Is Jay-Z The New Lyor?

Is it in yet?

Try to dig deep in your memory’s archives to 2004 when Mos Def was preparing to drop The New Danger and he had all kinds of promotional buzz after he had a controversial track over Jay’s (actually, Kanye and the Doors’) Takeover beat, a track called The Rape Over. He was taking shots at pretty much any and every wack entity in the music industry, but most notably Lyor Cohen, who we refer to as the tall Israeli. Once he found out Mos was throwing dirt on his name, he had the track pulled from the album.

Now, in 2007… where people are advocating for right of speech via album (sales)… and where Jay-Z claims he stands behind Nas’ Nigger album title, do you think Jay has Ether pulled from his miserable excuse of a Greatest Hits album? Seeing as it was and should be on the track list. Given, those aren’t Nas’ greatest songs, but I guess those are his hits. Why wouldn’t Ether be on there though. Not only is it a great song, musically, lyrically, whatever whatever, but it damn near saved and resurrected his doodoo excuse of a career (which was an opportunity he then wasted on the albums that followed-I dare you to say no). Can’t they just re-re-release Illmatic instead of a GH album?

Put Me Anywhere On God’s Green Earth, I’ll Triple My Worth

This ain’t Chris Rock bitch, it’s the ROC bitch
And I’m the Franchise like the Houston Rockets New Jersey Nets

Indeed. He is the franchise, and he is the ROC. Motherfuckers, say what you want about him, even Jay has humbled down… say what you want about yourself, but we all remember you were singing a different tune before:

I tell you the difference between me and them
They tryin to get they ones, I’m tryin to get them M’s
One million, two million, three million, four
In just five years, forty million more
You are now lookin at the forty million boy
I’m rapin Def Jam ’til I’m the hundred million man
R., O., C.

The Continental Airlines Arena did not change it’s name to The Rocawear Arena, but Jay sure did find a better way to spend his owner’s money, and make himself look richer (if possible). Check the seats him, Chris Rock and other tall Israelis (act like you don’t see that yamaka) are sitting on. Check what’s by their feet.

Do Not Step To Me, I’m Awkward, I Box Leftier Often