When you fall for a girl named Hope
How you gonna have any when she decides to go?

- Machine, “NuBeginning4∞”, from Quelle Chris’ Shotgun & Sleek Rifle, 2011

I swear these niggas from the future…
Where they got camouflage chains and invisible gats
Cause I don’t see none of the shit I hear in their raps.

- Quelle Chris, “Sleek Rifle,” Shotgun & Sleek Rifle, 2011

When I was born, my mama’s pussy had the new car smell.

- Royce Da 5’9”, “New Money,” Street Hop, 2009

Nigga hit me on the Sidekick sayin’ he gon’ shoot me:
Soundin’ like a real groupie.
He a bitch with a heater like Lara Croft,
He gonna get his ass wet like Noah’s Ark.
Got the choppa won’t hesitate to squeeze,
Get his ass cut like a Whopper with Cheese.

- Danny Brown, “LOL,” from Black Milk and Danny Brown’s Black and Brown, 2011

I’m somethin’ serious like Crips that bust gats,
Ignorant with it like Bloods that bust back.

- Jay Dee, “Y’All Ain’t Ready,” Welcome 2 Detroit (The D), 2001 

…Not to mention, I take authority horribly.
Fuck a job, nigga, that conversation just bores me.

- Obie Trice, “Growing Up in the Hood,” Bottoms Up, 2012