What Did Jay-Z mean by "Black Excellence, Opulence, Decadence"?

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When you look up words in dictionaries, often you find numbers before definitions. If you do see one, it means continue reading for subsequent meanings.

This is what you call a gentlemens Ether.

 

[jadillac]

you never heard of a "decadent" gala or "decadent" gettogether?

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

You don't have a dictionary or thesaurus?

 

[Mowgli]

When you look up words in dictionaries, often you find numbers before definitions. If you do see one, it means continue reading for subsequent meanings.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

Real question is the first or 2nd beat?


I'm rolling with the 2nd

first

 

[Self_Born7]

that means he Boule' like the rest of those negroes who sold us out

 

[Archangel]

When you look up words in dictionaries, often you find numbers before definitions. If you do see one, it means continue reading for subsequent meanings.

I did breh. From dictionary.com. You got your daps though so you succeeded at your mission.

noun
1.
the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state;deterioration; decay:
Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internaldecadence.
2.
moral degeneration or decay; turpitude.
3.
unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence.
4.
(often initial capital letter) the decadent movement in literature.

noun
1.
deterioration, esp of morality or culture; decay; degeneration
2.
the state reached through such a process
Word Origin
C16: from French, from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, literally: a falling away;see decay

 

[OfTheCross]

I did breh. From dictionary.com. You got your daps though so you succeeded at your mission.

noun
1.
the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state;deterioration; decay:
Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internaldecadence.
2.
moral degeneration or decay; turpitude.
3.
unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence.
4.
(often initial capital letter) the decadent movement in literature.

noun
1.
deterioration, esp of morality or culture; decay; degeneration
2.
the state reached through such a process
Word Origin
C16: from French, from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, literally: a falling away;see decay

Did you read #3?

 

[steadyrighteous]

Did you read #3?

He probably has, but obviously he's going somewhere with this.

He just hasn't had the balls to unleash his full "theory" because so far nobody in the thread has agreed with him or sided with his definition of the word lol