Don't think I've heard a verse which matches this ever since it dropped

Man
Lost my dawg to the staircase, took the highest spot on the podium
Ghostin' niggas, probably smokin' to the thought of knowin' us
They loss a part of growin' up
Spurned us, learned I had to keep a wedge to get out of the rough
Fuses clipped for nuisance, disrespect 'cause we carried enough
I promised I'd bury the grudge, preparing the carrion grub
Larry Oops, I was lost in the alley, in the air but not sunk
I spun 'til the lost of my grandmama buried the dunk
Send 'bout a prayer a month, through the above
Niggas moody but imbued with the funk
Better s*** to do than play with food
The rhyming Rubik's for fun
But I do what I want, ayy
And I rue what it was later, a looter as such
Confusingly up with paper
I'm shootin' ones with the judge if he sentence my brother
Been with him, muzzled us from the cradle
So we goin' to the grave with this s***
If we join the second line
The ancestors'll hand us a drum to load the second time
Somethin' scary 'bout airin' out the s*** I compressed
The fare gettin' fairer now, the cost is
An arm, leg, an arm, leg, and a head
In all bread, the conquest for text, I'm pawnin' the rest
My Bompton partner spawn when donning the red
I'm all on they neck 'til my car park is pardoning French
Spar with a few niggas, sparkin' at the larger percentage
What's alternate when the losses come as often as wins?
And imposter clique thick
Don't got a job, I only ball off pick-six
I'm fraught with friction, in July, we had s*** lit as Christmas
Hollins been sensed niggas been lyin', but we ain't gon' mention
Boo hit the stu' and started sweating', told her this the kitchen
You knew the rules
And we knew how to shoot the loopholes, jugo, beaucoup loot
And my kin and 'nem got the cannon, you gon' juke or boogaloo?
I been spinnin' around the answer
Non-definitive, I just crammed it
Outward gifted, inward feel damned
I took my lumps, my bruises, grooves
What the f*** are you to do?

What do you guys think @DwindlingSun @marcusg @deepsleep @WRU @fritzdork @reptxn @viscera @philanthropist @putney_swope

A great verse

Not my first choice for voty tho

navy blue otw

came out last year

Earl’s Mourning verse

definitely top 5 verse of last year

Oh word my b

He blacked out on that

which verse tops this in your opinion? curious

He forgot he had to breathe

From 2019? Or just since then?

yeah just 2019+2020. Earl dropped some heavy verses and tbh many verses on FOC are up there with this (OD for sure), but I still think this is my fav possibly

I mean woods and Elucid had some ridiculous verses on both Paraffin and Shrines, and Ka did his thing this year like usual—I definitely think they all have topped this for me

Mavi skated

Remember on my first listen of FOC I was faded af and was having a bad trip over the s***ty mixing and beats but when ETCM came on I couldn’t believe the flow, I thought it was Earl too, that was my first time listening to Omavi, great rapper. Man, I literally thought EAST was the music of devils

I prefer Earl on this

Both were great tho

That beat

listening to more Armand Hammer and woods in general is high up on my priority list for sure. Ka is great but his delivery doesn't get me hype like that, he's extremely consistent but also to me doesn't have highs like this.

that s*** does have a demonic twist to it tho ngl

producer is a tight rapper too

bro went absolutely CRAZY on this!!
And the way earl goes in with these crazy side chain on his vocals
this song just makes me feel things i can't explain

woods has a legendary discog. There’s so much to digest with his projects every time. And Hiding Places is one of the greatest rap albums I’ve ever heard probably.

Yeah getting listeners hype is definitely not Ka’s thing lol, but tracks like Patron Saints, Sins of the Father, Old Justice, and I Love just hold so much weight that they make up for his monotonous flow

When Navy comes in