ReturnOfJudah
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He got the grifter hand moments down to the tee. Jay Morrison and Umar would be proud. I get second hand embarassmemt when they start doing that
"4:44" was pretentious trash. nikka just switched Maybach to Warhol. he till called his audience broke peons while he was a billionaire There was nothing groundbreaking or eye opening about it, Same shallow JAY Z.4:44 really did a lot of heavy lifting for Jay's image and I say this as a fan.
He was the poster child for trend hopping, wave riding, chasing hits, and trying to be "cool" before that album.
That whole 2009-2016 era of Jay was the worst era of his career.
Most mature sentence I read on The Coli in 2026.But it's authentic to who they are. They're drug dealing rappers. High living and drug dealing. That's been their mantra.
This is a nuance topic that I probably need more time to flesh out my opinion.

i honestly believe clipse's coke bars more than jay's
drake was probably correct in his statement than he realizes though, i suspect both clipse and jay only sold what they had to, because if you had legit music money come in why would you fukk that up with drug money? cocaine is extremely lucrative especially in large amounts, you wouldn't have to do it forever. i could see them both washing their money and retiring, but that 'still spending money from 88' and '92 bricks' stuff is obvious bullshyt. if they were already millionaires why did they need a music career? if it was ONLY to rinse drug money, i dont think jay would've worked so hard on reasonable doubt.
im just speculating, i could be completely wrong. but i do notice these things

"Yellow diamonds look like pee pee" is one of the mature and age appropriate lines from the clipse he's talking about![]()

10 pages for someone to quote this....I was waiting on it.![]()
Disagree about Vol 1. Streets Is Mine has a pop hook?