Jay-Z’s first record from The Blueprint 3, “Jockin’ Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh),” has hit the airwaves and the Internet. Hov debuted part of the record onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York last week while making a guest appearance at Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark tour stop. It’s now clear he was rapping the second verse.
The first verse starts with Jigga giving a tip of his blue New York Yankees cap to Run-DMC.
“Whooooooose howwwwwwwse?” Jay asks, quoting “Run’s House.” Moments later, “the only rapper that could still get money in the drought” shows support to a certain senator.
“I rock with Obama but I ain’t no politician,” he raps, “And I chill with the thugs and the gangsters too/ I ain’t a Blood but I’m warring with the boys in blue/ Crooked officer, crooked officer/ Why you wanna see me in a coffin, sir?”
The hook uses Run from Run-DMC’s voice and takes us back to the late ’80s when the Kings from Queens dropped “Dumb Girl.” Run rapped, “Seen you jockin’ J.C./ ‘Cause he got a Mercedes/ And you know about his ladies.”
“Jockin’ Jay-Z” ends with Hov overtly sending a shout-out to Pimp C who was honored at the Ozone Awards in Houston Monday night and championing his wife’s physique, among other sharp lines.
Kanye West’s production on the track is not so soulful, in the original Blueprint mode, but is more of a throwback to hard-hitting drums and gold-chain swagger.
Last week on Shade 45 satellite radio, Hov told hosts Elliott Wilson and Angela Yee that he wasn’t sure if Blueprint 3 would be coming out this year, but he does have some records done already.
Source: MTV