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Dynasty Freestyle

Dynasty Freestyle is a diss track by The Diplomats targeting Jay-Z. The recording also credits Cam’ron, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana. Cam'ron's conflict with Jay-Z grew out of Roc-A-Fella business tensions, Dipset's relationship with Damon Dash and competing accounts of who created opportunities for whom. The lyrics challenge Jay-Z's authorship, loyalty, fashion, executive record and claim to have made Cam wealthy.

Released2001
Annotated3
ExplicitYes
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Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro: Cam'ron]

    02

    Uhh, you already know who it is, right?

    03

    D-Rugs, Candyman, Bloodshed

    04

    You know what the math on that is, right?

    05

    Killa, bitch, huh

  2. 06

    Dipset, Harlem, Harlem...

    07

    It's almost back home, y'all

    08

    Jim Jones, Freekey Zekey

    09

    Ayo Santana, what is it, huh?

  3. 10

    [Verse 1: Juelz Santana]

    11

    Ayo, lately I've been going through some family matters

    12

    My mother keep telling me "family matters"

    13

    I got this attitude like, damn these matters

    14

    I'm grown now, I know how to handle matters

  4. 15

    Chrome four four handle magnums

    16

    In case he run and now I don't get a chance to grab 'em dog

    17

    I'll catch you while you parallel parkin'

    18

    Gun in each hand start parallel sparkin'

  5. 19

    Kill you and your man put y'all in parallel coffins

    Multi-line diss block
    20

    Yeah these big guns we riding with

    21

    And my clips stay wide and shit, the bullets stay the size of Twix

    22

    You don't wanna get popped with this

    Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction

    TargetJay-Z

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Kill you and your man put y'all in parallel coffins,” The Diplomats converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at Jay-Z. Why it was said: Cam'ron's conflict with Jay-Z grew out of Roc-A-Fella business tensions, Dipset's relationship with Damon Dash and competing accounts of who created opportunities for whom. The lyrics challenge Jay-Z's authorship, loyalty, fashion, executive record and claim to have made Cam wealthy. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts Jay-Z as unable to return for another round.

    ContextCam'ron's conflict with Jay-Z grew out of Roc-A-Fella business tensions, Dipset's relationship with Damon Dash and competing accounts of who created opportunities for whom. The lyrics challenge Jay-Z's authorship, loyalty, fashion, executive record and claim to have made Cam wealthy.

  6. 23

    Homeboy, so watch your lips

    Multi-line diss block
    24

    Y'all talk real tough but I know y'all very weak

    25

    You fucking with a ghetto beast that never sleeps

    26

    I don't need a hundred niggas to settle beef

    Block noteContrasts Jay's tough talk with Cam's self-reliance

    TargetJay-Z

    MeaningWhat it means: Cam'ron warns Jay-Z to control his words, calls the opposing side weak beneath its tough talk and says he does not need a hundred people to settle the dispute. Why it was said: Their conflict was entangled with Roc-A-Fella crews and executive alliances; Cam uses the size of Jay's network against him, presenting numerical power as dependence while casting himself as dangerous without institutional backup.

    ContextCam'ron's conflict with Jay-Z grew out of Roc-A-Fella business tensions, Dipset's relationship with Damon Dash and competing accounts of who created opportunities for whom. The lyrics challenge Jay-Z's authorship, loyalty, fashion, executive record and claim to have made Cam wealthy.

  7. 27

    Just my, arm and hand stretched out with that metal piece

    28

    Yeah, y'all laughing and think is a game

    29

    'Til I pop you and you leaking in pain

    30

    Or you in a casket and ya baby mom thinks it's a shame, faggot

  8. 31

    [Verse 2: Jim Jones]

    32

    Now I'ma have my mommy mad again

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    When she found out that I'm back to playing with these keys like Tommy Flanagan

    34

    And my girl said if I have to tell my man again

    35

    "If you end up in that can again, I'm through with your shenanigans"

  9. 36

    But I'm back on the corner and I'm panicking

    37

    With a big gun that'll have you stiffer than a mannequin

    38

    Shit is brain damaging

    39

    All this cocaine handling

  10. 40

    You can catch me on the corner crazy crispy with the chain dangling

    41

    And in the same way I'm running the clubs

    42

    Oh yeah dogs I'm one of those thugs

    43

    That's allowed and drunk pissy and blunted on drugs

  11. 44

    Shit, a hundred of Bloods my gun and my slugs

    45

    The way I be feeling y'all niggas want it then WHAAAT?

    46

    I had you pay the ultimate price

    47

    Like dealing with my vultures ain't nice

  12. 48

    They coming for them long chains and pieces that sculpted with ice

    49

    Just the same shit that sculpted my life

    50

    Ah fuck it man this culture ain't right

    51

    Some say I hopped out the Jag and the rag fell

  13. 52

    But I say when I hopped out the Jag did you know that the top of the rag fell

  14. 53

    [Verse 3: Cam'ron]

    54

    Killa, Killa

    55

    Harlem, Killa, uhh, uhh

    56

    Uhh, yo, ayo everybody out at the Up in Smoke tour

    57

    I was Uptown, gats out, up in coke wars

  15. 58

    Bootleg, gun shop, up in both stores

    Multi-line diss block
    59

    Both grip, both hands held both fours

    60

    Ups downs, highs lows, seen both doors

    61

    Die or to live, decisions are both yours

    Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction

    TargetJay-Z

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Die or to live, decisions are both yours,” The Diplomats converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at Jay-Z. Why it was said: Cam'ron's conflict with Jay-Z grew out of Roc-A-Fella business tensions, Dipset's relationship with Damon Dash and competing accounts of who created opportunities for whom. The lyrics challenge Jay-Z's authorship, loyalty, fashion, executive record and claim to have made Cam wealthy. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts Jay-Z as unable to return for another round.

    ContextCam'ron's conflict with Jay-Z grew out of Roc-A-Fella business tensions, Dipset's relationship with Damon Dash and competing accounts of who created opportunities for whom. The lyrics challenge Jay-Z's authorship, loyalty, fashion, executive record and claim to have made Cam wealthy.

  16. 62

    But two cats fronted, I broke both jaws

    63

    I'm with two chicks, you know I fucked both whores

    64

    Homicide, robbery, I broke both laws

    65

    I do you like food I assume you roast yours

  17. 66

    I been so poor, couldn't afford a condom had to go raw

    67

    Next day in the free clinic, oh Lord!

    68

    When you became a Willie? Is you insane or silly?

    69

    I will aim the milli, doggie at yo' brain for really

  18. 70

    It's not a game my nilly

    71

    I'ma do this 'til every last damn chain is chilly

    72

    How many came to kill me?

    73

    I hustle with Queef, her voice is real bitter

  19. 74

    She, fuck up my money, ain't no choice but to hit her

    75

    But she'll, loiter and litter 'til them boys come and get her

    76

    That's the difference in our money, six 6's to a figure

    77

    Hookers and hoodrats, using sex as a gimmick

  20. 78

    I got a tournament for handicap, Special Olympics

    79

    Next to the clinic, case one of they legs get dismembered

    80

    Last year wheelchair tipped, broke a neck he was injured

    81

    Want 100? Go the nerd way, perse

  21. 82

    Feds want niggas up in the birdcage for shit back in the 3rd grade

    83

    Lawyers see I made it back

    84

    Love to set up slay with tracks

    85

    NYPD tow truck, raise the rack, took it, gave it back

  22. 86

    Betrayed the fact they bugged the Jeep, seats, floors and light bulbs

    87

    So I had to change the Range up, and game up with these white thugs

    88

    Now on the tube, see the station

    89

    Me, Jimmy Iovine, give me my cream

  23. 90

    Shapiro, Peter Gatien, relation

    91

    Spot a club in L.A. just to touch it up

    92

    Then rug it up, thug it up, but name the club suck and fuck Whatever nigga, what is what, respect power, the set's ours

    93

    Two guns, be on news one, next hour, lead shower

  24. 94

    With weapons involved I kept a revolve'

    95

    Now a deluxe apartment, George Jefferson bar

    96

    I'm from where Nicky Barnes, Mr. Fritz got rich as fuck

    97

    Rich and A hit the kitchens then was pitchin' up

  25. 98

    Rob Base, Mase, Doug E. Fresh switched it up

    99

    I do both, who am I to fuck tradition up? Killa

  26. 100

    [Outro: Cam'ron]

    101

    Killa, Dipset

    102

    Harlem, huh, huh

    103

    Holla at ya dawg