JAY-Z Was Dissing Cam’ron On “Otis” This Entire Time

If anything illustrates just how slick JAY-Z‘s bars are, it’s how he subliminally jabbed Cam’ron on “Otis” without barely anyone realizing it for 15 years.

During the latest episode of his REVOLT series Talk With Flee, Killa Cam revealed that Hov quietly got at him on the Watch the Throne hit in response to him dissing Kanye West — a fact that had gone unnoticed by even the most diehard of Jigga fans.

“We had said some slick shit about Kanye one time,” he began, referencing his and Jim Jones‘ 2010 freestyle over Ye’s “Runaway” on which Cam rapped: “Kanye, you a sucka n*gga / Dissed Dame, so my attitude is fuck a n*gga / Suckin’ Jigga, how you gon’ live with that? / Took your beat, now come get it back.”

The Harlem rap legend then broke down the hidden meaning in Jay’s rhymes, making the link between his distribution deal with Asylum Records at the time and the “asylum” taunt in Hov’s second verse.

“[‘Otis’] came out probably a few months after we said something about Kanye,” Cam continued. “He said, ‘Live from the Mercer, run up on Yeezy the wrong way I might murk ya / Flee in the G450, I might surface / Political refugee, asylum can be purchased.’.”

(Sidebar: “Political refugee” could also be a subtle reference to the departure of Cam’ron’s Diplomats crew from Roc-A-Fella Records.)

Cam and his co-host Sen City couldn’t help but laugh at the cleverness of Jay’s bars, with both agreeing that he’s incredibly “slick.”