Reasonable Doubt Contest - ALLCAPSification lyrics

My favorite Reasonable Doubt lyrics is… We used to fight for building blocks Now we fight for blocks with buildings that make a k**ing This is my favorite lyric because... "D'evils" was the first Jay-Z song I ever heard, and this is the line that stood out to me the most upon the first listen. It is a flawless culmination of several literary devices. Jay-Z uses repetition and parallelism along with clever wordplay to illustrate the similarities and the differences between childhood fights and the drug trade. Through this, he demonstrates how childish drug-related crimes can be, yet how naturally people can fall into the drug trade. This also brings to light the near-necessity of the drug trade, as childhood fights can pave important stepping stones for a child's maturity