Kanye West & Jay-Z – “H*A*M”

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Two of the biggest rappers in the world (One for New York, the other from Chicago), spit over a beat produced by a nineteen year old Virginian with a chorus that uses a term popularized in Atlanta. Only in America and “Hard As a Motherfucker”. Watch The Throne coming soon.

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The geek out of the bunch. He is also Jay-Z’s biggest fan. He looks like your cousin from the burbs. He is “Pro Black” (not anti-white, just “Pro Black”). Probably the wittiest out of the bunch. It is said that he got fired from the same job three times.
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  2. all u hipster roaches ever do is btch about how horrible flocka and gucci are..please if flocka would have made this u fags would be bitching about how much it sucks… jay and ye hire flocka’s producer and make a lame ass wanna be flocka song and its “fucckkking awwwseome”…

    niggas is bitches these days… flat out dick ridin stan ass bitches…

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    3. lol. True. The songs not bad but I don’t know whats up with Jay & Ye going south. This song needs to be more trap. Its needs a sprinkle of some Gucci and some Flacka. Them niggas would have went HAM in the motherfucking paint holla.

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    6. Jay-Z could make a song about how good he sucks a dick and Jay stans would find a way to defend that 2 saying how creative and new it is SMH

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        2. If Pac was nearly as corny as Jay he would have killed himself, im sorry Pac made more important deeper music at 20 then Jay is making at 40

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          1. And if Jay had the limited lyrical ability of Pac he would never pick up a mic. At the end of the day Pac is the MOST overrated EMCEE of all times.

          2. Limited ability of Pac? What do you define as lyrical ability, saying a slick punchline? Pac has more lyrical ability than me and even your slow ass could even rap our head around. U seem to ignore the fact that Jay is corny and his music doesnt meen anything. Jay is not clever at all, could Pac do what Jay does HELL YEAH, could in his 42 year life could Jay do what Pac does HELL NO. P-Body help me out on this cat again these niggas is losing they minds. Its harder to rap about reality than it is to rap about how much money you got.

          3. You dont need to spit cold punchlines or metaphors when your trying to tell a story! People are getting away from the true essence of Hip Hop

          4. Simplicity…… lol Imma stop talking about Pac, I actually like some of his music. I was just messing with you fam.

          5. Sorry for leaving you hanging P.

            Dub please listen to the songs I made on them Pac mixtapes and I think a lot of them songs you would give Pac props on especially the ones like “U Can Be Touched”, “High Speed Original Version”, and etc. I’m actually working on Volume 7! He may not say slick punchlines but he did reach the people especially me back in the day and I been a Pac fan ever since. Freddie Gibbs definitely put me into the mind of a Pac of 2010-2011, still nowhere near being a Pac though. I still remember when I was watching MTV news when they reported him dead, what a sad day it was. He was our rock star back then real talk in hip hop. Dude was going on a higher level on each album and got taken out way too early. To me Makaveli definitely displayed his talent as a poet and as a thinker. I hate that his life was cut short like that and I hate they took off “Lost Souls & Watch Ya Mouth “Still unreleased but on my mixtape I been making [only a phone rip though]”.

            Don’t get me wrong I like Jay-Z but to me Jay never reached me like Pac did. I don’t really hear many Jay songs talking about the struggle much nor crooked police or anything like that. Not saying he haven’t made songs like that. But with me not being no where near rich and not balling at all I can’t relate to what Jay is saying. The thing about Jay is that he is really talented and have the power to go on a Pac level by speaking about politics, the struggle and etc but he chose not to. I am giving Jay his props on this.

            This song still suck and I hate it with a passion.

          6. “I ain’t got no motherfucking friends/That’s why I fucked your bitch/You’re fat motherfucker”

            Very uplifting stuff.

          7. That shows how much you listen, dude was deeper than that. Out of all the diss songs he made towards Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, Mobb Deep and etc he have way more other songs that talk about other subjects. Especially his earlier material. “Reincarnation”, “Nothing 2 Lose”, “U Can Be Touched Original”, “Pain”, “Only God Can Judge Me”, “Life Goes On”, “Tattoo Tears Original”, “Hell 4 A Hustler”, “High Speed”, “Hellrazor”, “When It Hurt The Most”, “Streets R Deathrow”, “I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto”, “Changes”, “Unconditional Love”, “If You Play Your Cards Right”, “Under Pressure”, “Street Life featuring Snoop”, “Never Had A Friend Like Me”, “My Block”, “Ghetto Gospal”, “Black Cotton”…….

            Please Q…. I can go on all day about this subject. This will be a debate you have no chance in.

          9. @p-Body I like Pac on certain songs, but i can’t say i have liked a full album from dude. All Eyez on Me is the closest thing to a full length i can listen to from him

          10. @Dub… Smh

            Have you listened to “Me Against The World” that album is so dope and still bumping. From the first time I heard it back in the day til now I still bump that shit. I bump it in my car as well. I been one of the biggest Pac fans since I can remember. Kinda like how a kid like Batman or something well thats how I was with Pac when I seen him on interviews and stuff back in the day. I miss that time period sometimes. One of my boys back in the 5th grade had brought a picture of his sister which she took the picture with 2Pac (Pac was still alive at that moment). I was like “Ohhh snap!”. I kept looking at the picture a lot to make sure that was legit and damn it was. She met him in Cali. I wish I could have met Pac myself. Dude seem like a cool ass dude and just regular. If I would have met Pac I’ll be talking about that shit right now as we speak.

            Anyways back to the music: Makaveli was a dope album too man and of course All Eyez On Me is my album from Pac. 2Pacalypse Now is a very underrated album from Pac. I don’t see how that album got overlooked. It became more appreciated as years ago on though. Maybe because the beats on that album wasn’t as hard as his later material “Thug Life Vol 1, Me Against The World and etc”

            Nobody never had a powerful voice in rap the way 2Pac did. Dude really could have been a politician out here in Atlanta for the New Black Panthers back in the day.

            Overall we needed a person like Pac in the game big time. He was definitely one of a kind and he sounded like nobody else before him. He started the tats and piercing phases in hip hop. Also he showed people how to make an album that is balanced with different themes. Look at “All Eyez On Me” dude had gangsta songs, fun party songs, love songs, and social awareness tracks. The thing I liked about Pac is that he rapped with emotion and he wasn’t afraid to show his emotions on the track and he spoke about how he felt about death. Dude definitely spoke how he felt.

  3. I’m not really feeling this joint too much. They trying too hard to sound down south and they aren’t from the SOUTH!!! The beat is okay overall. Kanye make better songs when he is actually trying to be creative or have some type of message. I’m not excited about the album after hearing this song. Overrated right now as we speak and all that hype. I was expecting a much harder song. After Kingdom Come (Except American Gangsta) Jay-Z just couldn’t make songs that grab me anymore besides Thank You, and a few others. It sound like they aren’t even trying to make a dope track. Overall I’m not feeling this cut and I think Jay-Z seen his better days. He had a great run though.

    I’m really hating this “HAM” slogan people be saying around me. Ugh I just want to pop a dude in the mouth that say it around me.

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  6. The song is sick. Can’t we just have good music without all this hater/stan shit?

    I love me some Hov and Yeezy, and I also love me some Flocka. I swear every post on here is people hating on Nas/Jay/Kanye and bigging up Ross/Soulja/Flocka or vise versa.

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    1. What is so good about this song? This song is trash and sound like everybody else. They watered down their stuff big time! I see what you are saying but its no hate on my part.

      Just because some of us don’t like it don’t mean we are hating. Thats one of the reasons why the hip hop game is all messed up because people are so quit to throw the word hate in everything related to music. Just because a big name person (Jay-Z) make a record don’t mean I have to hop on it and worship it. This track right here is a dud to me and don’t fit their style at all. Of course Jay spit ok on this but nothing really stand out.

      I agree with people bigging up those clowns (Soulja “Becoming more fake by the year and we all know he isn’t tough at all like he try to display on Mean Mugg”, Flocka & Ross “Even though he had a good well produced album”). Flocka got to be one of the dumbest rappers I ever seen in my life (Want to go to college to major in Geometry!! GTFOH Flocka! SMH this is getting out of hand and kids are liking this shit). Dude need education.

      Maybe I’m getting tired of hip hop nowadays. Internet really be exploiting these fake rap cats in the game.

      I hope that Freddie Gibbs guy come out with a banger this year that will overshadow this.

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      1. Haha well I personally dig the track.

        Also co-sign to the maximum on that Freddie Gibbs point, that dude doesn’t get enough shine, all the while he has been releasing some of the realest material in the game.

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    1. You’re right. I don’t see why people are hoping all over this track. Its no different than Waka Flocka and the rest of the guys. Except they can rap but not that good over this track. This track definitely isn’t there style!

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  8. mann, I’m torn. on one hand the beat is pretty crazy, but then theres that breakdown at the end that kinda kills it.

    then its got ‘Ye and Hov, who are usually my dudes, but the choice of sayin’ “Ham” in 2011 really seems like a lyrical stagefall.

    I’d say this would make a decent album cut (remember those? when every track didnt HAVE to sound like a single?) but as a single its pretty lukewarm. this is where I have a problem with Kanye and others leaking every track before an album, because then we scrutinize every aspect of every track like its a single. some songs are just meant to be in the middle of an album and some like it and some dont but overall it doesnt sell the album one way or the other. this feels like that to me.

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  9. ‘Ye and Jay sound uncomfortable over this instrumental, but Lex Luger’s beat is a beast. Brick Squad would sound great over this.

    Ye sounds like he showed up in the wrong studio.

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    1. “Ye sounds like he showed up in the wrong studio.” <—lol

      sippy-sippy'll do that to ya.
      I've sippy-sippy'd my way into the wrong house before.

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  10. What’s so wrong about Jay and Ye hoppin on a Lex Luger track? They just showed you ALL what a true emcees can do with a beat Flocka or Gucci would have. I wanna see Flocka or Gucci hop on a Premo beat…and accomplish what Ye or Jay have done.

    Not hating or trying to defend, i’m just sayyyn

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    1. yeah… and these “true emcees” did absolutely NOTHING with H.A.M. that Flocka couldn’t have done better. Ye and Jay need to stick to what they do best, and never jump over a Lex Luger beat again.

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      1. They can jump on a Lex Luger beat again and again, so you’re sayin that southern producers should stay with southern artists? If this were true then DJ TOOMP should have never worked with Jay or Ye either huh? GTFOH!

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        1. I’m sorry but this sucks. This is not their style at all and I don’t know what they were thinking with this one.

          DJ Toomp tracks was different from the way he did with T.I. previous material. He kinda made it in a way to fit Jay-Z, Nas, and so forth. Jay-Z wouldn’t sound right on “24’s”.

          I think they should stick to what they do and don’t try to change and fit in. Thats when stuff start to sound forced. Record sales down and people see that these same formulas aren’t working. They might as well just do what they do best and instead of jumping on a band wagon which will change eventually just like CRUNK (Which I loved at the time), Snap Muzik (Which sucked!), and etc.

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          1. I understand what you’re saying, but I think everyone’s just kinda blowing it out of proportion. I understand “going HAM” is an ATL thing, but you don’t see people from Houston complainin when someone out of state says “Mane, Hol’up” Or NY dudes gettin mad when someone says “I’m hot SON.”

          2. Actually they biting off of Pimp C with the Mane Hol’up part. RIP Pimp! That is a south thing though. I’m not biased because I’m from the south.

            That “Going HAM” is so wack to me. I wonder who be coming up with these dumb phrases! I promise you I just want to take the next person who say “going HAM” into the gym so we can spar and I’ll beat them up on purpose just for annoying me with that. Who in the South say’s “I’m Hot SON”? I don’t really hear many NY dudes using the word “Son” as much as they once was.

        2. i’m not saying that at all you’re reading into it too much.

          I’m saying that just JAY-Z AND YE don’t fit on LEX LUGER BEATS, a guy who generally produces for GUCCI and WAKA.

          if you can’t something that simple than i honestly feel sorry for you.

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          1. No no, that’s just plain dumb. If Lex Luger should only produce for those two than I fell sorry FOR HIM.

  11. Something about Jay-Z and Kanye bein on a song called H.A.M is just weird….especially when thats one of soulja boys favourite sayings lol, i doubt jay has ever used that slang in a sentence aside from this song haha

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  12. Sorry but unlike most of ya’ll I think Ross would sound better on this than Gucci and Wacka. But although we may think this shit is trash (which I still don’t have an opinion yet), the masses will eat it up and it will get major radio air play

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  13. I think that they may have made a song like this on purpose. I mean look, the entire internet is talking about it. Even bad publicity is better than no publicity. Plus this is a move from Kanye’s playbook, when he was commissioning the paintings for the MBDTF artwork he asked for “something that will be banned.”

    I still think the song is dope, but it is getting a whole lot of hate as well. One thing is for sure though, we all want to check out the album to see how the rest of it will sound.

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  14. ALL Y’ALL NIGGAS WILD FOR THE NIGHT THIS JOINT IS HARD, ITS EPIC, IT SHOULD BE THE INTRO ON THE ALBUM. ACT LIKE JAY AND YE NEVER DID THIS BEFORE AS MUCH AS THEY TREND-SET THEY ALSO JACK WHATS POPULAR AND BRAND IT WITH THEIR OWN STYLE. JAY GOES IN YE VERSE IS FINE, THE BEAT IS HOT RELAX NIGGAS ITS NOT LIKE LEX EXEC PRODUCED THE WHOLE JOINT IT WAS AN EXPERIMENT AND A DAMN GOOD ONE JESUS CHRIST Y’ALL HATERS AND OVER-DEBATERS KILL ME

    “FUCK Y’ALL MAD AT ME FOR?” indeed!

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    1. Nah nigga. You wild for the night. I could fuck with ur opinion if u would have mentioned that Ye and Jay are jocking Lil B’s flow and style. Them up north house niggas need to get off the south’s dick. Stop jocking the slang, the beats, and swag. Lil B and Gucci would both rhyme circles around these immitators. Hip Hop is offically dead and them house niggas killed it. Them niggaz need to stop tryna bite off more then they can chew holla. Peace god.

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  15. This song is alright IMO. I have heard finer work from the both of them but at the same time this is not a bad song. The lyrics are definitely there but the combination of those two and the beat did not do it for me. I do believe the track accomplished the mission of generating buzz about their album. I definitely want to see what these two can put together for the whole album because these two are from two different spectrums of the African-American diaspora. Their experiences and upbringings are mad different and I think it will make for an excellent album.

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