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

DMGAINGREEN

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:wow: The last verse is a contender for one the best verses of all time

My street mentality flip bricks forever, know me and money
we like armed co-defendants, nikka we stick together
shyt whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
Hustle harder to see if indictment time came around
Now you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found
Put in twenty-four hour shifts but, that ain't me now
Got a face too easy to trace, nikkaz mouths got slow leaks
Had to hide between my workers, couldn't play those streets
She got his face like Mercury you jerkin me? Hectic
Had to call upon my wolves to send, nikkaz the message
I said this: 'Let's play fair and we can stay here
I'm trying to transform you Boyz II Men like daycare'
Hey there's money to be made and, nikkaz got the picture
Stopped playing with my paper and, we got richer
Then hard times fell upon us, half of my staff
had warrants, the other half, in the casket lay dormant
I felt like life was cheating me, for the first time
in my life I was getting money but it was like my concious was eating me
Was this a lesson God teaching me? Was he saying that?
I'm playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back
like bad coke, pimp or die, was my mindframe bad
Was nikkaz thinkin simplify was turning cocaine crack?
Ain't a whole lot of brain to that, just trying to maintain a stack
and knock a lot like two trains that's on the same track
'Fore I get my life together like the oars I bring back
In the bottom of the pot where no, water gets hot
Got my transporter take it 'cross the border then stop
Set up shop with a quarter of rock, here's the plan
For three straight weeks, nikkaz slaughtered the block
But you know the game is 'lluted, fukked up me and my dues
One drop can wipe a nikka out, faster than the cops
and this unstable way of living just, had to stop
Half of my nikkaz got time, we done real things
By ninety-four became the subject of half of y'all nikkaz rhymes
Public apoligies to the families of those caught up in my shyt
But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in the shyt
The life and times of a demonic mind, excited with crime
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
I figured, 'shyt why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
And let you feel me, and if you don't like it then fine'
The mindstate, of a nikka who boosted the crime rate
so high in one city they send National Guards to get me

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The theme song to (The Sopranos)
plays in the key of life on my, mental piano
Got a strange way of seein life like
I'm Stevie Wonder with, beads under the doo-rag
Intuition is there even when my vision's impaired, yeah
Knowin I can go, just switchin a spare
On the highway of life, nikka it's sharp in my sight
Oh! Keen senses ever since I was a, teen on the benches
everytime somebody like Enus was mentioned
I would turn green, me, bein in the trenches
Him, livin adventureous not worryin about expenditures
I'm bravin temperatures below zero, no hero
No father figure, you gotta pardon a nikka
But I'm starvin my nikkaz, and the weight loss in my figure
is startin to darken my heart, bout to get to my liver
Watch it my nikkaz, I'm tryin to be calm but I'm gon' get richer
through any means, with that thing that Malcolm palmed in the picture
Never read the Qu'ran or Islamic scriptures
Only psalms I read was on the arms of my nikkaz
Tattooed so I carry on like I'm non-religious
Clap whoever stand between Shawn and figures
nikkaz, say it's the dawn/Don but I'm superstitious
shyt is as dark as it's been, nothin is goin as you predicted
I move with biscuits, stop the harder nikkaz actin too suspicious
This is, food for thought, you do the dishes

substance jay-z is the best jay-z imo
GOAT Intro :wow:
 

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jay has had the best career in rap ever. we can argue about quality, but in terms on longetivity at the highest level. and then parlayin that into businesses.:wow: i should think all artists want to be respected and successful. thats the goal. chances are. a lot of cats that made dope rap music never sold or kept their publsihing, and a lot of wack music sold. jay rides those 2 paradigms perfectly. he sells and puts out quality most of the time. thats why the hate at an all time high. the only rapper critic said was so succesful he was boring. which is just a different way of saying he is unbeatable.
 

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GOAT my ass

Yo son word is bond thunnn

I don't even gotta relay what I nearly did to this nikka, Jermaine Dupri as my witness. But what y'all nikkas don't know is that I almost fukked Bey and Solange in front of that camel ass fakkit when my boy Stobo from the projects had a magnum to his dome coz they was feelin' a nikka, but a nikka is faithful to KeKe so I passed on that shyt yo.

Word life, kicko.
 

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Anyone else feel like this song never got the dap it deserved :patrice:


I always fukked with it, like the sequel to Hard Knock Life that never popped off :yeshrug::manny: wish this had been on Vol.3






I love this song and always thought hard knock life success made people not acknowledge it like he was trying to recapture that past success. But that last verse I'll recite to my nephew verbatim when he gets in middle school. Classic song to me
 

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Started fukking with Jay around 97. Heard the single "who you with" off the Sprung soundtrack..The way he was spitting on that bytch was crazy. I'm thinking to myself who is this nikka? After that I been a fan ever since. 1 of the GOATS!!!!
 

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i got some concert footage from the MCHG concert a couple years back. ill try to upload it.

there is a million videos of that on Youtube.

Say you got some Reasonable Doubt concert footage and we will rep you so hard you might get part ownership of TheColi
 
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