Jay z was the first rapper using pause not Cam'ron

[avon barksdale]

I see Cam and Dame getting the credit for but jigga was the first to use it


"Where your balls at I had to pause that "

 

[BronxFleeZ]

“ I know what y’all thinking dikk, pause” —

 

[Mr. Negative]

"roc-a-fella shyt.
Ruff Ryders. Pa-pause. Pa-pause."

Credit to the coli poster that pointed this out ages ago.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

 

[wizworld]

Cam used to say "no homo" he never used to say "pause", so it makes no sense to say he originated it. "Pause" is probably from Dame and his people as Dame has claimed. That's why you heard Jay use it. Stretch & Bobbito were also saying pause before Jay.

 

[ShaDynasty]

He says it on Can I Live 2 from 96.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

On Can I Live 2 he says "For all my nikkas that go 'Pause' when they say some fukked up shyt."

He says it on Can I Live 2 from 96.

I'm pretty sure it was recorded in '98 for the Reissue. Jay's flow and delivery is more 97-99 era, too.

 

[ShaDynasty]

On Can I Live 2 he says "For all my nikkas that go 'Pause' when they say some fukked up shyt."

I'm pretty sure it was recorded in '98 for the Reissue. Jay's flow and delivery is more 97-99 era, too.

Yeah I thought of that. Probably says it first on Who U Wit then.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

lat

Cam used to say "no homo" he never used to say "pause", so it makes no sense to say he originated it. "Pause" is probably from Dame and his people as Dame has claimed. That's why you heard Jay use it. Stretch & Bobbito were also saying pause before Jay.

It's a game in NY since like the the early 90s but yes the first Hip Hop people I heard play it were Stretch and Bobbito.
Hey anyone remember the game where you try to get someone to say, "What?" or "Who?" And then you say " My dyck!"?

 

[Sad Bunny]

None of them started it. It’s been a part of black slang since forever.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Jay got pause from Dame

Cam started "no homo" but obviously in this day and age that phrase can get u canceled so he pivoted to pause

 

[Cheese McNair]

fukk around and sniff an ounce of raw, bust the four
Pause, pull out my dikk and take a piss on the floor

Black Rob on Mase’s 24 hrs to Live in 1997

 

[RennisDeynolds]

He definitely got that shyt from Dame Dash lol

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

None of them started it. It’s been a part of black slang since forever.

this

saying pause or playing the pause game been around forever it wasn't just for no homo moments it was anything deemed wack

also different meaning I know but I'm shocked no one brought this up

 

[CHICAGO]

Cam used to say "no homo" he never used to say "pause", so it makes no sense to say he originated it. "Pause" is probably from Dame and his people as Dame has claimed. That's why you heard Jay use it. Stretch & Bobbito were also saying pause before Jay.

THEY SAID PAUSE WAS HARLEM LINGO





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