ironically not...Em's verses come from an old Bad Meets Evil song he did with Royce...and that was a time when he was a good lyricist with something to be pissed about, making him then something that even Hov would struggle topping.
However, don't think that the verses rip Jay apart so hastily, because I can't help but find Hov's to be a bit more thought provoking...not as lyrical as Em's stuff, but I always like it when he says "Motherf***ers say that I'm foolish, I only talk about jewels; do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?". Now that may not be the greatest rhyme in history or anything, but there is a lot of truth behind that statement because of the way hip-hop these days is disregarded so much simply because there's mainstream rappers writing songs about bling and riches. Like he says, they've only seen the (quite perverted) surface of what contains some of the greatest works concerning very real social and political issues ever made. So don't crap on Hov too much, he's a lot more real than people give him credit for.
Anyway, regardless of who slaughtered who on this track, it's still a good song ;)
ironically not...Em's verses come from an old Bad Meets Evil song he did with Royce...and that was a time when he was a good lyricist with something to be pissed about, making him then something that even Hov would struggle topping.
However, don't think that the verses rip Jay apart so hastily, because I can't help but find Hov's to be a bit more thought provoking...not as lyrical as Em's stuff, but I always like it when he says "Motherf***ers say that I'm foolish, I only talk about jewels; do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?". Now that may not be the greatest rhyme in history or anything, but there is a lot of truth behind that statement because of the way hip-hop these days is disregarded so much simply because there's mainstream rappers writing songs about bling and riches. Like he says, they've only seen the (quite perverted) surface of what contains some of the greatest works concerning very real social and political issues ever made. So don't crap on Hov too much, he's a lot more real than people give him credit for.
Anyway, regardless of who slaughtered who on this track, it's still a good song ;)