post up some of your favorite retrospective/introspective hip hop songs

[Not The Ruler O9]

fukking up a thread with

 

[Mike Otherz]

Jay-Z - "You Must Love Me"

"Since my date of birth bought you nothing but hurt/Played those video games, stole change from your purse"

The song got taken down from YouTube apparently

This nikka sold crack to his own mother. I hope that shyt is a metaphor cause damn. That the lowest of the low. Still a great song and one that separates jay from a lot of songwriters.

 

[Deltron]

 

[Farrinto]

This nikka sold crack to his own mother. I hope that shyt is a metaphor cause damn. That the lowest of the low. Still a great song and one that separates jay from a lot of songwriters.

That was all real. "In more than one way cocaine numbs the brain, all I could think about was how the funds once came"

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

Same sample as cormega - Glory Days though this track is way better to me