Pusha T means “push a ton [of coke].”
Rep your hustle!
Pusha T means “push a ton [of coke].”
Rep your hustle!
They’ll send you to the E.R. with their superior lyricism.
Gon' ‘head on, then!
Jay-Z is known for recording songs in one take in the studio. He listens to the beats and the lyrics come naturally. He recorded his verses to his seventh album, which was released as a double album, kinda; The Gift is the first, and The Curse.
Few people can make albums as important as The Gift and The Curse. It got mixed reviews, though.
Jay’s albums tend to set the summer on fire. Indeed his seventh album, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse, peaked at no. 1 on the Billboard charts.
Young Hova, one of Jay-Z’s many nicknames.
This was during the heat of the fued between Jay and Nas. The year prior to this recording (2001), Jay released “The Takeover”, which explicitly disses both Nas and his fellow Queensbridge homies, Mobb Deep, whose member, Prodigy, also got dragged into the feud.
Thus, Jay surely wouldn’t give Nas the honor of his being even his equal, better yet his superior (although to many people, Nas does one-up Jay-Z).
Jay, of course, means Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. are the only rappers who can adequately compete with him.
Jay is such a visionary, so ahead of his time (as in the opening line) that he has to reduce his momentum to be in the present.
His past can’t be outdone by his contemporaries. His discography, even at the time of this freestyle, was immensely impressive; His debut, Reasonable Doubt, and his sixth album, The Blueprint, are commonly considered some of the greatest Rap albums.
Hop in, but you still won’t be able to overcome Jigga.
Indeed, Jay is commonly considered one of Hip Hop’s greatest ever, especially regarding his meter and his rhyme scheme.
He’s that one guy who passes on the track; you start at the same time, but when you’re still on you first lap, he’s already on his second.
Jay’s a visionary trailblazer.
Jay spent time in Detroit, or “The D,” where he got the “electronica” portion of his stage name. There he also got in touch with J Dilla, whose beats he would rap over many times, like “Dimethytriptamine”, and “Renaissance Man”.
Jay has mad love for Dilla. Unfortunately, Dilla died from lupus. Though, it’s telling that, according to Jay, Dilla was making beats on his deathbed; testament to his love for production.
