With over 60 unique verses, the highly-anticipated Dreamville album brought out some of the most inspired verses of 2019.
The following rankings were compiled through a two-days long process, involving an initial number rating(1-10) and a subrating(high,mid,low). For example, T.I.'s verse on 'Ladies, Ladies,Ladies' received a score of mid-7. Spoiler. Once, the verses were grouped by ratings, each grouping was ranked from best to worst and so on, until the end result of this article could be made. All of this occurred after a week of listening to 'Revenge of the Dreamers III' front-to-back—a rough estimate of 20-25 listens.
All verses, excluding the ones from "Wells Fargo", were included. Lastly, before kicking off the review, it's worth noting that the lowest rated verse on the project was a low-5, making even the lower ranked verses from the project likely better than most of what has come out this year.
58.)Buddy on "Don't Hit Me Right Now"
Highlight: "I got ten toes on the pavement/But my mind is in orbit, gorgeous"
57.) Young Baby Tate on "Don't Hit Me Right Now"
Highlight: N/A
56.) Smokepurpp on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "Got your baby mama doing drugs in the moshpit"
55.) Cozz on "Don't Hit Me Right Now"
Highlight: "I say a prayer to bless mine/This ain't a quiz, don't test mine"
54.) Young Nudy on "Down Bad"
Highlight: "Yeah, I am the king of the E.A./Get this bitch screwed like the DJ (Big slime)"
53.) Reason and Cozz on "Lambo Truck"
Highlight: "Look, let's make a deal/While I go and rob Cole, you go rob Top"
52.) Smino on "1993"
Highlight: "The fuck is my water? I pick this shit up/Then drank all the water and threw this shit up"
51.) Bas and Guapdad 400 on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "Salt in the wound and my heart in the cooler/Frozen like I gave my heart to my jeweler"
50.) Vince Staple on "Rembrandt...Run It Back"
Highlight:"Snuck my gun in the function/I bust, he not coming back"
49.)Ty Dolla $ign on "Got Me"
Highlight: "We done done enough talkin'/Take your time, let you do what you do"
48.) J Cole on "1993"
Highlight:"If I smoke a blunt right now/I'ma be on 285 with my pants pulled down"
47.) Reese LAFLARE on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "I got big dreams so my watch got a big face/Girls get messy like a motherfuckin' mixtape"
46.) Bas on "Don't Hit Me Right Now"
Highlight: "I wear the sheepskin but I am the wolf/I am the poster-child/Finessing the lion that's posing in clothing and lying"
45.) Ski Mask on Costa Rica
Highlight: "And I conquer and let it burn like Usher's perm and kill confirmed"
44.) Ari Lennox on "Got Me"
Highlight: "Who you know can come through and get it right like this? Call me when you need me"
43.) Baby Rose on "Self Love"
Highlight: "Tired of all this faking/Wearing all of this makeup/And meanwhile feeling complacent/Fitting in, feeling basic"
42.) Reason on "Lambo Truck"
Highlight: "Drink some Jamie, I can't see straight/Cheese like Green Bay, roger that"
41.) Doctur Dot on "Swivel"
Highlight: "Rappers hella fake, they papier-mâché/Like piñata, they can't wait to break"
40.) JID on "1993"
Highlight: "I threw up after my threesomeOn my threads, had to leave the crime scene like criminals doShe wanna come to my crib and give me a genital smooch"
39.) TI on "Ladies, Ladies, Ladies"
Highlight: "Lame to me, half of these bitches, laugh at these bitches'Til the point you go on IG and you can rap for these bitchesNot to say I wouldn't tackle these bitches"
38.) Johnny Venus on "Down Bad"
Highlight: "Spend my time makin' love to your thoughts/Gon' get in line, baby, slut up your mind/It's a brand new season, I'm a righteous heathen"
37.) Cozz on "1993"
Highlight: "Always fight with my mama, but look, on my leave nightI'll call her, when I'm a baller, I promise that I'ma score youUntil then, I'ma ignore you"
36.) Omen on "Got Me"
Highlight: "Bottom of your shoes make a nigga think you Piru/Used to have the blues, but too prideful/To show you everythingI could be myself around you"
35.) Young Nudy on "Sunset"
Highlight: "Paradise East, from the bricks, yeah, they made me/Nigga wanna hate, gettin' money, say I'm crazy (Okay)"
34.) Mereba on "PTSD"
Highlight: "You the missing piece, no peace when I sleep now/Used to practice peace, finna sleep with the piece now"
33.) Doctur Dot on "1993"
Highlight: "Sittin' sideways, side steppin' side bitches/Side eyes, light skin, need stitches, mind your business"
32.) Bas on "Down Bad"
Highlight: "Who going crazy like us? No comparison/Dreamville like Marion Jones on the steroids"
31.) JID on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "Shawty said I be wildin' and trippin' when I'm on a lick/Score a penny or twenty, I'm Dominique Wilkins and shit"
30.) Bas on "Self Love"
Highlight: "You growing irate/Stuck in the door of my state/I carry my Gemini traits/I bury my face/Shameful hands, took your hand/Led you astray, as you would say"
29.) Lute on "Sleep Deprived"
Highlight: "Signed my first deal off the realest shit I wrote/I told my city I'm the closest thing to hope/Used to be barely above water, now I float/Same bitches in my DM's used to take me for a joke"
28.) Jace on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "Got the Mike Jack' nose, just before the vitiligo/Norman Bates with the eights, I'ma go psycho/Laundromat with a temper, this a vicious cycle"
27.) Ari Lennox on "Self Love"
Highlight: "Tired of being normal/Tired of being forced in/Tied up in the moment/I'm leaving with outer purpose/Wearing it on the surface"
26.) J Cole's Second Verse on "Middle Child"
Highlight: "We coming from a long bloodline of trauma/We raised by our mamas, Lord we gotta heal/We hurting our sisters, the babies as well/We killing our brothers, they poisoned the well"
25.) Mez on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "The things in the mirror, the way they appear/You look to the rear, my niggas is near, my niggas revered/You fuckin' with Mez, you fuckin' with Heirs, nigga"
24.) J Cole on "Sunset"
Highlight: "I was off Cumberland Road when a couple of niggas mistook me for somebody else/I put the pedal to metal when I seen the muzzle, I couldn't help but think to myself/Boy, keep your ass in the house, the city is bad for your health"
23.)Buddy on "Costa Rica"
Highlight: "Suffering succotash/She think it's all puddycat but, hell, I ain't even mad/I started sucking on her titty, put my thumb in her ass/She had a little one, it really wasn't nothin' to grab, I did it anyway"
22.) Omen on "Sleep Deprived"
Highlight: "Turn into a big deal, but way realer than Black Friday/They let a visionary vibrate/Hoppin' through the Tri-State/I got this bird box simply off a blind date"
21.) Smino on "Sacrifices"
Highlight: "It's astigmatism, you got poor sight (Poor sight)Let the bitches forget it, I do it Alzheim'"
20.) Mez on "Sleep Deprived"
Highlight: "Money gon' help with a lot of things but not the trauma though/Had so many adventure times, we used to run from the jakes/To make it for Southside, we do whatever it takes/It was apartheid when my barber parted my fade'/Cause now I'm pulled left and right by Keshia and Adrinae"
19.) Cozz on "Lambo Truck"
Highlight: "Lookin' great but feeling bummy/I just ate, but still I'm hungry/I got something, but I ain't nothing/Brother tummy isn't chubby/Bills like nymphos, they keep coming"
18.) J Cole's First Verse on "Middle Child"
Highlight: "It won't be for clout, it won't be for fame/It won't be 'cause my shit ain't sellin' the same/It won't be to sell you my latest lil' sneakers/It won't be 'cause some nigga slid in my lane"
17.) Omen on "PTSD"
Highlight: "My sister was homeless, don't visit her often/Been years since we talked, number changed/Saw you and my heart broke in a couple ways/I can't believe when I seen you, I knew shit was true/Stared in your eyes and I saw a different you"
16.) JID on "Down Bad"
Highlight: "Let a nigga cover FADER 'fore I have to fade a nigga at the FADER Fort"
15.) J Cole on "Down Bad"
Highlight: "That poverty stains kept the pain buried/And covered the shame with a dream/We would have fortune and fame"
14.) J Cole on "Rembrandt...Run It Back"
Highlight: "Line 'em up on the wall, three deep, final call/Knee-deep, squeeze three, beep beep, Tylenol/Pulled up one deep, no squad, just me/Just God, no prob’, real niggas tend to fuck with me"
13.) Johnny Venus on "Sacrifices"
Highlight: "That nigga back from the dead, yeah/I don't know, I don't know, I don't know/Nigga almost lost his head, yeah/Try to run, try to fly, try to float"
12.) Saba on "Sacrifices"
Highlight: "How I'm the dropout major/Success stories, I favor/Used to cover my scars, out here tryna cover The Fader/Yeah, Pro Tools, knobs, and the faders"
11.) Johhny Venus on "Swivel"
Highlight: "Shit it wasn't nice, wasn't paradise/Wasn't lights back to back to back, many nights was on our own/Mama had to work, papa had three jobs/No, we not Jamaican, my sir, but we all was robbed"
10.) JID on "Rembrandt...Run It Back"
Highlight: "I leave, come backThis fall, diss all y'all niggas I came up with/My, what a bit of a change up/These niggas lame, we in minimal danger/I got the banger, just give me the next/My nigga put me in the game and I'm ready to flame, I'm anxious"
9.) J Cole on "Under The Sun"
Highlight: "This ain't no kennel, behave/Niggas is with all that barking, we send 'em a stray/So in a way we the dogcatchersHow many bullets your dawg catchin'?Sawed-off, raw dog fashion"
8.) Maxo Kream on "Oh Wow...Swerve"
Highlight: "Southwest Murder Block Crips, we don't die, we multiply (Crip)/Maxo talk a lot of shit but is he really 'bout that life? (Say what?)Is a pig's pussy pork and can a caterpillar fly? (That's right)"
7.) Lute on "Under The Sun"
Highlight: "Pistol grips get to squeezing/Wish a nigga would like Liam Neeson/I don’t even need a reason, loyalty over treason"
6.) JID on "Ladies, Ladies, Ladies"
Highlight: "I knew a girl from Jersey who use to love Donny Hathaway/And she was from Piscataway/Her brother pulled a gun on me, she told him "Put the gat away"/I was tapping that ass, I'll never forget the Saturday"
5.) J Cole on "Oh Wow...Swerve"
Highlight: "And I feel like the world is ending soon/Is there any good or bad? Well that's depending on you/And if you wake up in timeI know it's better to be sleep, that's why we hate the alarm"
4.) Da Baby on "Under The Sun"
Highlight: "Wanna fight but he bigger, I ain't really trippin'/Reach under my shirt, grab a bigger tool/I got a Glock with a dick, let's get physical/They gon' be hollerin' out, "Rip," and they missin' you/They got me started, I might as well finish it (Talk your shit, nigga)I'm from Charlotte, you know how these niggas do(Baby)"
3.) Deante' Hitchcock on "PTSD"
Highlight: "If I ever changed, I'm numb to it now, I don't feel the same/A slave to the feeling, I'm breaking the chains/Tryna balance out the joy, the pain, the sun, the rain/My life and the fame, done lost the game/The guilt, the shame, my skin, my veins/My soul done rained so much on my heart/Really I don't know where to start/The irony of finding self in the dark"
2.) Dreezy on "Got Me"
Highlight: "Master satin sheets grippin', sex that'll have your teeth grittin'/How I end up at your crib? Marijuana decisions(I was high)A freak for you, ATL, he got my peach drippin'/But you know it's a lie if somebody say that they caught me slippin' (Lies)"
1.) J Cole on "Sacrifices"
Highlight: "She gave me the gift of my son, and plus we got one on the wayShe gave me a family to love, for that, I can never repayI'm crying while writing these words, the tears, they feel good on my face"
Feel free to agree or disagree in the comments, if any verse is too high or low in your opinion.