Jay-Z disses Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh in 'Off That' featuring Drake

Entertainment Weekly ^ | 8/24/09 | Simian Levinson

[pissant]

So you think you’re all cool and hip, huh? Well, you are not as cool as famous rappers Jay-Z or Drake — and you are certainly not as cool as Jay-Z and Drake together. This is the central thesis of “Off That,” the newly leaked Drake collab from Jay’s upcoming The Blueprint 3, and it’s hard to argue with. Just accept it: Whatever cutting-edge trends you think you’re inventing, Jigga and Drizzy already discarded as played-out years ago. Facts are facts.

The fizzy beat behind “Off That” comes from Timbaland; while he and Jay-Z have done more ground-breaking work in the past, those two are evidently still incapable of creating a bad track when they team up. Drake’s contributions to the song are limited to the hook, which he handles competently. And Jay? His ever-changing flow is on point as per usual, and he even sneaks a few smart lines into what is essentially a silly flossing anthem: “Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back/Tell Rush Limbaugh/To get off my balls/It’s 2010, not 1864!” I love party jams that come with stealthy political undertones, so I just about stood up and clapped when I heard that verse.

[pissant]

"They say black vs. white my nigga we off that/ please tell Bill O'Reilly to fall back/ tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls/ it's 2010 not 1864."

What a genius this guy is

[Joann37]

“Jay-Z or Drake”

Who? and Who?

I am so not cool.

[popdonnelly]

Jay-Z has no reason to fear Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. It’s just part of the demonization of people who don’t agree with the Left.

[ReneeLynn]

I wasn’t aware that Rush had a problem with Jay-Z or that other guy. Whatsamatter Jay-Z can’t take the heat Rush puts on your bro? Time for a Bo Snerdley rebuttal yo yo.

[bobby.223]

I’m not either, to old I guess. who the hell are these two?

[raybbr]

Simian Levinson

Written by a Jewish Ape?

[Sherman Logan]

"They say black vs. white my nigga we off that/ please tell Bill O'Reilly to fall back/ tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls/ it's 2010 not 1864."

Bill Shakespeare has finally been dethroned.

[kcvl]

I wonder if I can get them to 'diss' me too! I want on the list!

Next thing you know they will be lying dead in some ditch shot by another 'Rapper'. BIG DAMN DEAL! Live by the thuggery, die by the thuggery.

Has Obama had them at the White House yet for music appreciation?!

[a fool in paradise]

he even sneaks a few smart lines into what is essentially a silly flossing anthem:

Still look for the Smart.

Then again, reading this article made my head hurt too.

So this is the type of entertainment writer that finds a rap hit like that to be "politically smart".

[kenmcg]

One would think that critical comments from a jerk like Jay Zee, would be compliments to men like Rush & O’Reilly.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I love party jams that come with stealthy political undertones, so I just about stood up and clapped when I heard that verse.

I love it when rapper's stealthy political overtones make them look like illiterate, history-challenged, ijits.

[LeonardFMason]

I wouldn’t know either of these gentlemen if they were shining my shoes.

[a fool in paradise]

These dudes aren’t cool. Cool is eternal.

Jame Brown was and is cool. These turkeys are cool like Chic.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Jay-Z is mediocrity personified. He’s like Puff Daddy, but for an even dumber generation with even less discriminating taste. The man’s incapable of making two songs (and I use the word loosely) that don’t sound exactly alike.

I have no clue who the Drake fella is. He hasn’t been busted in the club wit a gat yet, so I haven’t heard of him.

And take heart... uncool is the new cool. Knowing who these nobodies are is no badge of honor.

[SandWMan]

I did not understand any of that.

Frankly, I don’t want to.

[popdonnelly]

How did Jay-Z make all his money? U.S. capitalism. It wasn’t socialism, and it wasn’t stimulus money.

[HIDEK6]

Like he even remembers 1864.

Or can tell you how long ago it was.

nowhudahmsay'n?

[windsorknot]

I have a problem taking seriously anything coming from one who calls himself “Jay-Z”.

[a fool in paradise]

So will this song fall under the “talk radio” rules when it gets played on the radio?

[NotSoModerate]

It’s 2010, not 1864!”

That's funny... In 1864 we were in the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln was re-elected, and the DEMOCRAT Party was trying to figure out how to surrender to the Union.

In 2010 we're in the middle of a war on terror, Obama is President, and the Democrats are trying to figure out how to surrender to the terrorists.

Some things never change.

[skinkinthegrass]

Jay-Z disses Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh in 'Off That' featuring Drake

RAP, rhymes with...C#@%.

[pburgh01]

Jay-Z showing up in the title of a FR thread, wow the liberals and urban vampire class are hurting for spokemen. Look at this mouth breather, he's a walking minstrel show, like a Trading Places movie that never ended. proves you can have a 98 IQ and use “I is” in everyday language and still make millions in America.

[Scanian]

Gee, if hip dudes like that think I’m a racist, it might be time to do some serious soul-searching. (s/o)

[coconutt2000]

Someone should educate these rappers that it was the Republican President Abraham Lincoln who signed the Emancipation Proclamation and that the party they are supporting is the one that was against emancipation and was against civil rights.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

[Maverick68]

Ready to get flamed again: There’s no such thing as “good rap”.
To me that’s like saying “tasty dog-turd”...

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Jay-Z Watts is a former congressman from Oklahoma.

Drake was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

I'm trying to be sensitive here by displaying as much historical and cultural knowledge as these two "artists".

[a fool in paradise]

He wants Rush Limbaugh to stop busting his ****s. This itself is a lie.

Rush has not weighed in on Mr. Jazzy or Gacy or whatever he wants to be ‘knowed’ as.

Several pages of google searching couldn’t produce a Rush vs. Jay-zee quote. Perhaps he needs to put up or STFU about being singled out by Rush.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I don’t know if either of these two class acts are aware that Rush Limbaugh has been deaf since 2001 and has never heard a Jay-Z or Drake “song” in his entire life.

[TigersEye]

Jay-Z? Isn’t that what women use to pee out of when there isn’t a bathroom?

[a fool in paradise]

Jackie Robinson was a Republican too.

Al Gore Sr. fillibustered the Civil Rights Act.

[krykel]

Not that it really matters much, but I figured I would point out that this “Drake” fella is a Toronto born actor. He got his ‘break’ starring in Degrassi: The Next Generation.

I’ve pretty much stopped listening to music anymore because of crap like this.

[krykel]

Ready to get flamed again: There’s no such thing as “good rap”. To me that’s like saying “tasty dog-turd”...

I normally agree with statements like that, but even though I don't like the music, I will give credit to the Young Cons for spreading the Conservative message via the 'rap artform'.

[faucetman]

These two guys are all we weed up

[aruanan]

I normally agree with statements like that, but even though I don't like the music, I will give credit to the Young Cons for spreading the Conservative message via the 'rap artform'.

Listen to Hip Hope 2009.

[a fool in paradise]

Weed Weed up?

[a fool in paradise]

Listen to James Brown DECADES ago who said “I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing Open Up The Door, I’ll Get It Myself”.

Even in the contemporary era, James Brown held to that view that too many in the black community weren’t being pro-active in changing their own lives, relying on government handouts instead.

He tried to a motivator encouraging kids not to drop out and not to get into drugs. Whatever faults he had he didn’t encourage others to emulate his bad behavior or brag about it.

[indylindy]

Who is a Jay-Z?

Rhymes with Laz-Z

[humblegunner]

Tell Rush Limbaugh/To get off my balls

Golf reference?

[webschooner]

Never heard of them ... but I presume they have a real problem with freedom (you gotta admit that is just plain weird ), and want to live in an oppressed land under a tyrannical leader ... as long as that leader has black skin.

[aruanan]

It’s funny, isn’t it, how much good stuff is out there that one usually doesn’t hear anything about in the mass media?

[reagan_fanatic]

those two are evidently still incapable of creating a bad track when they team up.

Almost lost my breakfast on that one.

Levinson needs to get up off his knees, flush out the earwax and go take a shower.

[abb]

Who? Are you sure you’re not making this up, pissant?

[SupplySider]

Listen to James Brown DECADES ago who said “I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing Open Up The Door, I’ll Get It Myself”. Even in the contemporary era, James Brown held to that view that too many in the black community weren’t being pro-active in changing their own lives, relying on government handouts instead. He tried to a motivator encouraging kids not to drop out and not to get into drugs. Whatever faults he had he didn’t encourage others to emulate his bad behavior or brag about it.

I saw James Brown in the sixties. He paused during the music and gave a heartfelt talk about the importance of staying in school. I read somewhere he did that often.

[TankerKC]

Note to JZ: "Limbaugh" and "balls" do NOT rhyme.

Ever.

[Rebelbase]

Why did this guy let Limbaugh near his balls in the first place? Is Jay-Z Gay?