G*O*A*T - The Official Jay-Z Thread

[lucky lefty]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-...at-bisexual-turned-trap-yodeler.423576/unread

 

[Farrinto]

Yet u tryna shyt on a nikka 4 praising one of the GOAT our Flow Lord and Lyrical Savior Hova Da Gawd's greatest albums?

Foh witcho false flagging ass

Wouldn't no real Jigga fan have his panties twisted over a nikka acknowledging the GOATness of the GOAT our Flow Lord and Lyrical Savior Hova Da Gawd by expounding on the GOATness of Vol 1

U hoe ass, fake Jayhova Witnesses are so easy 2 spot it's hilarious, but nothing shall stop the real nikkaz from spreading the word of our Lord Camel

Young!

When you quote my posts put some respeck on it

Vol. 1 is my favorite Jay album and I've made threads on how I think it's his best album. All I said was the album was slept on. How the fukk does that equate to shytting on it?

 

[lucky lefty]

When you quote my posts put some respeck on it

Vol. 1 is my favorite Jay album and I've made threads on how I think it's his best album. All I said was the album was slept on. How the fukk does that equate to shytting on it?

Read posts instead of skimming them, retard

I said u were hating on me for acknowledging the GOATness of Vol 1

I never said shyt about u shyttin on Vol 1

shyt, I'm howling @ the thought of u or anyone else being so delusional they could manage 2 convince themselves that an album as amazing as Vol 1 is anything but another timeless classic from the GOAT our Flow Lord and Lyrical Savior Hova Da Gawd

 

[lucky lefty]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/jay-...son-in-cultural-history”-thecoli-lost.423785/

 

[lucky lefty]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-...s-how-2-raise-a-non-thot-thecoli-lost.423980/

 

[OfTheCross]

smh. Why Lucky Lefty gets banned, though?

 

[OfTheCross]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/jaÿ-z-broken-english-dj-clark-kent-production-199x-demo.425859/

nice shyt in that thread

 

[OfTheCross]

Allot of Hova related activities lately ...

 

[Farrinto]

Brehs, I'm almost done reading his book Decoded. I have a newfound respect for that man's pengame, he's really one of the smartest rappers who ever did it

 

[OfTheCross]

Brehs, I'm almost done reading his book Decoded. I have a newfound respect for that man's pengame, he's really one of the smartest rappers who ever did it

Any gems that you care to share?

I haven't read it

 

[Farrinto]

Any gems that you care to share?

I haven't read it

I wrote in another thread the stories he put in there about how he got Bleek on "Coming of Age".

"When I wrote a song for my first album inspired by the tension between older guys and new recruits in the streets, I called Kane and told him, "Man, I wrote this song and I really want Shyheim on it." We tracked down Shyheim's people and in the end they said he couldn't do it for whatever reason-and at this point, I hadn't even made an album yet, so they weren't feeling pressed to let him do the song. But even though Shyheim is the one I was thinking about for the record, it didn't really matter that he said no. It was still a record I felt like I needed to make, I just needed someone who could represent what I thought I saw in Shyheim.

The next day I saw this kid I knew walking across Marcy. He looked like a little star already-the swagger in his bop, the clean gear. I knew his older brother, Andre, a little better, but Andre was still a kid to me, too. I had this verse that needed a younger voice on it, but a young voice that was rough and full of ambition, and I just got the feeling from this kid. His name was Malik, but soon he'd rename himself Memphis Bleek. I didn't just give him the verse, which I already composed. After all, I had no idea if he could pull it off. First there was a test. I collared him and said, "Look, I'm making an album and you can be on it, but you have to learn this song in twenty-four hours. You don't learn it, then you're not on it." He took the paper I handed him and looked it over. I'd written the verse down for him in some chicken scratch, and when he held it up, I could tell he was thinking, shyt, I can't hardly read this. But he took it and went home."

"That same day we went over to the producer Clark Kent's house, where Clark had a basement studio. When we got there, I ordered food for everyone. I asked Bleek what he wanted and he sort of casually ordered six double cheeseburgers. I looked at this kid, and back then Bleek was a thin dude, and I was like, Word? I'm thinking he's trying to take advantage of me. But I went ahead and ordered them, and when they came, I sat the bag in front of Bleek and told him to get busy because I was going to make sure he ate all six of them. As he unwrapped the first burger I was thinking that the stomachache he was about to have would be lesson number one for this little nikka: Don't take advantage of people's kindness. But Bleek wasn't paying me any mind. He hunched over those wrappers and ate every single one of those burgers and was like, Bet, let's go to the booth."

The majority of the book is basically his memoirs combined with him breaking down lyrics from some of his songs. I'll make a new post where I'll post some of the lyrics he breaks down.

 

[Farrinto]

"Till I need a nut, till I need to beat the guts" - "Big Pimpin

Here are two of the most selfish, least romantic ways to describe sex you can imagine: "need a nut" and "beat the guts." I was intentionally pushing it-the song is meant to be about pimpin, which is, by definition, selfish and unromantic-but this is also where my head was when I recorded the song. The truth is that when you reach a certain level of success, relationships between men and women can get really fukked up and start feeling like a raw transaction, with high levels of suspicions on both sides.

"Look at that fake smile he just gave me, it's breaking my heart/Should I school him or pull the tools out and just break him apart?" - Coming of Age (Da Sequel)

Tools is obviously slang for a gun. I like that word here because it lets you know how at the end of the day I'm a professional, and even something as personal as this can be handled as coldy and impersonally as taking a hammer to a piece of defective machinery. At the same time the rhyme here-breaking my heart/break him apart-lets you know it's still more complicated than that for me.

 

[Gravity]

ever since my pop
shot me up in the Fallopian
flow been equivalent to opium
I learned my fiends and
mastered the tracks
on they arms
like Tone and Poke and em
overdosing nikkas with a dope flow almost jerkin em
the way he play
you'd think Phil Jax was coachin em
but he still packing hot burners steady pokin em
this very minute
Do dirt.....get buried in it
your hearse be heavy tinted
Jers I represent it till I'm finished
pull it, burn em
hit him in the sternum
just to learn him
fukking wit me
getchu nothing but a sermon
(for what?) for your funeral
soon as you nikkas testin'
slugs infectin'
your body like asbestos
you know who the best is

Lost mixtape verse over the "you don't know" beat.

 

[Farrinto]

I'll post his complete breakdown of "Renegade" later if anyone's interested once the baseball game I'm watching is over.

 

[OfTheCross]

ever since my pop
shot me up in the Fallopian
flow been equivalent to opium
I learned my fiends and
mastered the tracks
on they arms
like Tone and Poke and em
overdosing nikkas with a dope flow almost jerkin em
the way he play
you'd think Phil Jax was coachin em
but he still packing hot burners steady pokin em
this very minute
Do dirt.....get buried in it
your hearse be heavy tinted
Jers I represent it till I'm finished
pull it, burn em
hit him in the sternum
just to learn him
fukking wit me
getchu nothing but a sermon
(for what?) for your funeral
soon as you nikkas testin'
slugs infectin'
your body like asbestos
you know who the best is

Lost mixtape verse over the "you don't know" beat.

Got a link?