tough... Hov can turn it up with any beat. Never the same flow.
+iLuv Forex Hov on a level these rappers today will never reach. Hov drops verses that are better than dudes entire albums.
Yeessss!!!
damn Daniel
+AllenH718 FBI keep bringing all them white Vans through...
Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since this released still one of the hardest Pusha & Jay verses I’ve ever heard🔥🔥
They should’ve done a album together
Best JayZ verse i have heard in a long time!!
chad hardy whatt nahh? u wilding brooo he got great 1s
+Young Money You either drunk or you misread his comment lol
the best verse i heard in along time
His flow's trash tho.
His flow is timeless g, you trippin
This song is justifies why RAP is art!
"Tried to build a cell around me
Snatched my nigga Emory up
Tried to get him to tell about me
He told 12, “Gimme 12”
He told them to go to hell about me
Drug dealers anonymous
Y’all think Uber’s the future, our cars been autonomous
Mules move the drums, take ‘em to different spots
We just call the shots by simply moving our thumbs"
Shit hard
just shows how underrated Pusha T is
MARCUS!!!!
“Accountant Hoolahooping thru loop holes” is one of the hardest lines ever
You missed the entire bar. “ He been hoolahooping through loopholes working ROUNDshifts, IRS shouldve had the townhouses surROUNDED” that bar was INSANE. He implented like 4 different wordplays on round and circle. Hoolahooping, loopholes, roundshifts, surrounded. All in one sentence to get an actual logical point across that made sense. Jay is nuts
Zgs Freaky I agree it’s crazy!
Not ever
"oh what a tangle web we weave
When we conspire to conceive" is a dope line
@@zgsfreaky9102 😒 ya we see wat he did bruuuuh
That Tomi line gets me everytime...she was so pissed.
word
Charron Jones he made famous
She said I got 99 problems being on your song ain't one. She should send him a thank u card
+Charron Jones but we know she's not
+daego 60707 lol
She didn't seem pissed to me. Where did you see her being pissed? She laughed at the situation.
want the old jay z there he go 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
This track gives me chill vibes and make me miss real rap.. best verse from both. love it
A instant classic for real heads. How real is this?? Shot out to those who know.
"Date I stopped still has asterisk after it, after all, I can make a call, I can baptize a brick, as I wash away my sins like a catholic "....smfh. Nasty.
David Mann that shit is fucking ridiculous
David Mann Only a small few will understand
That bar ran chills through me. You had live that shit
David Mann you gotta replace those commas with asterisks 🤯
Care to explain so the uninitiated can enjoy the genius? I catch about 90% of em and jays entendras as I break down each song carefully like a poem. But this was lost on me. Could you expound plz?
children of a lesser god when your melanins got a tint...only few will realize how cold that bar is
so many cold bars between the 2 of them
Straight flames
"when your melanin's got a tint" He's saying if your black, "children of a lesser god" you are viewed as not as equal. As if a black human must have been a lesser gods creation
kerrmic it's a deep bar that could have multiple meanings including the ones you mentioned
true man
Pusha bodied this
Imagine if push would’ve been on that meek “what’s free” with HOV and Ross
I'm shitty u even thought of that bro .. lol that would've been sick
REMEMBER NEVER OUT SHINE THE MASTER
Replace meek with pusha
duce Kong meek was better than ross
legendary
Pusha T is a rap god. Goddamn these bars!
This song is a masterpiece Jesus
Pusher T is on another level….KEEPING PUSHING..it PUSHER T… knowledge, and wisdom, and understanding being born.
So many stories in one song, crazy metaphors, stupid word play...only for real hip hop heads...
Tk Thierry Tru
Googles your friend when it comes to deciphering this song.
The line when he said before he dropped reasonable doubt the jury hung means reasonable doubt was his first album and ppl didn’t know whether if he was good or not so using legal terms the court had a hung which indicating ppl didn’t know if jay z was good or not
also his jewelry was hanging
cuz he was moving that shit
BLING BLING
Facts
Two heavy weight lyrical spitters lyrically sparing... 🔥🔥🔥
Fuck I miss Shit like this... The Bronx ❤️ NYC 🤘🏼
Im over here going crazy over Jay verse knowing I’ve heard this a thousand times 🤦🏽♂️ Jay the GOAT 🐐
You know something. I've never been a huge fan of Jay z but this niggas lyrics are the most clever and cryptic lyrics of all time
He had MANY verses like that
Has*
I don’t think y’all heard it......”He been hoola hooping, through loopholes, working round shifts, irs should have the town houses surrounded” 🔥
🔥, slept on music this will be a classic for the real Hip Hop heads.
mackman25 .....💯
one of the greatest hip hop songs
7 years and im still vibing this shit is always gonna be on top