Lupe Fiasco Puts His Own Spin on J. Cole’s “Everybody Dies”

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In his rendition, the 34-year-old rapper goes in on some of hip-hop’s rising stars—calling out their skill level as well as naivety.

“Too many best rappers, not enough best rhymes tho/Guess I’m delusional, used to doing it all the time so/Maybe I’m just jaded, out of touch and unrelated/Unable to connect greatness based on the person who makes it,” he raps. “Or maybe I just hate it/And that would make me hater Maybe it is great but that don’t mean it’s raider/Having your profile raised doesn’t make you a raiser/Being ambiguous with assertions isn’t making you safer.”

He also raps about artists being easily deceived by record labels.

“Artist gettin’ robbed before they publish/By dirty Jewish execs that think his alms from the covenant/I’ll retire when I’m tired, that’s a Firestone death/Easy to say when nobody’s there, like a microphone check.”

Unsurprisingly, the verse was criticized for being anti-Semitic. But Lupe denied the accusations—kind of.