Heavyweight Title

The warning shots have been fired and the stage is being set to witness one of the BEST Hip Hop battles since Nas and Jay-Z (which in my seemingly unpopular opinion Jay won) with the possibility of a tag team match which I’ll get to later. What do you think about Jay-Z vs. Lil’ Wayne? I think I need to keep my internet game up and keep Kay Slay on my XM.

So I thought Jay might have been taking a shot at Wayne on him and Kanye’s H.A.M. with the “…really, you got baby (possibly Baby/Birdman) money, you ain’t even got my lady money” and yes, it seems that was absolutely the case. It was confirmed when I heard the interview with Wayne being asked about it and he simply stated “I can’t even box with the god about that…but I will use it to my advantage.” There’s two ways to use it to his advantage; be vocal about Jay-Z mentioning him or finding a way to use it for retaliatory purposes which I think is what will happen. We have to remember that Wayne wanted to and nearly signed with Jay until Baby backed the money truck up and they put that Young Money thing in place. Shortly after that Wayne was a little sore at Jay-Z and there were a couple of words but nothing major. Jay recognized him as being one of the best in the game. Not that Jay-Z has the say so on whom official, but it is a highly respected nod.

What we have to realize that good Hip Hop music often comes from competition, not conflict, but competition. I don’t see this as getting to the level of one of the infamous and frivolous beefs we often hear about, but it will be serious competition. What we also have to realize is that for years Jay-Z has been considered the heavyweight champ by most for years and for the past few years there have been considerable amounts of arguments that state Wayne is the young champ and in some circles THE CHAMP. It’s inevitable that this has to happen. It is interesting that Jay-Z starts hitting the body bag first. Lately, he may make a quick reference to something and let us put it together but this he openly threw a jab and said “it eat if you can”.

Wayne is the competition and has been on fire non stop for a few years and has a extremely heavy following in New York and the Tri State area. Jay has to do something to keep the title, hence, “Watch the Throne”. Now this may sound like one of those crazy conspiracy theories that I often mock but the timing is right and Drake may have unknowingly or wittingly set this up. Jay-Z and Kanye’s album, “Watch the Throne” is supposed to be released within the month if it hasn’t been delayed again. The obvious is that Wayne appears to be next in line for the “throne” if you will and is the biggest competition, so on a song like H.A.M., Jay should have and had to address it if he plans to stay in that spot for a while. But, a few weeks back Drake poked and made a joke about “hearing about a couple of guys making an album together” and something in the nature of the idea may have come from somewhere else implying that him and Wayne may have been in the works on the same thing. Of course he said it jokingly, but that is just enough to let the competition begin. If Wayne and Drake put out an album together, I hope it wouldn’t be on some battle isht because Wayne would be all by his lonesome on that. Drake is nice but there’s not enough raw beast in him to go a few rounds with those Jay-Z, Kanye, and Lil’ Wayne; however, I am looking forward to hearing a response from Wayne soon and seeing how this plays out for the next few months. This is what Hip Hoppers live for! This may take it back to 40oz of Crazy Horse and Billy Dee (Colt 45).

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