They say jealousy is a serious disease.
So I’mma say a prayer for you dudes,
Hope you motherfuckers get well soon.

- Lil Fame, “Hard NIggaz,” from M.O.P.’s Sparta, 2011

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy,
Send a message, leave you sleepin’ next to headless horsey.

- Action Bronson, “Terror Death Camp,” from Action Bronson and Statik Selektah’s Well Done, 2011

‘You Hollywood.’ Nah, nigga, I’m Chicago.
So I cracked his head with a muthafuckin bottle.

- Common, “Raw (How You Like It),” The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

Let’s be honest, the cards’ on the table:
Jealousy’s a sin, Cain killed Abel.
Backstabber…Caesar had Brutus.
It’s hard to weed ‘em out, even Jesus had Judas.

- Pusha T, “Sweet Freestyle,” 2011

I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,
I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets.
That’s where I’m seeking God, cause that’s where He found me.

- Killer Mike, “God in the Building 2,” PL3DGE, 2011

I don’t see the world as you see it.
I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it.
What you live for is what you die for:
To make a little name, grab some fame and the high score.

- Murs, “Ice Cream Mountain,” from McKenzie Eddy’s Slow Your Horse Down, Son, 2011

I’m the ghetto Mr. Universe, call me Lou FerNEGRO,
I push a lot of iron, but I don’t do it in the gym tho.

- Lil’ Fame, “Blasphemy (Blast 4 Me)” from M.O.P.’s SPARTA, 2011

Just because love is complex doesn’t mean it has complexion.

- Legit, “A Nigger in Northface,” Coloring Outside the Lines, 2011. Video.

I heard when I talk, they all listen,
They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians.
I baptize ‘em with lines, this is y’all christenin’
Bless with the gift of my presence, this y’all’s Christmas.

- Torae, “You Ready?” For the Record, 2011

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

- Common, “Sweet,” The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

I’m a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity,
Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy

- Nas, “Like Smoke,” from Amy Winehouse’s Lioness, 2011

If there’s a heaven, I can’t find the stairway

- Black Thought, “Make My,” from The Roots’ undun, 2011

I got Lamborghini dreams, eastside nightmares
Movin white…my ice is cool as the night air

- Roc Marciano, “Emeralds,” Marcberg: Reloaded, 2011

My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.

- Ras Kass, “Classical Music,” from REL!G!ON’s REL!GULOUS, 2011