Jay-Z's Top 10 Verses

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Hoooov

Nikkaz sleep on You Must Love Me
The story telling in that track..especially that 2nd verse

"
We used to fight every night but I never would suffer
just smile my big brother's tryna make me tougher
As we grew fussing and fighting continuedas I plundered through ya stuff
and snuck ya clothes to school
Got intense real intense as we got older
Never believed it would leadto me poppin one in ya shoulda
Where my rings? Knew you had it 'cause you took too long
as Mickey, Annie, and the girl that bought it looked on
Huffin' and puffin' gun in my hand told you step outside
Hoping you said no but you hurt my pride made our way down the steps
maybe you thought it was just a threat or maybe ya life was just that crazy and you was beggin' for death
try to justify this in my young mind but the adrenaline and my ego hurt combined
drove me berzerk
Saw the devil in your eyes high off more than weed
confused I just closed my young eyes and squeezed
"

Dawg this nikka described every movement, feeling, thought everything to the smallest detail when telling the story of shooting his brother

Vol. 1 has some of Jay's best verses of all time

to the brehs that said Lucky Me and Imaginary Playaz

 

[Big Woadie]

And nikkas telling me he ain't the goat? Cmon man who fukking with him

Nobody breh. Jay the bess.

He got the most profound messages in rap. But not really.

He got the best "I'm rich you not" rap game off all time. Cept he doesn't.

He got the most sales in history of tap. Cept he doesn't.

GOAT.se

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Whats the difference between the 4.0 and 4.6?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

How did no one post this????




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[Intro: Jay-Z & (Funkmaster Flex)]
I been crushing the building since Izod socks
I'm so independent, sh..I might buy Koch
I might not stop
Places to cop, seventy-six floors, you can call me the Doc

Say when, say when
(When!)

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]
Inspired by Basquiat, my chariot's on fire
Everybody took shots, hit my body up, I'm tired
Build me up, break me down to build me up again
They like: "Hov, we need you back so we can kill your ass again"
Hov got flow though he's no Big and Pac, but he's close
How I'm 'posed to win, they got me fightin' ghosts
Same sword they knight you they gon' good night you with
Sh.., Thats' only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm
You see Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas; see Caesar, see Brutus
See success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, nikkas sue you, you settle
Every step you take, they remind you you ghetto
So it's tough bein' Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now
Now the question is, is to have had and lost
Better than not having at [all]

[Verse 2: Jay-Z]
Everybody wanna be the King then shots ring
You layin' on your balcony with holes in your dream
Or you Malcolm X'd out, get distracted by screams
Everybody get your hand off my jeans
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Uhh! Like you work that hard to stay the same
Uhh! Game stays the same, the name changes
So its best for those to not overdose on being famous
Most kings get driven so insane
That they try to hit the same vein that Kurt Cobain did
No dangers, so shameless
Invited to the inner sanctum of your chambers
Low chain 'em as the enemies approach
So raise your draw bridge and drown them in the moat
And the Spirit I'm evoking
**Mumbles** Hold on

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
Everybody screaming they want the old Hov
But the new improved Hov hit like Albert Pujols
Everybody wanna hear me talk that money like Phil Rizzuto
But my mind is on Pluto
Bills that I do fold, I now invest on
Trying to find some loopholes in the IRS
As where I used to have a few hoes I am just
Concentrating on making a new Hov through sex
I've awakened just in time to school those putos
Trying to follow in my shoes with jewels froze
Better adhere to this text 'fore you go
Broke, spending more than you've accrued on silly baguettes
I know silly begets silly you'll learn on your own
At least my conscience is clear, I'm no longer steering you wrong
Ain't nothing wrong with baguettes after you get a home
Take care of your home, you can go back and **Ugh!**

[Verse 4: Jay-Z]
I'm getting courted by the bosses
The Edgars And Doug Morris-es-es
Jimmy I's and Lyors-es -- it's
Gotta be more than the choruses
They respecting my mind now
Just a matter of time now
Operation: Takeover Corporate
Makeover offices-es-es then takeover all of it
Please may these words be recorded
To serve as testimony that I saw it all before it
Came to fruition, sort of a premonition
Uncontrollable hustler's ambition
Alias Superstition, like Stevie
The writing's on the wall like my lady, right baby?
Saw it all before, some of y'all thought I was crazy, maybe
Like a fox, I'm cagey, ah-ah
The more successful, the more stressful
The more and more I transform to Gordon Gekko
In the race to a billion got my face to the ceiling
Got my knees on the floor please Lord forgive him
Has he lost his religion, is the greed gon' get him?
He's having heaven on earth, will his wings still fit him?
I got the Forbes on my living room floor
And I'm still talking to the poor, nikka I want more
TIME's most influential, was impressive
'Specially since I wasn't in the artist section
Had me with the builders and the titans
Had me right with Rupert Murdoch
Billionaire boys and some dudes you never heard of
Word up on Madison Ave is I'm a cash cow
Word down on Wall Street, homie, you get the cash out
IPO Hov, no need for reverse merger
The boy money talk no need to converse further
The baby blue Maybach like I own Gerber
Boardroom I'm lifting ya skirt up​

 

[Knicksman20]

Start at 3:15



Mira-cul-ous, pockets stay full
Nikkas skip the bull cause we mat-a-dors
Snatch the P89s that we pack in the drawers
And we, clap the doors of your A-cu-ras
Snap like cam-er-as on ama-teurs
Make you all dance, hold a hammer to yours
Jig and Big rock ice, no cracks or flaws
Everybody got a part to play, back to yours
Run up in your crib now, crack your doors
Watch the real players live, it's a habit to floss
Play the charts like The Beatles, y'all adapt you lost
And toast Cris-tal on behalf of y'all
Too bad for y'all
Ain't too many as bad as yours truly
Do we, we laugh at y'all
Little b*stards y'all

 

[The Order 1886]

Friend or Foe '98

That story telling
That Charisma
That Donnism

"Time to pay now, you try to rise, I wave the gun - lay down/ This time you're really going to listen to Jay now "

"But my mind's like a flower in bloom
Peep how my eyes just scour the room
I'm alert, plus I paid the clerk I got it laid out
You think you the first nikka I played out, in a two-hotel town?"
"A gun in your face and that's all you can come up with? "

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

3rd verse. that arrogance

id fill out the other 9 with the lyrical shyt, d'evils shyt, but this is one of my favorite jay "" verses

Somebody should play that 3rd verse for Young Thug, that nikka would be like

 

[jdashmaj]

1st verse of I Love the Dough
1st and 2nd verse of the Can I Live
1st verse of 22'2's
2nd verse Bring It On
Meet the Parents
"Can't ya'll see that he fake rap version of TD Jakes" verse on Blueprint 2
3rd verse of Imaginary Players
2nd verse "Once Again It's On"
Dead Presidents

 

[Amphibious]

Jay-Z = GOAT rapper because he does everything hot. A lot of legendary rappers like Nas and Tupac Shakur do SOME things great, but Jay-Z does them all. He's the total package rapper. Your favorite rappers favorite rapper.

 

[904]

Reservoir Dogs

 

[x-factor7]

Surprised nobody mentioned this verse. They all came correct, 'cept Jigga came a few levels above them

Hell yea to this, underrated song, and great Hov verse:

"They say the good die young, in the hood where I'm from,
I only got one question to that, why the fukk am i here?"

How did no one post this????


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Just a all around

I'd like to nominate his verse on No Church in the Wild

 

[Amphibious]

Hell yea to this, underrated song, and great Hov verse:

"They say the good die young, in the hood where I'm from,
I only got one question to that, why the fukk am i here?"


Just a all around

I'd like to nominate his verse on No Church in the Wild

I look to the air, I ask God, "Love me please,"
but in reality, only people that hug me is thieves
Same nikkaz that send shots through my rugby sleeves
They wanna, slug me and leave, I'm thinkin it must be me

These bars was hot!

 

[Professor Lexx]

One of his most underrated verses. A reality check for a lot of M.C.'s at the time.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

You, Him, Me, Her verse...

 

[Danie84]

Where we call the cops the A-Team
cause they hop out of vans and spray things
And life expectancy so low we making out wills at eight-teen

...couldn't deny Lord Camel as much as I wanted to