Time to separate the pros from the cons
The platinum from the bronze
That butter soft shit from that leather on the Fonz
A S1 diamond from a eye class don
A Cham' Dom' sipper from a Rosay nigga, huh?!

Jay-z felt that he was the nicest, but he definetely had strong competion with Nas and BIG..."whos the best emcee, biggy, jayz or nas". Jay was coming with a very intricate rhyme scheme never before seen to that level before in rap. Cue the double entendre's.

We used to fight for building blocks
Now we fight for blocks with buildings that make a killing
The closest of friends when we first started
But grew apart as the money grew, and soon grew black-hearted
Thinking back when we first learned to use rubbers
He never learned so in turn I'm kidnapping his baby's mother
My hand around her collar, feeding her cheese
She said the taste of dollars was shitty so I fed her fifties
About his whereabouts I wasn't convinced
So I kept feeding her money 'til her shit started to make sense
Who could ever forsee, we used to stay up
all night at slumber parties
now I'm trying to rock this bitch to sleep
All the years we were real close
Now I see his fears through her tears,
know she's wishing we were still
close
Don't cry, it is the (beat?)
In time, I'll take away your miseries and make 'em mine, D'Evils

This rhyme right here is arguably the illest verse Jay ever spit...he talks about startin up in the drug game with one of his best friends he's known since childhood. Already the rhyme is riddled with clever symbolism with children fighting over lego pieces to street niggas fighting over street corners. But it gets more intense as he explains that the money had gotten in the way of their friendship and Jay-z was now trying to get the where abouts of his former friend through his baby's mother (he never learned how to use rubbers thus he has a baby mother).

The listener is painted a clear picture of Jay-z bribing this woman to give up the where abouts of her boyfriend...and as much as she doesn't want to, her greed for money is taking over (D'evils). At this point, Jayz takes this double meaning riddled verse to the next level with a very thought out line.

"So I kept feeding her money 'til her shit started to make sense"

On one hand the line is literal in the sense that the story shes making up doesn't add up until he starts giving her more money for her to come clean. On the other hand the line can be looked at as "So I kept feeding her money 'til her shit started to make CENTS". Up until now, im not really dropping any knowlege to the average head...but check out how Jay explained this line in XXL.

He described the human body and how it takes food through the digestive system...in the process the body takes the nutirents that it needs and excretes the rest through what we know as doo doo. So he goes on to say....the line above describes the metaphorical process of digesting a dollar bill. The body takes what it needs and excretes the few cents left over.

HOW FUCKIN DOPE IS THAT???

Keep listening on, and on the 3rd verse Jay drops a triple entendre, which until now, most listeners thought was just a double meaning.

"Throughout my junior high years it was all friendly
But now this higher learning got the Remy in me
Liquors invaded my kidneys
Got me ready to lick off, mama forgive me"

On one hand once again we have the literal sense where Jay is talkin about how he was a good guy in Juinior high til the D'evils (greed for money) got in him and had him wildin out. Metaphorically, he is comparing it to being drunk off remy...the greed has got him acting as if he was intoxicated. The line was dope enough, until i went out and rented a movie called 'higher learning'. The character known as 'Remy' was pretty much a pleasent guy all his fuckin life (from Junior highschool on, until he reached university...also known as higher learning). Remy then made skin head friends who showed him a new light and had him wildin out.

There my friends, we have a triple entendre.

One more for the beginers...

"Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils..."

I hope this one isn't news to you. But none the less, a dope line regardless...Jay-z takes that street mentality, and that by-any-means necessary attitude disrespecting religion for the second time on the track (first one being "i never prayed to God i prayed to Gotti). He is implying that nothing could get between him and money. Taking 'Jehovah witness' and turning it into someone named Jehovah witnessing Jay-z commit a crime, but being too afraid to snitch.

If i was to explain all of Jay's clever rhymes it would take me forever (theres definetely going to have to be a 2nd part to this atleast). Alot of times, his double meanings have to do with the Illuminati. I can't go into those yet, because first i need to convince you that im not a conspiracy theorist walkin around with aluminum foil on my ahead. I call it how i see it, and im very observant. This is kind of my claim to internet "fame"...i blogged about illuminati in hip hip wayyy before you could get any google results on the matter, and much before the exposing video's on youtube. Most of those are on some weirdo shit, so just stay tuned for me to drop the science on the matter.

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M Bizzle  - Brilliant Article   |2008-08-19 20:51:35 Absolutely fantastic article...I did a radio project on Jay-Z and the brilliance of his lyricism a couple of months back...he's worthy of a book about it at this stage... so which one of us is gonna write it ??

Scolla   |2008-08-19 21:06:48 u better cut me a check!

david ball   |2008-09-21 08:38:58 why would the lord be scared to testify... he just means lord sees all but he isnt coming down to court to tell the judge

Anonymous   |2008-09-24 06:26:46 Its kinda sad that dudes on hiss 11th album and still spit his hottest tracks on his first album

Scolla  - re:   |2008-09-24 10:26:36 david ball wrote: why would the lord be scared to testify... he just means lord sees all but he isnt coming down to court to tell the judge Nahhhh i dont think so....just as it says above my dude... street niggas are known to kill/kidnap witnesses and snitches before the trial.... he's flexin his gangsta with that line...saying no matter WHO it be, i bet he doesnt make the trial

Anonymous   |2008-09-24 11:14:20 damn...

g-zeus  - nice dick ride   |2008-09-24 15:40:48 thank yo Beyonce.. I kid.. man.. nice article.

Scolla  - re: nice dick ride   |2008-09-24 16:38:32 g-zeus wrote: thank yo Beyonce.. I kid.. man.. nice article. haha i thought id large him up a little bit before i tear him apart... im not a fan of alot of his shit after RD

Anonymous     |2008-09-24 19:57:17 Heres Another "Mike Jordan of Rap outside Jay working now watch how quickly i drop fifty." -Hes the greatest in the Rap Game -In the streets on his grind (outside jay working) -hes also gettin at 50cents

THE ILLEST   |2008-09-24 20:51:04 too bad he dumbed down his shit and we didn't get continuations of the greatness at this level i personally think dumbin down for the audience is an excuse aside from the club joints that way you can spread out the lyricism and make 3 songs out of what would have been 1 song on reasonable doubt just makes the workload easier, he's already a name brand so it isn't gonna effect him

Anonymous   |2008-09-25 01:17:57 The Jehovah line is also in the third person... Jehovah = Jay Hova... Even if Jay Hova (himself) witness, bet he'll never testify (saying in the 3rd person that he wont tell)

Anonymous   |2008-09-25 12:51:54 no it wasn't cuz at the time he wasn't referencing to himself in that way, but if he wrote it now it would be even better. maybe subconscious writings of the future triple entandras

Anonymous  - re:   |2008-09-25 22:06:55 Anonymous wrote: no it wasn't cuz at the time he wasn't referencing to himself in that way, but if he wrote it now it would be even better. maybe subconscious writings of the future triple entandras your right....the guy who just said he was talkin about himself with the Jehova line is wrong... Reasonable Doubt came 5 yrs before Blueprint....and it was on Hot 97 that he announced his new alias "J-Hova" during the blueprint era

Lito   |2008-09-28 20:54:13 He used J-Hov in The dynasty album. The line goes something like "J hov, bout to change my name to J Paso, but in the mean time call me William H tho

Anonymous   |2008-12-02 17:36:25 was eric b the boss of the supreme team from fort green?

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