On that note, Banks sets it off with a whirlwind flow scheme, his dexterity commanding rapt attention. “The audacity it takes to rank me with the style I invented,” he raps. “Wear my credentials like it’s jewelry, they gave my flowers cemented / to hell with honorable mentions, artists are comical, temptin’ / horrible albums, new ventin’, three pounds of vomit, who sent ’em?”

Tasked with the unenviable job of following Banks, Gibbs is more than capable of keeping stride. Matching the PLK’s intensity while his menacing bars are enhanced by the dark instrumental, Gibbs is absolutely relentless in his brutal imagery. “Kitchen full of powder, I turn my bitch to a powderhead,” he spits. “Ni*gas takin’ deals, that’s the only way you get out the feds / Castrated, dick in his fuckin’ mouth when they found him dead.”

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QUOTABLE LYRICS

The audacity it takes to rank me with the style I invented
Wear my credentials like it’s jewelry, they gave my flowers cemented
To hell with honorable mentions, artists are comical, temptin’
Horrible albums, new ventin’, three pounds of vomit, who sent ’em?