Jay-Z's Report Card | Dead End Hip Hop Conversations

To wrap up our first Report Card series, we have a roundtable discussion about our Jay Z grades.
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[@grantsmith5550]

Please make this a continuing series on the channel! This is fantastic!

[@96god2]

They forgot the lyrical category 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@BigClipps]

@@96god2when you think about what a lyrical category would make up It’s vocabulary articulation and flow. You could count content which is something they don’t have (maybe originality)

[@bigdoinksinamish7615]

I can see Rod graded on the 8-10 scale. 😂 His soul was hurting at those 5s.

[@kazzykaioken8873]

If jays flow is 9 then u gotta rate rappers like busta rhymes, kendrick and jid a damn 9000

[@Sherlock9827]

He looked pissed at those 3s 😂😂

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

He definitely graded on a 8-10 scale. No way in hell is Jay an 8 and up in EVERYTHING 🤦🏾‍♂️. If Jay is an 8 in vocabulary then Lupe must be God Tier at Infinity. There is no number for Lupe if Jay is an 8 in vocab 😂

[@user-kw9wi4op5v]

@@TheRealLeonardWashington idk about Lupe being god tier when you got billy woods teaching a whole college history course with his album Aethiopes, no disrespect to Lupe

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

@@user-kw9wi4op5v last I checked, Lupe was teaching a class too. And I just used him as an example in comparison with Jay. I never said he actually was God Tier. Re-read my comment

[@jeanbeya6860]

Rod taking offense to everyone else's grades and Myke throwing shade under his breath made this great lmao

[@MLDoomsday]

Only 4 min in and I can already tell im gonna love this series haha.

[@tobiolowokure2602]

I literally spit out my drink when Beezy said what he said about Jay rapping with Juvenile 😂😂😂😂

[@phettywappharmaceuticalsll8842]

You spitting drinks out when you hear reviews on jay ha

[@KATENDE911]

Please do this with everyone’s favourites lmaoooo Rod was killing me this video. I want them to do Scarface for Ken, El-P for Myke etc.

[@francisconobre19]

A report card for Larry June would be hilarious

[@chillaxin9407]

I agree. I find it hard to believe that Myke would give El-P below a 7 in any category, but who knows 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@MrASAPAB]

@@chillaxin9407he likes all the nerdy trash rappers

[@IllusionistBeatsOfficial]

@@MrASAPAB how is El-P trash?

[@MrASAPAB]

@@IllusionistBeatsOfficial no rhythm, flat delivery, boring voice, makes music for suburban hipsters

[@Station_AI]

You guys have been on fire lately, you stay innovating and that's why you have achieved longevity

[@joshrentos216]

They use to be way more popular tho

[@DuckDodgers345]

@@joshrentos216 Yeah, idk why they lost momentum. I was hoping this channel would be on needle drop level of subscriptions by now but by the time that happens kinge might be dead.

[@giovannidejoie8618]

@@joshrentos216needle drop used to collab with them…miss that time

[@bl45]

Would love to see a Kendrick report card....a Drake report card would be CLASSIC!!! lmao

[@shanperera3400]

Drake would be so fun

[@jordantriplett5672]

Drake would be hilarious 😂😂😂

[@MichaelWilson-bn4bd]

Rod heard that 10 from Myke and got excited as hell😂

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

Rod channeled the energy of every Jay Z Stan watching this video 🤣💀

[@niek8877]

Jay never made trends lmao he was the definition of a trendhopper especially during pre RD and 96-02

[@emsee7602]

Should add these categories; Voice Concepts Storytelling Live Performance Hooks

[@emsee7602]

@Tristan I feel having a good voice is an underappreciated aspect of being a dope emcee because usually u would only associate a voice with a vocalist who sings. In regards to Jay I feel this is one of his weaker areas as I feel he doesn't have a great rap voice.

[@davidberfect9818]

Bruh! Voice is key! I like that one.

[@oxicemusic]

Ken and Myke killed me this video 😂😂

[@deadstroke82]

After you all defined categories, I love it! BLACK THOUGHT.

[@mamba4817]

All 10s

[@CityOTroy]

Such a great series. Can't wait to see what else 2023 has in store

[@LookingForAName...]

Respect for keeping things fresh, great series!

[@NickKingXXVI]

This might be the best and interesting video series y'all ever did lol

[@Funcrusher92]

Loved this. Can't wait to see this as a continuous series.

[@strystyl]

Listen this was a really fun way to continue talking about HipHop artista especially as the genre continues to age. It would be really cool to see other guests or hosts come through with their grades too over time. Great concept yall

[@kooleyBear]

This is a fantastic video. I love this and I am very happy yall are loving this concept. Looking forward to more of these with the enjoyment that yall are having.

[@erickobak5034]

Idk how you guys keep coming up with good original content this deep into it. GOATs

[@afrikankodo]

this was so much fun! keep them going. ranking them individually, then discussing as a team. rod's soul was dying 😂. let's go, dehh!

[@bobbyjefferson7929]

This was great! Like others said it reminded me of some of your older videos. I'd love to see you guys do these for producers too.

[@thesten6982]

Loved these videos, great idea for a series

[@vincentwilliams5271]

I really respect Beezy's honesty 👏

[@d_lightnin8108]

This was really dope! Glad to see you guys exploring different formats for videos.

[@joelosteen6960]

This the one teacher conference I ain't afraid to show up to. Great new series y'all got right here

[@thalesguidote3728]

this show was a great idea, good job y'all

[@djwarzone1]

This is great fellas. Y’all helping to keep the culture alive. Y’all already know I’m a big fan

[@djwarzone1]

Oh and Jay is a biter , so originality nah lol

[@jroameverywhere]

Loved this new content! More of this fellas, great work!

[@alexbraun3595]

I’m digging these Rap Report cards. Ones I’m hoping for next would be: MF DOOM, Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Del the Funky Homosapien, Mos Def, Open Mike Eagle, and Billy Woods.

[@rochardscott9572]

loved this segment. looking forward to more of these.

[@braddyoung3523]

report cards is a great ass idea. loved this video yall, keep em comin

[@asalgado4449]

You guys have the best energy whenever y'all have these conversations haha It really does come through to the viewer that I catch myself breaking a smile or laughing along too! Hope to see more of these report cards for other rappers! I'd probably give Jay an overall score of 8. Legendary rappper

[@mohauntaopane4264]

This is the best ish I’ve ever watched. You dudes are original.

[@jayburritos]

loved this fellas! seeing Rod squirm at the 3s was hilarious. looking forward to seeing more of these in the future. y’all gotta work out them definitions of each category tho lmao

[@lobstarooo]

This is a great video. Love this type of videos, with the shorts as well.

[@tombarbee729]

This is a fantastic series. Please keep this up.

[@TbroBleet]

This video was incredible. Please do more of these!

[@jajassa1]

This was dope do more!! Also talking about each category after it is definitely the move.

[@goob8945]

Damn I might have to subscribe to the Patreon to hear the rest of the group discussions. I think you guys should do one on every members favourite rapper just to see how different you all are!

[@BigClipps]

Y’all def need to do these. The hip hop community been speculating on criteria forever so to see someone actually putting it into practice again is great. Y’all should do an average of each of y’all columns and overall to give a DEHH score to put out on socials

[@mickeynewlin]

I loved every minute of this!

[@levitate.]

This was fun ! Love it

[@ERMO6627]

Hope you guys all get on the same page on what each category means in the future but besides that looking forward to seeing more of these 🙏

[@blueface9348]

Great content

[@bradleyharrison3946]

Great video, this is a fun format, bracket videos as well would be interesting! Either way I’m on board!

[@tdotmarie]

I loved this, proud of how you all keep moving your content forward and trying new things. I don't have a particular suggestion but I would like to see you all share more opinions on female rappers in general

[@tdotmarie]

unrelated sidebar, but maybe for kicking off the video, you can have a graphic up that shows everyone's scores so you don't have to do the round robin, you can just get right into anything that's unusual/surprising and then take the convo from there

[@jctrewin]

@@tdotmarie going round with each person revealing their score is an interesting part of the video though

[@SILMANTV]

Very hard to be innovative and keep things fresh so props to y’all this is gonna be great for all artist

[@odefeoberabor7597]

Please keep doing these. And rappers are infinite so this could go on for a long time.

[@AsterisqBeats]

You already know, give me Lupe. This is a dope idea 🔥

[@Phoenixforever79]

Love the new content but this for sure gave the old school dead end hip hop vibes!!! Definitely continue this family peace

[@BgRs79]

It's been a while since I've seen Feefo. Them locs coming along, bro.

[@MrLowe818]

Thank you guys for this. Can't wait to see these discussions progress with other artists, because Feefo & Rod are kinda moving the goal post for Jay based off their outright love for him, but will they be as forgiving with other artists? Will be interesting to see. Please do Lupe soon, should be a great convo.

[@giovannidejoie8618]

Really love those ! I like all the videos you guys make but this conversation was super interesting…I liked myke giving Jay his flowers in a certain categories even though he doesn’t like him that much as an artist overall….can’t wait for the Nas report Card !

[@ericc4040]

My favorite episode in a long time… this was a lot of fun

[@maroonkennedy6213]

Eminem, Wayne, Nas, and Kendrick are easy choices for future report cards

[@kazzykaioken8873]

Busta rhymes one would show that people like rod are crazy. If Jays flow is a 9 he gotta give busta at least a 900 lmao

[@thepirate209]

@@kazzykaioken8873 nah it's subject. Im not a Jay fan but I like his flow way better than Busta Rhymes

[@kazzykaioken8873]

@@thepirate209 You like his flow better... but busta rhymes has more flows and more versatile flows and this is not an opinion. Busta has WAY more impressive flows and I could easily demonstrate this on a track by track basis. In fact busta has a verse on the chris brown song 'look at me now' which he is famous just for the flow alone. Jay z has no song where people who dont even know the lyrics just emulate his flow I could use your logic to say lil yachtys floe is better than Jay z 'I like it more'.. if i prefer lil yachty to jay does not mean i can give yachty a higher rating for flow just cos i prefer it more

[@thepirate209]

@@kazzykaioken8873 If it's a personal rating why should I rank Bustas's Flow higher than Jay Z's flow if I like Jay Z's flow better ?

[@chi4611]

@@kazzykaioken8873 rapping fast does not equal good flow, which is what Busta was doing on that Chris Brown song.

[@negativenoel]

INCREDIBLE CONTENT

[@CashMoneyMan10293847]

This is a great series🔥🔥

[@papaJBD]

Y’all definitely are onto something with these

[@TheKollapseCrew]

Yeha keep doing these guys!!!!

[@monstermaniac49]

I loved this. Keep putting these out! Do Rakim!

[@LockheedLazar]

this sht is so funny man, yall have to do more of these

[@TheBeans410]

Rod is sick and I love it 😂😂 Love this series already

[@paqui4318]

I love the Series! I would add beat selection, which is an important skill in my book!

[@LookingForAName...]

I feel like there's a criteria lacking. One that would include metaphors, punchlines, alliterations, etc. Maybe replace vocabulary by wordplay (or just add wordplay). Wordplay would include vocabulary, since it's what words you choose and how you use them, but it'd be larger as well, because vocabulary is just about the words you use, whereas wordplay is how you use them.

[@LookingForAName...]

Also, originality and innovation ressemble each other a little too much. You could rebrand originality to substance maybe (use of concepts, storytelling, subject matter, etc.) and keep either innovation or originality to mean "does he bring something new to the game or is he mostly influenced by others?"

[@JusRed48]

Def make this a regular series Also yes the collab albums are part of the discography.

[@DoctorName]

This was super dope

[@FunK0Slap0GB]

Fantastic idea - and again showing a 10 for innovation. I've been watching you guys since 2012 and you're still fire. In terms of future report cards: Nas Doom Any of the Wu-Tang (Ghostface/Raekwon?) Eminem Kendrick Wayne Black Thought and so many more!

[@blacktide888]

This was so damn great, funny as hell. 😂

[@poopymcpoop9945]

Holy shit!!! It's Feefo!!!

[@thewalkingdunning-krugeref9664]

Jay is one of the quintessential versatile rappers. The streets love him, the backpackers love him, and he can make a banger with the best of em.

[@rishisahgal4529]

Yea agree. I think of all the types of production he has managed to do well on...from the mid 90's post boom bap to the late 90's Timbaland style stuff, the soulful Kanye beats, the r&b r Kelly stuff, the dirty South stuff with ugk, and even the jazz influence on 4:44. He has never been my favourite rapper but few are as versatile

[@cosmicrays575]

Y'all should do TDE Black Hippy edition. That should cover a whole month with 4 artists. Then have a conversation of which is the overall better rapper.

[@BT30191]

Thats a long as process to crown Kendrick

[@cosmicrays575]

@@BT30191 😐

[@mihirb8090]

It's Kendrick and you know it. Ab-Soul will be second(based on his peak performance). Schoolboy 3. Jay Rock 4

[@cosmicrays575]

@@mihirb8090in the past 10 years the conversation has always been whose the best rapper in TDE, more specifically Black Hippy. This "oh, of course it's Kendrick" is nonsense. Each rapper on any giving day could be better than the other lol. The whole point of this is to see where each rapper rank on this report card thing and have a fun discussion when stack against each other. If it's Kendrick then cool but it's not as clear cut as people think imo.

[@NegiZero]

@@cosmicrays575 I agree with you in a sense. If we were to evaluate in a vacuum and just evaluate rapping ability, all of Black Hippy is supremely skilled and can be considered the best rapper on any given day. But Kendrick from an artistry perspective, just brings too much to the table, it's hard to form a legitimate argument against him. I expect Kendrick to get the highest grade of anyone in these discussions, period.

[@aaronthekid97]

Rod is funny as shit in this jawn 😂😂😂 imma have to hit the patreon for these report cards 👌🏾

[@mariomiles9529]

haha great show guys! had to laugh so hard. please keep this going!

[@sheesh602]

This was great! Some suggestions: Ab-Soul , Ransom , Westside Gunn, MF Doom, Royce Da 5'9, JID , J Cole , Kendrick Lamar, Roc Marciano

[@ulisespalacios151]

This was great! If you do Em's report cards next that would be amazing. I already picture myself laughing my ass off watching the final conversation. 😂

[@ksuresh600]

We definitely like this

[@compounding_gains]

17:52 needs the Ether beat over it. The way Rod's soul was burning after hearing 3. lmao

[@BrianGlaze]

"Improved his bite game" 😂😂😂😂. I'm dead

[@trent0184]

12:39 Myke had me in tears lmao 😂

[@brandonwintpoetry]

I like this new show idea. In terms of framing the discussion or explanation for each category: what about the idea of starting the conversations with whomever gave the highest and lowest scores within a category? That would allow you to talk about the full range of opinions without making the conversations tedious. Let everyone say their scores, but have the high scorer(s) and the low scorer(s) start the discussion portion. It makes room to discuss disagreements in a pretty efficient way, I think.

[@EZ95]

Rod tighter than when he found out Blueprint 1 isn't a classic

[@LookingForAName...]

Wait what? Did they argue that Blueprint isn't a classic somewhere?

[@EZ95]

@@LookingForAName... on Patreon

[@kxngmuzikig2417]

@Troudeculinos they do classic reviews on patreon. the Blueprint episode was crazy. Rod was caping the whole time. Beezy mentioned Izzo is skippable to him and Rod blew up "how can you just skip it!? it's a huge song!!"

[@Iamkobejames]

@@kxngmuzikig2417that review still trips me out, I’m 22 years old didn’t listen to the blueprint until I was 19 and I don’t see how anyone could argue that Blueprint isn’t a classic

[@theebonymaw]

@@Iamkobejames BP1 is most def an intant classic. i don't think RD is a classic tho. it was retroactively given that distinction during the Nas beef to make it seem like their catalogues were more evenly matched than they actually were.

[@TheMomno]

Rod is right for sure, it makes a lot more sense to discuss the scores immediately.

[@Sai2424]

“Oh no, I gave him a five too 😂😂😂” Ayoooo 🤣

[@musiclifter5424]

This is a great video idea

[@CamEron-nj5qy]

JID has an 11 on flows

[@eL-Bee-]

Enjoying this new concept, poor Rod though he looked hurt at some of those scores. Would love to see Big Boi get a report card.

[@minz05]

the conversation is fun reminds me of old DEHH videos

[@CodysFavorites]

This series about the be another classic

[@lobstarooo]

I can see you guys do some more big ones like Pac and Dre. Those might be the most fun to get into the groove of this type of video.

[@louispasquier7800]

GOOD VIDEO

[@nickmunley419]

this is a fire series. yall just gotta get on the same page as what each category means lol

[@v.rodgers1569]

Gotta love that C-town sarcasm

[@JoseMedina-oc2nd]

Love the report cards just definitely keep it music,, and tighten categories a bit originality and innovation very close category for an MC,, very dope👏🏾👏🏾

[@KWILKSP]

This is a dope idea

[@TheTheorder]

Lupe Fiasco pls!! Also besides the super obvious ones, Big KRIT, Denzel Curry, JID. Also love, love the concept, can't wait to see more!!

[@GoatSmizz]

These are 🔥🔥🔥. Em or Wayne next please

[@___M99]

For what artists to do next I’d suggest doing everyone else’s favorite rappers so EL-P, Black Thought, etc

[@julien9602]

Maybe you guys could add content or lyrics. Dope concept though, love those conversations !