Lebron James joins a growing list of celebrities and music critics to comment on DJ Khaled’s “GOD DID” album, particularly the title track, which features a 4-minute long verse from Jay-Z.

Taking to social media in response to an MSNBC dissection of the track, Lebron tweeted the piece with the caption: “Listen! Then listen again to make sure you got the point. HOV DID!!!! And so did the reporter! 🐐 TALK”

Jay-Z has replied to LeBron’s tweet about his highly publicised verse, in an uncommon tweet posted on Wednesday (Aug 31), writing: “My only goal is to make the real “ones” feel seen , forgive me that’s my passion talking ….. haa .”

In reponse to Lebron’s tweet, reporter Ari Melber tweeted a line from Hov’s verse, “Bron’s a Roc boy, so four, technically 🏀”

Hov utilises his personal narrative to reflect on the drug war, as Melber noted in his report on the four-minute poetry. From peddling narcotics on the streets to legally selling marijuana via his Monogram business.

Melber goes into detail on how the verse is “deep” and that the network has “interviewed many lawmakers who don’t come close to this level of nuance about drug policy.”

Listen to MSNBC’s breakdown of the verse below.

More emphasis has already been paid to Jay’s extended verse on the song than merely his discussion of the drug war. Young Guru, Hov’s longtime friend and collaborator, recently broke down a few of the key points from the verse in a video shared on social media.

With all the ongoing discussion about Hov’s verse, Genius’ Rob Markman jumped on a Twitter Spaces with Jay-Z, DJ Khaled, Ari Melber and more, where the two reflected on the journey of HipHop and the culture and also about his verse on Khaled’s “GOD DID.”

Markman made an observation that shows that that although rap music usually contained aspirations of the artists, in Hov’s case, many of his statements can be linked to reality.

Hov explained, “You gotta remember hip-hop was demonized when we first came out, and then we were underestimated. Like Khaled said, ‘They didn’t believe in us.’

Adding, “After they couldn’t get rid of us, they demonized us and they started driving tractors over our CDs and things like that. This is all history.”

In another statement, he said, “This, for me, feels like the end where the villain survives, doesn’t go to jail, but gets to pop more shit. … It’s that feeling, I don’t know if we’ve ever felt, ever been vocalized in this way and it be all true.”

Hov later remarked, “The thing that makes me most proud of everything, every word I said in that thing is actual fact. Which, you know, for me it’s a challenging thing to do. Like to rap that long and every single bar is like actual fact.”

Listen to full Twitter Spaces discussion below.

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