#Renegade jay z eminem meaning crack#
It implies the lack of adequate education and jobs in the ghettos and the CIA funding of crack in the ghettos. Jay-Z's verse speaks on racial and political issues in when he says "The same ghetto you ruined" In a way that line points the finger at the goverment for the state of the ghettos.
His verse is relevant responds to a lot of the criticism that rappers have gotten over the years for speaking so raw about what goes on in the ghetto. Jay-Z's verse is a lot more effective to me and it speaks on a larger and much more important social issue than Eminem's verse does. It doesn't take an innocent person to be able to tell what it right or wrong. But the problem with that is that the reasoning is not there. What he does do is turn it around and throws insults back at his critics by questioning who they are to criticize him when they themselves may have done some of the same things he talks about. The problem with this line, as is the problem with the verse, is that he never really offers an answers to the question, thus he never adequalty argues that his music is not what it is said to be. There, he starts to question if his music is really hate music or if it's beautiful music that is food for the spirit. He doesn't really start to get into the main point of his verse until the 6th line. These lines are pretty empty and don't have much to do with the main point of the verse.
He spends the next 5 basically stating who he is by saying questions. He opens up his verse stating that he may or not be the menace that he's claimed to be, then the next 6 lines are pretty empty. Eminem's verse is directed towards those people that were all up in arms about his lyrics and that wanted to censor his ****.
Both verses are similar in that they're directed towards critics. I'm with Eminem in that I don't understand why so many people feel so strongly that Eminem had the better verse than Jay-Z. When asked by The Source magazine in an interview circa 2001 about what Nas said, Eminem himself said that he is surprised when people tell him that he killed Jay-Z on the hit song "Renegade" and that he believes that he and Jays verses were infact equal. "And Eminem killed you on your own ****," Nas said to Jay-Z on his diss song "Ether".