in Gun Ho City with Kool G Rap, who is Canibus talking about? it goes something like "I improvise, explode, synthesize flows, like ya favorite emcee with the wide nose"

in a youtube video it was a pic of KRS one that they put up when he said that but i dont know how legit that is.....so who is Canibus getting at?

him or that nigga jigga

I always took it as a jab at Jay-Z

krs

I WOULD SAY IT'S MORE JIGGA THAN KRS FOR THE FACT THAT BIS RESPECTS KRS

Krs nose looks like one of those big hersey kisses they sell during valentines day

+1

i dont see how its really a diss...he's sayin he basically synthesizes flows like KRS.

I thought he was talking about Shock G from Digital Underground.

"I'm twice as arrogant as KRS is" - Canibus

calling someone arrogant isn't a compliment

I agree with PP

more like a bellpepper nose

sounds like he is giving krs props. Exploding rhymes and all that is a plus

If anyone tells me to think of an MC with a wide or big nose, krs immediately comes in to my mind.
Jigga is more known for his big ass lips

How would Bis be dissing KRS by saying he's twice as arrogant? Bis is calling himself arrogant, so either it's a compliment or Bis is a masochist and hates himself.

I thought he said 'Twice as African as KRS is'.

The line is "Im twice as African as KRS is", 100 lyric websites will confirm that.

All those typical lyrics sites on the web usually link form one common source, so that's not really a viable source. But still, someone else thinks it's 'African' instead of 'arrogant'.

^ Um yes, its obvious...even when i 1st heard it back in 96/97 it was clear he said twice as African...heres an idea - Just listen to the song Beast from the East !!! Some of yall need to step your Hip-Hop up or at least clean the wax out of your ears...how can there be a Lyrical Analysis section when kats cant even comprehend basic Bis words from 12 years ago...

It's a KRS diss. And the real lyric is 'Twice as african as KRS is.'

Ok, lets just say KI is right, please help me understand this...

How can someone be twice as "AFRICAN" as somebody else?



It's no secret KRS1 is of African decent, but its also crystal clear that he is full of himself, so to me arrogant fits the bill. However I'm no expert like say, KI the professional beat maker and DJ, so please enlighten me with your wisdom. Thank you.

I didn't know shitty battle rappers such as myself couldn't form their own opinion of what a Canibus lyric is. LOL.

But thank you for the expert analysis of 2 nonexperts analyzing.

I just put on Beast From The East and looped the arrogant/african? line a few times...

IT'S DEFINITELY ARROGANT... if it's African, then the pronunciation sucks... KRS is knowledgeable, but sometimes one's opinion though shared by many people may come off sounding pompous and/or arrogant to others who may not agree fully, or not at all...

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also DO NOT TRUST LYRIC SITES.... I remember reading Curriculum 101 on ohhla.com when it was first 'unofficially' published and DEAR LORD the mistakes were just downright head scratchingly pathetic

Thank you. Anyone can submit lyrics to a site and sometime same file gets copied to other sites like Xprenn mentioned earlier. African makes no sense at all, if you think thats what it is, please do explain in detail.

i don't see how anyone could hear african lol

Its definitely arrogant. Take any program and slow down the tempo and you will hear it

Well, I could be wrong. And I usually am.

But I'm twice as jamaican as Canibus.

MC with the wide nose is KRS

AND

It's twice as arrogant

End of discussion.

This song came out before online lyric sites, i dont trust nothing but my ears...listening now...and now just as 12 years ago when i heard it he says African ! Me, X, Box say its african...but theres 3 saying its arrogant, odd.

LOL, I feel you KI but to me its crazy cause back then, before there was all these site with lyrics & forums, etc., no one I ever came across or any of my people thought it was African, it wasnt even question like, "what did he say there?" It wasnt till years later on the internet that I see people bring up African. I guess theres one way to end this debate is to ask the man himself, if he isnt feeling to arrogant to answer

It's arrognant because KRS got annoyed about that bar. A display of arrogance indeed.

He wouldn't get annoyed if Canibus said he was twice as african, neither would that make any sense.

KRS must've thought it was arrogant, too

this is the first time i'm hearing of anyone thinking he says african,you only have to hear the song once to know he says arrogant.

yes, african makes a whole lot of sense. for one thing, bis is jamaican. now, i know hes black and probably has roots in africa but when else has he ever called himself african? hes spoke about being jamaican tons of times though. also, someone who considers themselves twice as african as someone else would surely bring up the topic a tad more than once over 8 billion rhymes.

its no secrect krs is arrogant and his in those days was quite arrogant too. doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out arrogant fits.

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No, that makes too much sense. We need something to talk about till MM comes. I got it, you all were wrong, its "twice as ELEPHANT as KRS1"

Oh shit! I just listened to that line like 10 times in a row. It's definitely elephant!!! It makes perfect sense too!!

i think its elegant.

^isn't it arabic ?