Say somethin’ positive? Well positive ain’t where I live.
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

Your whole vocabulary’s played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

- Redman, “Pick It Up,” Muddy Waters, 1996

I’m from Jerz, the home of: “I could’ve swore I parked my car right here!

- Chino XL, “B-Boy Gangsta,” Poison Pen, 2006