The Greatest Rap Lines of All Time A random, capricious list
Despite hip-hop being one of the most popular musical genres, it noticeably lacks defenders among the political intelligentsia. Conservatives clearly despise rap music, and even the liberals join them in parent-pleasing indictments of the social degeneration Luda and Em have wrought. Is the establishment is simply afraid of rap, or have they simply never had the pleasure of growing up with Tupac? Undeterred by this puritan opposition, PI unequivocally supports the existence, popularity, quality and artistic value of hip-hop music.
Hip-hop, in its brilliance, merges lyrical modernized poetry with beats inspired from nearly every genre of modern music. The rapper thus performs two distinct duties in his songs. First, his voice must function as a musical instrument. Rather than a melodic effect, as in traditional music, the voice acquires a rhythmic quality. It becomes part of the beat of the song.
Second, the words afford him creativity. Constrained within few (if any) constraints of poetry, beyond rhyming requirements, rappers creatively discuss and describe every aspect of society. The most talented rappers draw from the most seemingly obscure cultural and musical references and modify inflections and pronunciations to enhance the beat and/or lyrical value.
This is PI's subjective and inchoate list of the top rap lines of all time. The rhymes range from facetiously lascivious to brilliantly introspective. To better understand the music, one must understand its talents.
Obviously, the citation of well-worded and creatively phrased lines does not necessarily indicate support for the subject matter. Nor does it imply that we have knowledge of or identification with the hip-hop lifestyle, or that we condone any violence and/or sexual promiscuity suggested within the lyrics. This principle should be obvious to anyone who appreciates "Imagine" and yet isn't a hippie socialist.
That being said, we enthusiatically support the social value of rap. We have no patience for the present-day Maoists who attempt to legislate their atavistic preferences for a utopian society. Art forms do not need innocuous subject matter to be regarded as art forms. As such, we recognize hip-hop for what it is - and celebrate it in turn.
50 Cent - Straight to the Bank
When I'm out in NY, boys, blunts and Phillies
When I'm out in LA, boys, wraps and Swishers
I'm in my Lambo, maggot
My fo-fo, faggot
Doors flip up, I'm like "Go, go gadget!"
See this shit I got on? Homie, I'd hate too
My teflon on, boy, my government issue
I hit your vertebra, bullet ripped through the tissue
Your wife on the futon, huggin her Shitzu
Homie, you a bitch, you got feminine ways
Heard you got four lips and bleed for seven days
I got four fifths and bananas on the case
I got more whips than a runaway slave
Me and Yayo go back like so hard tough days
When I made 50 mil, Em got paid
When I made 60 mil, Dre got paid
When I made 80 mil, Jimmy got paid
I 'aint even gotta rap
Now life is made
Said I 'aint even gotta rap
I'm filthy, man
Blackalicious - A to G
[Sampled woman's voice] We're going to learn to hear words with vowel "A" sound....Listen with care
I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries
All-seeing abstract, analyze everything
Adding on, absolutely abolishing
Average amateurs' arsenal - just astonishing
[Sampled woman's voice] Next, we'll learn words that begin with letter "B"
I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully back
Better bring a bomb to the battlefield
Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom
Basically build barriers bewildering buffoons
[Sampled woman's voice] Listen now to words that begin with letter "C"
Crazy character, constantly creating conconctions
Catalyst, a cannabalistic rhymes conqueror
Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down
Consistent capacity
[Sampled woman's voice] Next we'll hear words that start with letter "D"
Done did that done did this diddle don
Domination don't dignify diction
Doin' it deep down dialect daring
Doomsday dut devastate during the duration
[Sampled woman's voice] Listen to our song for vowel "E"
Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless
Eons of energy, everyone affected
Efficiently epitomize excellent
Extravagant elevate where the essence is
[Sampled woman's voice] "F" is the letter with which these words begin
Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally
Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me
Niggaz fall frequently, fact
Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin' all of this wack shit
Blueprint - Final Frontier (RJD2)
Soul positionin'
Sole possession of poll position
Hold your breath and listen
While I resurrect these twenty-six letters
A lesson to beginners that tend to pale in comparison
You're not ill
And if you are, my notepad's full of medicine
Plus my freestyle is Excedrin
Take two hours and call me back with a new style
And show me you're prepared for the final frontier
Chali 2na - Full Contact (Swollen Members)
Rattle in your collapsed ear
Settin' traps here
Kickin' raps clear
Hop in your lap, dear
Yeah,
verbal pap smear
...
I control your laughter
A voice more powerful than your pastor
Rappin' sweeter than three liters of Shasta
Common - The Light
I never knew a love like this
Gotta be somethin', for me to write this
Queen, I ain't seen you in a minute
Wrote this letter, and finally decide to send it
Signed, sealed, delivered for us to grow together
Love has no limit, let's spend it slow forever
I know your heart is weathered by what studs did to you
I ain't gon' assault em, 'cause I probably did it too
Because of you, feelings I handle with care
Some niggaz recognize the light, but they can't handle the glare
You know I ain't the type to walk around with matchin' shirts
If relationship is effort, I will match your work
I wanna be the one to make you happiest, it hurts you the most
They say the end is near, it's important that we close to the Most High
Regardless of what happens, on Him let's rely
...
It's important we communicate
and tune the fate of this union to the right pitch
I never call you my bitch or even my boo
There's so much in a name and so much more in you
Few understand the union of woman and man
And sex and a tingle is where they assume that it land
But that's fly by night for you and the sky I write
For in these cold Chi night's moon, you my light
If Heaven had a height, you would be that tall
Ghetto to coffee shop, through you I see that all
Let's stick to understandin' and we won't fall
For better or worse times, I hope to me you call
So I pray everyday more than anything
Friends we'll stay as we begin to lay
This foundation for a family; love ain't simple
Why can't it be anything worth having you work at annually?
Granted we known each other for some time
It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine
...
My heart's dictionary defines you, it's love and happiness
Truthfully it's hard tryin' to practice abstinence
The time we committed love it was real good
Had to be for me to arrive and it still feel good
I know the sex ain't gon' keep you
But as my equal, it's how I must treat you
As my reflection in light, I'ma lead you
And whatever's right, I'ma feed you
I'll tell you the rest when I see you, peace
Common - Get 'Em High (Kanye West)
Real rappers is hard to find like a remote control
But
rap is not a used-to
Still got love, that's why I abuse you who are not thugs
How could I ever let your words affect me?
They say Hip-Hop is dead
I'm here to resurrect me
Mosh is too sexy to even make songs like these
That's why the broad don't know your name, like Alicia Keys
To many featured MCs, and producers is popula'
Twelve thousand spins, nobody got to coppin' tha
Album, how come? You the hot garbager
The years clear your image and snooped up
Label got you souped up, tellin you you sick
Man, you a dick with a loose nut
Video hard to watch like Medusa
Even your club record need a booster
Chimped up, with a pimp cup, illiterate nigga
Read the infa, red across your head I'm bread king like Simba
Bolder then Denver
I ain't a mad rapper, just an MC with a temper
Common - Sixth Sense
The Common Sense in me remembers the basement
I'm Morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix, exposing fake shit
De La Soul - Trying People
The skies over your head 'aint safe no more
And hip-hop aint your home
And if it is, then you fuckin' up the crib, son
Diamond D - Feedback (Akrobatik)
Yes, yes, ya'll, so fresh, ya'll
Stan Smith green and white suede mesh, ya'll
Strapped up at a function with a vest, ya'll
On a king size bed I make a mess, ya'll
Squizzy, I like 'em eighteen to over thirty
And your man look like he don't make over thirty
Niggaz be like yo, I overheard he
Just doesn't give a fuck and that's why the Rover's dirty
Listen, I got the flow that's nice and easy
On some petty shit I'ma gonna do you nice and greasy
Grown man style, it takes more than ice to please me
Sittin' on 22s that entice the breezy
Dilated Peoples - The Main Event
[Evidence]
You better step up, you lookin kinda lost
Claimin' two ghetto streets that don't even cross
If you didn't know, I'm a true artist
Who drops gems like on the run from police
DJ Quik - Trouble
Wanna be fly, call Continental
Bitch, the Benz 'aint a rental
Sippin' on shit that you can't pronounce
Ho, quit starin' at my bank account
DJ Quik - U Ain't Fresh
[Kam]
The street slang thief is your chief employment
You live a life full of grief after brief enjoyment
Fake gang bangers, when you see us, tuck all rags
Adios, buenos dias, fuck y'all fags!
DJ Quik - Get Down
My drawers are so clean, my nuts are so powdered
Don't stress me out, bitch, eat your clam chowder
Dr. Dre - Fuck You
I just wanna fuck bad bitches
All them nights I never had bitches
Now I'm all up in that ass, bitches
Dr. Dre - Put It On Me
Bang on the block
Even Asian bitches like to bang cock
Dr. Dre - Gameover [Scarface]
I'm eatin steak while they struggle to break the slave mentality
I'm givin' livin' definition long as my hearts tickin'
I fought and made the world listen
Eminem - Role Model
I get blunted off of funny home grown
Cause when I smoke out I hit the trees harder than Sonny Bono
So if I said I never did drugs
That would mean I lie and get fucked more than the President does
Hillary Clinton tried to slap me and call me a pervert
I ripped her fuckin' tonsils out and fed her sherbet
My nerves hurt, and lately I'm on edge
Grabbed Vanilla Ice and ripped out his blonde dreads
Every girl I ever went out with has gone lez
Follow me and do exactly what the song says:
Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people
And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal
Eminem - Any Man
Original Bad Boy on the case, cover your face
Came in the place blowed, and sprayed Puffy with mace
I laced the weed with insect repellant, better check the smellit
Eminem starts with E, better check the spellit
With a capita,
somebody grab me a Snapple
I got an aspirin capsule trapped in my adam's apple
...
The world ain't ready for me yet, I can tell
I'll probably have a cell next to the furnace in Hell
I'm sicker than sperm cells with syphilis germs
And I'm hotter than my dick is when I piss and it burns
...
And all that gibberish you was spittin', you need to kill it
Cause your style is like dyin' in my sleep, I don't feel it
...
[I'm] a brainiac with a cranium packed full of more uranium
Than a maniac Saudi Arabian
Eminem - Renegade (Jay-Z)
Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
I ain't no politician, but I'll kick it with 'em a minute
'Cause see they call me a menace, and if the shoe fits I'll wear it
But if it don't, then y'all swallow the truth, grin and bear it
Now who's these king of these rude, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics?
Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics?
Usin' his music to steer it, sharin' his views and his merits
But there's a huge interference
They're sayin' you shouldn't hear it
Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit
Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish
But I'm debated, disputed, hated, and viewed in America
As a motherfuckin' drug addict; like you didn't experiment, nana?
Now, now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror
And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrassed
And I got nothin' to do but make you look stupid as parents
You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage!
Do you have any clue what I had to do to get here?
I don't think you do so stay tuned
And keep your ears glued to the stereo, 'cause here we go
Eminem - I'm Back
I murder a rhyme one word at a time
You never heard of a mind as perverted as mine
You better get rid of that nine, it ain't gonna help
What good's it gonna do against the man that strangles himself?
...
And by the way, N'Sync, why do they sing?
Am I the only one who realizes they stink?
Should I dye my hair pink and care what y'all think?
Lip sync and buy a bigger size of earrings?
It's why I tend to block out when I hear things
Cause all these fans screamin' is makin my ears ring
So I just throw up a middle finger and let it linger
Longer than the rumor that I was stickin' it to Christina
But if I ever stuck it to any singer in showbiz
it'd be Jennifer Lopez, and Puffy you know this!
I'm sorry Puff, but I don't give a fuck if this chick was my own mother
I'd still fuck her with no rubber and cum inside her
And have a son and a new brother at the same time
And just say that it ain't mine
What's my name?
Eminem - The Way I Am
Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered
With all of this nonsense it's constant
And "Oh, it's just lyrical content!"
The song "Guilty Conscience" has gotten such rotten responses
And all of this controversy circles me
And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
So I point one back at 'em
But not the index or the pinky or the ring or the thumb
It's the one you put up when you don't give a fuck
When you won't just put up with the bullshit they pull
'Cause they full of shit, too
When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up your school
And they blame it on Marilyn - and the heroin
Where were the parents at?
And look at where it's at middle America
Now it's a tragedy
Now it's so sad to see
An upper class city having this happening
Then attack Eminem cause I rap this way
But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel
That I need for the fire to burn and it's burnin' and I have returned
Ice Cube - Hell Low
The motherfuckin world is a ghetto
Full of magazines full clips, and heavy metal
When the smoke settles
I'm just lookin' for a big yellow
In six inch stilletos
Jagged Edge - Where The Party At (Feat Nelly)
This lil Jag and Benz
With the rose
Not the one with the stem
The one with the rims
The one that seems to make more enemies than friends
Jay-Z - 30 Something
I know every thing you wanna do
I did all that by the age of twenty-one
By twenty-two, I had that brand new Ac' coupe
I guess you could say that my Legend had just begun
I'm young enough to know the right car to buy
Yet grown enough not to put rims on it
I got that six deuce with curtains, so you can't see me
And I didn't even have to put tints on it
I don't got the bright watch, I got the right watch
I don't buy out the bar, I bought the night spot
I got the right stock
I got stockbrokers that's movin' it like white tops
...
Ya'll roll blunts, I smoke Cubans all day
Ya'll youngins chase, I'm Patronin' it straight
I like South Beach, but I'm in St. Tropez
Ya'll drink Dom, but not Rosé
Your chick shops at the mall
My chick burnin' down Bergdorf's
Comin' back with Birkin bags
Your chick is like, "What type of purse is that?"
Jurassic 5 - The Game
[Chali 2na]
Comin' through your lane with pure skills, so stand clear
Vocal charge is a mirage, I still stand here
Damn near, make your shit look soft like Pam Grier
Fans cheer for the paragraph Bill Lambier
Kurupt - 'Aint No Fun (feat. Snoop Dogg)
Well if Kurupt gave a fuck about a bitch, I'd always be broke
I'd never have no mothafuckin' endo to smoke
'Lil Troy - Wanna Be a Baller
[Yungstar]
I'm a baller, I'ma twenty inch crawler
Blades on Impala, diamond rottweiller
I-10 hauler, not a leader not follower
Break these boys off I'ma twenty inch crawler
Bust a left, a right, I'm outta sight I'm throwed
'Lil Troy - Wanna Be a Baller
Wanna be a baller
Shot caller
20 inch blades on the Impala
'Lil Wayne - Shine
Let's talk about this ice I'm carrying
All these carats like I'm a fucking vegetarian
Master P - Tight Whips
I ain't pay the car note in about 3 months
I'd rather spend my paper on Henney and blunts
Method Man - Motto
Where the bastards at and where they habitats?
I send their asses back to foldin' sweaters at the Gap
I like Nikes, food spicy, I'm a Pisces
That's why women love me and any nigga that's like me
Mos Def - Close Edge
Your grind and my grind 'aint the same, dawg
I'm the catalogue, you're the same song
Mos Def - Do It Now (feat. Busta Rhymes) Ay, Dios mio, me and Bustarimo
The two hottest negroes en los Estados Unidos
Mos Def - Re: Definition (feat. Talib Kweli)
Lyrically handsome, come collect the King's ransom
Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion, I move like a phantom
You'll talk about me to your grandsons
Cats who claimin' they hard, be mad fag
So I run through 'em like flood water through sandbags
Competition is mad - What I got, they can't have
Sinkin' their ship like Moby Dick did Ahab
Son, I'm way past the minimum, it's a verb millenium
My rap's the holy gas in your bag, like Palestinians
Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon
Official B-boy gentleman, long term, never the interim
Born inside the winter wind, day after December 10
These simpletons they mentionin' the synonym for feminine
Sweeter than some cinnamon from danish rings by Entenmanns
Rush up on adrenaline, they get they asses sent to them
(Gentlemen) You got a tenement? well then assemble it!
Leave your unit tremblin' like herds of movin' elephants
Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element
From flatbush settlement, kid posseses melanin
Hotter than tales of crack peddlin, makin 'em woop like blue gelatin
Swing like Duke Ellington
Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me
The hot oppression rent who burns down your chief teepee
You see me?
Mos Def - Sunshine
I don't hate players, I don't love the game
I'm the shot clock, way above the game
Nas - Classic
Perseverance, see the fake hustler rapper to them it hurts to hear this
O you went platinum – yeah that’s nice, now let me see you do the same thing twice
New times, 4 times, then been a couple of more times, please your amateur night is show time
It’s one life to live so live it the best you can, the world could use one less man
Not enough air, not enough car factories to manufacture new vehicles sedans and vans
When they do make the whip you like ya chips ain’t right, by the time you could afford it the car ain’t important
Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
Inhale deep like the words of my breath
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death
Nas - Represent
Yo, they call me Nas, I'm not your legal type of fella
Moet drinkin', marijuana smokin' street dwella
Who's always on the corner, rollin up blessed
When I dress, it's never nothin' less than Guess
Nate Dogg - Your Wife
Your wife, my bitch
Your love, my trick
Her mouth, my dick
I fucked, that's it
Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick the clutch
Dare I squeeze three at your cherry M3?
Notorious B.I.G. - Kick in the Door
You cursed it, but rehearsed it
I drop unexpectedly like bird shit
Snoop Dogg - 'Aint No Fun
Now as the sun rotates and my game grows bigga'
How many bitches wanna fuck this nigga
Named Snoop, Doggie, I'm allie and abovie
I'm too swift on my toes to get caught up with these hos
But see, it aint no fun if my homies can't get a taste of it
'Cause you know I don't love it
Swollen Members - Camoflauge
I make my face thick with paint stick
Today is the dawn of the infected insect
Bees, butterflies, beetles and panzer dragons
There's danger of cancer syndrome roaming in my squadron
We hate them all, that's why we made the 8-ball
The milk and water tastes like typhoid and protocol
Sleep deprivation, magic carpet-bombing run
Talking to my gas mask, walking down the thin red line
You're currently turned in to MTV
The only channel you get is from my M-16
I lace my boots and place my troops
I'm more terrified of mosquitoes than I am of the paratroops
I'm in the shit box, reading Alfred Hitchcock
Five minutes later, I'm bleeding out my snot box
I see the witch doc, he says it's rice grains
Dropped from air planes
Sprayed with anthrax
Operation Peking: Take the ground back
It's found in brown rats
And in the toilet paper issued in your ruck sack
Agent N, Agent X, for the fade to black
Tupac - Can't C Me
My own mama say I'm thugged out
My shit be bumpin out the record store
As if it was a drug house
Tupac - Picture Me Rollin'
Picture me rollin' in my 500 Benz
I got no love for these niggaz,
There's no need to be friends
Warren G - 'Aint No Fun
So back up bitch 'cause I'm strugglin'
Just get on your knees and then start jugglin'
These muthafuckin' nuts in your mouth
Xzibit - What's the Difference
What's the difference between me and you?
About five back accounts, three ounces and two vehicles
