13. “No Church In The Wild”
Kanye West
Watch The Throne
Def Jam
Well Givenchy Kanye, you did it again. What makes this verse so impressive, is what happened leading up to it. At this time, this was the biggest album of the decade, and its summer once again, that season that other rapper guy named Carter said he’d never fail in. Jay goes, then Frank Ocean, then The Dream, and over the beat he fashioned with 88-Keys it was his turn to show why he too, would soon be considered the greatest of all time. And whether its witty phrases that would be used every weekend night for the rest of time “Sunglasses and Advil/last night was mad real”, or mind-boggling thought provokers “Coke on her black skin made her striped like a zebra/I call that jungle fever,” we’ll call Kanye on “No Church” signed, sealed and delivered Kanye.
