7 MCs - DOOM

De La Soul feat. DOOM
Rock Co. Kane Flow
The Grind Date














"He eat rappers like part of a complete breakfast
They rhymes aint worth the weight of they cheap necklace"


DOOM on just how routine it has become for him to outperform lesser skilled rappers.

7 MCs - Jay Electronica

"Yeaaaah, get nervous now

I'm a fucking animal with the verbs and nouns

I'm a fucking cannibal in a herd of clowns

You nikkas look like heaps of steaks and burger mounds"

7 MCs - DOOM

"MCs is crabs in a barrel pass the Old Bay" - DOOM


Nobody, and I mean nobody pummels subject-verb agreement quite as beautifully as this guy.

7 MCs - Viktor Vaughn

"In school he kept a doo rag, in a bagged lunch
Just to eat heads on some breakdance shit and spit
He writ this skit in Sanskrit" - Viktor Vaughn

7 MCs - J.Cole

"I take 7 MCs put 'em in a line

Add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme

Well, it'll take 7 more before I go for mine
And that's 21 MCs ate up at the same time" Rakim

I've written before about my love for lines about eating MCs. Figured I'd start a series of posts that are dedicated to heartwarming comfort of the "rapper-as-food" motif. 

It only makes sense to name it after a line from the guy who I used in the main pic for my blog.

J. Cole gets the first "7 MCs" post. 

"Fuck with a nikka get 4 times 2!"

Jermain getting his point across via a multiplication problem and clever usage of a homophone.

"...now that's 21 MCs ate up at the same time" - Rakim

"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.

Grafh - Chew Em Up feat. Crooked I