Yo, you don’t think you’re going under?
I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

- Kool G. Rap, “Death Threat,” from Brand New Heavies’ Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1, 1992

When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.

- Akinyele, “The Robbery Song,” Put It in Your Mouth EP, 1996

Lookin down the barrel of a gun, son of gun, son of a bitch, gettin paid, gettin rich!

- Beastie Boys, “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun,” Paul’s Boutique, 1989

Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn’t God’s child…

- Billy Danze, “4 Alarm Blaze,” from M.O.P.’s First Family 4 Life, 1998

Guns and the sneakers made Jada.
The bitches and the reefer came later with the money and the haters.

- Jadakiss, “Jada’s Got a Gun,” Kiss the Game Goodbye, 2001

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

Let’s pretend we’re both guns, and make this shit erratic:
I’ll be the revolver, you can play the automatic.
Automatic flip scripts, revolver show loyalty.
Each gun is die-able, but only one’s reliable.
You shoot fast, but in the end you jam,
Then I click back, and turn your brains into spam.

- MF Grimm, “Crumb Snatchers,” Scars & Memories, 2005

Don’t underestimate me when you date me,
Got my clamp off safety, that’ll make you hate me…

- Yo-Yo, “The Bonnie and Clyde Theme,” You Better Ask Somebody, 1993

The sunset looks beautiful over the projects…
What a shame, it ain’t the same where we stand at.
If you look close, you can see the bricks chipped off.
Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off.

- Prodigy, “Streets Raised Me,” Murda Muzik, 1999

We got hookers with heaters that’ll stray pop and put more shells in your top than Adidas.

- Kool G. Rap, “Fast Life,” 4,5,6, 1995

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