Nas "Live At The Barbeque" or Kendrick " Control"

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  • Live At The Barbeque

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both Nas and KDot blessed up with some historical verses:mjcry:





disciple, my raps are trifle
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle
Stampede the stage, I leave the microphone split
Play Mr Tuffy while I'm on some Pretty Tone shyt
Verbal assassin, my architect pleases
When I was twelve, I went to hell for snuffing Jesus

Nasty Nas is a rebel to America
Police murderer, I'm causing hysteria

My troops roll up with a strange force
I was trapped in a cage and let out by the Main Source
Swimming in women like a lifeguard
Put on a bulletproof nikka I strike hard
Kidnap the President's wife without a plan
And hanging nikkas like the Ku Klux Klan
I melt mics till the sound wave's over
Before stepping to me you'd rather step to Jehovah
Slamming MC's on cement
Cause verbally, I'm iller than a AIDS patient
I move swift and uplift your mind
Shoot the gift when I riff in rhyme
Rapping sniper, speaking real words
My thoughts react, like Steven Spielberg's
Poetry attacks, paragraphs punch hard
My brain is insane, I'm out to lunch, God
Science is dropped, my raps are toxic
My voicebox locks and excels like a rocket


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Tell Flex to drop a bomb on this shyt
So many bombs, ring the alarm like Vietnam on this shyt
So many bombs, make Farrakhan think that Saddam in this bytch
One at a time, I line them up
And bomb on they mom while she watching the kids
I'm in a destruction mode if the gold exists
I'm important like the Pope, I'm a Muslim on pork
I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the King of New York
King of the Coast, one hand, I juggle them both
The juggernaut's all in your jugular, you take me for jokes
Live in the basement, church pews and funeral faces
Cartier bracelets for my women friends, I'm in Vegas
Who the fukk y'all thought it's supposed to be?
If Phil Jackson came back, still no coaching me
I'm uncoachable, I'm unsociable, fukk y'all clubs
fukk y'all pictures, your Instagram can gobble these nuts
Gobble dikk up 'til you hiccup, my big homie Kurupt
This the same flow that put the rap game on a crutch (West x6)
I've seen nikkas transform like villain Decepticons
Mollies'll prolly turn these nikkas to fukking Lindsay Lohan
A bunch of rich ass white girls looking for parties
Playing with Barbies, wreck the Porsche before you give them the car key
Judgement to the monarchy, blessings to Paul McCartney
You called me a black Beatle, I'm either that or a Marley
(I don't smoke crack, motherfukker, I sell it)
I'm dressed in all black, this is not for the fan of Elvis
I'm aiming straight for your pelvis, you can't stomach me
You plan on stumping me? bytch I’ve been jumped before you put a gun on me
bytch I put one on yours, I'm Sean Connery
James Bonding with none of you nikkas, climbing 100 mil in front of me
And I'm gonna get it even if you're in the way
And if you're in it, better run for Pete's sake
I heard the barbershops be in great debates all the time
Bout who's the best MC? Kendrick, Jigga and Nas
Eminem, Andre 3000, the rest of y'all
New nikkas just new nikkas, don't get involved
And I ain't rocking no more designer shyt
White T’s and Nike Cortez, this red Corvette's anonymous
I'm usually homeboys with the same nikkas I'm rhyming with
But this is hip-hop, and them nikkas should know what time it is
And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big K.R.I.T., Wale
Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake
Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller
I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you nikkas
Trying to make sure your core fans never heard of you nikkas
They don't wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you nikkas
What is competition? I'm trying to raise the bar high
Who tryna jump and get it? You're better off trying to skydive
Out the exit window of five G5s with five grand
With your granddad as the pilot he drunk as fukk trying land
With the hand full of arthritis and popping prosthetic leg
Bumpin Pac in the cockpit so the shyt that pops in his head
Is an option of violence, someone heard the stewardess said
That your parachute is a latex condom hooked to a dread
West Coast
 
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There's nothing historical about Control tho it did get people riled up for a short time.

Live At the BBQ spawned the Illmatic one's career[/QUOTE]

Yeah for historical context alone, it goes to Live at the BBQ. That verse got Nas his deal, made Nas who he was and has led to everything he is now. It set off a chain reaction that possibly still being felt. Kendrick's verse came and there were dudes at the time saying "meh, nothing will change, it's not that dope" whether they were being contrarian or not or just didn't like it, whereas there was no denying what that verse did for Nas for hip hop in general. There are dozens of MCs who have said that his verse made them go back in and everyone wanted to know who this kid was. Control had everyone up for a while but then what? A lot of that is because the game is so oversaturated now and that's not Kendrick's fault, but how can you measure impact when your clientele has the attention span of a flea?
 
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