LISTEN: “Dig A Hole” (2006)
LYRIC: “You selling little tools, only time you went plat/My chain was on your neck, that’s an actual fact/So I’m prayin’ that it spills outside of the booth, that’s when y’all niggas outside of your truth/Outside of your league, that’s not what you do/Niggas throwing Roc signs outside of your Coupe/Don’t look at Hov like he done something wrong to ‘em/Cause he’s on to ‘em? He just took what belonged to him”
TARGET: JIM JONES/CAM’RON
SHOTS FIRED? YES. The Diplomats were a constant thorn in Jay’s side ever since they “took over” the Roc in 2002; he mostly ignored the Dips’ constant insolence until this record. Jay’s first (semi-)direct shot at the crew is on this song.
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LISTEN: “30 Something” (2006)
LYRIC: “30’s the new 20 nigga, I’m on fire still/These young boys is like fire drills (Uhh)/False alarms (Uhh), the next don (Naw)/He ain’t got it (Uhh), on to the next one (Young)”
TARGET: LIL WAYNE
SHOTS FIRED? PROBABLY. “These young boys is like fire drills,” yeah? Wayne’s most recent single? “Fireman.” Not too hard to connect those dots.
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LISTEN: “Watch What You Say To Me” (2007)
LYRIC: “I hear you baiting me lately, I been doing my best just to stay hater-free/Still watch what you say to me/Sooner or later I take you up on your offer/And put you all in your place like I’m replacing your father”
TARGET: LIL WAYNE
SHOTS FIRED? MAYBE. Just as a lot of Jay’s pre-”Takeover” rhetoric could be interpreted as Nas disses, most of his recent challenges—including this, off T.I. vs. T.I.P.—seem like jabs at Wayne.
————————————————————————————————————————————————————-LISTEN: “I Get Money (Billion Dollar Remix)” (2007)
LYRIC: “When I flip Rocawear I told’em give me money cash/Yeaaaah checks might bounce, alphabet boys might check my accounts/Still hustlin baby! Hurry up kill me/I’m already the GOAT, next stop is the billy”
TARGET: DAME DASH/LL COOL J
SHOTS FIRED? PROBABLY. Jay killed two birds with one lyrical stone on 50’s remix by referencing his Rocawear fleecing (sorry, Dame!) and slyly flipping the “GOAT” distinction made famous by a certain disgruntled Def Jam employee.
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LISTEN: “Put On (Remix)” (2008)
LYRIC: “All these niggas taking credit for the work that I put in/If you really put me on, put yourself on then”
TARGET: DAME DASH
SHOTS FIRED? YES. More ire, more ire!
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LISTEN: “Blow The Whistle (Freestyle) ‘08″ (2008)
LYRIC: “Uh! Ask my nigga Lebron!/We so big we ain’t gotta respond”
TARGET: DESHAWN STEVENSON
SHOTS FIRED? YES. DeShawn Stevenson became perhaps the unlikeliest person on the wrong end of a Jigga dis when he had the audacity to talk reckless about Jay-Z BFF Bron Bron during a heated Wiz-Cavs playoff series.
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LISTEN: “Jockin’ Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh)” (2008)
LYRIC: “That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar/Somebody should have told him I’m a fuckin’ rock star”
TARGET: OASIS
SHOTS FIRED? YES. Noel Gallagher of Oasis publicly questioned the decision to book Jay-Z as the headliner for the U.K.’s biggest music festival. In addition to mock-crooning “Wonderwall” at the concert, Hov threw a dart at Noel on this track.
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LISTEN: “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)” (2009)
LYRIC: “You niggas’ jeans too tight/Your colors too bright, your voice too light”
TARGET: LIL WAYNE? BLACK EYED PEAS?
SHOTS FIRED? MAYBE. T-Pain is the artist who caught the most feelings (despite Hov specifically noting that he and Kanye were not the subject of the song), but a closer read of Hov’s diatribe suggests that he may be attacking Weezy (red jeans from “A Milli” video?) or even the last to successfully hop on the Auto-Tune bandwagon, BEP (”Boom Boom Pow”?). Like Marley said: Who the cap fit, let him wear it.
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LISTEN: “Reminder” (2009)
LYRIC: “Now everybody’s senile on me/Throwbacks, I threw ‘em back, remember those, button-ups? Young Hov, tell them ordinary Joes button up”
TARGET: JOE BUDDEN
SHOTS FIRED? MAYBE. Budden Stans tend to be a little paranoid but it’s hard to overlook the wordplay on this otherwise forgettable song.
LYRIC: “You selling little tools, only time you went plat/My chain was on your neck, that’s an actual fact/So I’m prayin’ that it spills outside of the booth, that’s when y’all niggas outside of your truth/Outside of your league, that’s not what you do/Niggas throwing Roc signs outside of your Coupe/Don’t look at Hov like he done something wrong to ‘em/Cause he’s on to ‘em? He just took what belonged to him”
TARGET: JIM JONES/CAM’RON
SHOTS FIRED? YES. The Diplomats were a constant thorn in Jay’s side ever since they “took over” the Roc in 2002; he mostly ignored the Dips’ constant insolence until this record. Jay’s first (semi-)direct shot at the crew is on this song.
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LISTEN: “30 Something” (2006)
LYRIC: “30’s the new 20 nigga, I’m on fire still/These young boys is like fire drills (Uhh)/False alarms (Uhh), the next don (Naw)/He ain’t got it (Uhh), on to the next one (Young)”
TARGET: LIL WAYNE
SHOTS FIRED? PROBABLY. “These young boys is like fire drills,” yeah? Wayne’s most recent single? “Fireman.” Not too hard to connect those dots.
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LISTEN: “Watch What You Say To Me” (2007)
LYRIC: “I hear you baiting me lately, I been doing my best just to stay hater-free/Still watch what you say to me/Sooner or later I take you up on your offer/And put you all in your place like I’m replacing your father”
TARGET: LIL WAYNE
SHOTS FIRED? MAYBE. Just as a lot of Jay’s pre-”Takeover” rhetoric could be interpreted as Nas disses, most of his recent challenges—including this, off T.I. vs. T.I.P.—seem like jabs at Wayne.
————————————————————————————————————————————————————-LISTEN: “I Get Money (Billion Dollar Remix)” (2007)
LYRIC: “When I flip Rocawear I told’em give me money cash/Yeaaaah checks might bounce, alphabet boys might check my accounts/Still hustlin baby! Hurry up kill me/I’m already the GOAT, next stop is the billy”
TARGET: DAME DASH/LL COOL J
SHOTS FIRED? PROBABLY. Jay killed two birds with one lyrical stone on 50’s remix by referencing his Rocawear fleecing (sorry, Dame!) and slyly flipping the “GOAT” distinction made famous by a certain disgruntled Def Jam employee.
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LISTEN: “Put On (Remix)” (2008)
LYRIC: “All these niggas taking credit for the work that I put in/If you really put me on, put yourself on then”
TARGET: DAME DASH
SHOTS FIRED? YES. More ire, more ire!
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LISTEN: “Blow The Whistle (Freestyle) ‘08″ (2008)
LYRIC: “Uh! Ask my nigga Lebron!/We so big we ain’t gotta respond”
TARGET: DESHAWN STEVENSON
SHOTS FIRED? YES. DeShawn Stevenson became perhaps the unlikeliest person on the wrong end of a Jigga dis when he had the audacity to talk reckless about Jay-Z BFF Bron Bron during a heated Wiz-Cavs playoff series.
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LISTEN: “Jockin’ Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh)” (2008)
LYRIC: “That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar/Somebody should have told him I’m a fuckin’ rock star”
TARGET: OASIS
SHOTS FIRED? YES. Noel Gallagher of Oasis publicly questioned the decision to book Jay-Z as the headliner for the U.K.’s biggest music festival. In addition to mock-crooning “Wonderwall” at the concert, Hov threw a dart at Noel on this track.
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LISTEN: “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)” (2009)
LYRIC: “You niggas’ jeans too tight/Your colors too bright, your voice too light”
TARGET: LIL WAYNE? BLACK EYED PEAS?
SHOTS FIRED? MAYBE. T-Pain is the artist who caught the most feelings (despite Hov specifically noting that he and Kanye were not the subject of the song), but a closer read of Hov’s diatribe suggests that he may be attacking Weezy (red jeans from “A Milli” video?) or even the last to successfully hop on the Auto-Tune bandwagon, BEP (”Boom Boom Pow”?). Like Marley said: Who the cap fit, let him wear it.
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LISTEN: “Reminder” (2009)
LYRIC: “Now everybody’s senile on me/Throwbacks, I threw ‘em back, remember those, button-ups? Young Hov, tell them ordinary Joes button up”
TARGET: JOE BUDDEN
SHOTS FIRED? MAYBE. Budden Stans tend to be a little paranoid but it’s hard to overlook the wordplay on this otherwise forgettable song.
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