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J Clone

J Clone is a diss track by Canibus targeting J. Cole. The recording also credits Born Sun and C0mpl3x. The supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent.

Released2011
Annotated1
ExplicitYes
Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    C0mpl3x yessir!

    02

    Run program MC163..

    03

    Downloading Musical combat!

    04

    Input variable: J Cole

  2. 05

    Input succesful, initializing J Clone

  3. 06

    [C0mpl3x]

    07

    J Cole AKA Jermaine Clone

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    Known for type-styling a stereotype flow

    09

    J Cole AKA Jermaine Clone

    10

    Known for type-styling a stereotype flow

  4. 11

    [C0mpl3x]

    12

    M.L. King had a dream, Benjamin Franklin had a key

    13

    Complex had the illest programmer ever: me!

  5. 14

    "This is my favorite rapper of all time"

  6. 15

    [Verse 1: Born Sun]

    16

    Anakin brandishing hammers in the Radison

    17

    Sharpshooting savages, Madison and Aderson

    18

    Beat beats and banish him, damaging challengers

    19

    Use the Sword of Excalibur to smash the Mayan calendar

  7. 20

    Burn down the Vatican, cover the ____

    21

    Wolf the sheep we fabric we're Being John Malkovich

    22

    Spoke to me in Arabic, couldn't understand his shit

    23

    Spoke back to him in African, the nigga dropped his hands and shit

  8. 24

    Told you something ravenous, microphone master shit

    25

    Clones get out of line, Sun duke they're gonna handle it

    26

    Psychopath, maniacal laugh, one was flying too fast

    27

    Two-faced assassin behind two masks

  9. 28

    First place reserved for last, my first verse is mad

    29

    My second verse removed the earth from grass

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    The sunburst blasts: it's not fair

    31

    I only take cash you get the fuck out my cab

  10. 32

    Post-millennium with Libyans on a sybian

    33

    I'm in my robe feeling this here is a mercy killing

    34

    Take both hands break the planet in half

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    Then resculpture the plaster to resemble the master

  11. 36

    Total disaster, I'll mob in a flash

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    J Clone, I rhyme son, balderdash!

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    Invite you to math, cypher in the middle of class

    39

    Look at my badge, son, license is ?

  12. 40

    [C0mpl3x]

    41

    You know terra firma the island

    42

    Terrorizing emcees Because I fucking feel like it

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    Most righteous exhaling nitrus on the night watch shift

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    The real watchmen on the their hip hop shit

  13. 45

    [Hook: C0mpl3x]

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    Everybody knows Cole, aka Jermaine Clone

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    Known for type-styling and stereotype flowin

    48

    Everybody knows Cole, aka Jermaine Clone

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    Known for type-styling and stereotype flowin

  14. 50

    "Soon as you move I'm dooming you!"

  15. 51

    [Canibus]

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    Night owl, broke his wings but he still climbed out

    53

    Ate that rat inside out, let me find out

    54

    Look up in the sky and cry out what I'm about

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    Before we start, there's a couple things we gotta iron out

  16. 56

    Hip Hop scalding hot, don't care who know my name and not

    57

    I chose to kill a microphone on the block

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    Double barrel apparel, pull back and cock it

    59

    Collaborate that, where the fuck is the deposit?

  17. 60

    If it ain't a threat, then it must be a promise

    61

    You said my name so much, they think you being honest

    62

    It's more than that, we could've recorded a track

    63

    You could give me a stack for a verse just like that

  18. 64

    I don't know what's worse: AIDS or cancer

    Multi-line diss block
    65

    Your stupid ass questions or your stupid ass answers

    66

    J. Clone, nice to meet you, the names Rip the Jacker

    67

    Let me introduce you to the master

    Block noteQuestions the target's judgment

    TargetJ. Cole

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Your stupid ass questions or your stupid ass answers,” Canibus characterizes J. Cole as unintelligent, careless, or unable to understand the situation being addressed. Why it was said: The supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent. The insult makes the target's decisions part of the evidence: a poor response can be framed not as strategy, but as proof that J. Cole never understood the contest.

    ContextThe supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent.

  19. 68

    [C0mpl3x PLOO verse]