Dope jay-z lines that were actually wack as fukk in retrospect

[Dusty Bake Activate]

There is an abundance of trite jay-z lines but the one that gave me the most extreme reaction will probably always be:

The combination of Pappy Mason and Larry Davis/Martin and Malcolm/this is the bigger than the album/Ar-uh

Reminds me of Game saying "I'm Dr. Martin Luther King with two guns on."

 

[boskey]

How so?

Being a business and being a businessman are very different

The whole verse is about how people were questioning his ability to run Rocafella and him shooting back at the doubters. The line right before it is: "I sold Kilos of coke, I'm guessin' I can sell CD's".

Running a label or selling crack = being a businessman.

Rapping, making hits and being a celebrity (that has to hire an agent/manager to handle business things) = being a business

So basically he defends his ability as businessman by saying "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business"...which is exactly what his critics were saying.

 

[SoulController]

"We can go bowling, it aint like before"

LOLLLL that was never hot, but this is the funniest one

if anyone uses People's Court your gettin negged, i dont care if it was hokey you'll get negged

 

[Rominati]

lol which song is this?

Such a funny song overall , Nas really smacked the confidence out of this nikka with ether. Jay-z really lost his composure for a lil minute

 

[Gifted one]

"nikkas pray and pray on my downfall, but everytime I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball"

 

[Walt]

I feel like 30% of the lines of the Black Album would be at home in this thread. The crazy in love verse too. Cats swore that shyt was fire.

 

[malbaker86]

"I got big guns that brrrrap...brrrap...brrrrap where yo nikkas at?"

That line was wack then and wack now. In fact, that was easily his worse verse ever

 

[Food Mane]

"Release the flutes"

I think it's actually unleash the flutes. Which is kind of funnier. Preparing the listener for some wild massive flute display that simply doesn't occur.

I don't understand the thought process with the whole song.

1. Let's get at Nas with a non-existent flute barrage
2. Let's get at Nas by conceding defeat
3. Let's get at Nas by impersonating Mike Myers impersonating a 1960s era British spy

whole song is kind of

 

[jadillac]

"No room service, just snacks & sh*t"

 

[malbaker86]

"Release the flutes"

Lol...there wasn't one flute in the whole song.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I feel like 30% of the lines of the Black Album would be at home in this thread. The crazy in love verse too. Cats swore that shyt was fire.

Crazy and deranged
Crazy in the range




Didn't he reference nick van exel in that verse??? In like 2003???

 

[Walt]

Crazy and deranged
Crazy in the range




Didn't he reference nick van exel in that verse??? In like 2003???

Indeed. Whole verse was corny as fukk, didn't go with song at all either.

Young hova
Ya'll know when the flow is loco
Young b and the r-o-c uh oh
O.G. big homie
The one and only
Stick boney but the pockets are fat like tony

Soprano the roc handle
Like Van Exel
I shake phonies man, you can't get next to
the genuine article, i do not sing tho
I sling though , if anything i bling yo

Star like ringo
War like a green berret
You're crazy bring your whole set
Jay-z in the range
Crazy and deranged
They can't figure him out
They're like hey is he insane?

Yes sir i'm cut from a different cloth
My texture is the best fur, chinchilla

I been iller than chain smokers
How you think i got the name hova
I've been realer
The game's over

Fall back young ever since
I made you change over to platinum
The game's been a wrap
One

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

"Dikembe Mutombo of this rap shyt"

Aging defensive role player of rap?

 

[Walt]

"Dikembe Mutombo of this rap shyt"

Aging defensive role player of rap?

That song in particular is rife with horrendous lines.

this nikka pee peein on the D.A. steps in the verse.

 

[Trajan]

"I got the US open...advantage jigga

A lot of lines will look mediocre or wack if you post them by themselves.

Straight bananas; can a nikka, see me?
Got the US Open, advantage Jigga
Serve like Sampras, play fake rappers like a campus
Le Tigre, son you're too eager

In that context (tennis theme) + the flow, the line is dope.

Also some of the stuff you're referencing is over a decade old. The punchline game advanced a lot over the years.

I can pick out a ton of legendary lines which might be considered 'wack' now.