JasonF

I don't listen to much rap, but these are some of my favorite rap lyrics:

Don't call it a comeback
I've been here for years
-- LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out

Their pens and pads I'll snatch
'Cause I've had it
I'm not an addict fiendin' for static
I'll see their tape recoreder and grab it
No, you can't have it back silly rabbit
-- Public Enemy, Don't Believe the Hype

I Can't Stand It, I Know You Planned It
Ima Set It Straight, This Watergate
-- Beastie Boys, Sabotage

So I...pull over to the side of the road
And I heard "Son do you know why I'm stopping you for?"
Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hats real low
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some mo?
"Well you was doing fifty five in a fifty four"
-- Jay Z, 99 Problems

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted
The first two letters are the same but the last is something different
It's the longest, loveliest, lean-- I call it the leanest
It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest
I won't get into that, I'll do it...ah...sorta properly
I say the last P...hmmm...stands for property
-- Naughty by Nature, OPP

inri222

I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
They wanted me for their army or whatever
Picture me givin' a damn - I said never

--Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos

civiclx

Cee-Lo on Outkast's Git Up, Git Out off Southernplay...

I don't recall, ever graduatin at all
Sometimes I feel I'm just a disappointment to y'all
Every day, I just lay around then I can't be found
Always asked to give me some livin life like a bum
Times is rough, my auntie got enough problems of her own
*****, you supposed to be grown
I agree, I try to be the man I'm 'posed to be
But negativity is all you seem to ever see
I admit, I've done some dumb shit
And I'm probably gon do some mo'
You shouldn't hold that against me though (Why not?)
Why not? My music's all that I got
But some time must be ingested for this to be manifested
I know you know but I'm gon say this to you I...
Get high but I don't get too high
So what's the limit 'posed to be?
That must be why you can't get your ass up out the bed before three
You need to git up, git out, cut that bullshit out
Ain't you sick and tired of having to do without
And what up with all these questions?
As act as though you know somethin I don't. Do you have any suggestions?
Cuz every job I get is cruel and demeanin
Sick of takin trash out and toilet bowl cleanin
But I'm also sick and tired of strugglin
I never ever thought I'd have resort to drug smugglin
Naw, that ain't what I'm about
Cee-lo will just continue travelin this route
Without any doubt or fear
I know the Lord ain't brought me this far so he could drop me off here
Did I make myself clear?

JP5683

Can't think of anything specific, but I always like Ice-T's rhymes. And of course Eminem has some memorable lines.

Eazy E's Eazy Duz it was the first explicit tape I had too...

Actually there is a song I just remembered, Too Short's Cusswords.
I rattled parts of it off one day at work, and I was working with a guy who's only 19, and never heard Too Short before... he thought it was original coming from me...

If you aks me, what it's all about, I'll say it's about that money
But if you aks me, could you have some, I'll say it doesn't concern me
Ronald Reagan came up to me and said, "Do you have the answer
To the United States economy and a cure for cancer?"
I said, what are you doin in the White House if you're not sellin cocaine?
Ask your wife, Nancy Reagan, I know she'll spit that game.
Like one night, she came to my house, and gave me a blow job
She licked my dick, up and down, like it was corn on the cob
What is life? It is Too $hort
I play the bitches like it's a sport
Yea, I'll play the bitches just like y'all
Like Dr. J played basketball
You can call me Too, don't say it twice
You'll get me real mad and I'll f**k your wife

Charlie Goose

Redrum, redrum
More murder, more murder
I used to have a fine bitch
Until I had to hurt her
This bitch by my side
She's starting to get cold
I'm still fucking the body
And it's three days old.
(Sickness by Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)

LorenzoL

Aiyyo why oh why did I need cappucino
Scar on my face but Im not Al Pacino
(we 3 amigos) Sparsky and Dutch we bring mo
Drama than what? (a primetime NBC tv show)
(headz don't know and damn sure aint ready)
(n*ggas walk the street wit more boop than betty)
Shitll get heavy (back of the tree now surrender)
(my pon hits yo mind mix thoughts like a blender)
Then I dish off from a shooting guard to a center
Like Rockafella you hit rock bottom when you enter
(o.g.c. rush the scene, the mission from backup) yeah
(baseball bats attack like jersey fools that act up) act up
(folks is passed now, petrol, go get dough)
(pepto-bismol before this n*gga let go)
He said go what you do grew screwed I blew through
Two crews who claim they got funk maybe true cuz they doo-doo

(Lefleur Leflah Eschkoshka by Heltah Skeltah featuring O.G.C.)

LorenzoL

One of my favorite lines.

NoirFan

Ah yes...the mid nighties reign of Duck Down Productions. Black Moon, Smif N Wesson, Buckshot, etc. They put out some really inventive hip hop in their time.

das Monkey

If there was a problem, yo, I'll solve it ... wait, that's not right.

And on and on and on she kept goin'
The bitch been around before my mother's born
I said, "Cheer up!", so I gave her a hit
I said, "You can't have me -- I'm too young for you, bitch!"
She said, "No you're not." Then she starts cryin'
I says, "I'm nineteen." She says, "Stop lyin!"
I says, "I am. Go axe my mutha ...
And with your wrinkled pussy, I can't be your lover.
Yeee-uh
-- Snoop

das

saoirse

And he spits with such amazing speed and rhythm.

Chino XL - Nunca

...Never love my enemy
You could never take my history
You could never block my destiny
Never did love follow me
And I'll never return to poverty
Never fooled by Satan's jealousy
Until my heaven inherits me...

I won't lie, some nights I feel like I've been forsaken by God
victimized, plagarized like Speilberg did Amistad
unzip like Isaac Mizrahi
He who laughs last laughs best but never again is the mantra that I cry...
I spit like Ming the merciless, blissless bliss high risk piss
clench fist, the massicistic sadistic from every verse on this
Behold my serpents hair like purseus ill impossibly,
larceny, broken velocity through lightning speed viscosity
My philosophy, speak animosity keep shit in a bag like a colostomy
I'm pro you're junior varsity
If "Twelve Angry Viewers" on MTV
diss my shit I'll hunt down and kill 'em all individually
I make headlines considerably
Sorcery with no plea bargain, or jargon, or glossary
Fuck the Insane Clown Posse, of rap their making a mockery
You'll retire like Seinfeld waiting on titles that I've held
rockin' gold like Dennis Leary blasting assasins sent to kill me
feel me, you take notes like court stenography, you better watch me,
I take beef personally to your villa steps like Versace
More Colt 45's than Billy Dee, collecting disability
I'll shoot out with Bill & Hillary, still won't run out of artillery
While you trying to make all net like Iver-son or Jor-don
I'm extor-tin trying to make all net like Forbes to make a for-tune
Stick that ass in phone booth's, drinking 151 proof
laughing at that bitch with a gold tooth
flicking my ashes out of a sunroof
Uncooth industry snotty and shady can't no Bible save me,
From throwing you off my tour bus like Bobby did Whitney & baby
Get with me? Maybe, but then be hunted
You ain't no killer or gangster smiling
or dancing interviewed by Teen Summit
My multi-topical written flows containing subjects that vary,
but still all relative like West Virginian's before they marry
I blind you in stereo or mono i'm deluxe while you ride econo
out of there, broke like the first host of the Vibe show
Your wives know I fuck like
Marky Mark on Boogie Nights with Guinness Stout
while famous bitches give me head with Pop Rocks in their mouths
Me dissapear? Never again, go to war with Vatican men
it'll take a whole cast of E.R. to have your ass walking again
You're an over-rated player that white fans love like DiMaggio
You off-air like Wendy Williams, out of the air like John Denver
till forever you remeber, i'm falling off? Never...

(Girl Singing)
Nunca... 4X

(Chorus)
Never can you stop my hostility
Never love my enemy
Never get me out your memory
I am never beaten lyrically
Never fear, go head & murder me
So my God will be right next to me...

(Verse 2)
I'm descending from the sky like Gabriel the arch angel
with weight of world on shoulders like Aretha Franklin's ankles
You liars, i'm tired of all your fake drug dealing tales
the only time yall see grams is when yall drink them gingerales
I hold the hammer to, your head piece flush you! like genitals
I'll battle & bring evil that'll make your priest abandon you
Through translucent fuschia zones poems, my vocal tones are dark
Catacombs that'll scatter domes with the phermones of old bones
in Germany eternally my victim hemorages internally
until the stench of decaying flesh, accompany Manson's death
If you ask, bet, i'll take your breath a diffrent aspect
enter the lung get shredded by person to person contact
But beyond that, any rappers death I'm behind that
I'll get that ass touched in any jail you do time at
In every verse ditto
My defeat, you better have more blindfolded Faith
than a kidnapped version of Biggie's widow
Kiddo, you ain't worth hospitals till im hospitable enough
to put you inside of a hospital after I smoke critical amounts of dust
Thus my mind spoke on Jedi pedestals and roasting demos
semi seminals who try to test testicles of this mc's quotables
I'll make the proudest of all Dominicans swing flags for Puerto Rico
And kill any blanco gringo reffering to Chino as chico
By summoning the smoldering murdering minister thats mastering mayhem
slaying day out & day in out'spoke'n like a dayton
Rim that be keeping 'em staggering through lyrical pattern and
traveling through my abdomen unraveling
at the speed of a javelin still reppin' Vatican
And invade like Mexican notify next to kin cats i'm invested in
Don't worship Christ, they worship the theives crucified next to him
Boys and men cringes, through poison pen syringes
these niggas couldn't be stars if they were thrown by Chinese ninjas
Chino you bring phantasm plus you G like the dwellas
and been touched by an angel like Della, me fear y'all niggas?
Never...

Kenshiro

Always loved Canibus, just a great lyricist.

from Second Round K.O. [LL Cool J diss track]

[First Verse]
So I'ma let the world know the truth, you don't want me to shine
You studied my rhyme, then you laid your vocals after mine
That's a bitch move, somethin that a homo rapper would do
So when you say that you Platinum, you only droppin Clue's
I studied your background, read the book that you wrote
Researched your footnotes, bout how you used to sniff coke
Frontin like a drug-free role model, you disgust me
I know bitches that seen you smoke weed recently
You walk around showin off your body cause it sells
Plus to avoid the fact that you ain't got skills
Mad at me cause I kick that shit real niggaz feel
While 99% of your fans wear high heels
From Ice-T to Kool Moe Dee to Jay-Z
Now you wanna fuck with me? You must be crazy!
You drippin with wack juice, and you can't get it off
You betta be prepard to finish what you start, *****.

[Second Verse]
Yo
You better give me the respect that I deserve or I'ma take it by force
Blast you with a 45 colt, make you summersault
Shock you with a couple hundred thousand volt thunderbolts
Before you wanted a war, now you wanna talk
It's about who strikes the hardest, not who strikes first
That's why I laugh when I hear that wack ass verse
That shit was the worse [pause] rhyme I ever heard in my life
cause the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th
God bless his soul rest in peace kid
It's because of him now at least I know +What Beef+ is
It's not what I would call this (nah) see this is somethin different
A faggot ***** tryin ta make a livin offa dissin
Somebody that he gotta know is betta than him
but he feelin himself, cause he got more cheddar than him
Well lemme tell you somethin, you might got mo' cash then me
But you ain't got the skills to eat a *****'s ass like me
And if you really want to show off, we can get it on
Live in front of the cameras on your own sitcom
I'll let you kick a verse, fuck it, I'll let you kick em all
I'll even wait for the studio audience to applaud [cheers]
Now watch me rip the tat from your arm
Kick you in the groin, stick you for your Vanguard award
In front of your mom your 1st, 2nd and 3rd born
Make your wife get on the horn call Minister Farrakhan
So he could persuade me to squash it, I saw naw he started it
He forgot what a hardcore artist is
A hardcore artist is a dangerous man, such as myself
trained to run 20 miles in soft sand
On or off land, programmed to kick hundreds of bars off hand
from a lost and forgotten land, you done did it man
You done spitted some wack shittit
And probably thought that because it's been a minute I'll forget it
Fuck that, cause like Common and Cube I see The Bitch In You
and I'ma make the world see it too, motherfucker

durden007

I like this one cause I can't run for shit.

"A real gangsta ass ***** never runs for shit
cause real gangsta ass niggas can't run fast"

Getto boys

Also love the entire B.O.B rap from Outkast. Smokin' fast.

Layziebones

I got seven Mac-11's, about eight, .38's
Nine 9's, ten Mac-10's, the shits never end
You can't touch my riches
Even if you had MC Hammer and them 357 bitches
Biggie Smalls, the millionaire, the mansion, the yacht
The two weed spots, the two hot glocks
HAH, that's how I got the weed spot
I shot dread in the head, took the bread and the landspread
Lil' Gotti got the shotty to your body
So don't resist, or you might miss Christmas
I tote guns, I make number runs
I give emcees the runs drippin;
when I throw my clip in the A.K., I slay from far away
Everybody hit the D-E-C-K
My slow flows remarkable
Peace to Matteo
Now we smoke weed like Tony Montana sniff the Yayo

-Come On - Biggie

Down on B's is the place to give me the pace
he said ma man J.D. is on freebase
the boy J.D. was a friend of mine
'till i caught him in my car tryin to steal the Alpine
chased him down the street to call a truce
the silly muthafucka pulls out a deuce deuce
little did he know i had a loaded 12 guage
one sucker dead, L.A. Times front page

-Boyz In The Hood - Eazy E

FantasticVSDoom

First time I heard :

"There's gonna be alotta slow singin', and flower bringin', if my burgler alarm starts ringin'"

from Biggie's The Warning, I went nuts. Still my favorite all time line. A more recent line from Jay-Z's remix of Rehab is pretty good as well:

"More money, more checks, I'm addicted to fresh Six pair of kicks is my definition of 12 steps"

civiclx

aww let me see don't know it word for word...I was trying to think of something from Warning.

"what you think all the guns is for, ...something got the rottweilers by the door/and i feed em gun powder so they can devour the criminals tryin to drop my decimals"

good one

2Pac Verse 1 from Still I Rise off the Still I Rise album
"Somebody wake me I'm dreamin, I started as a seed the semen
Swimmin upstream, planted in the womb while screamin
on the top, was my pops, my momma screamin stop
From a single drop, this is what they got
Not to disrespect my peoples but my poppa was a loser
Only plan he had for momma was to fuck her and abuse her
Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me
Stranded on welfare, another broken family
Now what was I to be, a product of this heated passion
Momma got pregnant, and poppa got a piece of ass
Look how it began, nobody gave a fuck about me
Pistol in my hand, this cruel world can do without me
How can I survive? Got me askin white Jesus
will a ***** live or die, cause the Lord can't see us
in the deep dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine
No sunny days and we only play sometimes
When everybody's sleepin
I open my window jump to the streets and get to creepin
I can live or die, hope I get some money 'fore I'm gone
I'm only 19, I'm tryin to hustle on my own
on the spot where everybody and they pops tryin to slang rocks
I'd rather go to college, but this is where the game stops
Don't get it wrong cause it's always on, from dusk to dawn
You can buy rocks glocks or a herringbone
You can ask my man he's a mind reader, keep my nine heater
All the time this is how we grind
Meet up at the cemetary then get smoked out, pass the weed *****
That Hennessey'll keep me keyed *****
Everywhere I go niggaz holla at me, "Keep it real G"
And my reply til they kill me
Act up if you feel me, I was born not to make it but I did
The tribulations of a ghetto kid, still I rise"

Verse 1 from The Good Die Young off Still I Rise
It was more than a tragedy
Emotions be grabbin' me
Plane fell from the sky
We tryin' to figure what happened
Burnin' churches, fearin' God
Who can be so cruel
We all ignorant to AIDS
Till it happens to you
Just be a man, make plans
Listen to your voice
A woman's tryin' to make decisions
We should leave them a choice
Cause who are we to say who lives and die
Breathes and stops
All this judgement on other lives
Needs to stop
What are we livin' for
Givin' more back than takin'
On my knees still waitin' for my own salvation
Now I feel abandoned
cause Pat Buchanan say I'm greedy
You can take my taxes, send me to war
But can't feed me
It's so easy to regret things
After they done
Babies catchin' murder cases
Scared to laugh in the sun
The tragedies that we all need
Love in doses
In times like these we feel closest
The good die young

NoirFan

Biggie is an endless source of classic lines. "I wouldn't give a fuck if you're pregnant/give me the baby rings and the '#1 Mom' pendant" was actually partially censored on Read To Die.

Jazzbutcher

"Now what you hear is not a test--i'm rappin to the beat...
and me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet." Sugarhill Gang

"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..." PE Welcome to the Terrordome

"Drive by eggings plaguing L.A.
Yo they just got my little cousin ese!" Beastie Boys - Eggman

"Not like a roach or a piece of toast
I'm going out first class not going out coach
Rock my Adidas never rock Fila
I do not sniff the coke I only smoke sinsemilla" Beastie Boys - Sounds of Science

Burgundy LaRue

You got a problem?
I got a problem solver
And his name is revolver

Dr. Dre, "Natural Born Killaz" from the Murder is the Case soundtrack


Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother fuck him and John Wayne
Cause I'm black and I'm proud
I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
(get it) let's get this party started right
Right on, c'mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be

Public Enemy, "Fight the Power"


Homegirls, for once, forget you got class,
See a guy you like: just grab 'im in the biscuits!

Digital Underground, "Doowutchyalike"


I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell
I am a hustler baby, I'll sell water to a well

Jay-Z, "U Don't Know"

slop101

Took the zipper down, eyes wide
Here's what I'm gonna put inside
Grab it like a rabbit

While profane, that last line is really clever.

Mondo Kane

I never was a Biggie fan, but going through all these lines posted by you guys has had me re-thinking just how strong of a lyricist he actually was.

NoirFan

A great opening verse from Ice Cube, from Really Doe:

"To G or not to G, is the question
And like Smith told Wesson
I'm shady with the .380 old school diploma
I'll leave that ass in a coma, so
If you got a herringbone, "Welcome to the Terrordome"
Two-eleven, sorry Reverend
Oh my god, gettin robbed
Reach for the small, "Atomic Dog"
Hard to swallow, janky as Rollo
Count to ten, and don't try to follow
Cause just like Waco, I can take fo' --
-- ATF, to they death
Bust a left on Western, go and get a room
Don't want to be a felon like Stacey Koon
Get the right bitch, hit the light switch, here we go
Tap that ass like this - really doe"

Jason

The first rap lyric that really stuck with me (I guess that qualifies as a 'favorite') was from Run DMC:

'Every jam we play, we break two needles,
There's three of us, but we're not the Beatles"

Sadly, that no longer applies to Run DMC or the Beatles, but it's fun to think back to a time when it did.

NoirFan

When they wrote that lyric, were Run DMC excluding John Lennon because he was dead, or did they honestly believe that The Beatles were a trio?

ElementZ

I have sooo many good ones but now I can't think of any. Let me see....try to go with some of the lesser known artists.

"I lace rhymes with dopeness
for the emcees that quote this
I triple the dosage"

-Pack FM

"The flows you all say show you are gay
Put holes in your suit like a flute so I can blow you away"

"Your rhymes are like radio edits, you aint saying shit"

"You dudes be all on our sacks like jazz players"

-Session

"I only fuck with female pilots cuz they got the illest cockpits"

-Tone Deff

"fuck alize, I'm sippin on some ethanol
stumblin, but I'll step to y'all
Pin you up against the wall then crush your face with a wrecking ball
See I lyrically merc your manz
so whoever's steppin must be higher than Steve Urkel's pants
Thinkin I'm a fall but you must be mistaken
Cuz the only time I stall is when the urinals are taken
So fuck losing (yo what you say)
I said fuck losing, I must have stuttered like Reuben"

-Quake

ElementZ

Now these are some crazy verses. Flow is nice on both as well

Tone Deff

Been waiting to spray this in any face to face engagement
I be coming off of the cuff, leaving your girl with a pearl bracelet
I'm firm and invasive. You diss, the response is abrasive
I will warp your fuckin' mind, like Hunter Thompson in Vegas
And won't be stopping for ages. Kid, you're merit is gainless
The numbers speak for themselves just like alphanumeric pages
Im out to replace the haste and poor taste that restrain us
With more signature lines in masterpieces than famous painters
You couldn't cut it close with a sheen tracer
When nobody's watching, I'll take over your set like a screen saver
Please see to your behavior. Tonedeff is ominous
Tearing out your heart just like bitches with broken promises
Honest. My rhymes will keep you in astonishment
(With) so many lines, I got geometrists with doctorates with postulates
But I'm on top of it, send 'em back to the lab
Kids be kickin' battle raps about the skills they don't actually have
So, I tactfully, polysyllabically, drastically stab em
With more lines than the amount of times that Ive been asked to collab
With this masterful plan, put your balls in a sling
A Constant winner in the summer, even make comp fall in the spring
It's all in a blink, cause I be visionary
These are definitive times, yo, I hope you got your watch and dictionary

Tekniq

I wanna fortune, I wanna make music and hit the lottery
Fortunately my music is never watery
That's how its gotta be, as far as I can see
Maybe you should grab a telescope to see my veiw its like astronomy
It aint all about economy
so the fact that these wack emcees is making G's don't bother me
Honestly, my number one policy is quality
never sell my soul is my philosophy
High velocity, lyrics like Nastradamus make a prophecy
I told you cats a long time a go it ain't no stoppin' me
I bomb your set that's not a threat its a promise
Got everybody ridin' on my wagon like the Amish
But still I never claim to be a big rap star
So no matter who you are its still Allah who act God
Better believe this, most rappers can't achieve this
I'm bad to the bone but x-rays can't even see this
See I'm strategic I letcha money talk bullshit walk
While I keep it rollin' like parapalegics
Whoever's on the microphone let it be known
You in danger, I got next(necks) like the Boston Strangler
You ain't never heard an emcee speak like this
And Rodney King ain't never felt a beat like this