Who Spit It Better?

Who Spit It Better: T.W.D.Y. vs. Twista

by Morgan January 20, 2012 Debates

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Legendary vocalist Bill Wither’s uplifting song, “Lovely Day” plays the foundation for the tracks in today’s feature of Who Spit It Better. We’ll look at the rhymes of T.W.D.Y., a bay area group consisting of Ant Banks, Rappin 4-Tay, and Captain Save-Em, on their Ant Banks produced track, “Players Holiday,” featuring Mac Mall, Too Short, [...]

Who Spit it Better: AZ/Nas vs. Ice Cube

by Morgan December 9, 2011 Who Spit It Better?

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For this weeks edition of Who Spit It Better we match up AZ and Nas’, “How Ya Livin” vs. Ice Cube and Krayzie Bone’s, “Until We Rich.” Each contains samples from Glenn Jones 1984 hit single “Show Me,” Hip-Hop samples ever. East Coast beast L.E.S. provided his beat for AZ’s Pieces of a Man album [...]

Who Spit It Better? Chiddy Bang vs. The Throne

by Carsten November 4, 2011 Who Spit It Better?

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Besides explaining how wealthy you can live during a financial meltdown, Kanye and Jay-Z showed us once again how cool it is to sample music from the Ed Banger generation on their collabo effort, Watch The Throne. Alongside “Why I Love You,” which samples and interpolates Cassius‘ club hit “I Love You So,” Kanye and [...]

Who Spit It Better: J. Cole Vs. CRU

by Morgan October 21, 2011 Who Spit It Better?

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In this battle of Who Spit It Better, we match Mr. Second String himself J. Cole and his track, “Sideline Story” against the now defunct Cru’s (also known as the Rhythm Blunt Cru) jam “Just Another Case” ft. Slick Rick. Both producers that covered these tracks flipped the seventies band, Rhythm’s,” The World is A [...]

Who Spit It Better?: Joe Budden vs. Deezus vs. Sean Price

by Thomas October 14, 2011 Who Spit It Better?

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The latest edition of Who Spit It Better has Mouse Budden’s “Dear Diary” facing off against Canadian rapper Deezus’ “Cover My Tracks” featuring Brooklyn’s own Sean Price. Both tracks sample Lakeside’s ”Alibi” from their 1983 album, Untouchables. Both tracks use the soulful parts of the track (vocals) but what separates them? Let’s find out. Sean [...]

DaVinci vs Shyheim vs Hell Razah

by Thomas July 17, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

Another edition of Who Spit it has Filmore District (San Francisco) emcee DaVinci battling Wu-Tang affiliates Shyheim and Hell Razah. The trio rhyme over O.V. Wright’s “Nickel and a Nail” from his 1967 album, Eight Men, Four Women. The tracks supplied by RZA and Big D use the track nicely with RZA focusing more on [...]

Rick Ross vs Joe Budden

by Thomas July 17, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

The Bawse and Joe Budden both have used one of my favorite samples, “Silly Love Song” by Enchantment. The Bawse uses the sample for his lead single (“Super High”) featuring Ne-Yo from this forthcoming album, Teflon Don (July). Joe Budden utilized the track for his 2008 album, Halfway House [buy]. Both are decent songs aiming [...]

Erykah Badu vs Alicia Keys

by Thomas June 24, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

Two beautiful women. Two solid tracks. One song a lead single to a live album. The other a solid album track on one of the best R&B albums released this year. Both sing over Eddie Kendricks often used “Intimate Friends” track. Alicia beautifully sings about the “unbreakable” nature of celebrity power couples (at that time). [...]

Roc Marciano vs Alchemist vs Twista

by Thomas May 29, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

Roc Marciano and The Alchemist both used Smoked Sugar‘s “Keeping Up My Front” for their songs “Hide My Tears” and “Smile” respectively. Marcberg is dope, but I don’t like “Hide My Tears” as the use of the double time delivery just doesn’t work for me. The Alchemist, Twista, and Maxwell created a banger [...]

Wu-Tang vs Joell Ortiz

by Thomas May 7, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

Joell’s slept on debut album featured a massive posse cut featuring Ras Kass, Sha Stimuli, Graph, and Gab Gotcha spitting over Bunny Sigler‘s “Half A Man” freaked by Frank Dukes. The recently released Wu-Massacre album by Meth, Ghost, and Raekwon uses the same sample for their song featuring Solomon Childs and Streetlife. Both tracks are [...]

Danny Brown vs Slick Rick vs Wu-Tang Pt. 2

by Thomas May 3, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

Another Who Spit It, another Danny Brown battle with Wu-Tang Clan and special guest Slick Rick. The Hybrid takes on Ghostface, Raekwon, RZA, and Slick Rick over the Unique Blend‘s gem, “Does He Treat You Better.” “The Sun” samples the track and was originally suppose to appear on GFK‘s third album, Bulletproof Wallets. Allegedly, RZA [...]

Ruste Juxx vs Roc-A-Fella

by Thomas April 30, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

Ty Fyffe and Marco Polo provide basically the same track for the Roc and Ruste Juxx to spit over. However, Marco’s drums are gritter than Ty‘s IMO. Not only do the beats have commonality, but so do the rhymes as emcee’s rhymes are littered with drug, guns, and money references. With that said Jay/Beanie>Ruste Juxx>Memphis [...]

Danny Brown vs Wu-Tang Pt. 1

by Thomas April 26, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

It’s been a minute since we’ve done a Who Spit It, but it’s back. This go around has Detroit emcee Danny Brown going to battle against some Wu Generals, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, and Cappadonna. “Fish” and “The Wizard” (produced by Tru Master and Apollo Brown respectively) both sample Otis Redding‘s cover of Sam Cooke‘s classic [...]

B.I.G. vs. Big L

by Thomas March 11, 2010 Who Spit It Better?

B.I.G. is considered by many to be the Greatest Rapper of All Time, with two classic albums under his belt. Big L dropped a classic album in 1995 and had a cult like following on the underground scene. B.I.G. and Bad Boy Records had Hip-Hop and the radio/clubs on lock from 1994-1997. Rumors had Big [...]

Common x Cassidy x Nine Simone: Strange Fruit

by Thomas November 29, 2009 Who Spit It Better?

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This unreleased gem from Common titled “Strange Fruit” was unleashed to the internet sometime this week as a track from the Finding Forever sessions. Obviously this song wasn’t on the album, but seems to fit in with the overall sound, subject matter, and vibe of Finding Forever [review]. When you hear the song the powerful [...]

Royce Da 5’9 vs. Lil Wayne: Best Rapper Alive?

by Kevin November 12, 2009 Mixtapes

No this is not a contender for Freestyle Friday… I would never put these two emcees in the same league. However DJ TrackStar at TSS did! I’ll let him explain below: “Since Jay-Z stopped worrying about being the best and declared himself the greatest, many people have claimed the title of Best Rapper Alive, but [...]

Jay-Z vs. Eminem vs. Royce Da 5’9″

by Thomas September 10, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Our last Who Spit for Jay week. “Eminem killed you on your own sh*t.” Nas spit that famous line on “Ether” as an answer record to Jay’s “Takeover.” So the question is did Eminem kill Jay on his on ish? Was Royce’s original verse better than Jay’s? Ok…we decide today. From my understand “Renegade” was [...]

Jay-Z vs. The Notorious B.I.G.

by Thomas September 9, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Jay and B.I.G. recorded three songs together (Biggie Duets and “A Dream” don’t count). On “Brooklyn’s Finest” B.I.G. shined bright. On “I Love the Dough” B.I.G. was masterful again with Jay keeping pace. On “Young G’s,” Jay’s verse that included lines such as: “Some say I been here before because of the way I zone/Some [...]

Jay-Z vs. Joe Budden

by Thomas September 8, 2009 Who Spit It Better?

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Rumor has it that Jay-Z turned down this track from Just Blaze prior to Joe Budden grabbing it for his lead off single from his self titled debut album [Download id not defined]. The track sounds like something that could have fit on disc one of The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse. Jay jumped on the [...]

Jay-Z vs. Angelous

by Thomas September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

When I became aware of Angelous in late 2002/early 2003 and heard his song “A.N.G.E.L.” I thought Jay-Z was dissing himself. After a couple listens I figured out it wasn’t Jay-Z. Now there have been some Jay-Z clones before Angelous (Bathgate, Sam Sarcfo) that seem to take Jay-Z’s flow, ad-libs, and style to the 10th [...]

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