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
Was that a test?
No what you hear is he's rappin to the beat.
I’ve always thought this was a pretty good one:
real G's move in silence like lasagna
They call me the Hiphopopotamus
My lyrics are bottomless
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?
You can't just say "perchance".
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.
My anaconda don't want none
Unless you got buns hon
But, ya know, who understands those rap guys?
fuck tha police
On Doomsday, ever since the womb ‘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.
Rip
"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.
fuckin magnets how do they work?
"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"
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
interior crocodile alligator, I drive a Chevrolet movie the-atre
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.
"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be dropping these mockeries"
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
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left.
Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.
One for the money, two for the better green
3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine
It drops deep as it does in my breath. I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.
My love is like lightening. It gives girls orgasms. My dick is like an airplane. It gives girls orgasms.
My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist
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
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
If you got bad breath then maybe try Scope
And if you wash your ass you best use soap
What good is takin' over When we know what you gon' do? The only real revolution happens right inside of you
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 mine—what's my name?
"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.
"Who's that peekin' in my window? Pow! Nobody now"
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
I seen his feet and they both lefty
He's only steppin half correctly
Step up in this motherfucker just a-swingin' my hair.
Biggie: "Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes at Penn State" or "Now honeys play me close like butter play toast"
"Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddily."
"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
Have you ever had sex with a pharaoh?
I put that pussy in a sarcophagus
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