Hip Hop Quotables

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Since I see the caf has very knowledgeable Hip Hop crowd, how bout we list our favourite lines. Battle lines that made you go...oh what the feck! or just plain being dumbstruck after finding 3 metaphors in one bar...

I'll start with a few:

"If your record goes platinum its nothing to do with luck; it just means a million people are stupid as feck" - Immortal Technique

"I'm never gonna die, I never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed, only the flesh; so when niggas try to murder me with bullets to the head, this is why you can't kill me nigga i'm already dead." - Nas

“I bomb atomically. Socrates’ philosophies and hypothesis can’t define how I be droppin’ these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me.” - Inspectah Deck

“Ya crew featherweight
My gunshots’ll make ya levitate
I’m only nineteen but my mind is old
and when things get fa real my warm heart turns cold
another nigga deceased, another story gets told." - Prodigy from Mobb Deep
 
yo Shaq where ya at?
I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
yo yo I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
Phife I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
Phife I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
yo yo I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
Phife Dawg I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
I'm over here
get on the microphone and just rip the track

- Shaquille O'Neal aka Shack Attack
 
Maestro Minded said:
yo Shaq where ya at?
I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
yo yo I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
Phife I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
Phife I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
yo yo I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
Phife Dawg I'm over here
yo Shaq where ya at?
I'm over here
get on the microphone and just rip the track

- Shaquille O'Neal aka Shack Attack
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:lol::lol::lol: Seriously now...
 
There's too many rappers in the East wanna be gangsters
Too many gangsters in the West wanna be rappers
Bunch of actors - I ought to smack ya - who's your master?

Killah Priest
 
AZ said:
And all hoods I hang with mix slang in they language
Love, kickin that gang shit, sellin on the same strip
Hustlin hard, no matter how much we hated
So dedicated, even our dreams are drug related
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Nas said:
Don assassins, armageddon, the wettin'
Never freakin the beast, seven heads, got the righteous threatened
Life Was Written, the plot curves behind the settin'
Comprehend the grammar, Manfrione -- are you the type of nigga
to shoot a leg to get your name known?
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Rakim said:
Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits
Friends get wet tryin’ to make ends connect
Avenues to check, boulevards to sweat
The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes
We got clicks for wreck
We like pits for pets
We got giants and jets, the knicks, yanks and mets
We like much respect and sex extra wet
And high-tech dialect you ain’t catch yet
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GZA said:
[GZA]
Welcome to the Jungle where the cat loves to scratch
The rat squeals
And the polar bear feasts on the blubber of seals
The pack of wolves be scheming on a bunch of gazelles
Where the leopards grab the wilderbeast down by it's tail
You see the chimps they grow hips they hustle and sling in trees
Elephants for security that move tons of leaves
The bluebirds arrest parrots that love to talk
or eagles that stalk fresh-water trout under the wing of the hawk
You see the vultures pick the pocket of whatever remain
In the brain we watch but a shadow of the lion's mane
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Some of my favourites.
 
[GZA]
We were at the same table when the chips were checked
A gamblin +Rebel+ who +Inspects+ the +Deck+
Just when you thought we would fold our hand
Against all odds we raised the bet like we changed the plans
It was live on air but in between station breaks
I was holdin a pair and just made the table stakes
Split the demos, put insurance on tapes
A safeguard against the crusaders in capes
If I double down they say the Gods are sharks
If we win against the house they thought the cards was marked
We draw hit after hit from a royal flush menu
While the dealer promoted the full house venue
A spade in the club with the heart to wear diamonds
The high roller who got credit upon signin
They look puzzled when I shuffle, most of 'em stunned by the hustle
Recourse of bluff game's your muscle

The GZA...Wu Tang Clan - Back in the game on Iron Flag album, sick metaphor rhyming.
 
Stretch said:
:lol::lol::lol: Seriously now...
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Ok, i'm guessing that most quotes here will be from eastcoast rappers, so let me introduce some great westcoast ones.

Ras Kass
You ain't got enough calcium to have a bone to pick wit' me
Like a gracie I choke a nigga out wit' his own gi
On me, feck they whole batallion
I'll chop ya head off and wear ya skull like sophmore medallions, papi
I'm the one wit da million dolla' smile and three dollars to my name
Puttin black eyes in the game like mascara
Diabetic MC's must think shit is sweet
These venomous techniques, I leave heat
 
Maestro Minded said:
Ok, i'm guessing that most quotes here will be from eastcoast rappers, so let me introduce some great westcoast ones.

Ras Kass
You ain't got enough calcium to have a bone to pick wit' me
Like a gracie I choke a nigga out wit' his own gi
On me, feck they whole batallion
I'll chop ya head off and wear ya skull like sophmore medallions, papi
I'm the one wit da million dolla' smile and three dollars to my name
Puttin black eyes in the game like mascara
Diabetic MC's must think shit is sweet
These venomous techniques, I leave heat
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Man I love me some Ras Kass...
 
I love this line.

Dr Dre said:
When I flow, niggaz know, it's time to take a hike
Cause I grab the mic and flip my tongue like a dyke
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Common
They say become I doctor, but I don't have the patients/patience
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and

Tribe Called Quest
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am.
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.
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Bit of Busta in a Tribe song
Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind
Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind
Powerful impact (BOOM!) from the cannon
Not braggin, try to read my mind just imagine
Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary
When diggin into my library
Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
Eating Ital stew like the one Peter Tosh-a
UH uh UH, all over the track, man
UH, pardon me, UH, as I come back
As I did it yo I had to beg your pardon
When I travel to the Sun I roll with the squadron
RRRRRROAW RRRRRRROAW like a dungeon dragon
Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin
Try to step to this, I will twist you in a turban
And have you smelling rank, like some old stale urine
Chickity-choco, the chocolate chicken
The rear cockdiesel but chicks they were kicking
Yo, bustin out before the Busta bust a nut the rhyme
the rhythm is in sync (UHH!) the rhymes are on time (TIME!)
Rippin up the sound just like a radio
Observe the rhyme and check out the scenario!!
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Public Enemy
No, you can't have it back silly rabbit
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There's a ghetto up in heaven and it's ours,
Black power!
That's what I scream in a paranoid state
and our fate is a life time of hate -2pac

I ain't no killer but don't push me
revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy-2pac
 
Considered as one of the best if not the best first verse in rapping I give you Inspectah Deck from Wu Tang in "Triumph"
ps: I know Stretch posted it but it wasn't the entire verse
[Inspectah Deck]
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me
Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits
tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics
I inspect you, through the future see millenium
Killa B's sold fifty gold sixty platinum
Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics
Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths
Black Wu jackets queen B's ease the guns in
Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function
Heads by the score take flight incite a war
Chicks hit the floor, diehard fans demand more
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly
Proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock
Wu got it locked, performin live on your hottest block
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Lil Wayne

I'm so high I can eat a star
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Drake/Goat
Uhh, set up the occasion,
I’m up in the place in
If amazing was a young bitch I'd be going to jail...cause I'm fecking amazing
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Kill the game no one recovers the murder weapon
Young angel if ya hate me tell me burn in heaven
How’d you sleep on me, the highest earning freshmen
Like ya 3rd infection, I hope ya learned ya lesson
Yeah
I spit raw but I prefer protection
I own her heart and her mind, and the shirt she slept in
Bitch I got the answer,and still ain’t heard the question
I shut ya club down, please reserve my section
feck a confrontation, they aint no cakin’ it
And im cakin’ bitch, so tell me why I take a break from it
The mother of your child always tell you im her favorite
She call me her baby, not the one she was in labor with
She say “oh you taste good”, i say “oh just savor it”
She know that she love a n-gga, i be on that major shit
Cause I get paid to stand, and I get paid to sit
So i don’t walk around with money, baby girl im made of it
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Immortal technique (Dance with the devil).I feel twisted when I hear this last part of his outstanding song
Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life
He thought about the cocaine with the platinum and ice
And he felt strong standing along with his new brothers
Cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover
But what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter
Cause he was starring into the eyes of his own mother
She looked back at him and cried, cause he had forsaken her
She cried more painfully, than when they were raping her
His whole world stopped, he couldn't even contiplate
His corruption had successfully changed his fate
And he remembered how his mom used to come home late
Working hard for nothing, cause now what was he worth
He turned away from the woman that had once given him birth
And crying out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared
But only the devil responded, cause god wasn't there
And right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold
And so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul
They say death take you to a better place but I doubt it
After that they killed his mother, and never spoke about it
And listen cause the story that I'm telling is true
Cause I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom to
And now the devil follows me everywhere that I go
In fact I'm sure he's standing among one of you at my shows
And every street cypher listening to little thugs flow
He could be standing right next to you, and you wouldn't know
The devil grows inside the hearts of the selfish and wicked
White, brown, yellow and black colored is not restricted
You have a self destructive destiny when your inflicted
And you'll be one of gods children and fell from the top
There's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot
So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever
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On a more serious note, I always thought this was pretty good;

Bear witness
To where riches'll make career bitches share pictures
When the ears get this ya brainses software'll glitches
Splatter your brains
Leave scattered remains of matter and stains
That'll explain how you was battled and slain
I get rude and go, to your show and use a row
of fans to BOO and throw you off 'til you lose your flow
A pro mean like Joe Greene when I blow theme
Put your whole team on pause like cold cream
Then show laughter when I flow faster, your hoe haveta
go after her weave from the breeze when I blow past ya
I'm dapper plus ghetto and just pedal
When the dust settles we left in the rubble the crushed metal
Nurses with hearses sealin conversed with lit purses
Spit fire, make you first to bit, try me
Like Osama, or Dahmer, I'ma cause trauma
And homicides when I collide I get kamikaze
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-Percy P (from J5)
 
Jay-Z- Originally from a freestyle, but then used as his verse on the Lost remix (coldplay)

Aha, I gotcha, uh...
With the same sword they knight you, they gon' good night you with
Shit, that's only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm
See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Caesar, see Brutus, see success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
 
Mos Def - Mr N*gga

You can laugh and criticize Michael Jackson if you wanna
Woody Allen, molested and married his step-daughter
Same press kicking dirt on Michael's name
Show Woody and Soon-Ye at the playoff game, holding hands
Sit back and just bug, think about that
Would he get that type of dap if his name was Woody Black?
OJ found innocent by a jury of his peers
They been fecking with that Nigga for last five years
Is it fair, is it equal, is it just, is it right?
Do they do the same shit when the defendent face is white?
If white boys doing it, well, it's success
When I start doing, well, it's suspect
Don't hate me, my folks is poor, I just got money
America's five centuries deep in cotton money
You see a lot of brothers caked up, yo straight up
It's new, Y'all living off of slave traders paper
But I'm a live though, yo I'm a live though
Putting up the big swing for my kids yo
Got my mom the fat water-front crib yo
I'm a get her them pretty bay windows
I'm a cop a nice home to provide in
A safe environment for seeds to reside in
A fresh whip for my whole family to ride in
And if I'm still Mr Nigga, I won't find it suprising
 
I've only seen one film and it's got Al Pacino in it ~
I spit my rhymes cos I dunno how to read em init! ~
all my clothes are too big, and everything's a stream of gimmicks ~
I'm a fecking gangster!, trust I've got a speeding ticket! ~
-65-70% of rappers

Cos the little kids'll listen what you tell 'em in your lyrics ~
if you aint selling guns then why you selling them the image ~
is it something where you feel responsibility's diminished bruv? ~
something you should think about before your lyrics finished up ~
-Chester P Hackenbush

Chatting big billy bollocks on the mic when they spit ~
and if it's real life, it's the real life of a dick ~
deserving of a righteous slicing of a knife to the wrists ~
a man with a gun's a pussy who can't fight with his fists ~
-Poster of the Year 2009
 
Tibs said:
Mos Def - Mr N*gga

OJ found innocent by a jury of his peers
They been fecking with that Nigga for last five years
Is it fair, is it equal, is it just, is it right?
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Yes.


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Bad example to use
 
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
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Binary Star
 
I'm deeply upset none of you have dropped this yet....shame on you

Sharp like a razor, Speed to amaze ya.
Best ya like Ali did Joe Fraizer
I reminisce back to the school yard.
I used to work hard. I used to play hard.
Got my kicks from hitting the net.
Not from drugs. You bet
We're Outstanding
- Andy Cole
 
not until you listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top
have you heard hip hop
extract the urban element which created it
and let a open wide country side illustrate it
riding in a freight train
in the freezing rain
listening to Coltrane
my reality went insane
and i think i saw Jesus
he was playing hopscotch with Betty Carter
who was cursing him out
in a scat-like gibberish for not saying 'butterfingers'
and my fingers run through grains of sand
like seeds of time
the pains of man
the frames of mind
which built these frames
which is the structure of my urban superstructure
the trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your planes of thought
so you that forget how to walk through the woods
which ain't good cuz you ain't never walked through the trees
listenin' to nobody beats the biz and you ain't never heard hip hop
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Saul Williams
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
Another round, get down for consecutive challenges
And when the doc goes off you'll be, like, strugglin' to handle this
I speak of your defeat at the hands of the rapturous
With a shout out to Smashed 'cause you're a lyrical pacifist
See your style comes across like it's totally fraudulent
I see you trippin' over nouns, verbs, vowels and consonants
With precious little regard felt for rhyming with consequence
Dude, your flow squirts out like the foulest incontinence

On my screen all I've seen is a verbal dichotomy
About as much rhyme sense as your chance at the lottery
See all these cats rap lines like they've had a lobotomy
While Dr. Dwayne's in this game slangin' lyrical sodomy
So good, so tight in some states it's a crime
To be this dope on the keyboard, effervescent I shine
Yeah I keep my mind sharp so I stay in my prime
Plus I pack a four-five no you ain't gettin' mine

When I strike it's lightning, you can feel the thunder
I'm filling minds all the time with a new sense of wonder
You'd better listen to your physician, that's the Dr. of Rhymes
Dropping bombs with precision, the distinctly sublime
I've always got the right prescription see my skills are refined
All the syllables accounted for, opponents maligned
Though by now you know I'm quite like no other kind
It's Dr. Dwayne in your brain and I'm blowing your mind.
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Probably my finest moment in rhyme.
 
Mockney said:
I'm deeply upset none of you have dropped this yet....shame on you

Sharp like a razor, Speed to amaze ya.
Best ya like Ali did Joe Fraizer
I reminisce back to the school yard.
I used to work hard. I used to play hard.
Got my kicks from hitting the net.
Not from drugs. You bet
We're Outstanding
- Andy Cole
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feckin hell, you're serious, just youtube'd the track

you see, this is what might happen when all your friends are "yes man"

tremendously horrible
 
Jazz and Awol that's our team
Step inside the party disrupt the whole scene
When it comes to beats well I'm a fiend
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
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Beastie Boys
 
Ol Dirty:
Now all and together now, to what what who?
Rhymes come stinky like a girl's poo-poo

Edan:
somebody throws a baby
Oh Shit!
do a spin move and catch it and the crowd goes crazy

Notorious:
i got cha caught up with the funk flow
feck tae kwon doe i tote a four-four

My absolute fave 2pac verse in its entirety:

With all this extra stressin
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
they punish the people that's askin questions
And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference
Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
It wasn't nuttin like the game
It's just me against the world
 
This one girl tried to Billie Jean me
But I was wearing 2 rubbers so name that nigga Houdini
Controversial reversal, this is my planet
You're just a Reebok commercial

Ras Kass

Don't step to this coz I got a live crew
You might be kinda big but they make coffins your size too
I was taught wise, I'm known to extort guys
This aint Cali, this is Harlem nigga we do walk bys

Big L

9 out of 10 niggas is frauds
You know who you are always talkin about your bitches and your cars,
Your jewelry and your girls, It's like we from two different worlds
You motherfeckers really get on my nerves
Cause I'm beyond them, on some futuristic cyborg shit
I close my eyes when I freestyle so I could read what prints across them
Then raise my arms like a sorcerer and cast a fireball into the
audience
To barbecue your brain organs
You feel like you've been thrown in a microwave oven
I flame grill suckers
Then hit 'em with some more shit, the raw shit
Call my reinforcements, the four horsemen
Take a big piece of chalk and draw a line across the stage pulpit
I dare a motherfecker to cross it

Canibus

Flawless victory you niggaz can't do shit to me
Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically
I'm the epitome of catchin' wreck, catch you when you cash your check
Smash you when you pass then jack you for your feckin' Lex
Nothin' less than the best if the squad did it
Hard-headed niggaz better beware and fear like God said it

Big Pun
 
I love Big L

so we could never be a couple hun
feck love all i got for hoes is hard dick and bubble gum

I cook a mic like a beef steak
cuz my techniques great
and im the n*gger police hate
in each state

big L is that nigga you expect - to catch wreck on any cassette deck,
im so ahead of my time my parents havnt met yet,
 
Canibus Freestyle on Funk Flex Vol 3

For all you niggaz sayin that my shit is sick, just imagine
the ninety percent of my brain that I ain't even used yet
Take a deep breath, quick, suck in as much air
as my lungs will permit -- then I start to kick that shit
I been gettin busy before the planets started to turn
Before the bees, the birds, and Adam and Eve occured
Prior to all creation, in other words
When the female egg will merge with the man's sperm
I stand firm, my words burn through your exterior
The eat away at your materia, I'm superior
While you only pretend to be, I can double my density
from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly
Six, multiplied by five by four by three by two
then one, go head and calculate the sum
The time has cometh, I was summoned to punish
Motherfeckers with mouths to run it ? with rubbish
When I come through, niggaz stand stiller than statues
Cause if I have to, I'll battle your whole rap crew
Then I'll attack you with words that's absurd
and rip your feckin skin off just to get on your nerves
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