The song A Star is Born is just one long ass backhanded compliment
If you've been listening to Jay since the beginning, then you know he's the undisputed king of subliminals. But the audacity to go at the entire industry under disguise of giving them props is just genius and
at the same time. An then the nikka is like "Clap for em"
Jay lightweight punked out all the top dogs in the rap game with this shyt.
I seen Mase do it, I seen 'Ye do it
X came through, caught lighter fluid
Still I came through it, clap for 'em
But I'm the blueprint, I'm like the map for 'em
Basically Jay is saying, they were cool and all, but I'm the standard. He literally said he was the blueprint and map for these nikkas to be successful
I dropped another classic, made Puff pass it,
Nobody could touch Puff back when Puff had it
Backhanded compliment that's saying Puff doesn't have it anymore
Wayne scorchin, I'll applaud him
If he keep goin, pass the torch to him
Jay is pretty much telling Wayne that he hasn't done enough to be recognized right now. He told the nikka that he would applaud him if he kept it going.
50 came through, like hurricanes do
I thought I finished his ass at Summerjam Too
Jay is displaying ultimate arrogance right here. He on some, I thought I finished this nikka shyt. He pretty much giving him props because he was fortunate enough to survive Jay's wrath.
I had the Illmatic, on bootleg
The shyt was so ahead, thought we was all dead
Very slick way of saying I don't respect you enough to pay for your shyt.
Wayne did a milli, 50 did a milli
'Ye too but what Em did was silly
The white boy blossomed after Dre endorsed him
His flow on "Renegade," fukkin awesome, applaud him
He's saying that Eminem wouldn't be shyt without the Dre co-sign.
Hey, Snoop Dogg did, Nelly came down
Facemob kept the ghetto for the H-Town
Didn't see anything condescending in these bars
Luda moved digits after he moved bytches
Very slick double entendre that's saying Luda only sold records cause he catered to females, but is also referring to the song "Move bytch Get Out the Way"
Drake's up next, see what he do wit it
Basically what he said for Wayne, on some, you hot now, but lets see if you can stay hot.
Rule had a run, couple movie parts
Diminishing Ja Rules run by focusing the attention on his movie parts and not the music.
T.I. literally wanted to shoot up the charts
Another double entendre referring to T.I.'s gun case, and his desire to top the charts. Lost in the joke is the fact that he didn't give T.I. any props at all.
Waddup Jeezy? What it do
Ya remind me of us in early '92
This is a thinly veiled attempt for Jay to give props to himself under the guise of giving props to Jeezy.
OutKast landed, 3 Thou' was ill
Like a male version, of Lauryn Hill
This nikka Jay compared 3 Thou to a girl
Mobb Deep (Shook) it, but Prodigy took it
a lil' too far, can't fukk wit Brooklyn
Not really slick at all, just a straight up shot at Mobb Deep.
Wu-Tang gangbanged it, Meth ate
Rae took on the date with the Purp' Tape
Passed on to Ason and then Ghostface
They had a hell of a run, standing ova- aaaaaaaay!
Basically saying the Wu needed a gang of nikkas to be successful.
And lets not forget that Jay had a third verse after these two that gave himself props.
