The Hip Hop community is still picking itself back up after Pusha T dropped his fiery new single “Neck & Wrist” featuring JAY-Z and Pharrell earlier this week. King Push delivered as expected, but it was Hov who stole the show with his incredible wordplay.
The Roc Nation boss addressed several topics in his guest verse, including actor Fazion Love’s comments regarding the validity of his hustling past and his status if The Notorious B.I.G. was still alive. But there’s one bar that fans have been closely dissecting given JAY-Z’s status as the king of double (if not triple and quadruple) entendres.
The Brooklyn rap legend’s longtime engineer, Young Guru, hopped on Twitter on Wednesday (April 6) to show love to one particular line from Hov’s “Neck & Wrist” verse that he says has multiple layers of meaning.
“We not talking about this line enough ‘I blue bird money, y’all talk in Twitter feeds’ It’s like 5 meanings here!!!!,” he tweeted.
It didn’t take long for fans to flood Guru’s replies with their theories about the hidden meanings behind JAY-Z’s clever wordplay. While references to Twitter, cocaine quantities and actual birds were mentioned, some thought Hov subliminally dissed Birdman, with whom he’s had issues in the past.
“Blue bird (Twitter). Blew Bird (Birdman) money. Blew bird (dope money),” one fan tweeted. “Ties it in ‘yal talk on Twitter feeds’. TOUGH.”
However, Guru wasted little time in shutting down the notion that Jay took a shot at the Cash Money mogul in his verse. “I’m sorry but as many meanings as you can pull from this by no means is this a Birdman diss!!!” he retorted.
The beef between JAY-Z and Birdman dates back to 2009 when the Cash Money Records co-founder claimed Lil Wayne was both a hotter and higher-paid rapper than Hov.
Jigga clapped back at Baby on his 2011 Watch the Throne track “H.A.M.,” rapping, “I’m like, ‘Really, half a billi, n-gga, really?’ You got baby money/Keep it real with n-ggas, n-ggas ain’t got my lady money.”
Weezy got involved when he dissed JAY-Z and his wife Beyoncé on his Tha Carter IV track “It’s Good,” but Hov dished out another shot at Wayne on Magna Carta Holy Grail‘s “La Familia.” Since then, things have quieted down, until Birdman once again brought up Hov’s name in an interview with REVOLT’s Big Facts Podcast in September 2021.
“As a man, I accomplished more than all of them,” he stated. “And I don’t say that in a disrespectful way, I’m not trying to be disrespectful. But the reality of it is, none of these dudes accomplished more than me in the music business. Not one of them, I don’t care what name you say, accomplished more than me. That’s facts. No if, and, or buts about it.”
He continued, “I don’t think they did more than me. And you can ask [Diddy] yourself, he’ll vouch for it. You can ask JAY-Z himself, he’ll vouch for it. They ain’t accomplished more than me in this music business and that’s facts. Yeah, I did that. Big bank, big boy. I did that, brother, no cap.”
Listen to Pusha T and JAY-Z’s “Neck & Wrist” below.
Lmao! Corny ass ninjas be dissecting lyrics and making up all the things a rapper could mean. How about you spend all that time reading a real book and educating yourself. No hope for the future of these “follower “ clowns
Been saying that forever. Dudes spend more time disscecting lyrics and being impressed by that than whether the song sounds good. It’s corny. At the end of the day, the most clever rap line is still remedial in the scope of the English language, which isn’t a shot at it because I love it, but it is what it is. Nobody is splitting the atom with rap lyrics.
So what literary or creative work does impress you?
So we shouldn’t look for the meaning of lyrics and be impressed? What kind of hater shit is that? Why do you assume it’s all people do and that they don’t also read books? If the world thought like you there would be no art, because dissecting and appreciating it is a waste of time. I’m sorry life hasn’t turned out as you expected, don’t take it out on random internet people who are happy their favourite rapper said some cool shit. We’re sorry nobody in your life cares about your opinion so you resort to being a douche to people who have done you no harm. Peace.
Song isn’t good. People should stop pushing it
Jays verse wasnt all that…shows his insecurities about everything mentioned about him.
Dude a senior citizen. Nobody on that!
When i seen lil baby get his mind blown by the jay z line about Beyoncé last year i understood how deep the fandom is. This guy could fart in the mic and people would lead you to believe it was a masterpiece. Did you hear that tone? He farted in E Minor!! It aint always that deep and arguably half the rappers you hear today say witty stuff but noone gets hovs reactions. I love jay though!