Immortal Posse Cuts: Looking for Trouble

As part of Kanye’s free music giveaway program G.O.O.D. Friday’s, he released a track titled “Looking For Trouble” featuring a multitude of gifted rappers including Pusha T, CyHi da Prynce, Big Sean, and J Cole. It was officially released on November 5, 2010 as a download on Kanye’s official website. The order of rapper’s verses is as follows: Pusha T, Kanye, CyHi, Big Sean, and finally J Cole.

Pusha T starts off the track in dramatic fashion with the lines,

“All I see is black roses, drug dealer poses, shoveling that devil’s angel up they noses.”

Black roses are common symbols for death and the cause of death is explained in the following line. Devil’s angel is a synonym for cocaine, a dangerous substance which have led to many people’s death and demise.

Kanye goes off on a completely different subject in his next verse which is filled entirely with lyrics about his past with females. He talks about misogyny an attitude filled with hatred for women. Ye even goes on to explain an embarrassing past sexual escapade with the lines,

“Sometimes we lowered out standards at the colleges, so please don’t judge me, uh, for the followin’, fat bitches swallowin’, skinny bitches modelin’.”

Mr. West has obviously slept with some obese women in the past.

CyHi da Prynce, one of the newcomers to Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music label, deals an amazing 3rd verse to this incredible posse cut. His flow is on point, flawless, and his voice is extremely unique. It blends perfectly with the beat. His first eight bars might be the best lines in the whole song, in my opinion:

“Boy, we lookin’ for trouble, maybe if we wasn’t black, then we wouldn’t have struggled, player, all I got is trap niggas and crooks in my huddle, they cook and I smuggle, got twenty pounds of kush in the duffle, so I’m runnin’ through them circles, boy, I’m looking like Knuckles, look at my knuckles, got the hook in ‘cause niggas was looking, I’ve take some whooping, so trust me, dog, I’m good for a scuffle, don’t be mad I whooped your ass, ‘cause I’ve taken a couple.”

He starts off by saying mostly all blacks are born into poor socioeconomic conditions and that’s the reason they are “looking for trouble.” Drug dealing was a way of life for him, he is surrounded by “trap niggas and crooks” who cook the dope while he peddles them. He then has the courage to admit that he’s been in many fights and has lost a fair amount so you should not be pissed when he beats you up in a brawl.

Big Sean comes in next, also a member of G.O.O.D. music. He begins with a double-time flow, rapping incredibly fast about banging hot girls with “double D” breasts while smoking a lot of marijuana. One of his most clever lines is,

“I’m just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.”

Now that’s G shit! He doesn’t have time to accumulate “feelings” for females.

Lastly, Roc Nation up-and-coming artist J Cole delivers the final verse. It’s a tossup between him and CyHi for the best verse on this track. His verse is much longer then everybody else’s and mostly is very braggadocios. But the most thought-provoking and impressive rhymes comes at the end of the verse when the beat stops and he spits acapella,

“Check the young genius out, fuck the world, bust a nut, and let my semen sprout, I thought that real shit is what you been fiendin’ ‘bout, what you been praying fo’? What you been screamin’ ‘bout?, Ironic you been sleeping on the one that you been dreamin’ ‘bout.”

He is implying that everyone is searching and dreaming for the rap savior, while this entire time it’s been him and everyone hasn’t been paying much attention to him.

First “Immortal Posse Cut” of Carpe Diem. Who do you think has the best verse?