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Ova Here

By KRS-One · Targeting Nelly

Ova Here is a diss track by KRS-One targeting Nelly. KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

Released2002
Annotated2
ExplicitYes
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Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro]

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    First of all

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    I don't know who y'all saw on this stage before me (Alright)

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    I don't know who y'all are gonna see on this stage after me (True)

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    But this is real hip-hop

  2. 06

    Word up

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    I'm gonna find out tonight where the real hip-hop

  3. 08

    [Chorus]

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    The real hip hop is over here

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    The real hip hop is over here

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    The real hip hop is over here

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    The real hip hop is over here

  4. 13

    [Interlude]

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    Blaow-blaow, blaow-blaow

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    Clear 'em out, clear 'em out

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    Word

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    Yo, Nelly

  5. 18

    [Verse 1]

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    You ain't for real and you ain't universal

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    Your whole style sounds like an N'Sync commercial

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    Ignoramus, I'm the baddest with the mic apparatus

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    Challenging the God of rap is madness, I'll snatch your status

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    With this ugly look in the Billboard, you could stop them

    Multi-line diss block
    24

    But I got enough albums to make my own top ten

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    You limited, like the speed of traffic

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    You bite my style off the radio, so when you speak it back, I hear the static

    Block noteUses career results as evidence

    TargetNelly

    MeaningWhat it means: In “With this ugly look in the Billboard, you could stop them,” KRS-One turns releases, sales, label standing, or career momentum into a public measurement of Nelly's position. Why it was said: KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition. The artist invokes an external scoreboard so listeners can compare Nelly's claims with visible results, making status something that can be disproved rather than merely debated.

    ContextKRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

  7. 27

    You better Chillout like Chuck, I kick like three Norrises

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    One of my sixteen-bar rhymes is eight of your choruses

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    Of course it is ridiculous

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    Watch out, I be in the club inconspicuous

  8. 31

    Got ya on your hands and knees

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    Ain't it about time for some real emcees?

  9. 33

    [Chorus]

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    The real hip hop is over here

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    The real hip hop is over here

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    The real hip hop is over here

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    The real hip hop is over here

  10. 38

    [Verse 2]

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    We on the hunt tonight

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    When you see me coming, I don't front, I fight

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    People say I'm contradictory

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    'Cause I'm all about peace, to say the least, with a violent history

  11. 43

    It ain't no mystery, these rappers wanna get with me

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    My people don't see that all they hear is "Stop hittin' me!

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    Stop beatin' me, Kris!"

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    You want to help my career, Nelly? Well, you can help if you don't exist

    Block noteUses career results as evidence

    TargetNelly

    MeaningWhat it means: In “You want to help my career, Nelly? Well, you can help if you don't exist,” KRS-One turns releases, sales, label standing, or career momentum into a public measurement of Nelly's position. Why it was said: KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition. The artist invokes an external scoreboard so listeners can compare Nelly's claims with visible results, making status something that can be disproved rather than merely debated.

    ContextKRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

  12. 47

    I think it's 'bout time we stop these pop rappers

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    Fuck these pop rappers, hip-hop does matter to me

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    Does it matter to you, my crew?

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    If it does, you know what the hell to do

  13. 51

    Throw your guns in the air, pump it like "Yeah"

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    Let these bitch-ass rappers know we in here

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    Go to the shows, huh, boo 'em off stage

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    Tell 'em KRS told you they're at the end of they days

  14. 55

    Let me tell you, let's give hip-hop a lift

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    And don't buy Nelly's album on June 25th

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    That'll send a message back to all them sellouts

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    House nigga rapper, your bottom done fell out

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    You don't even know how

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    I told you I wasn't talking about you then, but I'm talking about you now

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    Blaow, one to the knees, blaow

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    One goes right through

  16. 63

    Even St. Louis don't like you