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Rd3: Goat Song of 05: The Corner vs Dear Summer
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It's impossible to choose on the merits of each song, but I'm a diehard Last Poets fan so I voted for The Corner.
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Now that I think about it, there's a reason that The Corner is better than Dear Summer. Here's why:
The Corner has a complex rhyme scheme that you wouldn't notice unless somebody pointed it out to you.
In the first verse, the last word of each bar is a mono syllable rhyme
Memories on corners with the fo's and the mo's
Walk to the store for the rose, talking straightforward to hoes
Got uncles that smoke, and some put blow up they nose
To cope with the lows, the wind is cold and it blows
In the second verse the last syllable of each bar is a two syllable rhyme
Street lights and deep nights, cats trying to eat right
Riding no-seat-bikes, with work to feed hypes
So they can keep sweet Nike's, they head and they feet right
Desires of street life, cars and weed types
In the third verse the last syllable of each bar is a three syllable rhyme
Black church services, murderers, Arabs serving burgers
As cats with gold permanents, move they bags as herbalists
The dirt isn’t just fertile, it’s people working and earning this
The curb getters go where the cash flow and the current is
Dear Summer is dope and one of my favorite songs by Jay Z, but The Corner has one of the more complex rhyme schemes in Hip Hop.
Also the Remix with Scarface & Moe Def is just as dope.
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I always thought 'Dear Summer' was overrated tbh...
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Memories on corners with the fo's and the mo's
Walk to the store for the rose, talking straightforward to hoes
Got uncles that smoke, and some put blow up they nose
To cope with the lows, the wind is cold and it blows
In their socks and their soles, niggas holding they rolls
Corners leave souls opened and closed, hoping for mo'
With nowhere to go, niggas rolling in droves
They shoot the wrong way, cause they ain’t knowin' their goals
The streets ain’t safe cause they ain’t knowing the code
By the foes I was told, either focus or fold
Got cousins with flows, hope they open some doors
So we can cop clothes and roll in a Rolls
Now I roll in a Olds, with windows that don’t roll
Down the roads where cars get broken and stole
These are the stories told by Stony and Cottage Grove
The world is cold, the block is hot as a stove
On the corners
Walk to the store for the rose, talking straightforward to hoes
Got uncles that smoke, and some put blow up they nose
To cope with the lows, the wind is cold and it blows
In their socks and their soles, niggas holding they rolls
Corners leave souls opened and closed, hoping for mo'
With nowhere to go, niggas rolling in droves
They shoot the wrong way, cause they ain’t knowin' their goals
The streets ain’t safe cause they ain’t knowing the code
By the foes I was told, either focus or fold
Got cousins with flows, hope they open some doors
So we can cop clothes and roll in a Rolls
Now I roll in a Olds, with windows that don’t roll
Down the roads where cars get broken and stole
These are the stories told by Stony and Cottage Grove
The world is cold, the block is hot as a stove
On the corners
Playmaker88
G Money is Cash
The Corner.. with that said when Jay rapped it on the radio. maaaaaaaaan shit was bananas
Look at these jay dickriders
Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
Dear Summer.
I remember thinking that was gonna be the last Jay song i'd ever hear as he released black album previously. I love that song a beat especially.
I remember thinking that was gonna be the last Jay song i'd ever hear as he released black album previously. I love that song a beat especially.
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