no specific era required, just rack your brain for the gems that stick with you.

I'll just bless one. And you know that I'm a soloist - so Eric B. make 'em clap to this."

"but she swallowed my fuckin leg whole like an egg roll" - Eminem, As the World Turns

"All I wanted to do was rape the bitch, and snatch her purse / now I wanna kill her ..."

Like WTF man. Hahaha.

"...where they got camouflage chains, invisible gats. Cuz I don't see none of that shit I hear in they raps" -Quelle Chris, Sleek Rifle

Man, his catalog is much stronger than people give him credit for. That "Being You is Great" record was my top 10 for 2017, and his older stuff, Sleek Rifle included goes hard

I’ve seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s like a setting sun

It’s usually the simple lyrics that get me.

I know people have said the “setting sun” line refers to an addict burning out which is great in its own right but I always also loved the secondary meaning of how it alludes to the way in which an addict constantly burns out and it’s a guarantee they will be right back the next day for more just like the sun rises everyday.

Who rapped that?

and niggas been prayin to God so long that they're atheist"


Just pick a line from that song....that muh-fukka snapped





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Fuck aliens

-Warriorpoet415


#2dopebrothersandastackofwax

https://www.instagram.com/thirtythree.three/


http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

Where you can't put your vest away and say you'll wear it tomorrow
Cause the day after we'll be saying, "damn, I was just with him yesterday"


and then another set of bars from that song that is very relevant today is:

One day I prayed to you and said, "If I ever blow, I'd let them know
The stakes, and exactly what takes place in the ghetto
Promise fulfilled, still I feel my job ain't done"

his documentary work comes to mind...

Every Christmas night for seven years now
I drink banana daquiris 'til I'm blind
As long as I can hear you smilin' baby
You won't hear my tears
Another lonely Christmas is mine

Prince is the king of this post. Period.

fkn a bi*ch while her babysucking di#k (c) Pimp C

...I was like dad I told my daughter that, I can relate"

- Cam'ron on "What I Gotta Live For"

Wouldn't have expected this kind of emotional honesty from him.

sin all depend on what you believin' in /
faith is what you make it, that's the hardest shit since MC Ren

Also

Q-Tip - We got (the jazz)

raise up squire, address your atire /
we have no time, to wallow in the mire

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Fuck aliens

-Warriorpoet415


#2dopebrothersandastackofwax

https://www.instagram.com/thirtythree.three/


http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

His name Abdrool, colorful Snow White tatto

--- The Legendary Ghost Deini

sprinkle coke on the floor, make it drug-related!!!!!

--- The Notorious B.I.G.


I mean... lol, come on. That is genius level writing.
His ability to set the scene
and allow your imagination to run wild
as to what would come after him and Jay leaving is so dope to me.

I told him 'don't forget me if I don't.'"

...love's too weak to define, just what you mean to me.

First heard that tune in early high school. That time in my life when I had one crush after the next, after the next, so it already spoke to me in that way. Then dude sang the lines above and I was floored.

From that point forward for me, lyrics mattered.
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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

Like wait what? So many layers to that game.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

i was late to listen to Pink Floyd, didn't know any of their songs until about 10 years ago. this is one of the first ones, now i'm a huge fan.



This onebelo line always stood out to me on Propaganda

Freedom of press but if you try to confess
That's like a hungry fat man throwin steak in a food fight

The lyrics below were always potent to me since I was put on to Floyd in college (2002ish). This was always my favorite Floyd song, and those lyrics you posted stuck out to me then just because they seemed deep and meaningful.

Now they stick out because they actually speak to me directly. Near-daily I think about how sad it is that time truly does fucking FLY, how easily memories fade as you add more years to your time spent on earth, how crazy it is that X event was Y years ago, that type of shit. The idea of "time" and mortality are the only things that legit put me on the verge of depression. Like where the eff does the time go haha.

Anyway yea - this song (and album) and these lyrics specifically are potent as fuck. And the way they come in after the breakdown in the song makes them feel even more epic.


>And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's
>sinking
>Racing around to come up behind you again
>The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
>Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
>
>i was late to listen to Pink Floyd, didn't know any of their
>songs until about 10 years ago. this is one of the first ones,
>now i'm a huge fan.

Then I pulled up on these motherfuckers in a spaceship"
-black thought @ flex

So simple, but had me stuck when I heard it

also

His glock clicks like high heeled shoes on parquet floors

So damn visual

still blows my mind to this day

We used to fight for building blocks
Now we fight for blocks with buildings that make a killin'
The closest of friends when we first started
But grew apart as the money grew and soon grew black-hearted
Thinkin' back when we first learned to use rubbers
He never learned, so in turn I'm kidnappin' his baby's mother
My hand around her collar, feedin' her cheese
She said the taste of dollars was shitty, so I fed her fifties
About his whereabouts I wasn't convinced
I kept feedin' her money 'til her shit started to make sense
Who could ever foresee?
We used to stay up all night at slumber parties
Now I'm tryna rock this bitch to sleep
All the years we were real close
Now I see his fears through her tears
Know she's wishin' we were still close
Don't cry, it is to be; in time
I'll take away your miseries and make it mine



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CLASSIC...and Jay-Z's best project...that rawness...

"You only call her a bitch cause she won't let you get no pussy."

I was in 12th grade when I heard it. It hit so hard because at that time, dudes were legit calling girls bitches and all else solely because they weren't able to get sex from them..and I was like wow, this is the best analogy ever.

>RE: "Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman..."
>"You only call her a bitch cause she won't let you get no
>pussy."
>
>I was in 12th grade when I heard it. It hit so hard because at
>that time, dudes were legit calling girls bitches and all else
>solely because they weren't able to get sex from them..and I
>was like wow, this is the best analogy ever.

Put the pieces back together my way

that song has so many lines that jump out at me, but that hook is so good.

Aesop Rock - Float
This fallen angel could stitch a wing with a shoestring
The prime directive selects reflective aviation bathed in mood swing

i had copped his Float album w/out ever really listening to him. it was good, but a lot to ingest. this line stuck out at me as dope.

So simple, but so damn heavy

"...but you was still born." (c) Vast Aire.

Saying it "blew my mind" is kind of an overstatement, but I liked the visual imagery of the metaphor combined with the clear literal meaning. Most rap lines work better on one level than the other, to me, but I liked the double meaning there equally.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

So brilliant.


>Saying it "blew my mind" is kind of an overstatement, but I
>liked the visual imagery of the metaphor combined with the
>clear literal meaning. Most rap lines work better on one level
>than the other, to me, but I liked the double meaning there
>equally.