I’m not your father, but guess what I’mma do to ya mama.
- Sean P, “Murder,” from DJ JS-1’s No Sellout, 2009
I may be large, but I’m no dumb cookie.
You’ve seen me hit, you’ve seen me run,
When I kick and pass, we’ll have more fun.
I can dance, you will see,
The others, they all learn from me.
I don’t come here lookin’ for trouble,
I just came here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle.
- William “The Refrigerator” Perry, “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” Chicago Bears, 1985
I call you once…you never dialed back.
Twice…you never dialed back.
Saturday morning, live, I’m on Soul Train, talkin’ to Don Cornelius.
Saturday night, my phone rings…
Saturday night, I won’t answer.
Saturday night, my phone rings again…
Saturday night, I don’t answer.
- Kool Keith, “Stop Jockin Me,” from Ultramagnetic MC’s Funk Your Head Up, 1992. Donald Cortez “Don” Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) Rest in peace.
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!’
- Big Daddy Kane, “How U Get a Record Deal?” Looks Like a Job For…, 1993
And what’s mines is mines and yours is mine!
- Sticky Fingaz, “Throw Ya Gunz,” from Onyx’s Bacdafucup, 1993
We either niggaz or kings,
We either bitches or queens.
The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse,
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts.
- Mos Def, “Thieves in the Night,” from Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star, 1998
- Akinyele, “The Robbery Song,” Put It in Your Mouth EP, 1996
- Chino XL, “B-Boy Gangsta,” Poison Pen, 2006
And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold…
- Beanie Sigel, “Hypnotic,” from Memphis Bleek’s M.A.D.E., 2003
Or a actor with a record deal tryin’ to play the part.
- Xzibit, “Paparazzi,” At the Speed of Life, 1996
- Immortal Technique, “Toast to the Dead,” The Martyr, 2011
But I say it’s below the heavens.
- Blu, “The World Is…(Below the Heavens),” from Blu & Exile’s Below the Heavens, 2007
- Grand Puba, “Slow Down,” from Brand Nubian’s One for All, 1990
Those who chose to sleep…I wake em up,
Cause you’re sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.
- King Sun, “Humm Deez Nuts,” Strictly Ghetto EP, 1994
Under the ruins, through the remains,
Around the crime and pollution,
And tell me…where I fit in?
- Grandmaster Caz, “South Bronx Subway Rap,” from Wild Style Soundtrack, 1983
