The Hidden Jabs of Shawn Carter Part II

Do it Again

THE BREAKDOWN

How the fuck you gon’ talk about MC’s on our heel?When we just cop them things homie the chromey wheelsBoth arms are chunky the sleeves on chillAny given times a hundred G’s in your grillDon’t talk to me ’bout MC’s got skills“He’s alright, but he’s not real”Jay-Z’s that deal, with seeds in a fieldNever fear for war, hug, squeeze that steelFuck, you gotta a flow that’s cool with meYou got a little dough that cool with meYou got a little cars, little jewelriesBut none of y’all motherfuckers could fool with me

This part was directed at the Philly group Major Figgas. They were having issues with Beanie Sigel at the time and JayZ was letting them know that they were small time in comparison to the ROC.

I came back and it’s plain, y’all niggaz ain’t rappin the sameFuck the flow, y’all jackin our slangI seen the same shit happen to KaneThree cuts in your eyebrows tryin to wild outThe game is ours, we’ll never foul outY’all just better hope we gracefully bow outThrow yo’ hands up – niggaz, bitches, bustas

More shots at Gillie the Kidd and Major Figgas because they felt that they were copying State Property with their flow and slang. The 3 Cuts on your eyebrow trying to Wild Out were directed to the LOX with 3 Cuts(Jada,Sheek Styles) and referencing to Wild Out which was their hit song on the streets at the time. Jadakiss threw shots back on his hit single a year later titled Put Your Hands Down when was a response to this song”

What More Can I Say

The BREAKDOWN

A CEO’s mind, that marketin plan was meAnd no I ain’t get shot up a whole bunch of timesOr make up shit in a whole bunch of linesAnd I ain’t animated like say I +Busta Rhymes+But the real shit you get when you bust down my linesAdd that to the fact I went plat’ a bunch of times

This was a diss to 50 Cent. Him and JayZ had an off and on rivalry going since 1999. 50 threw some shots at Jay on the Soldier remix off one of his mixtapes and this was JayZ telling him that his whole way of marketing his music was him and he didn’t need a gimmick to sell records. He also implicated that He exaggerated his shooting by saying he don’t have to make up shit in a bunch of his lines.(50’s hype was based on him being shot 9 times) Busta Rhymes caught offense to this line and dissed Jay HARD

busta diss

Watch What You say Lil Wayne

THE BREAKDOWN

Rap music is something ain’t it? The way these pictures is paintedYou swear these niggas is dangerous, the gangsta shit they be sayingLock em up in the booth with a half ounce of that cannabisSit back, and watch the outlandish shit they portrayingBut, soon as you see em they freeze up like in museumsThem statues, you like, “Is that the dude, that said he was gonna (pop you)”Niggas get running before you finish ya sentenceAnd then they back to riffing, when they off at the safe distance

Jayz is amazed at how people think that they can come at him at any form of fashion. You swear these niggas is dangerous, The gangsta shit they be saying line was aimed at Jim Jones for all of that tough talk. The lines about locking them in the booth with a half of Canibus and watch what their saying is about Lil Wayne because he would talk real reckless under the influence of drugs. He also talks about how they quick to diss him and then pay homage a minute later.

You like, you was just here, you disappear like magiciansIn thin air, I’m like damn, nigga at least keep it consistentI hear you baiting me lately, I been doing my best just to stay hater freeStill watch what you say to meSooner or later I take you up on your offerAnd put you all in ya place like I’m replacing ya fatherYou talking, to the author, the architect of The BlueprintMy DNA in ya music, muthafucka you stupid?

This part here was responses to Lil Wayne’s taunts made towards him around that time in interviews when he said that he’s a better rapper than him and how he can’t fuck with him. Jay also lets him know that the reason why he’s where he’s at is because he took his style and wanted to rap like him. He further tells him that he’s the originator and he might as well could be his father because his whole style(DNA) is in his music.

Is that Your Bitch

THE BREAKDOWN

No need for a serious breakdown here. Both of these verses were directly to Nas and he’s bragging about smashing his baby mama Carmen. This was what really started the war of words between the two. Nas threw some lines at him on We Will Survive and Jay’s verse was disrespectful to where they had to even edit some of them and replace it.

Takeover Jab to DMX“Don’t Bark Up that Tree, That Tree will fall on you”

DMX and Jay had a competitive thing going. DMX threw a shot at JayZ on Jadakiss’s Uh Huh where he said “I only gave you the crown so I can shoot on off your fucking head”. This was also the same track where Jadakiss waged war on Beanie Sigel so Jay addressed DMX indirectly.

DIG A HOLE

THE BREAKDOWN

Hov gon’ get you, I aint forget your little disrespectNO Hov, daddy gon’ spank your for that shit you saidIt’s hard to do, when you got nothin to proveEverybody know you better, you in a lose loseEven if you win, ultimately you loseReal niggahz like, “why Hov talking to dude”He’s selling low tooOnly time you went platMy chain was around youR neck, thats an actual factSo I’m praying that it spills outside of the BoothThats when y’all niggahz outside of your truthOutside of your league, thats not what you doNiggahz throwing ROC signs outside of your coupe[Laughs]Dun look at Hove like he dun something wrong to emHe just took what belong to emNiggahz playing Checkers with Chess playing HovThis game is over I dunno if y’all knowYou in a hole

This whole verse was a response to Camron. Camron was going at both JayZ and Nas throughout 2006 and mid 2007 so Jay addressed Cam throughout this whole verse by telling him the only reason he went platinum for the first time was because he had a Rocafella chain and mocked where Cam got shot in D.C. by some Rocafella goons.

RIDE OR DIE

THE BREAK DOWN

I bruise wack rap niggaz severely punish themEspecially those that get fucked for they publishing, hehAlways gotta be the weakest nigga out the crewI probably make more money off yo’ album, than youYou see the respect I get everytime I come throughCheck your own videos, you’ll always be number twoNiggaz talkin real greasy on them R&B recordsbut I’m platinum a million times nigga, check the creditsS. Carter, ghost writer, and for the right price

After years of speculation, The answer to this was that he was talking about Mase in this song. Mase dissed Jay on the 112 record Love Me where he was talking about “All we hear is platinum that, platinum this / Platinum whips, nobody got no platinum hits.” Jay also brought up how Mase was getting fucked out of his publishing by Puffy(which was true) to where he possibly made more money off his feature than Mase did on his own album. He also talked about how he will always be number 2(He was Puffy’s sidekick and 2nd fiddle at the time. The beef started over a woman named Adorn off the Mase skit from his Harlem World albumhttp://www.ballerstatus.com/2012/12/13/mase-90s-beef-jay-z-girl-named-arion

This further proves that JayZ is probably one of the biggest sneak dissers of all time!