I live right around the corner from West Hell,
Two blocks from South Shit, and once in a jail cell.
- Treach, “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Ghetto Bastard),” from Naughty By Nature’s Naughty By Nature, 1991
So fuck what ya heard.
- Sadat X, “Show Business,” from A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, 1991
- Q-Tip, “Check the Rhime,” from A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, 1991
I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer,
And wake up to be greeted by an argument again…
…You act like you’re ten.
So immature. I try to concentrate on a cure,
And keep lookin’ at the front door.
- Large Professor, “Lookin at the Front Door,” from Main Source’s Breaking Atoms, 1991
Through all your travels, I’m wishing you a peaceful journey.
- Heavy D, “Peaceful Journey,” from Heavy D. & the Boyz’ Peaceful Journey, 1991. Damn…RIP The Heavster, gone too soon and joining Trouble T-Roy in the afterlife. 1967-2011.
- Parrish Smith, “Rampage”, from EPMD’s Business as Usual, 1991
Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
Causing aggravation, I’ll never pause,
Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.
- Busta Rhymes, “Case of the P.T.A.,” from The Leaders of the New School’s Future Without A Past, 1991
- Sadat X, “Show Business,” from A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, 1991
Come on everybody, wear your rollerskates today
It’s Saturday…
- De La Soul, “A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Saturdays,’” De La Soul is Dead, 1991
Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.
- Chuck D., “Rebirth,” from Public Enemy’s Apocalypse ‘91…The Enemy Strikes Black, 1991
Too much of anything makes you an addict…
- Greg Nice, “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow,” from Nice & Smooth’s Ain’t a Damn Thing Changed, 1991
In my brain, I got a capitalist migraine.
- Ice-T, “New Jack Hustler,” New Jack City soundtrack, 1991 (via ninetynow)
You can burn your cross,
Well, I’ll burn your flag…
- Ice Cube, “I Wanna Kill Sam,” Death Certificate, 1991
- Q-Tip, “Verses from the Abstract,” from A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, 1991
