Listened to Lupe Fiasco's 'He Say She Say' and was reminded of the fact that this song starts from the perspective of a parent or adult observing the main character btu then the second part is the main character repeating each line from the first but the perspective has switched to first person.

Then I was reminded of Kendrick Lamar's 'FEAR' where it's a three part story of Kendrick as a kid, a teenager and an adult.


What else matches that style of storytelling?

I want to say Nas' 'I gave you power' but thats still first person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DO5SeHQa7g

That one was front of mind when I was writing the post and I forgot to include it.

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Along that similar type of song, Del has that song Worldwide where he raps with himself with his voice sped up as a Unicorn just like Biggie in Gimme The Loot.

Did Madlib have any songs with himself and Quasimoto on the same time?

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Edit - i guess it's two different MCs doing first person accounts of the same event, rashomon style. So not sure if that qualifies under the original posts definition. Still, interesting storytelling.

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Lol

Largely because it surprised the shit out of me.

But also largely because it's very fucking good.

It's three different perspectives, but also three different rappers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmaHHDQ4UHs

https://genius.com/Denzel-curry-sick-and-tired-lyrics

1st verse is the from the perspective of the robber, 2nd is the from the perspective of the victim

those two popped off top but there's a grip in the "art of storytelling" block

"Stray Bullet" qualifies as well.

I was gonna mention those as well (especially "Stray Bullet") but what I got from the OP was that they wanted more of a back & forth, sorta like a discourse or exchange or whatever

...even though "Hate" really isn't that, so my bad

I'm pretty sure each verse is the perspective of a different person, but if not neither of them is from Jay's

"Hookers on the Point"

Three verses, first verse is a third person description of the street walker, next two are first person take place from the perspective of the pimp and the john. Ignore the video because as usual he plays it up for giggles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EONhJ9qvCPY

Made me re-evaluate him as an MC, even though he's done nothing nearly as woke/witty

https://youtu.be/VNborAlc7UA

Still trips me out that he was the female in that song.

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Maybe not point of view but setting, time, and convo flow make these definitely count

This was the first songs I thought about as soon as I read the post.

"Clear Blue Skies": https://youtu.be/9mMfavxyFUI

does this count?

I know each part features a different main rapper, but the first part a de la emcee plays a customer and in the 2nd, it's the cashier.

Ghostface has an argument with his watch and the watch disses Ghost’s status in the rap.

Around this time Ghost could do no wrong. He was constantly coming up with weird concepts.

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i really wish there was an animated video for this

Thought starts off in third person and switches to first person