Jay-Z's most underrated track ever and my favorite verse of his.

[I speak through music, I reach you dudes
We can get deeper in the dirt than cleat shoes
I refuse to lose
I peep you creeps three months in advance
I SEE RIGHT THROUGH YA, JUDAS!
The man that I am and damn you dont know
The harder you go at me the harder I flow
Lets do this
I'm just a mirror reflectin your image
The minute you switch up your face I pick up the pace
There's nothin to it
Pull hammers from my waist
We can clap at this amateur pace
If that's what's crackin
Or we can play this on All Madden
Can you even fathom not havin a fear in the world
I'm cool in my afterlife
If I'm readin these chapters right
Please what have you, I breeze through Matthews
Bleed if I have you, you cowards die a thousand deaths
Fate ***** face-down on your house's steps
Are yall even gettin this message?
I aint bein aggressive
But if you testin my life then, **** I gotta answer
Gotta cut off the cancer, young'n, pull your pants up
You gettin too big for ya britches
You ****** wit a dude that did it wit digits
Breathing's a privilege
Dont you know... when youre defeated?
Wont you throw? Throw in the towel
I'm better with vowels
I'm a man of principles; damn-near invincible
In my own mind now that my soul's aligned
I didnt know before now my role's defined:
Take hold and control what's mine
COME AND GIT MEEEEEEE
Come and take my life, you comin wit me
Come and try to take me for granted
I'll take you off this planet
Dammit, man this is the gift from God
This aint have to stand
'Til your arms are too short to box
Plus we knuckle up unorthodox
You can't take me off my grind GET OFF MY COCK
Whatchu thought? It's da ROC




Bruhhhhhh. Straight fire from top to bottom. **** gets me feeling some type of way.

:x

boo boo

Song is .

If we're going to talk about under rated Jay Z verses I would like to submit the second verse of this:

Rhyme No More >

******* & Sisters II

His verse on Welcome to The Jungle was beastly.

Antidope said:

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If we're going to talk about under rated Jay Z verses I would like to submit the second verse of this:

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Back when I listened to Jay, this was one of my favorite songs of his. Definitely overlooked.

Just to get by
***** I sold coke, ***** I pushed lah
Carried a fo'five
Claimed I was ready to die
Promised never to cry
Held it all inside
Reality was too much to take so I
Kept my mind fried
Slept for most of mine
Soon as I closed my eyes
Then I woke up behind
Thinkin' either I load up these nines
Or blow up with rhymes
Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca
And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein your moms
Doin five dollars worth of work just to get a dime
So pardon my disposition
Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?
Picture me working McDonald's
I'd rather pull a mac on you
Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin

at me for agreeing with anti dope

DangerousG said:

Just to get by
***** I sold coke, ***** I pushed lah
Carried a fo'five
Claimed I was ready to die
Promised never to cry
Held it all inside
Reality was too much to take so I
Kept my mind fried
Slept for most of mine
Soon as I closed my eyes
Then I woke up behind
Thinkin' either I load up these nines
Or blow up with rhymes
Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca
And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein your moms
Doin five dollars worth of work just to get a dime
So pardon my disposition
Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?
Picture me working McDonald's
I'd rather pull a mac on you
Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin

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For the unaware

Addict4Sneakers said:

at me for agreeing with anti dope

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Am I not a subject matter expert when it comes to this though?

Addict4Sneakers said:

at me for agreeing with anti dope

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Even a broke clock is right twice a day.

But seriously, that's one of his best songs post Blueprint

MastaMind033 said:

 

Addict4Sneakers said:

at me for agreeing with anti dope

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Even a broke clock is right twice a day.
 

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You could have turned guns into roses like two times today

But there aren't any under appreciated songs to you anti dope.

That GET BY remix :x

If there was heaven above us, I was living in hell
My neighborhood was the roughest, I never complained
I just adjusted my game, pushed 20s of 'caine
Bush and Reagen couldn't stop me from makin'
I wish I could dream about being a lawyer
But I had dealers in my hallway, death around the corner
Couldn't tell right from wrong, pimps will spoil you
Give you dollars for errands when nobody was carin'
I got to get my **** off, it rang true every time
I heard it or every time somebody got murdered
We pour liquor on the curb until the cement stain
I cried enough tears from my eyes to equal 3-inch rain
*************, I deserve it when I be in the Range
I copped them uncut stones that be freezing the chain
I done been through enough **** to make you pee in your pants
Man, I'm sorry if we ain't seeing them same, I seen it rain

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
That's why I give you my up and downs, my pain, my passion, my pleasure
My good and bad times, ******, my whatever
My hopes and dreams, blood, tears and sweat
My version of R. Kelly, this is a *****'s threat
My life is an open book, *****, I hope you took from it
Whatever works for you, I was put on this earth to move
Mountains, I think, I'm almost sure
But I've been smoking a lot lately, not counting my drinks
I got to get my **** off, for that I'm certain
That's why it's less than 8 months, I am back to work
*****, I'm clear, I done seen my cupboards bare
Heard money mentioned in my mother's prayer
Had nights my stomach filled up with nothing but air
Got 10 dollars to eat for 4 of us to share
That's why Hov act like that, quick to snap
Mac-11 ready, I ain't going back