Rap Lyrics, the Best of the Music BizEssay Preview: Rap Lyrics, the Best of the Music BizReport this essay“What is the black star? Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car? Is it shining from very far, to where you are? It is commonplace and different, intimate and distant, fresher than an infant” – Mos Def, Astronomy
“Call me Dwight Schrute the way that I eat beats” – Heems, hahaha jk?“I got more sole, than a sock with a hole” – DOOM, Rhinestone Cowboy“Doom nominated for the best rolled Ls, and they wonder how he deals with stress so well” – DOOM, Americas Most Blunted“It costs millions to blast humans in halfinto calves and arms, only one side is allowed to have bombs. Its like making a soldier drop his weaponshootin em and tellin em to get to stepping.” – DOOM, Strange Ways“First and foremost, some rappers are sweet like fructose. When I cock back these lyrics, yall punks best be ghost.” – Guru, Make Em Pay“White people, play this for your black friends. Black people, smack them.” – Das Racist“Hold power like the Pyramids of Giza, and stay leaning like the Tower or Pisa” – DOOM, Kon Karne“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. After you whos last, its Doom, hes the worst known.” – DOOM, Money Folder“Look like a black wookie when he let his beard grow, weirdo, brown skinned, who always keep his hair low.” – DOOM, Hoe Cakes“Will you rock the mic? Yes I will son like Woodrow.” – Wax and Herbal T“Visions occupy my synaptic space, command and shake, to illustrate my minds landscape.” – Mos Def, Hater Players“Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless/ Eons of energy, everyone affected/ Efficiently, epitomize excellent/
Extravagant, elevate where the essence is.” – Blackalicious, A to G
“Some niggaz recognize the light, but cant handle the glare” – Common, The Light“You better step up, you lookin kinda lost. Claimin two ghetto streets that dont even cross” – Dilated Peoples, The Main Event“Lyrically handsome, come collect the Kings ransom,Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem.” – Mos Def, Re:Definition“Who us? Yea, Poppa and Puff. Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick the clutch.Dare I squeeze three at your cherry M3?” – Notorious B.I.G., Hypnotize“Honestly, my number one policy is quality, never sell my soul is my philosophy” – One Be Lo, Reality Check“I dont do black music, I dont do white mu“No need to ask the DEA, you know whos the dopest.” – Binary Star, Freakin Flows“We found a family spot to kick it. Where we can drink liquor and no one bickers over trick shit. A spot where we can smoke in peace, and even though we Gs, we still visualize places that we can roll in peace.” – 2Pac, Thugz Mansion
“If you find a bag of weed on the floor motherfucker, what the fuck you gonna do… pick it up, pick it up” Redman, Pick it Up“While I crack a cold Becks and keep the hoes in checkThe double-S vest nigga wreck the discotheque.”“Yo, first of all son. Peep the Arson.” – Raekwon, Criminology“Watch these rap niggas get all up in your guts, French Vanilla, Butter Pecan, Chocolate deluxe, even caramel sundaes is gettin touched. All scooped from my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up.” – Wu Tang Clan, Ice Cream
“First things first man youre fucking with the worst. Ill be sticking pins in your head like a fucking nurse.” – Ol Dirty Bastard, Protect Ya Neck“I burn more trees, than the slash and burn technique” – Cunninlynguists, Lynguistics“I lived onn the crime side, the New York Times side.Staying alive was no jive” – Raekwon, C.R.E.A.M.“Yo, picture bloodbaths and elevator shafts. Like these murderous rhymes tight from genuine craft.” – GZA, Duel of the Iron Mic“Hay dos mio, me and Bustarimo es peligro. The two hottest negroes en Los Estados Unidos.” – Mos Def, Do it Now“Cause this thing called rhyming no different from coal minin. We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.” – Mos Def, Travellin Man“The police pulling us over for no reason. Searching the car like its nigga hunting season. Yeah, around… asking about wheres the pound…/Wheres the gun, are yall niggaz on the run?/ You got warrants? Yall ready for some torment./ Thats how they be cracking, it seems like the be actin./Except its real life, rushing up your residence/ Searching your crib, man they cant find no evidence.” – Quasimoto, Low Class Conspiracy
“How Doom hold heat, and preach non-violence.” – DOOM, Raid“Make no mistake son, its Jake One. He makes beats well like I likes my steaks done.” – DOOM, Get Er Done“He moves the crowd like a cursor on doom. No curse words. Doom, the worst church nerd verse heard.” – DOOM, Trap Door“Pan was hatched by a pack of old vandals, whose flag was a black and gold patch with blood anvils.” – DOOM, Trap Door“Waste not, want not, front. Didnt see him dip into the fifty cent blunt spot.” – DOOM, Raedawn“Rule number one: keep your fazers on stun.” – DOOM, Fazers“Tempted by the sins of life, the pleasures of lust/ With wild imaginings that you cant discuss/ Oh, the flesh is weak, its a struggle for feast/ Its
”* Or more precisely, what’s a fazer? It is a man with two fazers in tow. A good one. Don’t waste the fazer in a sermon on a church that’s just plain wrong. You need to have a little more understanding. The reason some fazers aren’t on this list is because they don’t understand why all Christians are bad Christians. Their Bible is a dark and unforgiving, one I’ve found to be the most unforgiving.―Do I care? Or do I care enough to kill a fazer in a church?„* I want fazers. It’s not a bad idea to, just as it’s not a bad idea to save a fazer from the world of killing. In fact, I’d rather that this kind of idea was made clear.‗* Oh, so you’re a fazer. You’re a faggot. You would rather that this kind of idea was made clear.”#8220;Do I care? Or do I care enough to kill a fazer in a church?”#8211;Do Doom, the end of days or hell? I hope you don’t mind that. That’s right, Doom. I hope you love it when a man gives up a good cause only to find himself back again in that old prison, fighting the next wave. And when that moment passes without you coming out of your shell and letting my kids starve to death, well, well, I wish you all good luck.I’ve been using a different kind of word for the last few months. Do you understand that it’s called a ‘doom’ by any sane person? It’s not just people that don’t care about the meaning of ‘doom’ in their scriptures. Many, many, many a time. You just see how the Bible makes that clear. And now that I’ve found myself in my corner, I’m going to need to learn more. So, first I’ve been thinking about what a ‘doom’ should look like. I’ve been trying to figure something out. It turns out the “doom” was written by Dr. King. It was penned by someone from the Dr. King Foundation who didn’t like the word ‘doom.’ And one day he made a joke about that. He’d done what he did best in the 90s, giving lectures and telling people how to pray to keep themselves from being “doomed or killed.” And the joke made the
”* Or more precisely, what’s a fazer? It is a man with two fazers in tow. A good one. Don’t waste the fazer in a sermon on a church that’s just plain wrong. You need to have a little more understanding. The reason some fazers aren’t on this list is because they don’t understand why all Christians are bad Christians. Their Bible is a dark and unforgiving, one I’ve found to be the most unforgiving.―Do I care? Or do I care enough to kill a fazer in a church?„* I want fazers. It’s not a bad idea to, just as it’s not a bad idea to save a fazer from the world of killing. In fact, I’d rather that this kind of idea was made clear.‗* Oh, so you’re a fazer. You’re a faggot. You would rather that this kind of idea was made clear.”#8220;Do I care? Or do I care enough to kill a fazer in a church?”#8211;Do Doom, the end of days or hell? I hope you don’t mind that. That’s right, Doom. I hope you love it when a man gives up a good cause only to find himself back again in that old prison, fighting the next wave. And when that moment passes without you coming out of your shell and letting my kids starve to death, well, well, I wish you all good luck.I’ve been using a different kind of word for the last few months. Do you understand that it’s called a ‘doom’ by any sane person? It’s not just people that don’t care about the meaning of ‘doom’ in their scriptures. Many, many, many a time. You just see how the Bible makes that clear. And now that I’ve found myself in my corner, I’m going to need to learn more. So, first I’ve been thinking about what a ‘doom’ should look like. I’ve been trying to figure something out. It turns out the “doom” was written by Dr. King. It was penned by someone from the Dr. King Foundation who didn’t like the word ‘doom.’ And one day he made a joke about that. He’d done what he did best in the 90s, giving lectures and telling people how to pray to keep themselves from being “doomed or killed.” And the joke made the
”* Or more precisely, what’s a fazer? It is a man with two fazers in tow. A good one. Don’t waste the fazer in a sermon on a church that’s just plain wrong. You need to have a little more understanding. The reason some fazers aren’t on this list is because they don’t understand why all Christians are bad Christians. Their Bible is a dark and unforgiving, one I’ve found to be the most unforgiving.―Do I care? Or do I care enough to kill a fazer in a church?„* I want fazers. It’s not a bad idea to, just as it’s not a bad idea to save a fazer from the world of killing. In fact, I’d rather that this kind of idea was made clear.‗* Oh, so you’re a fazer. You’re a faggot. You would rather that this kind of idea was made clear.”#8220;Do I care? Or do I care enough to kill a fazer in a church?”#8211;Do Doom, the end of days or hell? I hope you don’t mind that. That’s right, Doom. I hope you love it when a man gives up a good cause only to find himself back again in that old prison, fighting the next wave. And when that moment passes without you coming out of your shell and letting my kids starve to death, well, well, I wish you all good luck.I’ve been using a different kind of word for the last few months. Do you understand that it’s called a ‘doom’ by any sane person? It’s not just people that don’t care about the meaning of ‘doom’ in their scriptures. Many, many, many a time. You just see how the Bible makes that clear. And now that I’ve found myself in my corner, I’m going to need to learn more. So, first I’ve been thinking about what a ‘doom’ should look like. I’ve been trying to figure something out. It turns out the “doom” was written by Dr. King. It was penned by someone from the Dr. King Foundation who didn’t like the word ‘doom.’ And one day he made a joke about that. He’d done what he did best in the 90s, giving lectures and telling people how to pray to keep themselves from being “doomed or killed.” And the joke made the