Best lines

Prodigious

For me anyway, there's always one really powerful line or group of lines that makes the song.

For example:

Kanye West - Power
The line "He's so ... f*cking gifted" is unbelievable.

Zach's Story - Matt C

"Glass starts shattering, behind the loud echoes of the shots Zach's laughing and babbling..
All y'all thought y'all could f*ck with me? If you want me n*gga come get me"

Powerful stuff.


Anyone got any good ones?

Bobby Baccala

Didn't know tech was homophobic, theyre pretty fùckin immature lines on his behalf so.


For pure lyricism one of my favourite lines would have to be the opener for Unbelievable by Biggie

"Live from bedford stuyvesant, the livest one"

Another line I fùckin love and have to rap along with when I hear it is the second last line from Lauryn Hill on her verse in zealots

"And even after all my logic and my theory, I add a mother****er so you ignorant niggas hear me"

Prodigious

I don't think its a case that he's homophobic, more just taking the piss. The whole song is based on being a pr!ck so it suits the song.

Kanye West - Power
The line "He's so ... f*cking gifted" is unbelievable.

Zach's Story - Matt C

"Glass starts shattering, behind the loud echoes of the shots Zach's laughing and babbling..
All y'all thought y'all could f*ck with me? If you want me n*gga come get me"

Powerful ****.

floggg

Prodigious wrote: »

I don't think its a case that he's homophobic, more just taking the piss. The whole song is based on being a pr!ck so it suits the song.

I looked up the lyrics to check that I wasn't taking it out if context. That **** is straight up homophobic.

The whole point of using gay as an insult is that (in the eyes of the person making the insult) there is something wrong with being gay - or being perceived to be such.

floggg

"Real G's move in silence like lasagne."

Don't front, that **** is witty as hell. Took me like a week to get it!

Prodigious

Fair enough, the man him self is not homophobic to the best of my knowledge, but I can see how the lines are, I'll remove them.

Prodigious

BET Cypher

Big Sean: "Whoever told you sky is the limit is looking dumb, cos I'm 22 and I'm moon-walking on the sun"

DyldeBrill

Ship-shape crushed Grapes Apes that play tapes
Papes make drakes baked for the wakes
of an L-ah, An E-ah, simply just a leader
bass in his face means peace see ya later

Dinco D-Scenario


sooo many of them so ill just post this

floggg

Prodigious wrote: »

Fair enough, the man him self is not homophobic to the best of my knowledge, but I can see how the lines are, I'll remove them.

Don't remove them. It is what it is.

It's better this things are acknowledged and spark a conversation, then pretending they don't exist.

plasteritup

floggg wrote: »

"Real G's move in silence like lasagne."

Don't front, that **** is witty as hell. Took me like a week to get it!

a week to get that,what he is saying is that real gangsters don't make any noise when they are moving?at the same time comparing it to the silent g in lasagne yes?

I used to like a bit of rap still do when the mood takes me.

Andy_rse

I assume the lyrics being alluded to where Obnoxious by Immortal Technique. If so, I seen an interview with him where he says he has grown and realises its unacceptable to use language like that now (tho I'm pretty sure he still performs that song live). Whether or not he was homophobic and realised he shouldn't be overt about it, or isn't homophobic and never was and its just lyrics, I don't know. As was pointed out before, that song is meant to offend pretty much everyone, he's being a prick in it.

Same with Brother Ali, He used the word Fa**ot on 1 or 2 older tracks and says now he believes differently and doesn't use language like that any more. When he does those songs (or one imparticular, cos its the only one I can remember off the top of my head) he substitutes the word for something else.

He even has a "pro" gay song called Tight Rope (well technically it's only one verse)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCnqsm3AR0

Attitudes are definitely changing on the subject. Though of course we shouldn't be in the situation where they need changed!

---

Anyway back on topic

"Give me a break, I got bars like Kit-kats"

Double meaning galore

Jimmy Iovine

Jay Z - So Appalled

- I love this line. It can be about Harvey Dent, Tupac, Biggie, Heath Ledger or any musician/rapper who has died early in their career and not had to suffer the hatred of detractors that even the most popular of artists attract. Basically, die early and become a legend.

Dark Knight feeling, die and be a hero
Or live long enough to see yourself become a villain

Big Pun - Twinz

- this one does not need to be explained.

Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know
That we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddly

GZA - Killah Hills 10304

- sick lyrics from the GZA. For those of you who don't know, Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was John Gotti's right hand man when Gotti was the boss of the Gambino crime family in New York in the late '80s. The FBI got to Gravano and he worked with them to bring down Gotti and save himself. He was (and still is, I think) the highest ranking Mafia figure to co-operate with the law and break the Cosa Nostra oath.

As the feds rushed him, coming through U.S. Customs
Now look who's on the witness stand singing, a well known soprano
A smash hit from Sammy Gravano

Mr. Rager

"You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe" - Nicki Minaj

On the surface, simple name-calling. But, on a metaphorical level, Minaj attempts to delve deep into contemporary society, calling out unintelligent, promiscuous girls who are accepted as the norm all around the world in this harrowing social commentary.

Bobby Baccala

Mr. Rager wrote: »

"You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe" - Nicki Minaj

On the surface, simple name-calling. But, on a metaphorical level, Minaj attempts to delve deep into contemporary society, calling out unintelligent, promiscuous girls who are accepted as the norm all around the world in this harrowing social commentary.

A truely rivetting line in all respects, shook me to my core when I first interpreted it, evokes strong senses of female pride and unity.

Boom_Bap

and there was me thinking that line was always about this ridiculous looking gardening utensil:

conor.hogan.2

People need to listen songs before they judge them. That song does not show his actual beliefs no more than Hands on the wheel shows Q's opinions on drink driving. Also don't watch carlos mencia, ever.

KH888

Pharoahe Monch ~ Oh No

"I'm intellectual, pass more essays, than motorcade police parades through East L.A"

Unreal

kryogen

André 3000

"Where there is cheese there are rats,
Where there are rats there are cats,
Where ever there are cats there are dogs.
If you got the dogs you got bitches.
Bitches always out to put their paws on your riches."

Eminem

"whats the difference between us? We could start at the penis."

Just plain funny

" Why do I act like I'm all high and mighty when inside I'm dying. I've finally realized that I need help"

Bit more serious

"If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned"

"Fifty dollars for a t-shirt, that's just some ignorant bitch ****"

I literally have hundreds of favorite lyrics, but its late so lets just leave it at that for now

Prodigious

Immortal Technique - The Martyr

"Even the 35th President of the Republic
Was murdered by factions of his own government
So now that it’s proven, that a soldier of Revolution
Or head of an empire, disguised in a Constitution
Can not escape the retribution or manipulation
Of the self-appointed rulers of the planets corporations
So Imma need every generation to put your hands up
Cause you can only get ‘em off your back when you stand up!"

Bad Meets Evil - Above the Law
"You got a mouth like Kanye, I'll knock your whole bottom row of teeth out"

Blisterman

I always liked Jay Z's lines from Diamonds from Sierra Leone

"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"

"“Difficult TAkes A Day, Impossible Takes A Week”"

And his line in Beach Chair, which has really stuck in my head, since first hearing it.

"“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not trying”

Bobby Baccala

"I'd meet muslims, gangstas, bitches, rastas and macoroni niggas, impastas (imposters)" - Andre 3000

Lines like that are why I consider him one of the greatest MC's alive

Snowc

"Nine to five is how to survive, I ain't trying to survive / I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it a lot "

floggg

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

People need to listen songs before they judge them. That song does not show his actual beliefs no more than Hands on the wheel shows Q's opinions on drink driving. Also don't watch carlos mencia, ever.

I don't think you can really claim it's out if context. I get the concept of the song is to be obnoxious but he's not really using the gay slurs in any ironic sense. He sees calling somebody gay a put down.

Regardless of whether he believes in live and let live etc, he's lines clearly indicate that he sees being gay as a bad thing. Otherwise it wouldn't be a put down or insult, would it?

HATCHET IRL

"look in his casket feeling sarcastic, look at him still sleeping"

horsebox09

I'm tempted to quote every line from The Cold Vein and Jay-Z's Grammy Family freestyle in this thread :pac:

I am the poetical pastor
Slave to a label but I own my masters
Still get it popping without Artist And Repertoire
'Cause march is a monarch only minus the A&R - P. Monch; Desire

"The coke that I cook is as pure pure as child's heart" - Malice - Road Till the Casket Drops. Such a cold line

I threw my tape out on the streets and watched my tape lift off
With out a verse from Weezy, Kanye or the fake Rick Ross - Freddie Gibbs - Crushin' Feelin's

conor.hogan.2

"You lack the minerals and vitamins, irons and the niacin **** who that I offend, rappers sit back I'm bout to begin." O.C, Time's up.

im invisible

Extraterrestrials
runnin' over pedestrians
In a spaceship
while they screaming at me:
"LET'S JUST BE FRIENDS!"

Da Shins Kelly

Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell:

I drink Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in Hell,
From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell

Nas - NY State of Mind:

It drops deep as it does in my breath, I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death,
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined, I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind

Inpectah Deck - Triumph

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses,
Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery

Lauryn Hill - Final Hour

Now I'mma get the mozzarella like a Rockafeller,
Still be in the church of Lalibela, singing hymns acapella,
Whether posed in Mirabella in couture or collecting residuals off The Score

Eminem - The Way I Am (though much of the impact is in the delivery):

Since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse
And just blurt this berserk and bizarre sh*t that works,
And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve
All this tension dispensin these sentences
Getting this stress that's been eating me recently off of this chest
And I rest again peacefully

Q-Tip - Midnight:

Intensity, most rappers don't see it,
Spirit wise, musically, you gotta be it,
Serenity and silence of the sounds and emotions
In the concrete jungle and the sun don't bungle

Draper666

"I burn my name up quick like a Thai stick
As red as my eyes get I still rocks the fly ****" artifacts-wrong side of the tracks


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zdMKZ9o1kI

Or these lads are whop

"I'm on cloud 9, I keeps about a quarter pound of gunja
Oh I wonder, if I
could have a mega blunt session with my homeys, no question" clouds of smoke(call o da wild)

Prodigious

Kanye West - Bring Me Down

There'll always be haters, that's the way it is
Hater niggas marry hater bitches and have hater kids
...
You girl don't like me, how long has she been gay?
...
It's funny how these wack niggas need my help
Wasn't around when I couldn't feed myself
Dog, If I was you, I wouldn't feel myself
Dog, If I was you, I'd kill myself

Bobby Baccala

"And dont call it a comeback in particular
we will never blend into ephemera or
Fade into peripheral, transition of the minister's original
We're broadcast clear without diminishing
Black Star so tight, burning soul temperatures and ministers
Alkalines, aminos and minerals essentials
Served over dilla time signatures
It's miracle material, remember it's right now foreverness" - Mos Def, History

the shear amount of syllables in these lines is just ridiculous

tossy

witness...

I take 7 MC's put 'em in a line
And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme
Well, it'll take 7 more before I go for mine
Now that's 21 MC's ate up at the same time

numbnutz

Jay-Z Bring it on featuring Big Jaz & Sauce Money....

"Street knowledge amazin to scholars when we coin phrases for dollars"

Sums its genre up completely in one line imo.

...And "Straight up Nigga" by Ice -T just purely for the delivery and the imagery of the lyrics particularly...

"Nigga that's right fool look at me
Just the kinda nigga you'd like to hang from a tree
But all you KKK type grave diggers
Ease back fool cause I'm a trigger nigga"

powerful stuff back in '91

Osmosis Jones

"I can snap rap pack click clack patter pat pat
Take that ass to the point you have to ask for your ass back"-Treach, Yoke the Joker

"Tell me, do you have a clue of what to do
Can you groove to this smooth tune, you must presume"-Guru, Form of Intellect

"Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back
And **** Jill on a hill, but you still ain't Jack"-Eminem, 313

"Calling on his name and screaming hallelujah
When he hardly knew ya, that's how the devil's fooled ya"-Killah Priest, Basic Instructions Before Leving Earth

Prodigious

Nas - Back When

For Vernon; 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street
Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials
Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true
Who possesses the testicular fortitude
To blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you

floggg

Phone - Let it be Known (Sean Price)

"Back in the day hoes used to say he's too proper
Now he's the main attraction like Mufasa
I ain't lying, but if you think that I ain't trying
To be the best you need to rewind this"

Pharoahe Monche - Simon Says

"New York City Gritty Committee pity the fool
That acts gritty in the midst of the calm, the witty"

Pharoahe Monche - Oh No
"Pharohe's flows blows shows like Afros"

Jimmy Iovine

Just thought of another two. Well I was listening to Buck 50 from Supreme Clientele and I heard them.

Redman - a genuine LOL line.

And your weed got more seeds than ODB

Ghostface - pretty unreal verbal dexterity.

Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious
Dociousaliexpifragalisticcalisuper

Prodigious

Eminem - Emulate

I stimulate the brain,
mimic, emulate the sane,
cynic, keep on thinking it's a f*cking gimic when it ain't

TheBza

"Cause 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 **** if this chick was my own mother
I still **** 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

S28382

"You go busting your fist against a stone wall,
you're not using your brain. That's what the white man wants you to do.
Look at you! What makes you ashamed of being black?"

Great start to a great song.

Jason Todd

This Method Man line from 'The Turn' always makes me laugh without fail!

Honey's "bee" like Meth, I be like what?
They want some free cd's, I'm like "see these" nuts

mufcboy1999

There's a few gems on xzibits napalm album.

The greatest trick that devil ever put together
Was that self destruction is better than striving for perfection.

Forever a G ft wiz

Jimmy Iovine

Rakim - Classic

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

BadCompany

A few sprung to mind;

Kweli's second verse on Blackstar's "Definition" gets me every time, the repetition of the "e" sound coupled with the delivery is fantastic.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history
Of spitting the epitome of stupidity
Living my life, expressing my liberty, it gotta be done properly
My name is in the middle of equality

One of the best songs I've heard as far as one-liners are concerned is Big L and Jay-Z's "7 Minute Freestyle" start to finish, I still listen to it on a regular basis in spite of the fact that the audio quality of the track is very poor (on any copy I've found anyway). Winner for me has to be this;

Big L is the nigga you expect to catch wreck in any cassette deck
I'm so ahead of my time, my parents haven't met yet

A bit of a left-field choice finally, I've always really liked GZA's opening lines on Raekwon's "Guillotine Swordz" (certainly not his finest hour but I think it's just a great way of announcing his arrival on the track after great verses from Inspectah Deck, Ghost and Rae);

The nigga don't get mad, I got mad styles of my own
And it's shown when my hand grips the chrome microphone

Probably loads more but can't think at the minute!

TheBza

"The smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in your box if your **** eats tapes!"

Or pick any other line on Illmatic!

Bobby Baccala

TheBza wrote: »

"The smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in your box if your **** eats tapes!"

Or pick any other line on Illmatic!

"A two day stay, you may say I need the time alone to relax my dome, no phone, left the nine at home"

Illmatic is packed out with classic lines!

Chewabacca

Masta Killa's rap in Da Mystery Of Chessboxing.

"Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide, when he dies?
In his own iniquity it's the
Master of the Mantis Rapture coming at you
We have an APB on an MC Killer
Looks like the work of a Master
Evidence indicates that's it's stature
Merciless like a terrorist hard to capture"

All the raps in that song really deliver, U Gods opening is a beast.

danbrosnan

I'm seeing a couple things wrong with the way that I'm living
So come and walk with me I just need a second opinion
Introduce you to my friends I got to see if you notice
If they loyal or if they all got an ulterior motive : - Joe Budden 'WALK WITH ME'

Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
You'll be alright
While I'm tryna catch z's at night
You think that it's an easy life?
**** that I'm sleeping with my heat tonight : - Kano 'SLEEP TIGHT'

My soul's been fed tonight
Everything that I choose
Still can't forget Grey Goose
Converse covered with mixer juice
And all my niggas rollin up in the booth
Who got me on another one
Someone please roll me another one
They tell me all good things must end
Well those mutha****as ain't have this friend : - Kid Cudi 'Marijuana'

You're beginin' to think women
are swimming in pink linen again in the sink
Then in a couple of minutes that bottle of Guinness is finished
You are now allowed to officially slap bitches
You have the right to remain violent and start wilin'
Start a fight with the same guy that was smart eyin' you
Get in your car, start it, and start drivin' : - Eminem 'Drug Ballad'

Mother****ers - say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels (bling bling)
Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?
See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined
That same dude you gave nothin, I made somethin doin
what I do through and through and
I give you the news - with a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view:- Jay Z 'Renegade'

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'll 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 in his marriage
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 mother****in drug addict - like you didn't experiment? : - Eminem ' Renegade'


Eminem absolutely destroyed, raps best, on renegade...

danbrosnan

Bet cha nobody knows who this is : -

Forbidden streets, forbidden nights, broken teeth, stupid fights...
Getting older, my voice is colder, my girl just given the ****ing cold shoulder,
Cant make ends meet or get on my feet....
Wrote on walls saying biggies smalls, please god let me prove them all, cause if you don't, i just might fall........

???????????????????????

Snowc

"This communist talk is so confusing when it's from China, the very mic that I'm using."

tossy

In the true essence of rap a line talking absolute nonsense...

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is. I get more props den stunts from Bruce Willis