Time, once again, to play: Favorite Hip Hop Lines!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

You know how it works - post your favorite single rhyme (or more lines if the rhyme is spread out and complex)

Por ejemplo this line I heard in a big freestyle session on the Lyricist Lounge LP:

"I get more back than gammon
slammin' those that oppose my flow like salmon"

Or another bit from the same guy (whose name I don't know):

"you got no cause to smile
I'll toss your ass all over town like a foster child"



Now you go!

[Bake]

1. I like big butts and I can not lie

You other brothers can't deny
When a girl walk in with an itty-bitty waist
and a round thing in your face
You get sprung ...

Bake

[MrCoffee]

2. Just like Muhummad Ali they called him Cassius

watch me bash this beat like a skull



I love the way LL Cool J delivers that line

[Phillycat]

14. That song is so underrated.

Why do you mess with me? The maniac psycho!

[SKKY]

25. I agree...

...If he came out with that song now, it would be huge. I think.

[redqueen]

3. ...

A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught with 24 kilos
He’s out on bail and out of jail
And that’s the way it goes
Raah!

[datasuspect]

4. "mobbin' with the dogg pound, feel the breeze, biyatch"

"i'm gonna hit you up with the pound, g'z up hoez down"

[datasuspect]

5. "what's up homey, don't you know me?"

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Hmmm...

Two bits from "We Are The Ones" by The Coup

"So I seek for a kilo
And my stack got a little bit taller like Skee-Lo
A street CEO
There was all of this heroin and not one hero"

And...

"Our pay is unstable and under the table
We like free speech but we love free cable"

From "Mainstream 307" by Non-Prophets

"Lowest common denominators let the art suffer
The only heart you follow's roadkill on your car bumper
You're Archie Bunker caught in slumber
I hope you burn to death with the trends that are hot this summer"

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Perrenial favorite: RZA from Wu-Tang : 7th Chamber

You're gettin' stripped of your garments boy
run your jewels.
Wile the meth got me open
like fallopian tubes.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. Another RZA from "Reunited":

Yo, yo, The Riddler, funny bone tickler, freak Caligula
Bigger dick sex enigma pistol fertilize your stigma
Stinkbox, order from pink dot
MC's get stuck on ink blots as I plug to the sinkbox
Wu-Tang Incorp. take your brain on spacewalk
Talk strange like B-jork, great hero Jim Thorpe
How can I put it? Life is like video footage
Hard to edit, directors, that never understood it
I'm too impulsive, my deadly corrosive dosage
attack when you least notice through explosive postage
I don't play, the rap souflee sautee for the day
Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig A, Leg Leg Arm Head
Spread like plague, we drink Hennessee by the jig
I got the golden egg plus the goose
Eighty proof, Absolut, mixed with cranberry fruit juice
Ginseng boost, I got yo' neck in a noose
Keep my money wrinkled, the rap star twinkle killer instinct
sixteen bar nickle sell more copies than Kinko
Grow like a fetus with no hands and feet to complete us
and we return like Jesus, when the whole world need us

[asdjrocky]

8. Fight the Power

[geardaddy]

9. The Streets

From "Could be Well In"

I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin with her hair, well regularly,
So i reckon i could well be in.

[Omphaloskepsis]

30. Awesome.. I am also a fan of The Streets.

edit.. Does he say ITV or MyTV? I have shitty hearing and always thought it was MyTV. If it is ITV do you know what that is?

[geardaddy]

31. It's ITV

That's an independent network in the UK.

[Dr. Strange]

10. Hit the beat box, Daryl.

You play with words you play with love
You can twist it around baby that ain't enough
Cause girl I'm gonna know
If you're letting me in or letting me go

[SKKY]

11. "It's Mr. Mischief with a trick up his sleeve..."

"Roll up on you like Christopher Reeves."

Like Charles Barkley said, "It's a messed up world when the best golfer is Black, and the best rapper is white."

[Scarlett17]

16. Gotta love Em

"Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Ten million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al-Qaeda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight."

[Scarlett17]

12. Number One Spot by Ludacris

"I'm never goin nowhere so don't try me
My music sticks in fans veins like an IV
Flows poison like Ivy, oh they grimy
Already offers on my 6th album from labels tryin to sign me
Respected highly, HIIII MR. O'REILLY
Hope all is well, kiss the plantiff and the wifey."

[Phillycat]

13. All righty:

Beasties:

Ad Roc's down with the Ione
Listen to the shit 'cause both of them is boney
I gotta do it like this, like Chachi and Joanie
'Cause she's the cheese and I'm the macaroni!

And also, there's a little rhyme in "Crazy in Love" where Jay-Z raps:

Jay-Z in the rain, crazy and deranged

I don't know why, but I love that. :)

I also really like "Cell Therapy" Goodie Mob this verse:

Time is getting shorter if we dont get prepared
People its gone be a slaughter
My mind wont allow me to not be curious
My folk dont understand so they dont take it serious
But every now and then, I wonder
If the gate was put up to keep crime out or to keep our ass in

And all of "Daydream" by Lupe Fiasco is great, especially the whole first verse:

As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep him happy 'cause I might fall out if he cries
Scared of heights so I might pass out if he flies
Keep him on auto-pilot 'cause I can't drive
Room enough for one, I told my homies they can't ride
Unless they're sittin' on the shoulder but that's way too high
Let's try not to step on the children, the news cameras filmin'
This walkin project buildin'
Now there's ho's sellin' ho's like right around the toes
And the crackheads beg about the lower leg
There's crooked police that stationed at the knees
And they do driveby's like up and down the thighs
And there's a car chase goin' on at the waist
Keep my vest on my chest, I'm sittin' in my room while I'm lookin' out the face
Somethin' to write about
I still got some damage from fightin' the White House

Okay, any mistakes mine, I just typed all that out! :)

[MrCoffee]

15. Beasties lyrics

'Cause I'm that kid in the corner
All fucked up and I wanna so I'm gonna

[Phillycat]

18. And also...

One two, oh my god! I got some shit
I got the kung fu grip behind my green trap kit!

I love that! :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

19. don't forget

You got the boomin' system but it's slicin' out doo-doo
Think it's chocolate milk but it's watered-down Yoo-Hoo


:rofl: I can't even type it without laughing.

[Scarlett17]

17. "I'm Mike D. and I get respect. . .

Your cash and your jewelry is what I expect."

[Phillycat]

20. She's Crafty has the best lyrics from that album...

When I woke up late in the afternoon
She had taken all the things from inside his room
I found myself naked in the middle of the floor
She had taken the bed and the chest of drawers
The mirror, the TV, the guitar cord
My remote control and my old skateboard
She robbed us blind - she took all we owned
And the boys blamed me for bringing her home

[Scarlett17]

22. Don't forget "Rhymin' and Stealin'"

"I've been drinking my rum - a Def son of a gun
I fought the law and I cold won
Black Beard's weak - Moby Dick's on the tick
'Cause I pull out the jammy and squeeze off six
My pistol is loaded - I shot Betty Crocker
Deliver Colonel Sanders down to Davey Jones' locker
Rhymin' and stealin' in a drunken state
And I'll be rockin' my rhymes all the way to Hell's gate"

[democracyindanger]

36. I'm the King Of Boggle

There is none higher
I get eleven points off the word 'quagmire'

[asthmaticeog]

21. A gangsta-ass nigga don't flex nuts

'Cuz a gangsta-ass nigga knows he got 'em.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. And everythings cool in the mind of a gangsta

Cuz gangsta-ass niggas think deep
Up three-sixty-five a year 24/7
Cuz real gangsta ass niggas don't sleep

[SKKY]

23. And you've gotta love these 2 by Cypress Hill and The Beasties...

"Like Louis Armstrong, plays the trumpet,
I'll hit that bong, and break you off somethin' soon.
I gots to get my props, cops come and try to snatch my crops."

* Anyone who refers to their pot stash as "crops" has a respect for marijuana I personally find amazing.



"Let if flow like a mud slide, and when I get on I like to ride and glide.
I've got depth of perception in my text y'all. I get props at my mention 'cause I vex y'all."

[SKKY]

24. DMX and Ludacris are guilty pleasures of mine, I hate to admit...

"That's why you're laying on your back looking at the roof of the church. Preacher tellin the truth and it hurts."

"The hurt, the pain, the dirt, the rain (uhh!)
The jerk, the fame, the work, the game (uhh!)
The friends, the foes, the Benz, the hoes (what?!)
The studios, the shows, comes, and it goes (c'mon!)
The jealousy, the envy, the phony, the friendly (uh-huh!)
The one that gave 'em the slugs, the one that put 'em in me
(whoo!) The snakes, the grass, too long, to see (uhh, uhh!)
The lawnmower, sittin, right next, to the tree (c'mon!)"


"How you ain't gonna fuck? Bitch I'm me! I'm the god-damned reason you in VIP."
"Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless. Feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace."

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. Hospitals for my stroke of genius, don't care where you come from

China or Venus, vagina or penis

Punch & Words

Da Cipher

[flvegan]

28. Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable

I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral

And

Riddle me this brother can you handle it
Your style to my style you can't hold a candle to it
Equinox symmetry and the balance is right
Smokin' and drinkin' on a Tuesday night

And one of the best flows of thought, from the master, Chuck D:

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
When you destroy yourself
First nothing's worse than a mother's pain
Of a son slain in Bensonhurst
Can't wait for the state to decide the fate
So this jam I dedicate
Places with racist faces
Just an example of one of many cases
The Greek weekend speech I speak
From a lesson learned in Virginia (Beach)
I don't smile in the line of fire
I go wildin'
But it's on bass and drums even violins
Watcha do gitcha head ready
Instead of gettin' physically sweaty
When I get mad
I put it down on a pad
Give ya somethin' that cha never had controllin'
Fear of high rollin'
God bless your soul and keep livin'
Never allowed, kickin' it loud
Droppin' a bomb
Brain game intellectual Vietnam
Move as a team
Never move alone
But
Welcome to the Terrordome

[appal_jack]

29. 'The Gag Rule is bunk..."

The Gag Rule is bunk,
It's like chains on the rump.
We help to liberate with this earth-shakin' funk.

-Digable Planets

[racaulk]

32. "Alright stop what your doin', cuz I'm about to ruin, the image and the style that you're used to."

My favorite lyric from that song:

"Oh yes, ladies, I'm really bein' sincere
'cause in a 69 my humpty nose will tickle ya rear."

:rofl:

[ceile]

33. "Clint Eastwood"

Bust a few rhymes so mother fuckers
Remember where the thought is
I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless
Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead
No squealing, remember
(that it's all in your head)

[IndianaJones]

34. Me knew a crack dealer by the name of Peter

Had to buck him down with my 9 millimeter

[appal_jack]

35. I'm reachin' past the status that you grabbin' at

I'm reachin' past the status that you grabbin' at,
My battle rap flash your ass back to its natural habitat.

-Talib Kweli (w/ Mos Def)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. Busta Rhymes the handsome, I'll hold you for ransom and son

Like the ghost in a haunted house Im gonna forever live in a mansion

[RedSpartan]

38. In honor of Valentine's Day...

I get stupid
I shoot an arrow like Cupid
I'll use a word that don't mean nothing - - like "luptid"
I sang on "Doowhatchalike" and if you missed it
I'm the one who said "Just grab 'em in the biscuits."

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

39. Dave the dope fiend shooting dope

who don't know the meaning of water or soap.