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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

No what you hear is he's rappin to the beat.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I’ve always thought this was a pretty good one:

real G's move in silence like lasagna

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They call me the Hiphopopotamus

My lyrics are bottomless

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They call me the Hiphopopotamus Flows that glow like phosphorous Popping off the top of this esophagus Rocking this metropolis I’m not a large water-dwelling mammal Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that perchance?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't just say "perchance".

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

On Doomsday, ever since the womb β€˜Til I’m back where my brother went, that’s what my tomb will say

Right above my government; Dumile. Either unmarked or engraved, hey, who’s to say?

-MF Doom, Doomsday

I really love the wordplay with his government name 'Dumile' having a double meaning of 'Doom'll lay'. There are a bunch of other MF Doom lyrics in contention for goat status, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

"Lookie here, it's just the way the cookie tear, prepare to get hurt and mangled like Kurt Angle, rookie year." -Great Day

DOOMS lyrics are insane.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Or

when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung

Really that whole song is a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My anaconda don't want none

Unless you got buns hon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

But, ya know, who understands those rap guys?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

fuck tha police

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Ice cream scoopin', shittin' poopin', shittin', poopin'

But more seriously, MF DOOM (RIP) is one of my favourite artists, but he's been covered in a few comments already. But one of my favourites from him is:

Getting paid like a biker with the best crank
Spray it like a high-ranked sniper in the West Bank

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

fuckin magnets how do they work?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

interior crocodile alligator, I drive a Chevrolet movie the-atre

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Head to Bali, smoking cuban cigars, And we fuck up the party like acoustic guitars

"fuck up the party like acoustic guitars" always cracked me up so much.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be dropping these mockeries"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Any couplet from Warren G's Regulate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, nate dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know if it's the best of all time, but I really enjoy this from Common ('Sixth Sense’):

I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected
How many dead folks this art resurrected
How many nations this culture connected
Who am I to judge one's perspective?
Though some of that shit y'all pop true it, I ain't relating
If I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm hating

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

One for the money, two for the better green

3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It drops deep as it does in my breath. I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The Drop [Intro] Victor, a stranger to see you Who that? Who that, who that?

[Verse: Viktor Vaughn] If I'm not working or putting work in I'm either wheeling and dealing, or probably jerkin myβ€” Yepβ€”listening to nothing, taking no suggestions Or destructive criticisms, that can't improve on perfection Rock a crowd in sections on a good night, the hoes fight Always get the dough first then everything else goes right At least that's what they say and who the fuck is they? Make a hick say β€œwhat the hey?” brought that chick from sick bay Ensign, he shoulda asked his upperclassmen Before he bust blast em, never trust no Cardassians Captain’s log supplemental The Klingons are now aboard the Enterprise rental vessal On my cue, photon torpedo Oh and if I'm not on the block with Jorgito And so on for the street though, smoke a pound of leek though I'm jokin on the fact that hip-hop has gone freakshow Don't let the drama get you In the only genre of music where the fans shoot the messenger Bitch niggas talk behind your back like a catcher Either M-Y-O-B or B-Y-O-stretcher In that order: man, woman, son, daughter The beat sound like they underwater, make it fun to slaughter Even if you hear some wack shit you never give a chance Some shit sound like all you could do off it is river-dance It's not a hobby, don't be sloppy Doing deals with these labels is likened to a botched robbery Nobody supposed to get bodied, golly! This shit is like a folly 'bout to cold flip, probably It's not me, he got ill spills knot in Brooknam Where even though kids kill they still chill and look calm While working on new developments for the book bomb In one bad experiment, it blew and took a hooker arm ("Arm and leg") BOW! look mom, no hand Studied black magic for years out in no man's land It's like a barbecue, all-swine cookout To fuck up they plans like a blind man lookout Cram to overstand it, peep it and absorb it The same way he keep all the planets in they proper orbit Norbit, y'all better off going corporate Nobody wanna hear that bullshit it's too morbid There's no prints, he hold the mic with a mic glove And rolls dolo from state to state like Ike Love Like on top of the world loser keep it gully Rap creeps seem they got too much juice in they belly It's why they brung V he still hungry And spit something thick on the mic like a lungy Mind ya daughter she on line for the water To get lucky like when she find a quarter kinda sorta Remember me God, clean timbs with emery board? He only came to save the game like a memory card Ooh shrewd, a lot of crews is too rude And it's way too many let's not and say we do dudes He said 24-7 I be on call He use his vacation days to watch Babylon fall Numbskulls.. get to stepping they dumb dull And how he rep the mic is like the weapon from Krull Cats be like "what's wrong with your man black?" Biohazard suit and Van Grack for the anthrax Jeez and can't get no peace Form blazin sword for the police robeast Cochise, write a rhyme like a book report And sell it to a rookie you could tell by the hook he bought You ain't know he sell hooks and choruses? They couldn't bang the slang if they looked in thesauruses It's like a friendly game of dodge ball Oddball God y'all, who played the garage wall With the Stan Smith's checkerboard lace And the brand new INF they ain't check the boy waist You saw his face? so who next to get they neck chopped Or popped like a Beck's top, respect the drop It's too much wreck hops Who next to get they neck chopped Or popped like a Beck's top, respect the drop Woopdie-do flows do fifty like a hooptie do Groupie crews try to figure out from what coop he flew They out of place, beats sounds like outer space With no time to waste he was Audi without a trace

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

And another classic:

Viktor the director flip a script like Rob Reiner The way a lotta dudes rhyme their name should be "knob shiner" For a buck, they'd likely dance the Jig or do the Hucklebuck To Vik it's no big deal, they're just a buncha knuckle-fucks

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My love is like lightening. It gives girls orgasms. My dick is like an airplane. It gives girls orgasms.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
Thinkin' of a master plan
'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand
So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent
So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster

Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar

Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er

I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller

You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you got bad breath then maybe try Scope

And if you wash your ass you best use soap

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

What good is takin' over When we know what you gon' do? The only real revolution happens right inside of you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

"Who's that peekin' in my window? Pow! Nobody now"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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 mineβ€”what's my name?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Picture this I'm a bag of dicks Put me to your lips I am sick I will punch a baby bear in his shit

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Step up in this motherfucker just a-swingin' my hair.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"I take seven kids from columbine, stand'em all in line, add an ak-47 a revolver, a nine, a mac-11 and it'll solve a problem of mine and that's a whole school of bully's shot up all at one time."

So this lyric is notable, not just for being edgy, but also because it was a product of it's time. It was published during the height of tipper gore and hillary clinton trying to appease the "moral majority" by attempting to censor rap music which is called out in the album.

Ultimately the lyric is self-censored because while the artist could have gotten away with it, the label was playing it safe, even though nothing about the lyric would have tripped the moral panic alarm. After all the rapper was white referencing a white event.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

"Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddily."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Biggie: "Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes at Penn State" or "Now honeys play me close like butter play toast"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

"Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy." - _Daylight_Aesop Rock

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I seen his feet and they both lefty

He's only steppin half correctly

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