The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket

- Q-Tip, “Verses from the Abstract,” from A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, 1991

But some find happiness while others find sorrow,
And what’s here today, may be gone tomorrow.

- Guru, “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,” from Gang Starr’s Step In the Arena, 1991. RIP Keith Elam aka Guru, who passed 1 year ago today.

I use a pick in my hair without force.
You use a lawn mower–you got peat moss.

- Large Professor, “He Got So Much Soul (He Don’t Need No Music),” from Main Source’s Breaking Atoms, 1991

Move over just a bit to the right of me,
For I cannot see
Where the booty is.

- Dres, “Fanatic of the B Word,” from De La Soul Is Dead, 1991

Street’s disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

- Nas, “Live at the Barbeque,” from Main Source’s Breaking Atoms, 1991

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Left hand on a forty, puffin’ on a blunt
Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn’t jump…
Lala la la lala la laaaa

- B-Real, “Hand on the Pump,” Cypress Hill, 1991

“You tellin me don’t curse, I reversed and did it worse, first, I put a curse in every verse”-Kool G Rap (with Heavy D, Grand Puba, CL Smooth, Big Daddy Kane, Pete Rock, Q-Tip) “Don’t Curse,” Peaceful Journey, 1991

This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin’
Robbin’ little kids for bags…

- Bushwick Bill, “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”, from Geto Boys’ We Can’t Be Stopped, 1991