Seriously. This was such a grandiose, loaded, perfectly sequenced song until Hov comes outta absolutely nowhere and feeds us a minute of trash absurdness. Jay-Z has the most basic uncreative verse of the entire album and one of the worst verses in hip hop discography given his reputation.

"Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Loch Ness
Goblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscience
Question: What do these things all have in common?
Everybody knows I'm a motherfucking monster
Conquer, stomp ya, stop your silly nonsense
Nonsense, none of you niggas know where the swamp is
None of you niggas have seen the carnage that I've seen
None of you niggas have seen the carnage that I've seen
I still hear fiends scream in my dreams
Murder, murder in black convertibles, I
Kill the block, I murder the avenues, I
Rape and pillage your village, women and children
Everybody want to know what my Achilles' heel is
Love, I don't get enough of it
All I get is these vampires and blood-suckers
All I see is these niggas I made millionaires
Milling about, spilling they feelings in the air
All I see is these fake f***s with no fangs
Tryna draw blood from my ice-cold veins
I smell a massacre
Seems to be the only way to back you b******s up"

D'fuck is he talking about?!?!?

Dude didn’t even include the worst line in the verse in OP

The beginning of that verse is so wack it’s ridiculous. I’ve never heard Jay Z rap that bad in my life.

LOOVEEE ! I dont get enough of it

so appalled i might buy the mall

Some of the greatest opening bars ever spit

Yup OP included it now

Dude really rapped about raping children

Terrible verse off that alone

Edited, it cut off half the verse when I tried to paste it

Good looks

Verse is lowkey hard, y’all love to hate

top 2 verse on the album

Always though he said "none of you .. have seen the clunge that I've seen"

None of you niggas have seen the carnage that I’ve seen, I still hear fiends scream in my dreams

Great verse
Ahhhhhh... I smell a massacre

Made up for it with that so appalled verse

Honestly don't really get the hate for the verse. Feel like the verse became a meme 5 years later for some reason

Even harder when you read them out

Outside of listing out the scary creatures to set the scene of the verse, nothing was corny about it

Another example of sheep blindly eatin what they see most of the herd grazin on

I wanna say given the context of the verse and how "rape and pillage" ha become just another way to say ruined/destroyed, he was referring to how his d*** dealing days contributed to destroying his community.

But I'm not mad at anyone looking at that line like

Unpopular opinion alert. only good Jay Z is post 444 Jay Z.

You might lose your s*** now

raping women and children

Dude could’ve easily replaced “rape” with ruin or kill or rob or any other word

Idk wtf he was thinking putting the words rape and children like 2 seconds apart

That s*** hard

aside from the rape line, it's a good verse

Maybe it's because the point of the verse is that he’s a monster