FOOD RAP PARAGRAPHS
In an era where Macklemore and Lil' B and Future (what kind of a name is that anyway?) are hogging the Hip-Hop spotlight, it comes as a bit of fresh air to moonwalk down memory lane and dig from the vaults, a classic unconventional paragraph by one of the best to do it - none other than Jay Z.
A decade plus ago, Jay-Z(now Jay Z, without the need for a hyphen) signed on Brownsville's favourite veterans M.O.P (i.e. Mashed Out Posse not Monkeys On Parole) on to the ROC.
Just Blaze, who still had his dreadlocks then, was on fire and had dropped a blazing instrumental for "You Don't Know" on the classic BLUEPRINT. Jay Z killed that beat but perhaps, feeling there was more he could do with it, recycled it for The BLUEPRINT II - The Gift and The Curse.
The "Big Homie" invited Billy Danze and old Lil' Fame to be on the record. The song was their first outing as members of the ROC-A-FELLA team and it came as no surprise that they went hard on the track as if their lives depended on it.
After two monstrous 16-bar cameos by the M.O.P, it was Jay-Z's turn to grab the mic:
You would have thought that there was no way Jay Z could eclipse their performances, because the veterans had gone in, gone in as if they were possessed. But eclipse, he did. Using FOOD - yes food -references, Mr. Carter owned the track with his last eight bars.
"...You dudes is noodles, I got more CD to bake/
A decade plus ago, Jay-Z(now Jay Z, without the need for a hyphen) signed on Brownsville's favourite veterans M.O.P (i.e. Mashed Out Posse not Monkeys On Parole) on to the ROC.
Just Blaze, who still had his dreadlocks then, was on fire and had dropped a blazing instrumental for "You Don't Know" on the classic BLUEPRINT. Jay Z killed that beat but perhaps, feeling there was more he could do with it, recycled it for The BLUEPRINT II - The Gift and The Curse.
The "Big Homie" invited Billy Danze and old Lil' Fame to be on the record. The song was their first outing as members of the ROC-A-FELLA team and it came as no surprise that they went hard on the track as if their lives depended on it.
After two monstrous 16-bar cameos by the M.O.P, it was Jay-Z's turn to grab the mic:
You would have thought that there was no way Jay Z could eclipse their performances, because the veterans had gone in, gone in as if they were possessed. But eclipse, he did. Using FOOD - yes food -references, Mr. Carter owned the track with his last eight bars.
"...You dudes is noodles, I got more CD to bake/
You dudes is cake/
I keep two biscuits on my waist/
Razor blades under the tongue,I will eat your face/
Appetite for destruction, I am starving today/
Got a money-hungry lawyer that will eat the case/
And that’s food for thought, don’t let it go to waste/
N**** bite the bullet ‘til you are stuffing your face/
I done forgot more than you ever learned/
What you don’t know will turn your home into a
permanent urn, nicca……"
JAY-Z (You don't know remix feat Billy Danze& Lil Fame),2003
hahaaa,
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