... seriously... underground hip hop culture is making me sick... 1 year, everyones on 50's dick cause he's making so much cash. Now everyones on Talib's or Mos Def's or Atmosphere's dick cause they "so real". stfu all of you.

Listen to music you like, and quit fucking hating. If you ain't like it? WHO GIVES A FUCK. Go listen to your lyrical gods and memorize all their lyrics so you can quote them to all your pals on aim showing each other who is the biggest fag.

1) Jay is one of the top 5 "rappers" ever. If he ain't on your list, who cares. That would make it your top 5 'opinion' list. Jay-Z made hip hop what it is today, like it or not, and how many other rappers can say that? I can count them on one hand. Rakim, Big, Pac, and maaaybe a few others.

2) Saying a rapper who has gone platinum on everything is 'wack' is like saying any player in the NFL is "unathletic". Obviously he's good at something you fucking retards. And yes, I know Nelly went platinum. He is good at making club jams. I would NEVER put him on my top 50 LYRICISTS list, but saying he ain't a good 'rapper' is something totally different.

3) Being an ill LYRICIST is, and is not the same thing as being a rapper. Look at 50. He's a 'rapper', but he is nooooo lyricist. He's a hook maker like Ja. On the flip side of thing, I would consider John Lennon a LYRICIST, but he's no rapper. feel me?

4) Quit confusing your 'favorite' rapper lists, or 'best lyricist' lists, with best rappers. The best rappers are the guys we all know, and for those who said Jay-Z isn't a household name are retarded. If anyone even knows what hip hop is, they know Jay-Z's name. My mom doesn't know shit about hip hop, but she knows who Jay-Z is. Jus cause your neighbors live with you in uk-tuk-ta-yuck-tuck and don't have cable, and Jay hasn't hit National Geographic yet, so they don't know his name, doesn't mean his name isn't household. Be real with yourselves, and give your heads a shake.

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Maaaan... Listen...

For starters Jay Z is not in the top 5 rappers of all time... I am literally shocked you would say something like that.... He may be in the top 20/30 considering elements such as success and mass appeal... But top 5 is an amazingly ignorant exaduration..

As for being a household name... Ofcourse he is... Hes been around for what.. 20 years or so? The dudes over 40 years old... He is an average lyricist.. His music is also fairly average considering the amount of time hes been rapping and the amount of money that gets thrown at his production... The guy bites lines and even entire paragraphs at times to spruce up his songs hiding his unorigionality by saying he bites out of 'respect' AND he has ghost writers... See, there are 100 rappers that are far more talented musically but simply wernt in the right place at the right time like he was...

People have respect for Jay because hes been in the game for a long ass time and most people started listening way back when he was slightly more small time and wasnt really trynna take anything over... Now a days its different...

Rap music is an industry that needs a leader... And Jay Z fell into that spot simply because everyone else that was filling that slot either got killed or retired long before.. And there is absolutly no problem with that... However I will tell it to you straight up.. He possesses absolutly no qualitys of a leader.. He is un-origional and it is simply not acceptable for rap to be led by such a weak artist..... Which is the reason why Jay Z pisses me off so much, its NOT even a skill thing.. He got put in a high up podium and he aint done jack shit but fuck around and weaken the image of rap by strengthening negative steriotypes and doing very little on a real scale towards the progression of the art form itself...

Now I have NO problem with people being Jay Z fans.. I have NO problem with people enjoying his music.. My problem with him lies in the backwards mindframe he has spread around the rap game.. And I would have the same problem with any other rapper in his position doing what hes doing...

As for the underground.. I agree... Underground rappers these days are increasingly becomming snobby little bitches that think they are so amazingly skilled when in reality they lack mass appeal and musical talent..... Part of this problem is due to the internet and its general views on lyricism...

I will say though... Lyricism IS what rap is about.. Hooks and instrumentals are the tools utalised in order to make your poetic lyricism sell... But in order to gain appeal, an artist has to have both.... And I wont lie.. To an extent, Jay has both... But he isnt a master of either like people make him out to be.

And he is NOT top 5.

And by the way..

You say "Jay-Z made hip hop what it is today" as if the hip hop industry ISNT royally fucked in the ass at the moment..

damn... You just summed up my thoughts exactly..

but about the mos def and talib. lmao.. they been dope since blackstar.. listen to blackstar and you'll see why we say there "real".. they address african american problems.. which is real to me. kanye aint the first to do it......


but if peoepl are just NOW getting on mod def and talib, they wayyyyyyyy late..

but for real.. jayz is so far beneath so many people on a lyrical scale it aint even funny.. 10 artists that eat him up lyrically...


Mos def
Common
Pac
Biggie
Eminem (ate Jay on his own track - let alone any other CD's he put out WITH GhostWriters)
Rakim
WuTang Clan (Only the good ones... Method Man and Such)
Fugees (Mind you they were fuckin poets)
Tribe Called Quest
shit De La Soul
Pharcyde

Jayz aint shit compared to the essences of hip hop....

but he is successful and he got money.. so i guess that means hes the best...

no wait.. that just means he was a drug dealer and all his idiot ass brothern are also drug dealers.. so they can relate to him..

for what he is, a rapper who relates to alot of peoples strugle, hes a good listen..
but skill wise, he just dont measure up to a head "real" to hip-hop.. hes a rapper... rap and hip-hop arent the same.. hip-hop is a culture and jayz is just perpetuating rich white people (our government ------ Keep following me, you can do it guys), to think we are idiots with no education. They already think we are incapable of being able to handle having money, we dont need the dumbest niggas in the limelight.. such as 50 & jayz....

im sure ima catch heat for the hip-hop comment.. but fuckit.. my opinion and my dick is always around.. so suck it


ps. I STIL LOVE YOU PHENY

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you all are faggots. nobody cares.

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idk i honestly think this WHOLEEEshit would never be an issue unless this cam ron thing came out ..before this jay-z was ill and he real and he the best but i guess cam made jay uncool so now its time for jay to be like ja










SORRY NO BOOK

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i actualy agree w basicly everything phenom jus said....and LOLOLO @ uk-tuk-ta-yuck-tuck

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HELLLZ YEEAHH !!!!

pure truth, ive given up on it though now, just allow the ignorant dick riders to keep biggin jigga up for biting lines.... but also nobody needs to forget jigga also bites concept... 03 bonny n clyde... bitten from a 2pac song(including the hook)

That Song Was A Remake And A Tribute Song In Honor Of Great Work Done By Pac Yall Just Reachin Now And I Dont Really Like Jay But Not For These Fake Ass Reasons Everyone Lookin For Someone To Hate And Leady Every Post Ive Seen From You Is Arrogant And Ignorant

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yo...they were about 2 diff things anyway....it was kinda lame that jay turned a good song about a gun into a song about some ho but...ehh ya know...he's a old man now...lol...but wasent "bit" ..a mural of pac was even in that video man

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HELLLZ YEEAHH !!!!

y do people act like its bullshit wen JayZ says that hes showin respect wen he bites these lines........???? it makes no sense to think he's bitin other peoples lines and hopin people wont recognize it...... cuz he's "bit" off albums that went platinum.... he OBVIOUSLY knows he wouldnt get away with it..... and most the shit people say he bit arent even good lines..... most of em arent punches or anythin real lyrical.......

and there have also been a few times where people have sed "he bit so and so" and ive heard the two lines....... and i just think its the same concept...... i mean, kids on rv use the same concepts 3 million times on this site, i think there are gonna be a couple times wen JayZ with his 2 million songs is gonna have a concept similar to one of the other billion rappers and kids that call themselves emcees......

im not even a big Jay fan, but i think people are stupid for thinkin that wat Jay is doin is bitin........ i mean, someone tell me the reason behind his biting..... knowing that he knows theres no way he would pass off 90% of those lines as his own wen he takes most of em from hit singles and platinum rappers..... it might be a sellin records thing...... but shit, i wanna sell records, and im sure all of u wanna do to.....

and this is besides the fact that almost every beat that comes out today has a sample from some other song, with the kanye west style....... and kids drool all over them...... thats alot more unoriginal (altho i like alotta sampled instumentals) than any bitin jay has done

even if u gave me like 100 or so lines Jay bit, i still wouldnt say that that should put a dent in his skills seeings that hes prolly written and recorded over a 100s of songs, with lets say 3 16 line verses for each........

blah (is finished with rampage)

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Lmao @ telling people they're idiots for prefering lyrics over hooks.

LMAO @ Jay-Z not possessing greater qualities than the greats.

Tell me, who can flow on any beat like Jay? Who can switch up styles like Jay? Are you gonna tell me Jay didn't outshine Biggie on Brooklyn's Finest? Are you gonna say Jay, lyrically, is not better than Pac? Not content or w/e the fuck ya'll wanna say, lyrically Pac ain't fucking with Jay-Z.

Fuck it, Pac is part of why hip hop is how it is. "I'mma Thug, THUG LIFE!!!" And he hadn't been on that shit till he was fucking with Death Row. Now everyones a thug aren't they? Pac fucking shooting at cops and shit. That shit was what you call a publicity stunt.

Stop hating.

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