A question as old as time itself. Idgaf if the production aged like semi skimmed I'll be rattling my kids eardrums with this one when I pick them up from school no doubt . Big big iconic tune. For me it goes:

Wayne - Baby butter smooth delivery and punchlines real show stealing performance imo - this track was his theme park.

Drake - Birth of the hashtag style good quoatables, he's hungry here
"Last name ever, first name greatest" is an amazing opener and hits harder knowing the run he was about to start.

Em - Even though some say it might have aged bad and tend to groan at his version of Em, this was a pretty mad moment at the time, I would say its an objectively strong verse on a technical level

Ye - Had some decent bars in there but overall I think the lyrics, flow, delivery are whack tbh hate to say it but in retrospect Yeezy could've came harder, maybe he was out of his element a bit here?

They were all mid

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Imagine having the balls to open your verse with “last name ever, first name greatest” on a track with 3 GOATs as a rookie, and now a decade later that statement actually has validity

That’s iconic

Drake’s verse is iconic, and the hook is iconic too so… Drake

Drake - Em - Wayne - Ye

Calling Obama “Michelle’s husband” always been hilarious to me

facts drake and wayne are like 1a and 1b on here

WAYNE

Amazing song

Wayne probably has my favorite verse but they all went in

10 year old me would go HARD on that em verse lol

This is it for me, Ye's verse has quotables but it's bogged down by weird timing and the rape line

Weird timing makes the verse IMO

Verse starts when Ye wants it to, not when the beat tells him to

Ball..chemo lines/flow structure aged terribly lol should be left in the early 2010s. Wayne>Em>Ye>Drake. Wayne and Em are on totally different level

FACTS

Hip hop historian

i have such a vivid memory of listening to this while playing mw2

Everything from this era sounds so egregiously dated why is that?

idk about best verse but in retrospect, Drake won yeah

No way drake had the best verse after that finding nemo line