No One On The Corner

Swagger Like Us - T.I ft. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne

When I first heard about this on gaiaonline.com (big ups), I was like, "this must be a fake "DJ copy-and-paste of old verses on a beat" thing...

Then...

The intro appears...

Regardless of if it was still just a copy and paste deal, the beat was already getting me hyped. Then, Kayne comes in and IMMEDIATELY starts spazzing on the mic.

"Mr. West is in the buildin'
Swagger on a hundred thousand TRILLION!"

Fact. He said swagger. So it must be a new verse for the song itself!

Yes, he's using the auto-tune. But he gets a pass simply because he is still in his style. Raps for a minute and then just breaks out harmonizing as he's been doing recently.

"Naaa, na, naaa
How it feel to wake up as the shit and the urine
Naaa, na, naaa
Tryna get that coke number. One over Jordan"

The flow is just crazy-catchy!

The hook hits again and after a little research, I find out that the sample for the chours is from M.I.A.'s Paper Planes. O.O!
And I find that Kayne is the one that produced it (no wonder he's first)

After that, I'm just like well who's next?

"[No one on the corner] got a bop like this
Can't wear skinny jeans cause my knots don't fit"

HOV is definitely in the building now!

Jigga's usual post-Black Album delivery is just in full force as he throws quotables like:

"But I can't teach you my swag
You can pay for school but you can't buy class
School of hard knocks I'm a grad
And that all blue Yankee is my graduation cap"

Ouch.

And... then.

Mr. Flavor of the Decade steps in...

"No one the corner got swagger like moi
Church. But I'm too clean for the choir"

Lil Wayne... is just a line factory (No coke)

I used to be a fond hater of Lil Wayne during the heyday of the Hot Boys, but now he's just has way to big of a persona to deny.

"Mami screams 'Papi. No mas
Run up in your shit. Just me. No mas
Running this shit like I got four thighs
No one got swag like these four guys"

True story.

All that is left now is T.I. himself.

The thing about T.I. is that you can just feel the drive and competitive nature that he has and has successfully utilized to be considered the best in the game. Period.

That being said... with all of this weight being thrown around on the track, he just goes Atlas on 'em with the verse of the year.

Yes, I said it... he had more swag than Yeezy, Weezy, AND the Big Homie.


"You go see Weezy for the wordplay,Jeezy for the birdplay
Kanyeezy for diversity and me for controversy
All my verses picture perfect and they meant to serve a purpose,
You ain't living what you kicking and you worthless
Looking from the surface it may seem that I got reason to be nervous
Then observe my work and see that my adversity was worth it
Verses autobiographical, absolutely classical
Last thing I'm worried 'bout is what another rapper do,
Ain't nobody hot as me
Even if they rap they ass off blast off and have outstanding qualities
Sell alotta records I respect and salute that
But spitting real life on hot beats I'm the truth at
You kick it like me no exaggeration necessary
Living revolutionary, nothing less than legendary
Gangsta shit hereditary, got it from my dad
Flow colder than February with extraordinary swag"

Even though he kinda ripped his flow from the enormously underrated Young Dro, you still gotta respect the fire that spits out in this soon to be cipher classic.