Jay-Z: Encore (The Lyrics)

Thomas has been doing a great job of holding down our lyrics posts this past week. With The Black Album being one of my favorite Jay albums, I had to help out today. One of my favorite cuts on the album is the Kanye-produced “Encore.” The whole song just gets me really hyped, from Kanye’s beat to Jay’s lyrics. I had a hard time choosing between the first and second verses as my fav and ultimately went with the first… “Who you know fresher than Hov? Riddle me that.”

Hit the jump for the rest…

“Encore” (Verse One)

“Who you know fresher than Hov’? Riddle me that
The rest of y’all know where I’m lyrically at
Can’t none of y’all mirror me back
Yeah hearin me rap is like hearin G. Rap in his prime
I’m, young H.O., rap’s Grateful Dead
Back to take over the globe, now break bread
I’m in, Boeing jets, Global Express
Out the country but the blueberry still connect
On the low but the yacht got a triple deck
But when you Young, what the fuck you expect? Yep, yep
Grand openin, grand closin
Gotdamn your man Hov’ cracked the can open again
Who you gon’ find doper than him with no pen
just draw off inspiration
Soon you gon’ see you can’t replace him
with cheap imitations for DESE GENERATIONS”