"You see 8 MCs/I see one pizza/Them 8 slices that come with a free 1 liter" - Grafh"Eat a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain" - DOOM
Rappers spitting about how nice they are on the microphone is nothing new, and a number of them have pushed it to a whole different level in recent years. However for me, there is no more enduring theme of "i'm-nicer-than-you" type rhymes than the "eating" MCs theme.
The whole idea is just so primitive and primal but for some reason I love it. Think about it. In any form of competition there is nothing more demoralizing than being "eaten up" by an opponent. Yeah you can say you'll "school" someone, shoot someone or out-battle someone, but none of those can hold a candle to the concept of "eating" someone for lunch.
Many MCs have taken this theme and flipped it crazy different ways, DOOM, Sean P, just to name a few. But Grafh took it and freaked it on his song Chew 'em Up featuring Slaughterhouse's own Crooked I.
FTR, Crooked I's verse goes waaay harder overall though.
"Chill...eat 'em up L." Not sure why, but that line just came to mind and thought about this blog post.
ReplyDeleteDamn. Forgot about that one!
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