My junior high school class, wish I stayed there
Illegal entrepreneur, I got my grades there
Blaming society, mad, it wasn't made fair
I would be Ivy League if America played fair
Poor excuse,and so I was
Throwing rocks at the pen just for the love
Before the evil,the secret life of G's
You seeing my blurry, triple beam dreams
these are bars with a purpose. Take "poor excuse; and so I was" right here and it doesn't look like anything flashy but it serves a wide purpose in the context of the song
1. Nas is saying that he is a poor excuse for a righteous human because of his past as a crack dealer that poisoned his own people and felt no remorse
2. Nas is saying that his expectation that America as a society would "play fair" is a poor excuse for his own past, that allowing society to influence him in such a negative way is a mistake that he regrets
3. It introduces the next bar as a continuation of the narrative, "and so I was throwing rocks at the pen..." Which itself is a dope metaphor
good writing has a PURPOSE, it forwards action, tells a story, adds context to a narrative
it isn't "im unpaassable like a simulateous forwards backwards lateral" my breh. that's just a steaming pile of shyt
The Ruler is a moron who has never made a cohesive argument the entire time I've been on The Coli. You can't expect him to break down lyrics because he's simply not that bright. He leans on rapper cosigns and alias rambling to repeat the same ol shyt because he's just a follower with no independent thought.
anyway, I like "How We Roll" and "100 Bars" when it comes to Bis. That's pretty much it. He is better than K-Rino at least.
ROME!