JAY-Z & Eminem - Renegade | Rhymes Highlighted 

Also his flow is better than Jay Z.

@@bruh7928 agreed. I rate jay-z as a rapper but I honestly think he’s so overrated, I dunno if it’s just me🤷🏻‍♂️. Do people really think he’s a better lyricist than Lupe, king los, Nas, black thought etc, the man doesn’t make my top 10.

@@colincampbell7227 he is really good but he isn't on the level of even Royce or Rugged Man. Jay just had a discog to boast which again is inconsistent just like Nas and is very beatable if you take someone like k dot or Lupe. He does great Wordplay tho.

@@colincampbell7227 I think you have a "lyrical" mindset, which is why you cited the camp that is usually cited there. Thing is, people admire hov in rap for the same reason people admire people like Pac or even Em. Best rappers are not necessarily who has the most technical skill, but a combination of who has the impact, the artistic creativity and daring at their times, the skill, flow, storytelling capacity, influence, discography and so on. He may not be the most lyrical of the goats list, but his impact speaks for itself, and his influence loses arguably only to Biggie and Pac. That's why Locksmith is a great lyricist, yet he still isn't in anyone's top 5. It's more than just lyrics.

@@elderlyoogway yeah that’s what I’m referring to when I’m saying top 5 though, should have made that clear sorry. If we’re talking impact and discography then hov would be in my top 5 definitely. I just think there’s a lot more skilled rappers than hov, just my opinion though.

Jay's Verse was solid , but you it's Em lol

Beyond all smh

I don't know the flow sounds so clunky

@@francescoalexgiacalone878 no it doesnt lol

@@zeventic-9584 I think it's relative to be fair. there's points where Jay has some nice flow but then it gets interrupted like he had the rhyming scheme and then fitted it to the flow proactively where em seems to have focused on flow and built the rhyming scheme into it, and you can really feel it in my opinion. There's one thing Jay did though that blew em away. Em had sheets that he was reading off of and was practicing over and over. Jay rocks up to the studio empty handed with just what he was playing through his head for the day and lets out.

Em absolutely murked Jay on this joint

@aryan raina Jay's verses were obviously good but Em's verses Were leagues above just like how AZ murked Nas on life's a bitch, Nas still had a good verse but AZ was just on a different level

@@CaliSportsman365 we know Royce did the original with Em that old story is common knowledge and Nickle reiterated it in Overcoming feat Westide Gunn. With that being said the point you raised is completely irrelevant and frankly takes nothing away from Jay being able to make top tier records without writing down any lyrics even if we were to say that Renegade don't count as his The Blueprint is one of the greatest bodies of work in HH history. "Only rapper to rewrite history without a pen"

@@grump9283 ive actually been trying to find someone to talk to about that song, i like azs more too but do u think he actually destroyed him? i mean shi nas rapped like 32 bars more than him

@@grump9283 nas verse was better lol az did his thing no cap but not murdered Nas yall don't what being murdered mean on track. AZ came with flow is agreed with that

Unlucky? What you think they pull names out of a hat to see who collabs with who instead of two talented artists making a conscious choice to work together?

@@Katzuma_ I know that they choose who to collab with!! But I'm saying that Jay Z with those verses would've killed anyone on this track except for one rapper who is eminem

@@Holy_Bars honestly that isn't real I could name about 20/etc rappers that would have a better verse than Eminem on this

@Alpha Jones ok hater... Here's your first clout 5 Better rappers then jay Nas Aesop Rock Lupe fiasco Canibus Kool g rap

@@komalkumari8208 Eminem is better than Jay and add Royce , Crooked , Rugged Man , Kendrick , Jid , Black Thought to the list too that's just me thinking top of my head.

Maybe @highlighted gives us a part 2 with verse 3 and 4? 👀

by the bodega, iron under my coat feeling braver, du rag wrapping my waves up pockets full of hope, do not step to me I’m awkward I box leftie, an orphan my pops left me, and often my mama wasn’t home, could not stress me I wasn’t grown, especially at nights I had to bring something home to quiet the stomach rumbling, my demeanor, 30 years my senior, my childhood didn’t mean much, only raising green up, raising my finger to critics, raising my head to the sky, Big I did it multi before I die, no lie just know i chose my own fate, i drove by the fork in the road and went straight 🤒🤒🤒

some people enjoy jay's verse cuz it relates to them

Yeah, you can't expect a rapper to outshine a legendary emcee in their own lane. Jay got the bases loaded while Em delivered the home run.

Jay sounds so offbeat here, as if it's a bad remix of one of his songs.

Lol also made by eminem

Ems first verse too. Whole song is insane only thing I kinda dislike is the hook but who cares when the verses go this hard

bruh Em's first verse and Jay's second were the best

This comment isn’t never gonna get the likes that it deserves because people would rather talk about who squashed who.

I don’t know what comment sections you read but it’s Eminem who’s been having his name dragged through the dirt. All that “You don’t belong in the culture” and snoop with the “I could live without his music” straight slander. Jay is always brought up as top three though 😂

@@isaiahgarcia163 Snoop was pissed because Em didn't call him back for a feature, that wasn't what he actually thought. Two of them got up in their feelings over nothing. I always thought that was all for show since the beef started and wrapped up neatly just in time for the Super Bowl. Also, Em's gotta take the good with the bad. Jay doesn't have haters like Em, but that's because he doesn't have fans like Em. I watched a clubhouse recently where they were listening to SSLP and every single track, half the people said "Fire. Like Shakespeare. Absolutely incredible," and the other half said "Trash. Pure trash." People don't feel any type of way about Jay like they do Em. What I mean is Jay doesn't generate potent feelings in people--not because he's not a great MC (I'd put him 1b after Eminem who is 1a to me). For every hater in the comments, Em has 10 stans shouting them down. That's why people pretend like they want beef with Em. If Game dissed Jay, would anyone listen? No. If Game dissed Em, all of Em's haters and all of Em's stans would be listening. That's why Jay could barely move records at the end even with massive ad campaigns and corporate crossovers, meanwhile Em goes #1 every album (with some albums on Billboard for decades) and he doesn't do any promotion. He won't even say if there's an album coming out. Fans know nothing about his next album and it'll go #1 whenever its released, that's how hotly anticipated it is. Again, I'm not detracting from Jay's status as God MC, but Em built a career off controversy. That's why he's top 10 for monthly listeners on Spotify and top 5 on RU-vid and Jay isn't even in the top 30.

I actually like Jay verse more

@@Strommunismcapping. You are looking at it from a white man lens lmaooo

How when this was an eminem and royce track before jay removed royce. Did eminem redo his part?

​@@peter4363 Nah, Em's verses on here are the originals.

So did Eminem, with an even more unconventional and long rhyme scheme that refused to stop, while carrying through the same narrative and message.

The stuff em said made sense too though

Shout out to NaS for this 🤕

@@komalkumari8208 okay now we can all agree Nas killed Jay on Ether 😂

@@Dovahkirin 🤣🤣agree

Thank you, especially the 2nd verse.

i think em talked his shit too.

most people from the hood can relate to jay z verse, em is universal....

Always agreed

Agreed man. Em was just better and then Nas dissed Jay for it and everybody got the validation from him.

Jay had message and nice flow, but Em took it with flow, message, verse structure and rhyme scheme Jay actually got bodied imo

@aryan raina do u know eminem freestyled his song name " no apologies" the rhyme scheme of that song wash most of the rhymes by jay...jay a goat thou

I dont think that Em washed Jay, but in Renegade was better. Ofcourse Jay was good too.

Jay had enough time to write a better verse no excuse

There is no battle. Jay rapped for those in his culture and community and Em rapped for those heavily criticized by others. People from where Jay is from IMMEDIATELY identify with every word he said. People dealing with criticism and parental disputes IMMEDIATELY identify with Em. It’s not a competition, it’s a discussion two men are having with those who relate to them.

Biggie Smalls is the Biggie Smalls of rap.

Wtf dude Biggie Smalls is also a rapper 😂

dats ur opinion i guess

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