Mos Def vs Andre 3000 who is a better rapper
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Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
From all borders, doorways and gates
Resurrection draw near as mankind awaits
When you're living in this world you got to survive
Shaitan is lookin' on alert, attackin' from all sides
Witness before all eyes, the evidence of unseen
The power past the comprehension that controls all things
The battle fought by good and evil is a real contest
It is the outcome of the struggle that we play context
To all sets, sections, corny cliques, crews and clans
Gilgreens to Badlands, jump up to understand
I'm just a man, not the universal architect
We tread the face of this heavenly place, and show respect
Tokyo, raise your hands, where you at?
Osaka, raise your hands, where you at?
[??? something something something, Mos rapping in Japanese ???]
DJ Krush, Mos Def on the touch, we let it fly
I send my salaam to my entire squad
Meiso hard, yo, wherever you are, stay on your job
Strugglin' hard, to overcome the perils of life
We writing rhymes on enemy lines to shine light
Stay in meditation to keep the head right
Spreading wings like heavenly things, we take flight
Clear like a megaphone
Pretty nikkaheart skipped the metronome
Rocked the Trump Tower to the terrordome
Poor house to pleasure domes
Soprano, alto, tenor to baritone
MOS DEF one of the illest that you ever known
Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone
Smash your foundation into pebbles
My words leave your nerves unsettled
You take it to the next level down
Looking like a circus clown
Cats like you can't even get a pound
Worldwide from the river to lakeside
My stage show stay live, make the sound man stage dive
I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball lines
I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine
Got you shook like a fault line
Come all shine and get tarnished
Brooklyn got your pay roll garnished
They form a huddle
Whisper like they want trouble
I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles
Make the proud-hearted leave on the humble
Black steel in the hour
Assemble my skill form my power
My poems crush bones into powder
You mumble like a coward
I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder
SUPER HEREOS!
Get your power, your masks and capes snatched
Brooklyn take what you can't take back
I know a lot of cats hate that
All I can say black
There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at
All the doubters and believers adjust your receivers
"I feel it," you can taste it through the speakers
The three six oh-riginal sketch lyrics so visual
They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video
Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at
Brook-nahm Vietnam
The heat is on
Put your joint on cruise
Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
Take a breath, take ten paces back
Stay on time Omegas
Brooklyn patrol like interstaters
Take their license and their registration papers
My joint's so passionate
Make you peal out and mash your shyt
Get wild cold crash your whip
Front chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset
Tow truck got my tape in the deck
I'm permanent like tattoos and birth marks
Third degree burn marks
Driving on tracks like Dale Earnheardt
Stay on the low like the herb spot
Put a big loss on your earn chart
Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart
Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard
Just my name is a daily word
From avenues to streets, terraces and park places
Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements
Arrangement basic, but still fans chase it
Y2K can't delete the true ancient
Apache war drum on the ranges
Skill level dangerous
Arrow head that killed all the cavemen
They cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement
And get violated like a plaintiff
I ain't shyt to play with
I give a Goddamn what your name is
Delete it and make it so it never get repeated
Believe it
Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother
Conference call you wack crew and tell each other
That they just ain't holding me
I'm Mos Def, you hopefully
Mush on before you get bust off like a ovary
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
wait..
Huh?
He's actually right about that. Mos is has a knack for compound rhyme schemes
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
Shining, like who on top of this?
his new york accent and enunciation also help with that
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
Why these mos def stanz
Gotta keep diggin in the crates 99-00'
But can't find shyt even within say last ten years remotely relevant or lyrical
I'll waite
I see you breh.
I guess we gon act like dre 3000 is the only one allowed to experiment
I guess we gon pretend like mos didn't drop a damn good album in ecstatic in '09
while we're talking about how inactive mos has been let's just pretend like the love below didn't drop all the way back in 2003
FeloniousMonk
Dont mind me..Im a azzhole
But how hard is it to rhyme this with metropolis?
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
But how hard is it to rhyme this with metropolis?
High in
Shining
Top of this
Metropolis
I see you breh.
I guess we gon act like dre 3000 is the only one allowed to experiment
I guess we gon pretend like mos didn't drop a damn good album in ecstatic in '09
while we're talking about how inactive mos has been let's just pretend like the love below didn't drop all the way back in 2003
I was under the impression we were talking about lyrics worthy of a rewind
A
what did he just say?My point is mos ain't been at the level in like forever forever ever, forever ever
His lines, features and freestyles are rudimentary at best now. Whereas 3 stacks can still actually spit.
I just think mis mind is gone not sharp as it once was.
Ultimately it may just all boil down to the pac factor
Meaning even the most devot pac fan would have to admit that although passionate pac's lyrics weren't that deep multifaceted nor layered like biggies.
But the people love for pac far outshines bigs. There is an "it" factor intangible that translates through his music.
3stacks is not pac
But his artistry conveys through his music it's not just mental or technical.
pointproven214
i speak facts not emotions
But how hard is it to rhyme this with metropolis?
it ain't hard to do that.
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
I will say that this is one of the best comparison threads ever.
