(From Jay-Z Interview "Rap Is Poetry") Rap is poetry and there is great writing in rap as well. You know you never hear rappers being compared for like the greatest writers of all time. I mean if you take those lyrics and you pull em away from the music and you put em up on a wall somewhere and someone had to look at em... They would say this is genius! (Amar Chong) Jay-Z was like a God to me, back when I had dreams of making varsity Now I only dream of the Carnegie I'm haulin a** in the search of equality Social media is not where you should follow me I'm fathering a idea in the mind of the listeners, the crime is the subtle lack of quantity Now adays it always seems like something bothers me
I'm overlooked, though all I give is artistry Apart of me is in the past, the other part is in a wallaby residing in Australia where the water be A metaphor for saying somewhere that I lost a piece A treasure sure to be forgotten, when my body gets to rottin Everybody say "I got you" till you call and see Being real seems to be forgotten policy They politicin, telling lies, live unlawfully A wise man always says all the talk is cheap Contradiction, I'm giving birth to what you call a dream A contraceptive couldn't stop what I've been fathering That we can all become the royalty, I'm harvesting Without the Harvarding, marginally, We can all be Kings... Or Queens