JAY-Z has the Hip Hop world in shambles thanks to his verse on DJ Khaled’s “God Did” off his album of the same name, and now Young Guru is breaking it down for fans.
On Friday (August 26), Hov’s longtime engineer shared a video on his Instagram page of him explaining one of Jay’s lines on the song where he uses a triple entendre to describe people having to face him and his legitimate business.
The verse in question had Hov saying: “I put my hustle onto Forbes, can you believe this guy? /
Then we said, “Fuck it,” and took the dope public / Out the mud, they gotta face you now, you can’t make up this shit /Judge it how you judge it, say we goin’ corporate / Nah, we just corner boys with the corner office.”
According to Guru, JAY-Z has hidden meanings sprinkled all throughout his verse and every line is connect to one another. That line in particular focused on Jay and his friend Emory “Vegas” Jones, who did a prison bid but now is legitimately doing business that was once frowned upon by society.
“So one, on one level is like ok we got it out the mud, and you know Emory’s backstory of him going to jail, him taking the charges, him taking the time right,” Guru said. “But when you get a facial, what do you do? You’re cleaning your face, you taking away all the bumps, all the bruises, all the scars, all the blemishes when you get a facial.”
He continued: “What do they use to do the facial? The mud, so it’s the makeup on the face, but also with the facial, right, with the mud, it’s basically saying you can’t come to me with a face done being fake. The make up is it not really your real face. It’s not just for women, men come in with makeup on, too. Not in the physical sense.”
That line is just one of many that fans will be dissecting for a while. Guru made it clear in the caption of his post that he could do a whole book on just that one verse Hov spit.
“In the studio with @djkhaled@robmarkman @the_summerman giving a little bit of insight,” he wrote. “All these lines have way more than one meaning!!! I could do a whole decoded book off of this one verse! Forgive that’s just my passion talking.”
Guru had already praised JAY-Z’s incredible verse weeks before the album even dropped. He tweeted his reaction to the song shortly after DJ Khaled announced he would be linking back up with the God MC.
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“HOV is the greatest of all time,” Guru tweeted at the top of the month. “This can’t be debated anymore!!!”
It was a good verse. But the beat was wack and the rest of the song was wack. Khaled be putting to many people on the songs. He should of just had jay on there
Damn y’all are really some haters on here. Whatever you think of Khaled if you tryna say this song and/or album was wack you’re literally just hating.
The song is wack. The only good thing about the song is jays verse you khaled dick riding clown.
ay z is probably the greatest and I am a Nas fan and Big is the most skilled. Face it Nas is not spitting like he used to even though we are pretending he is. If Big was alive the goat would be BIg. Jay z lyrics have only gotten better spitting 50 year old life topics with a skill level unmatched. Hov is the goat!
ROSS AND WAYNE WERE PRETTY MID ON THE SONG AND BROUGHT NOTHING TO TABLE BUT WACK FLOWS FROM 2008. JUST SAYING.
Damn, well hope you like every single rapper, artist, song and album in existence then. Otherwise, you’re literally a hater.
THIS CLOWN OLD GURU BEEN HOLDIN’ JAY’S SAC FOR DECADES!!!!! HAHAHHAHAAHHAA!!!! HOV VERSES BE BORING!!!! YAAWWWWNNNN!!!! GTFOH!!!!!
Fool like you., Coward like you
You gotta be from Alabama, Louisiana or Mississippi. Nobody above DC can be this dumb
Jay built a reputation for subliminals. Now people dissect every verse looking for hidden meanings. It’s no different than standing in a museum debating what the artist really meant. Draw your own conclusions. Unless the artist tells you exactly what he meant, it is what it is
Jay z is probably the greatest and I am a Nas fan and Big is the most skilled. Face it Nas is not spitting like he used to even though we are pretending he is. If Big was alive the goat would be BIg. Jay z lyrics have only gotten better spitting 50 year old life topics with a skill level unmatched. Hov is the goat!
Pretending? The verse would even make in onto Magic or Kings Disease 2. Tell Jay update his resume, Nas on a run
Those albums suck ass and didn’t chart well. Jay Z is dominating right now. He has top 10 hits even at 50. Nas doesn’t have one single hit
Let’s talk when you get Jay sack out yo mouth. Dat B.S. you be talkin don’t make no sense.
ay z is probably the greatest and I am a Nas fan and Big is the most skilled. Face it Nas is not spitting like he used to even though we are pretending he is. If Big was alive the goat would be BIg. Jay z lyrics have only gotten better spitting 50 year old life topics with a skill level unmatched. Hov is the goat!
Nas not spitting like he used to? Fcck that it’s literally the opposite, he’s spitting exactly like he used to on Kings Disease albums, give em a spin. Big was never the GOAT so why would he be now?
Does jay z own this site? Coz y’all be riding him all day-its a cool verse nothing spectacular c’mon stop it
Jay has waaaay better verses if you even want to compare himself to himself
Jays the goat. Gtfoh wit that white boy shit!
Jay makes me proud to be from Bk
Btw Game should have been on the album
Good point, Game should’ve been there
Young Guru is just making up shit. His decode doesn’t even make sense lol. Just spit and stop rhyming in code. We have too much going on to sit there and try to figure out what the hell Jay is talking about.
Wow… great art is supposed to be dense and layered for appreciators to dissect. But all art isn’t for everyone either (shrug).
Its a phenomenal verse, but why give it to Khaled?
It’s what Hov does. He’s a giver. It’s one reason why he’s so blessed. That’s why he can say “how many billionaires can come from Hov crib.” His biggest flex is the fruit of his contribution to the people. Not the bars, not the money… he’s a servant first, and he loves it.
Lol a giver. Dude sold out eons ago. Yall don’t know what tht means?
Dont forget, hov also gave his own brother a bullet. Hes a very giving person