1. Cézsar wrote:

Black Thought got this one.

2. DCI74 wrote:

Black Thought in a landslide.

3. ~JJG~ wrote:

Black Thought. . .sshhh don’t tell Mos.

4. zak wrote:

I say Black Thought, (props for name dropping Phyllis Hyman) but I don’t know about a landslide. All of ‘em were pretty tight.

5. Mrs. Rivers wrote:

as much as i hate eminem, white boy can rap! lol
i have to agree with the rest of the group. Black Thought killed it!

6. Word wrote:

Can’t really choose. They all came ill.

7. Seely wrote:

Okay. I can’t pick a winner. I love how Mos brings the levity effortlessly, and Black is just an insane lyricist. What I did notice, was that of all three, Em was the only one who used profanity….and he kept talkin’ bout his penis. It wasn’t nuthin but dudes in that cypher!! Why for?!?!

8. Andre wrote:

Black Thought got this round, but the line when Em talked about Obama, Osama, the Dali Lama and Knight in shining armor was ridiculous!

9. DCI74 wrote:

zak the reason why I said Tariq in a landslide is because his verse is the only one I haven’t heard before. Mos Def’s verse is from Brooklyn Go Hard and Em’s is from a mixtape. Granted they all sounded dope but for me Thought took the cake with ease.

10. zak wrote:

That I didn’t know. Been out of the mix tape game for a minute. I was wondering the spontaneity of the lyrics, though. DC, you’re my man. Word to your mom.

11. DCI74 wrote:

Lol truth is zak I am out of the mixtape game too but I still get the occasional hot garbage handed my way.

12. Dumi wrote:

there’s a clear philly bias on this blog i saw black thought drop that verse at a Roots jam session at the Hammerstein a couple months back, well at least parts of it for sure.

13. msday wrote:

Black thought

14. CROATIAN PIMP wrote:

BLACK THOUGHT I THINK WON

I DONT LIKE EMINEM KUZ ALL HE DO IS BITCH I MEAN TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A DRAMA QUEEN IN ALL HIS RAPS

15. CROATIAN PIMP wrote:

I THINK GANG STARR SHOULD B UP ON THIS SHIT

GANG STARR ONE OF THE BEST FROM THE EAST IF NOT THE BEST

16. MLL wrote:

I think Eminem was being nice. He $h!t all over everybody in “Forever”, including Lil Wayne. The first time I heard his verse in that song, it roused me out of my sleep (fell asleep with the TV on).