Sunday, April 27, 2008

Jay-Z's DeShawn Stevenson Diss Track

LeBron James got the best of DeShawn Stevenson in their Game 4 clash today, but at least Stevenson will be able to comfort himself this off-season with the knowledge that he was the subject of a Jay-Z diss track. You can listen to said track here. The song is fairly tame, by "diss rap" standards, but still contains some tight flows by Jay. (Lyrics definitely NSFW.)
Near the end, he raps, "I don't even know y'all names/I'm too big for ya, the rap LeBron James." Jigga then makes a chess analogy by calling LeBron "the king" and DeShawn "the pawn". Well, he doesn't actually say DeShawn is the pawn, it's implied. Jay-Z never actually says Stevenson's name, keeping with the "you're not big enough to name-drop". (That logic sort of hits a dead-end when you consider that DeShawn is apparently big enough to drop two verses on though.) The rest is all fairly standard battle rap stuff: I'm going to sleep with your girl, you don't make as much money as I do, I make a better duck a l'Orange. You know the deal. It's definitely worth a listen though.

1 comments:

John said...

Ask my n***** Lebron, we so big we ain't gotta respond. But I ain't too big to spend an hour or two in a studio recording a song about something I have very little/nothing to with. In o 10 I hope Lebron goes to the Nets, cause now I feel pretty stupid giving DeShawn threats.