The Renegade
“Renegade” ft Eminem by Jay Z 1st Hov verse = him force feeding America the reality of the hood: forcing it to acknowledge it. How dare ye who’ve grown up in some amount of comfort, rate horrific #BARS that I was forced to live ... ( Hov’s 1st verse continued) the scraps y’all gave us (as with chitlins etc in slavery), I made a meal & fed my ppl; the shit we were forced to live in, i packaged as fertilizer. In that 💩 I cultivated crops and unbeknownst to you, sold you those crops in your living rooms/cars/televisions/computers & radios. I’m not just an emcee, an entertainer. . . I’m a conduit: I’m a 💡. . . a poet . . . a 👨🏾🏫........ Shakespeare was aight (despite the 👻 ✍🏾 rumors) but did he sell out the Garden in a day? Did he hold it down for 9 straight summers (or was it 12 ..... go check, I’m busy)? Yea, I spoon feed y’all with sugar/🧈 (the hits) but y’all don’t even realize that the guns (grime/lessons/game) snuck in with ...