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PunlioWasHere
I liked both Em's verse and Jays verse. I can only imagine the youtube comment section for this song though lmao
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godonnygo
The Blueprint is one of my favourite hip-hop albums of all time - Jay's performance throughout, Kanye/Just Blaze's beats, it's a sublime record. Then Eminem comes in and just dominates this track, I don't think I've heard many more fluent verses than his here. It's a shame his immense talents on display here are usually wasted on sub-par beats and awful subject matter.
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ZoningOut
Jay's entire 2nd verse is quotable, and the lines he drops on this track trump Em's any day of the week. "I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles, pockets filled with a lot of lint, not a cent, Gotta vent, lot of innocent of lives lost on the project bench". "My demeanor - thirty years my senior". "Raisin my fingers to critics; raisin my head to the sky BIG I did it - multi before I die (nigga)". "No lie, just know I chose my own fate, I drove by the fork in the road and went straight".
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ZoningOut
Once you look at what both are actually spitting (read: once morons stop drooling over Em's "white boy" flow), you'd realize that Em's 1st verse > Jay's 1st verse and Jay's 2nd verse > Em's 2nd verse. And I'd only give Em's verse first a slight edge over Jay's first verse. The gap between the 2nd verses (in Jay's favor) is larger.
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ZoningOut
If you want to really get down to it, the gap between Em and Jay really is actually very small. This song only proves that people still want to champion/hail the white boy. Anyone dismissing race playing a factor in this song is an idiot. The general listener (read: white people) will always be drawn to the white rapper on a track. The fact that the stigmata still exists today in 2011 is just fucking sorry.
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theking2008
exactly @ nollege. and he came weakest. he wasnt wack but his verse coulda been better. jay came in 3rd place.
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