First off, "Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. never has and never will need a ghostwriter. that man's pen and legacy is without question"

Secondly, even if he did.. we are talking about 1 deep cut off one of Nas' least celebrated albums. Doesn't take anything away from him either way

Lmfaooo

one of the best songs in nas discography

That's not his f***ing first album and I hate people who pretend like it's a debut. That is bullshit. I listened to a hay elect album in like 2010 how was that not his debut, minus all the label technicalities BS

100% on buddens side on this

The thing with Jay E is after a while when you get used to his gimmick you grow a little tired of him

A lot of Act 2 and AWT is just straight braggadocious rap, not that different than what Rakim did back in the day, not to mention Nas himself. It's outdated and the best rappers these days have grown past that s***.

Hell naw lol

Nas has plenty of legit classic tracks that make his crowd go crazy in a live show. No one really cares for that track like that. It's not even top 50 as far as his discog goes.

Jay E: "Please Flex, drop an atom bomb on the wizard"

Jay E fans: wow goat best writer of our time

Kendrick: "Tell Flex to drop a bomb on this s***
So many bombs, ring the alarm, like Vietnam on this s***
So many bombs, make Farrakhan think that Saddam in this b****
One at a time, I line them up
And bomb on they mom while she watchin' her kids"

Jay E fans: Kendrick not saying anything in his verse lmao got bodied by Jay E

another true post

corn

Lines like that aren't what make jay e the goat

The fact that his pre recorded control verse bodied Kendrick does tho

Control was a moment we won't get again, Kendrick has progressed from that point and did a lot of different stuff while Jay E has been recycling the same verse from Control his entire career

Big Sean had a better verse on Control than Jay ElecAssalamualaikum

The lies yall tell yourselves

bro said lemme make a horrendous bait title, dropped two youtube links and called it a day

APIDTA > most rappers careers

"I got the swagger and the profits
The view of an Astronaut from NASA in a rocket"

"My swag is on 1.21 jiggawatts, 10 trillion kilowatts"

"All hail the lyrical, Grand Wizard Imperial
N- signed the dotted line with Hov, that's a miracle"

"The flow is too atomic"

"Some black chicks say he ugly, white women they love me
My Asians and my mamis don't put nothing above me
I call it as it happen, the art of quality rapping"

"It's a Roc Nation Jay Electronic-extravaganza
The fans need an oxygen mask for every stanza"

"Listen to everything from a lecture
From the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
To Serge Gainsbourg or Madonna or a podcast on piranhas"

If Nas or Kendrick said that s*** they'd get clowned

Bodied Kendrick so hard that Jay E had a mental breakdown cuz he got ignored and was in shambles about it for years while Kendrick wasn't even thinking bout him. Cmon I know you're a stan but be realistic

Ironic

The beauty of jay e is what makes his verses great cant be boiled down to lines lol

His style is still based on standard 90's boom bap in its core, he builds all of his s*** with that structure

So on a pure musical level that's what he's limited to. A niche artist.

Nobody denies that he's a super gifted writer, but I wish he dropped the deity persona. And stopped reminding me that he's signed to The ROC every 2 mins, I get it.

If he dropped a pure mature introspective project with no gimmicks and preaching, and no Travis Scott feats.. it'd be his best s*** to me

Jay E seems like the intentionally quiet reserved dude in a community college class who thinks he's brilliant and above it but gives horrible presentations and gets a C- at the end.

@Soupvillain @coat thoughts?

Damn I didn’t mind the Trav feat on AWT honestly