Maybe it's because the point of the verse is that he’s a monster
Go ahead and try again to justify rapping about raping 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
Yea but like "rape and pillage" is like an actual phrase
But I'm not gonna sit here and defend an old man talking about raping anything
Go ahead and try again to justify rapping about raping children
idc as much as you do I’m just letting you know what its about
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?!?!?
Travis gif ironic
Yea but like "rape and pillage" is like an actual phrase
But I'm not gonna sit here and defend an old man talking about raping anything
In that case don’t include the “women and children” part
It’s not that hard man, I’m sure he’s a good enough rapper to think of a substitute line/half line
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
He was being real
thats what niggas used to do and still do in underdeveloped parts of the world
idc as much as you do I’m just letting you know what its about
I get what it’s about
It’s just stupid
idc as much as you do I’m just letting you know what its about
Bruh these niggas OD strange
In that case don’t include the “women and children” part
It’s not that hard man, I’m sure he’s a good enough rapper to think of a substitute line/half line
But when armies would rape and pillage villages it literally referred to raping woman and killing children.
But I'm starting to feel nasty defending this line so you got it fam
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?!?!?
it's just lazy, it seems bad now because mbdtf is an album for the ages
I see why people clown the first couple bars for seeming too much like he’s reading a list, the rest is fire tho
Y’all don’t have to pretend this s*** is good it’s okay
With or without the rape bar btw
top 5 to do it all without a pen but you could def tell sometimes when son was freestyling my g.
It's not a BAD verse.
It's an average Hov verse.
And on a song with prime Kanye and Nicki spitting the greatest verse of her career, yeah, that's not gonna really fly 'nahmean?
Yup OP included it now
Dude really rapped about raping children
Terrible verse off that alone
I can’t believe he said that. What a monster smh
I honestly believe Jay has forgotten better rhymes than y’all favorite rappers best bars before he could get somewhere to record them
He was being real
thats what niggas used to do and still do in underdeveloped parts of the world
Not even underdeveloped. That’s warfare
Not even underdeveloped. That’s warfare
im sayin underdeveloped because theres no warfare going on in the developed world