I definitely posted on the common's wackest line thread. Cause, I mean, he's ill, but he can be wack like anyone else. But check it. Let's give some love and point out Com's best line. If we could, as well, give Black Thought some love here too. Cause I hear some peeps say he talks about the same shit in every track beacause he's not "counscious". I think beacause he's not tied to a title like that. he talks about a lot of shit. So give it here. But, I gotta go to bed. I'll post my fav's when I'm not gonna pass out. Peace, asana

"...wel the devil is wrong and GOD is what's right..."


"It's the GOD born who stay logged on/ love my artform"-L0g1C

"We the forefathers, hardcore authers/ write screenplays that make you feen for what the sophomore offers"-L0g1C

i love that song g.o.d. but c-los shit was so much hotter than com's that it makes com's verse seem childish to me.

dont get me wrong, com is one of my favorites, but he says some lines sometimes that i am like "what the hell was he thinking?" in fact i think most of that song c-lo is preaching good vs evil being different than black vs white but i kind of think some of com's lines make white people look like the devil. again, maybe i misunderstood, or maybe it is my own personal theories on life being contradicted, but i just dont feel what he has to say in that song like i am feeling c-lo.

some of commons best verses are introspect for life "buying jeans and gold chains aint gonna make me a father etc etc etc" and that jawn on the soul in the hole soundtrack "worked so hard on my left that its hard to be right".

as far as thought...he has some bangers
"snatch ya from your cloud of cannibus you ignaramuses get laid on your back when i attack your glamourous life style"

just my 2 sense (haha)

That wasn't BT, that was Malik.

"try not to say shoot around my daughter, she already know the Blast"

Became a slave to master self / a rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health
~~~~~~~~
AIM: Mello01
Homepage: http://members.blackplanet.com/2bYGB/
E-mail: mellofromgi@yahoo.com

********

Rules are for the weak
-Mello

I'm thinkin' of Assata
- Common ft. Cee-Lo

You know why I played Batman...
- Roy Hargrove, refering to Herbie Hancock in a bright purple suit with matching hat after their concert.

I wouldn't be amazing without God's amazing grace / I can travel out of space standing in one place
- Cee-Lo

Fuckin... Fuckin...
-Big Black Africa (Mau Mau!!!! OOYEEeee!!!)
**********
Heavy Rotation--
Books:
Racial Matters - O'Riely
The Cointelpro Papers
Siddartha (again)
The Lies My Teacher Told Me- (Forgot)
Music:
DF - Even in Darkness
Saul Wiliams - Amethyst Rock Star
I'm feenin' for some more Amel Larrieux!
|Song of the moment|:
The new Mysykal joint... I think Michael Jackson is on the joint... I dig this shit hard.
|Movie of the moment|:
Shrek... the shit is ill

I stand out like a nigga on a hockey team
I got goals, and I can like a pop machine

yo, i gotta say the hockey team line is one of my fav's too.......classic.

as well;

they say i aint got nobody, but when they see me at the party, they be like go head, go head

i felt the vibe like roy ayers...

trying to find me some light in the rim of darkness, i may not be the darkest brother, but i was always told to act my age not my color, not knowing that my color was that of the original, so i now sing the new negro spiritual....gotta feel that

i seen her on madison, where vice lords be travelin and chevy windows be rattlin.........if u from chi, you cant help but see the west side right b4 ur eyes when he says that shit!

peace
albinored

corner i stood, lookin at my former hood, felt the spirit in the wind, new my friend was gone for good, threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, i couldn't mask it, mixin down emotions, struggle i hadn't mastered... that always puts me in a warm place when i think about the past

just listen to I Used to Lover H.E.R. as well as Retrospect for Life and you'll here plenty

oops...Love

damn i'm tired this morning...here should be hear

I just want to innovate, and stimulate minds, travel the world, and penetrate the times.

I think all you cats should definitley be patient and wait till pops comes out with the new joint for "pops rap" I think alot of heads are sleeping on him.

"...gettin' ate in sections where I wouldn't eat her/under the counter love, silently I treat her/Her daddy would beat her/eyes all Puff/in the mix on tape niggas had her in the buff..."


HUSSA

In Rotation:
Quasimoto-The Unseen
Joni Mitchell-Hits
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Pearl Jam-No Code
Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride II...

Sorry, I got the line a bit screwed up.


HUSSA

In Rotation:
Quasimoto-The Unseen
Joni Mitchell-Hits
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Pearl Jam-No Code
Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride II...

>"...gettin' ate in sections where I
>wouldn't eat her/under the counter
>love, silently I treat her/Her
>daddy would beat her/eyes all
>Puff/in the mix on tape
>niggas had her in the
>buff..."

"gettin' EIGHT INSECTIONS, where I wouldn't eat her."

Kyle

"Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood, lookin at my former hood. Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good. Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered. I coreograph seven steps to heaven. And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened. Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for. What I know or, what's known. So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home. From the crib I spend months gone. Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin' to shorties cuss long. Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong. Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on. Some of this land I must own
Outta the city, they want us gone Tearin' down the 'jects creatin plush homes. My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones. Surrounded by hate, yet I love home. Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown. It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep. Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep. Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep. Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep"--Common

my favorite three words...

just the way he says that jawn...

>>"...gettin' ate in sections where I
>>wouldn't eat her/under the counter
>>love, silently I treat her/Her
>>daddy would beat her/eyes all
>>Puff/in the mix on tape
>>niggas had her in the
>>buff..."
>
>"gettin' EIGHT INSECTIONS, where I wouldn't
>eat her."

what the hell is an "insection"?

the line goes "getting ate in sections". it's an oral sex reference and a Section 8 play on words.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

http://www.miscflux.com - home of
Miscellaneous Flux, the only band on
earth I would take a bullet for. support
them now or face an eternal damnation of
Lil Romeos.

Miscellaneous Flux and Moya @ State of
the Union, Friday October 12, doors at
8:30pm...$10 and worth every penny
(party all night afterwards....hip-hop
in the front and I think reggae in the back)

whats a Section 8, and what is an insection...
and wtf does he mean here?

(I am from New Zealand

ThuŠŠP@k€ŽåRåTHû©kYâ

section 8 is basically government housing for low income....

insection?
i don't know if it's a word....
but if it was...
it would be the process of being an insect....
:)

hah!

ThuŠŠP@k€ŽåRåTHû©kYâ

gettin eight insections- somoethin women do to their vagina, then "when i wouldnt eat her" well he means he wont eat her out after them 8 insections.!!! PEACE

educational system a bad name...

nah...i know you was playing homie...

lemeirt park representin'

h to the 2-0

-----------------------------------------------------
"Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. One proceeds from the other. Love is our response to our highest values-and can be nothing else. Let a man corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment, but self denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws-and he will have cut himself in two. His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find. His body will always follow the ultimate logic of his deepest convictions; if he believes that flaws are values, he has damned existence as evil and only the evil will attact him. He has damned himself and he will feel that depravity is all he is worth enjoying. He has equated virtue with pain and he will feel that his body has vicious desires of its own which his mind cannot conquer, that sex is sin, that true love is a pure emotion of spirit. And then he will wonder why lover brings him nothing but boredom, and sex-nothing but shame." -taken from 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

*****¡I AM! ¿ARE YOU?*****

p'raverbs=poetic+ra+verbs=¿wtf?=my emcee name (that used to sound fresh) from my high school cipher days=cornball=my nommo.

p'raverbs is bond.

p'raverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

it's a p'raverbial jungle out there.

more p'raverbalisms: ¡COMING SOON!

okayp'raverbs. GIVING YOU TRUE TRUTH SINCE...¿WHAT TIME IT IS?

>>in the mix on tape
>>niggas had her in the
>>buff..."


It should be buck, not buff... And for those that don't know, "buck" is slang for a particular sexual position.

That's one of my favorite Com verses right there, the one you posted from Black Star's "Respiration"

----------------------------------------
All the good sigs and quotes have been taken already so instead'a biting... this is my sig.

Yeah ...I was feelin' that whole verse he did on "Respiration" (Black Star).

there's so many, but if you look down, you'll find my favorite line in my signature...

-olujosh-
"The Anti-DJ"

and it should be
a natural way of life
who am i
or they to say
to whom you pray aint right

"They say signs of the end is near/I wonder can I walk a righteous path holding a beer"

"I'mma be back on the deck opening places and businesses for you to cash yo' check/My neck of the woods ain't all good, ain't all bad, you can live in the 'burbs and still get had."

Pick one.

>"They say signs of the end
>is near/I wonder can I
>walk a righteous path holding
>a beer"

this one...

"I stagger to the gatherin possesed by a pattern that be skatterin/over the global"

"i'm nestle when it's crunch time"

"They say signs of the end is near/I wonder can I walk a righteous path holding a beer"

"i ryhme when my back hurts"

"i write checks." pdiddy.

When Com said that line, he was quoting an ignorant saying that conservative old black folks use and he subtly criticized that line of thinking with his next line "...not knowing that my color, was that of the original".

come on, you think Com associates negative actions with his skin color? LOL.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

http://www.miscflux.com - home of
Miscellaneous Flux, the only band on
earth I would take a bullet for. support
them now or face an eternal damnation of
Lil Romeos.

Miscellaneous Flux and Moya @ State of
the Union, Friday October 12, doors at
8:30pm...$10 and worth every penny
(party all night afterwards....hip-hop
in the front and I think reggae in the back)

I just want to comment on whoever thinks Black Thought isn't concious...where are you? And are you serious? Thought kicks some very insightful words on his tracks (which is why his words are always worth really listening to). He's far from your average emcee. Concious=aware, I always took my man Thought as a concious cat. This is not Jay-Z we're talking about here..you guys have go to be kidding me. What do you guys think?

>I just want to comment on
>whoever thinks Black Thought isn't
>concious...where are you? And are
>you serious? Thought kicks some
>very insightful words on his
>tracks

So does Jay

(which is why his
>words are always worth really
>listening to).

So are Jay's

He's far
>from your average emcee.

Neither is Jay.

Concious=aware,
>I always took my man
>Thought as a concious cat.
>This is not Jay-Z we're
>talking about here

And, you are now officially a clown.

Fuck, I even remember an episode of BET Tonight where certain Rashid "Common" Lynn referred to Jay as having some very conscious records.

If you aren't conscious, does that make you "unconscious". You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to be completely unconscious. Ja Rule manages to do it, and I think Nelly does too. But Jay is definitely conscious (Nas is too). Just because you're a "street" emcee or a "commercial" emcee does not mean you cannot also be a "conscious" emcee.

Z

OkayYoungin Representin'!

"Blindfolds can't cover three eyes,
We're wise to the fact so we attack with what we know
Heaven is the only good life" --Andre Benjamin

"I always exhale the facts cause I don't inhale lye" --Dave Jolicoeur

Getting Play:
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Bob Marley - One Love: the Very Best of...
Ozomatli - Embrace the Chaos
Wyclef Jean - The Carnival
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

>But Jay is
>definitely conscious (Nas is
>too). Just because you're
>a "street" emcee or a
>"commercial" emcee does not mean
>you cannot also be a
>"conscious" emcee.

So U say being "street" isnt a commonality or otherwise known as being "conscious"?? Not really. I always have observed others to put "street" and "conscious" in the same subject and I sometimes agreed. I guess it actually all depends.

Anyway as for best quotes....well I always thought they were somewhere in:
"1999" - "some religion change over..angel over my shoulder tells me to remain sober"

or

Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World) - "Some say 'Rashid you changed', times are...my verse is depth like that of a baby takin its first step or the old woman that died and the nurse wept....A man does not live on bread alone, what good is a range when it's time to head home."

He is whats UP! ;)

Nah, I'm not totally sure what a conscioius emcee is, but I know he/she wouldn't write a song like "Girls Girls Girls"








"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
--Henry D. Thoreau

"Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor wherever moves a (wo)man: that a true (wo)man belongs to no other time and place, but is the centre of things."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds......"
--Romans 12:2

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."
--Bertolt Brecht

"Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape, now let it fall..."
Mos Def

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
--Satchel Paige

Whoever posted that is really on Jay Z's nuts! Swing on my friend!

"Fuck a mic check, I bring my flow in cash"-Common


Okay Uncle Bnicedh-Giving you true advice since 2001

"Life without knowledge is death in disguise"-Talib Kweli

Like Water for Chocolate

6th Sense
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't want millions/but more than money saved I want to say children."

such a definitive statement

As a young lady myself i think that this line definetly describes common as the most positive person out there. He done placed so many metaphors out there where he has young kids lookin up to him as an idol and I can truly say that he is my icon! But that line is the s@#$!!! holla at ya gurl!

Slowly but surely I pour the lyric into the glass of your mind
My rhyming will be the diamond that will cut through
Lines say but you to do, you don't know what to Got wisdom like a tooth
Incidentally I get buck too Didn't get my jest, so I just had to do it
My mic or your mic, come on no congruent Seen broads in brew to me, be jubilee
On my neck be hot jewelry My old man be schooling me
For sho' I rock good, cats claim this hood and that hood
Black man, your hood is the universe
On this Earth, you were first through the worse My crew could hearse
Used to go up stairs and we went through the purse I don't cures around juniors
Spread live like rumors Niggas loved my tape, but how many were consumers?

The Light: At time when we commited love it was real good/ had to be for me to "ARRIVE" and it still feels good.

~The way he gets away with sayin, 'The sex had to be good in order for me to 'cum' (cum = come = "arrive") I asked him about that and he just laughed. "I aint want the radio to bleep out nothin so I figured out anotha way of sayin it, bein' clever"

He's got a few clever ones

(1-9-9-9: "I talked to the girl to show her that I had respect / less than an hour she was givin me neck".

~The contraditions and messages are on a few levels with this one.)

B.Kyle

"Over the rocks of reality, dreams get splashed"

very visual.

i believe that was from the large pro remix of 'ressurection' which is damn fine listening for your boombox.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

http://www.miscflux.com - home of
Miscellaneous Flux, the only band on
earth I would take a bullet for. support
them now or face an eternal damnation of
Lil Romeos.

Miscellaneous Flux and Moya @ State of
the Union, Friday October 12, doors at
8:30pm...$10 and worth every penny
(party all night afterwards....hip-hop
in the front and I think reggae in the back)

Truly poetic, one of the best.

I've always loved Com, but one of my fav's of all time has to be:
My heart's dictionary defines you, it's love and happiness
Truthfully it's hard tryin to practice abstinence
The time we committed love it was real good
Had to be for me to arrive and it still feel good
I know the sex ain't gon' keep you, but as my equal
it's how I must treat you

ILLITERYCIST
(Big up chicago!)

"For you 2 grow; he had 2 go so what you stopping him 4?"
Geto Heaven

"If Revolution had a movie i'd be theme music"
Sixth Sence


thank you 4 your time :-)

.

>"For you 2 grow; he had
>2 go so what you
>stopping him 4?"
>Geto Heaven
>
baaasically


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
qtpi6

listening party
----------------
"Gotta Get Up" Jill Scott
"My Everything" Richard Smallwood
"Getaway" N'Dea Davenport
"So Love" Kindred
anything by Chaka Khan

me: i almost went to this club last night, apparently i missed michael jordan
me: not that i really wanted to see him
mikeala_h: that dude needs to give it up, how many comebacks can you have
mikeala_h: he's worse than an okp that says they're leaving the boards
me: HAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

My music
you could either fight fuck or dream to it

"I spit feelings"--from the new Shaq song

Z

OkayYoungin Representin'!

"Blindfolds can't cover three eyes,
We're wise to the fact so we attack with what we know
Heaven is the only good life" --Andre Benjamin

"I always exhale the facts cause I don't inhale lye" --Dave Jolicoeur

Getting Play:
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Bob Marley - One Love: the Very Best of...
Ozomatli - Embrace the Chaos
Wyclef Jean - The Carnival
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

Women cry, children laugh, men dance
I refuse to lose self and try to win fans over
Weight on my shoulder fluctuates like Oprah's
My refrigerator poetry's magnetic like ultra
You couldn't hang if you was a poster
Posin like a bitch for exposure
It's rumors of gay MC's, just don't come around me wit it
You still rockin hickies, don't let me find out he did it
Got My Eyes on the Tiger, Eyes on the Prize
Eyes on the thighs of Mary J. Blige, imagin on how good the cat must be
Stop eatin meat, lost weight, but I still rap husky
My verse depth is that of a baby's first step
Or the old lady who died and the nurse wept
I flow like cursive writing, invitin you and yours to my openess
Shows allow me to cop Range/range like a vocalist
But man does not live on bread alone
What good is a Range/range when it's time to head home?

last verse from Nag Champa

Bomb a nigga like a winter coat
Have you on Deathrow searchin' for an Interscope.. Maybe not his best, but I like the searching for an Interscope jawn.

Thought is ill... he's a straigh spitter. I think he's nicer than Common.

co-sign on last line from Nag-Champa

Screw you guys...I'm goin home -Cartman

The mother of civilization, wants 2 know my occupation, home location and means of transportation. The correct combination unlocks her placenta. Ive got a cellular phone w/ a rubba antenna, own a 3 story house, drive a 4 door Ac, favorite song of all time, Mobb Deeps hit it from the back...then jet. -Ras Kass

...she said, "Do you have a car? Is your shit up 2 par?" Damn! a nigga need a resume just sittin at tha bar! -Ras Kass

Cuz bitches are like flies(why)they attract 2 the best shit. -Ras Kass

Cowards make a little cheese, then enlarge artificially, like Pamela Anderson Lee's double D's, please! I'm bangin from Belize 2 Tel Aviv in tha Red Sea racin Saddam Hussien on Kawasaki jet skies. -Ras Kass

18 willin rednecks, sendin me death threats, cuz their niece fantasize about wet sex, when I'm in her headsets. -Opio from Souls of Mischief

Tryin 2 do all I can do in this car...her mom's Jaguar -A-plus from Souls of Mischief

You think you're able 2 label the Hiero sound? You still havent found a comparable variable -Del

You live on the edge? I live on the San Andreas. -Evidence

I AINT GOT TIME 4 NO JIBBA JABBA!!!-Mr.T

"I'm livin' life within a labyrinth of nonsense..."
--Black Thought

"What does a white man call a black man with a PhD?
A nigger."
--Malcolm X

"I choreograph seven steps to heaven...."

1. In front of two inch glass from A-rabs I order fries/inspiration when I write I see my Daughter's eyes.

2. My train of thought is that of a hustler, or a nigga with his shirt off/Trying to get his work off to customers/I rap with a chip on my shoulder, squeezing Coronas/See shirts that say "We gotta get over"/That juggy shit is over, the war is on/I only want to be a soldier, I'm holding on,/ to a culture
Focused like Gordon Parks when it's sorta dark/For niggas that's flooded with ice, my thought's the ark

3. At least God and the sun love us

******THE 2% NATION LIVES ON!!!*********
Homogenizing the world since 2000
*allow the M.I.L.K. to lead you
****************************************
When all has been said and done, there's nothing left to say or do. --Daryl Dawkins

I ain't runnin, cause I ain't no damn track star! --Richard Pryor

Every negro is a potential black man. --Stokley Carmicheal

When I see green...I be thinkin... --Ghostface Killah

Do you think that's air you're breathing? --Morpheous

It wasn't me. --Shaggy

...Hit me up AOLIM Cstyle328@aol.com

So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home
From the crib I spend months gone
Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone

you forgot: it's a dog eat dog world, we got ta mush on. . .

Some of this land I must own/ out of the city/ they want us gone/Tearin' down the 'jects/ creatin' plush homes/ my circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones

SURROUNDED BY HATE/ yet I love home/

Asked my guy how travellin' the world sound/
Found it hard to imagine/ He hadn't been past down town/

Damn the boy's nice.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Complexity has effed
up the human race in
more ways that can be
counted.- Mathmagic

"It's kinda fresh you listen to more than hip hop and I can catch you in the mix from beauty to thrift shop...

...time when I'm lost I try to find you, you know to give me space when it's time to, my heart's dictionary defines you...

...yo I'll tell you the rest when I see you."

Common
The Light (from Like Water For Chocolate)

So heartfelt, so easy to relate to, so close to home. This song reflects how i feel about so many things in so many ways.

Mentos - the breath freshner

Peace
- babySwipeS

act like a nigga...all the time...

"I lecture on how i got god but don't got religion"

**************************************

“These cats drink champagne and toast death and pain/Like slaves on the ship talking ‘bout who got the flyest chains”

-Talib Kweli

LOVE LANGUAGE

if my heart you're livin in/ your ocean im swimmin in/ and never drownin got me floatin/ watchin you in slow motion/ love potion/ overdosing approachin/ the expressions of my heart / everyday without your heart is like a sentence in jail/ trust we'll always be mentally free/ you got the key to let it out i'll show you how it could be/ love...... it aint nothin but a word, a chicken aint nothin but a bird

MEMORIES LIVE
in my lifetime aint too many things better than watchin your first son put his sentences together........

THE BLAST VIDEO VERSION
"you pronounce my name....kwli any questions.......get your hands up like a hijack.......say my name like destiney's child, shine so bright like my girl heavenly smile.....like the suits on steven harvey....like chakakan aint nobody"

>"I lecture on how i got
>god but don't got religion"
>
>
>**************************************
>
>“These cats drink champagne and toast
>death and pain/Like slaves on
>the ship talking ‘bout who
>got the flyest chains”
>
>-Talib Kweli


Kweli kept that one real thorough.

Growing into my britches
Out, growing the streets
Theres a thin line between war and peace
Whores and jeeps
Ignore emcees like beef
Scribbling freedom on pages
My third eye is like pink eye. Seeming contagious.

OR:

It's like I'm fighting for freedom
Writing for freedom
These record company niggas I dont like when I see him
My ancestors when I'm writing I see them
And talk with them,
Hoping in the promised land I can walk with them

>It's like I'm fighting for freedom
>Writing for freedom
>These record company niggas I dont
>like when I see him
>
>My ancestors when I'm writing I
>see them
>And talk with them,
>Hoping in the promised land I
>can walk with them
FOR REAL. I WAS THINK OF THAT JOINT TOO!


"Your pushing you LUCK little man"- Soup Nazi

"Do not talk when grown people are speaking"-KRS-ONE

"They say become I doctor, but I don't have the patients"-Common

"and your Weed got more seeds than ODB"-REDMAN

>>>My third eye is like pink eye. Seeming contagious.

could someone please explain to me wtf this line means!?

ThuŠŠP@k€ŽåRåTHû©kYâ

The "third eye" part is a spiritual reference. Depending on who you ask it has different meaning. To me it is mostly a representation of enlightment and how we dont only see with our physical eyes. We as human beings see through our soul and with emotion. Our eyes dont see the whole picture so our "third eye" (mostly depicted as an extra eye in the center of the forehead) acts as the true sight of what goes on around us.

Anyway, Common broke it down with the line.

- My third eye is like pink eye. Seeming contagious.

He was actually sayin that the way he sees things (through his third eye) is catching on. He has either brought some kind of change in the way his fans see the world or he has meet people who have similar views and he spreads them through his music. Thus the "seeming contagious" part at the end of the line.

yep I understand what he meant by third eye:
but I dont know what pink eye is. Do you know what pink eye is?

ThuŠŠP@k€ŽåRåTHû©kYâ

Pink eye is an eye infection that spreads really, really easily. It's mostly dominant in little children because it's passed on through contact. I didnt have it until I was 18 and one of my younger sibs brought it home from daycare.

inflammation of the cornea caused by bacteria

h20

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"Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. One proceeds from the other. Love is our response to our highest values-and can be nothing else. Let a man corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment, but self denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws-and he will have cut himself in two. His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find. His body will always follow the ultimate logic of his deepest convictions; if he believes that flaws are values, he has damned existence as evil and only the evil will attact him. He has damned himself and he will feel that depravity is all he is worth enjoying. He has equated virtue with pain and he will feel that his body has vicious desires of its own which his mind cannot conquer, that sex is sin, that true love is a pure emotion of spirit. And then he will wonder why lover brings him nothing but boredom, and sex-nothing but shame." -taken from 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

he got so many to name but..."Relax like Dru Downs Hair" kills me.
But tha joint is:
"Don't fuck with radio, ignoring the charts
I could give a FUCK what you made in a year, nigga, you wack
A soft nigga on a hard track, in this new rap
Generation I "X" cats like a Muslim
He fell off cause I pushed him
Let his Bently and his weak crew be his cushion
I catch him on the streets, in front of the bodyguards and rush him"
WWWWhoooo!

"Your pushing you LUCK little man"- Soup Nazi

"Do not talk when grown people are speaking"-KRS-ONE

"They say become I doctor, but I don't have the patients"-Common

"and your Weed got more seeds than ODB"-REDMAN

Whoo Indeed...

"Askin me to let us(lettuce) catch-up(catsup),knowin' you can't cut the mustard"

"I'm tired of the Arabs givin' me my change back/the Devil took my tommorow,my yesterday he never gave back"

"Behind me,he flashed his bright lights at the stoplight/I'm thinkin Tupac-like/as he steps out the car/I was taught only to fight in self defense or at the will of Allah/and ain't no talkin when it's time to spar"

"Told him '87 reings dominant/needed a fight that night,me and my lady had an argument"

"Cause can't nann nig get a swig/ooop's there it is/I'm like a mom on section 8,overbearing kids"

Shit,pick ANY line from "Orange Pinapple Juice.

This is a good post.

.......the sickest one of them all:

"Revolution is like good pussy I'm tryin' to stay up in it"

sick I tell you..........

>
>
> "Cause can't nann nig
>get a swig/ooop's there it
>is/I'm like a mom on
>section 8,overbearing kids"
>

"and they be like Com-mon! that's my mother's
fucker! you's a handburger i'm a fuddrucker..."
to make that dope ass line complete

"I'm Morpheus in this hip hop matrix, exposin' fake shit"

"I was a piano player in my last lifetime
Now I write rhymes
Sip white wine
And let my light shine."

...they say I'm nice with metaphors, but these are similies.

1-9-9-9 - Common

THIS ONE ISN'T HIS BEST LINE, CAUSE MY BRAIN STILL STUCK, BUT THIS ONE WAS SOOO TRUE AND TIGHT.....

"WOMAN WITH WEAK MINDS, BUT THEY BUTTS STRONG"

OH YEAH AND......

"I'M OPEN MINDED LIKE A POT HEAD, DOIN WHAT I GOTTA DO TO KEEP THE SPOT FEED"

AND ANOTHER, MY MIND IS GETTIN UN STUCK....

" GOT MY EYES ON THE TIGER, EYES ON THE PRIZE, EYES ON THE THIGHS, OF MARY J. BLIGE, I WONDER HOW GOOD THE CAT MUST BE, STOP MEAT LOST WEIGHT, BUT I STILL RAP HUSKY.."

"i got my eyes on the thighs of mary j blige"
us common's fans know why mary j got no mo'drama in her life

"is it a nigga your complexion or is it all in your mind?"

really this line get me mesmerized: it gots u reflecting on what he says or rejecting what he says

...must have really thought I was god to take the life of my son,
i couldn't sacrifice going out,
to think my homies who did it i used to joke about
from now on imma use self-control instead of birth control,
cuz three-hundred and fifteen dollars ain't worth your soul,
three-hundred and fifteen dollars ain't worth your soul
three-hundred and fifteen dollars ain't worth it...

sing it Lauryn

the realest, most meaningful song he's ever done.

k. orr

"If we living in Revelation,
Why should the people of the sun
Hafta run...."

MAD LOVELY

Hold mics like a second nut until the second comin
Hummin comin towards you with power like forwards do
Hip hop, you my bitch and like a Ford, I'm Explorin you
So, wack niggaz be cool, with them, I stay cordial
Flowin room temperature, cats is presumed miniature
Like golf. Soft like Tiger Woods


Tony Kornheiser: What's bin laden's profile
andy pollin: he's 6'6 140
TK: really? he's not a terrorist, he's a project, put some weight on that man, and give him an NBA contract

Hard to pick the best, but here's a few that I thought to be clever...

"...from a show I had came/hopped off the plane/in my my mind home was pictured/and rest was the frame..."

"...hard to read like graffiti so ???? don't Phase me..." (couldn't remember the whole line)

this is more like a verse, but it's still a fav...

"...I want a job but I ain't lookin'/how come?/I aint tryin' ta degrade myself bein' nobody's Calvin/I'm a couch bum/what makes it bad I had incentive/but that desentegrated to a state that's stagnated/I procrastinated/I can't recall a day without being intoxicated--or blowed/I'm dealin' with a full deck and anyday I could fold/what makes it bad/I wasn't dealt that bad a hand..."

peace

I'm definitely feelin these answers. Can't believe no one has said mines yet. Probably cuz it ain't the best, but i really feel this line, always have since the first time i heard it.

"Granted we'd known each other for sometime, It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine."

The last half of that line gets me everytime, I guess cuz it can be interperated(sp?) a couple different ways, and related to many different situations.
Let me know if y'all feel me on that one?
-Life-

GHETTO HEAVEN REMIX W/ MACY GRAY
You could never find a man until you find yourself/ .........
........at that destination a king will annoit you/...........
.......you're worth more than anything you could cop at a store

THE LIGHT
....queen i aint see you in a minute/ i wrote this letter and finally decided to send it/ signed , sealed, delivered for us to grow together/ love has no limit/ let's spend it slow forever

.....i know i aint the type to walk around with matchin shirts/ but if relationship is effort, i will match your work.

oh my gosh, this man is soooooooo deep!!!! i'm just feelin him :)

i'm also feelin I USED TO LOVE HER. that song is a twister. all the time i thought that he was talkin about a female when it was about hip-hop. lol :) he got me good.

On a De La album ,.... but none the less ....

"Me in the besta, three-outta-five,
Whip anybody ass in NBA Live"....

Ya know.

"...in sole control of my desti/ny in the best of three..."

I liked that verse too...clever brother indeed, that Common.

peace

As I try to keep my concentration
in this idiotic nation
they said become a doctor, but I don't got the patience
Adjacent, to that situation
I wanna occupation
that I'm into
But when I begin to
Live to my potential
I went to
school for 14 years and my best teacher was experience
I reminisce
and wish I could go back in time to 89
When there was just sunshine!

Or my sig:

Everywhere is broken glass
Nephews smokin squares, nieces smokin grass
Try not to say shoot around my daughter she already know the blast
Catchin the future, don't know who threw the past

It's the, metaphysicals some say the score the revolution therefore
I have come, a calm before the storm
Words are born formed drawn in the brain
Sorn scorn by the pourin' rain
But I can stand it seldom do I feel stranded
Granded I stand with the style that is free
I'm the Mandela ask Nelson brothers love me
I lay it lovely I'm ugly bogus on the mic
I strike like a teacher rappers are line
Stand in line with they signs tryin' to picket
They pick it the way I kick it
Cause with it I'm not wicked cause that's malignant
I use my figments which is vivid
And give it to ya baby like love without no limit
I have no limits no gimmicks no image don't mimick
I'm finished no minutes to be timid
Which shit stick should I spit with?
I'm the nitwit that shit sick I stick with and kick with
The crew I clique with that's who I sit witha and trip with
And sip with the buds are lifted and gold digified
And hit without equipment I've often been depicted
On the solid when it likwit
Yo this is shit is for my man Honda


Tried to pop it musta been a Naz cause the gun jammed

Made me forget to remember that I pimp the dime
Put the pimpin' aside I see Kenya in her eye
Our connection lies in a life before
For us to meet again was devine law
So I can't describe how deep I dug her
Now only in memory can I hug her

(.. from a distance) niggaz tried to appraise me
I'm hard to read like graffiti so it don't phase me

What you should have known from day one
You will on day seven

Nah, just let me put it like this. The illest line Common ever spit was on "Act Too..The Love of My Life". When he said, "When we perform, it's just coffee shop chicks and white dudes". When I first heard that I was like "WHAAAAAT"! I just thought that was the hottest line i've heard, and it has so much truth behind it. Just like Common, he's true to what he lives and spits.

...Richard got our daily bread molded/ my old girl said Rashid you should have voted

"patience is a virtue but i wasn't used to waitin'" - BT

"some have ignorance confused wit being street' - Common

The only difference between ignorance and intelligence is opportunity!!!!

from "All Night Long" - My third eye is my rail, on this L of thought
With afrocentric stamps I'm mailin thoughts
to my Gods held in court

"I wanna be the one to make you happiest and hurt you the most"

Based on these responses, isn't it painfully obvious how many okayplayers just jumped on the Common bandwagon with LWFC?

hey. . .
i jumped on the common bangwagon at, "resurrection", thank you very much. . .

p

>Based on these responses, isn't it
>painfully obvious how many okayplayers
>just jumped on the Common
>bandwagon with LWFC?

With me, I started at LWFC and then went back and found One Day and Resurrection (I worked for THAT one). Still haven't seen the first Common album anywhere down here.

And with Common only going gold, I didn't know that there was a Common bandwagon. (I wish there was. More folks would know of his subtle brilliance. I didn't see a bandwagon in Houston or Baton Rouge...I walked my way to Common's music on my own after hearing him on some other stuff. I love(d) 1 9 9 9 and wanted more of that in my earphones.)


Everyone sleeps sometimes. This is fine as long as they do wake up...

Jimaveli

Yea your right, but you have to realize that Common didnt really have as big of a following as he does know. I been a Common fan since Ressurection though, (thank you very much)but I wasnt a Okayplayer until LWFC came out.

Yeah I suppose my post came across as being a bit elitist, but it was just so funny to see how many people chose stuff from LWFC, when some of his most profound lyrics were either from earlier albums or cameos on other artists' songs. Everybody's entitled to their opinion, but suffice to say to really apprecaite Common, you have to get to know Common Sense i.e Can I Borrow A Dollar, Resurrection...

. . .word. . .


p


"i worry that the person who thought up MUZAK maybe thinking up something else. . ."--lily thomlin

Yo, I've been listening to Common for a long time. I first heard of him on Unsigned Hype I believe when I used to read magazines. Then I copped "Resurrection" fell in love with H.E.R. and checked his earlier material, "Can I borrow A Dollar" and I have the version where it still says "Common Sense" on the cover and not just "Common" as they only have it these days. After listening to all of his albums, my heart still fails to deviate from Resurrection as being my favourite of the 4 albums that I own. I did post one of his best lines from LWFC, more specifically from the light (read above post from "babyswipes") but appropriately titled it "one of many".

I don't think it's fair to say that people are jumpin on bandwagons because they were ignorant of the fact that Common has put out other material. And so what if they are jumpin on bandwagons anyway, it just gives more people exposure to good music.

One of my favourite lines from Common by the way was from a freestyle he did at a show here in Vancouver. It was amazing and I wish I had a copy of it so I could listen to it over and over, but it was a live show and i guess an in the moment type of thing that I will forever remember.


Out.
J

Yeah ANd also how a lot of people are quoting the light, and the geto heaven remix with macy gray. those were like the two videos and singles that got played the most.



SolRebel the Soulibra.
Bringing true light to the dark since 1982

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love."

Lady liberty is a racist bitch

U.S.A= Self-righteous hypocrite

I said it before and ain't a damn thing changed. Fuck George W. Bush.

"Believe none of what u hear and half of what u see"

Now, I know that my fav Com lines are from The Light, and from LWFC, but to be honest I got into Com back with One Day, and then just very recently picked up Resurrection. But you know what, I love it all, for real. I've deeply embraced Com more now than ever before because of his lyrics and where he represents. I moved from the big Illinois to Missouri, and the only thing Missouri can be proud of in hip hop is Nelly. Now, I don't have a big prob wit Nelly, but if that's all Hip Hop can offer Missouri, I'll move my ass back to Illinois or maybe out somwhere where there's real hip hop.
But uh, on to my fav Common pieces overall. Resurrection and I used to love H.E.R. are the best off Res... I've always loved the line "My 3rd eye's like pinkeye, seeming contagious" from Invocation. Oh uh, i got a halloween party to go to tonite, i'm a pimp wit a couple a ho's. I'm going to be like Com, "looking like a black panther that was trying to pimp" and my often repeated phrase will be "i don't care if it's snowing, i want you out there ho-ing. this a bizness right here, you ain't come too far to see that" I'm a guide them ho's, pimp vision and let them see the light. but its all in fun.
peace y'all
the I-double-L-I-T-E-R-Y C-I-S-T don't even try
with my rhmyes i'm makin nerds say word
'n like a subpoena kid you just got served

You have to realize that Common has matured alot over the years. Start at the Breaker one nine joint and go up to LWFC. If you listen you can hear him growing up.

*I'm Morpheous in this hip hop matrix-exposing fake shit*

Simple motherfuckas tellin me hard is criminal/niggas you thought was hard you pour out your liquor for/years ago I though I was hard back in high school fightin'/now I'm the hardest man workin in show business/handle your business and shut the fuck up.



1,2 many

first, let me say that i'm not as fluent on my Com quotes as some cats on this site. i like him a lot on most of his appearaces on other's records, but the only Com album i have is LWFC. anyway...my favorite Com quote (and yes, it's from a Tribe song he's featured on):

"before we count our papers, count our blessings"

almost used it as my senior quote. simple but very meaningful.

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
But my brain was bleedin, needin feedin, and exercise
I didn't seek the best of buys, it's a lie to textualize
I analyze where I rest my eyes
And chastise the best of guys with punchlines
I'm Nestle when it's Crunch-time
For your mind like one time
If poetry was pussy I'd be sunshine
cause I deliver like the Sun-Times
Confined in once-mines on dumb rhymes I combine
I'm hype like I'm unsigned, my diet I unswine
Eatin beef sometimes I try to cut back on that shit
This rap shit is truly outta control
My style is too developed to be arrested
It's the freestyle, so now it's out on parole
They tried to hold my soul in a holding cell so I would sell
I bonded with a break and had enough to make bail
A misdemeanor fell on his knee for the jury
I asked No for his ID and the judge thought there was two of me
Motion for a recess to retest my fingerprints
They relinquished since, cause I was guilty in a sense

This Is the illest verse from common, but there are many others

>I stagger in the gathering possessed
>by a patter-in
>That be scatterin
>Over the globe will my vocals
>be travellin
>Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's
>babblin
>Grammatics that are masculine
>I grab them in, verbally badgerin
>broads
>I wish that Madelline, was back
>on Video LP

I'm kinda partial to the remix where at this point he says...

"Raps I make up like blacks do excuses, I feel like Noah..." and then he goes into my favorite line (See my first post)>

I went against all odds and
>got a even steven
>Proceed to read and not believin
>everything I'm readin
>But my brain was bleedin, needin
>feedin, and exercise
>I didn't seek the best of
>buys, it's a lie to
>textualize
>I analyze where I rest my
>eyes
>And chastise the best of guys
>with punchlines
>I'm Nestle when it's Crunch-time
>For your mind like one time
>
>If poetry was pussy I'd be
>sunshine
>cause I deliver like the Sun-Times
>
>Confined in once-mines on dumb rhymes
>I combine
>I'm hype like I'm unsigned, my
>diet I unswine
>Eatin beef sometimes I try to
>cut back on that shit
>
>This rap shit is truly outta
>control
>My style is too developed to
>be arrested
>It's the freestyle, so now it's
>out on parole
>They tried to hold my soul
>in a holding cell so
>I would sell
>I bonded with a break and
>had enough to make bail
>
>A misdemeanor fell on his knee
>for the jury
>I asked No for his ID
>and the judge thought there
>was two of me
>Motion for a recess to retest
>my fingerprints
>They relinquished since, cause I was
>guilty in a sense
>
>This Is the illest verse from
>common, but there are
>many others

yeah- im feelin that verse

That's one of my fav Com verses, the flow is simply unbelievable! But the next verse is ill too, listen:

I ride the rhythm like a Schwinn bike when in dim light
I use insight to enlight devices hit the skin tight
Words of wisdom wail from my windpipe
Imaginations in flight
I send light, like Ben's kite I've been bright
Get open like on gym nights
And in fights I send rights
Don't hook with skins my friends like
I spend nights up in dykes
In spite I've been indicted as a freak of all trades
I got it made
I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums
Come from a tribe of bums
Hooked on negro and mums
Had to halt with the, malt liquor
Cause off the malt liquor I fought niggaz
Now my speech is lost quicker
Cruisin Southside streets with no heat and no sticker
U Ak got my back and we don't get no thicker
U Ak got my back and we don't get no thicker
U Ak got my back and we don't now check it
I'm a hoe but not a hoe nigga, ain't scared of no nigga
But it's my turn to go I gotta go
And I'm gone with the storm

If you've heard AL's Lyrics from Lyricists Lounge vol. 1, they say "I use Common Sense Ressurection" which is pretty obvious when you listen to it (heh).. That song is one of my favorites too but it can't compare to who they try to copy. It's a tribute to lyrics thou so no hard feelings :)

Btw, this post gave me two new quotes in my sig (any other suggestions?)! Look below..

-----------------

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" -Ghandi
"It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine" -Common <<< NEW
"I went to school for 14 years and my best teacher was experience" -Common <<< NEW

Geto Heaven

"Love your happiness don't begin wit a man. Strong woman why should you depend on a man. I understand you want a man that's resourceful. If he pay your bills then he feel like he bought you. Talkin to a friend about what love is. Her man didn't love her cuz he didn't love his. Hugged her from afar, said what I felt. You'll never find a man until you find yourself. Time helps mistakes you can learn from. Cuz one man f*cked up men you shouldn't turn from. You want a certain type of guy you have to reach a certain point too, at that destination a king will anoint you".
- Common

"Whether servant or a sergeon you gon' go through it, can't imagine goin through it without soul music"

- Common

Love Language

"Niggas say b*tches is trife, b*tches say niggas is, We just don't understand our fundamental differences"
- Talib Kweli

"Women thrive on emotions men refuse to acknowledge so when we arguin' nobody win"

and I'm out

~Geto Heaven~
"Goin through the storm/ Many bodies stay warm/ That relationship died for you to be born/ You're worth more/ Than anything you could cop in a store/ For you to grow he had to go so what you stoppin him for/ Not even I could ignore bein alone it's hard/ Find heaven in yourself and God."
-COMMON

~Maybe One Day~
"You take a life for gold, nigga did you really need that?"
-COMMON



*One Love* PEACE
-PapiLLoN

What about....

"Oppurtunity knocked, But he aint call before he came...."

Simply ill.

I'm as bad bad, as Leroy Brown Brown
Yo I'm a pro pro, but not a noun noun

>I'm as bad bad, as Leroy
>Brown Brown
>Yo I'm a pro pro, but
>not a noun noun


somethin' like that...

Com's best line is mosdef from "Time Travelin'"

"If we livin' in revelation, why should the people of the Son have to run!"

D (from up North)
________________

A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said ‘I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.’

The grandson asked him, ‘Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?’

The grandfather answered: ‘The one I feed.’”

Native American Story

I think it's from the song with De La: "I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win...."


"I like a little persistence as long as it's not from someone to whom I have flatly said NO." - the woman in Black Men magazine

The monster has spoken.

Too many. What sticks out?
:
"Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it
Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent
Took the negative and positive, cuz niggas got to live
Said I got to get more than I'm given
Cuz truth'll never be heard in religion
After searchin the world, on the inside what was hidden
It was the truth"

:
"In my formitive by my peers I was influenced
til the instruments of time killed the congruence
I peeped the blueprints on how to make true sense
of MC's which are a nuisance I know just what to do since
I'm on another lev
brothers is fakin' jacks and think they ready for the rev
but they got a lot to learn, to make their thoughts long term
'cause their shortcuts made a wrong turn
probably, timelessly I construct the fear-some
to rip your eardrum for many years to come
professional style thinkin' rational to move wise
so hard, it's a wonder y'all alive"

~LENism

*Performing at CalPoly 12.01.01 in the Rex Navarrete pre-show*

is so sweet. . .

p




"wear yourself as perfume."--little red book

Lauryn had a similar line/photo analogy on her debut album. "Take from the negative and form a positive picture", I believe it went. Yeah, great minds think alike (or at least inspire one another).

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

http://www.miscflux.com - home of
Miscellaneous Flux, the only band on
earth I would take a bullet for.

http://www.mp3.com/spirit_equality - Get your third eye stroked...

Whoops, that first quote was Common and the second was BT... Like you guys didn't know that already... hahahahha

~LENism

but my favorite is "it dont take a whole day 2 recognize sunshine"

*~Shiloh~*

"I got myself a fourty/I got myself a shorty/And I'm about to go and stick it/Yes I'm about to go and stick it" -Meth "tha m.e.t.h.o.d man"
"It be true me for you that's how it is/I can be your Noah you can be my Wiz/Then I can be your Sun, you can be my Earth/Resurrect the God through birth/Best believe" -Shakuan Allah aka Method Man
"I'm your Mister, you my Mrs. with hugs and kisses/Valentine cards and birthday wishes? Please/Be on another level of planning, of understanding/the bond between man and woman, and child/The highest elevation, cuz we above/All that romance crap, just show your love" -the M-E-T-H-O-D Man
"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet; until SHILOH come, and there shall the gathering of the people be" -Genesis 49:10
"I never sleep cuz sleep is the cousin of death" -Nas
"See we be makin love constantly/that's why my eyes r a shade blood burgandy" -D'Angelo

"if you believe in heaven, why's the choice hell?"

*JOJEE*
aka P-Haze

"...Sistas betta realize that real hair and real eyes get real guys..." This one means a lot to me since I always get passed over for the thug n***as.
-------------
"...Just a normal @$$ n***a tryna make some snaps..." - Ras Kass

"My music, you can fight, fuck or dream to it..."

"The D-the I-the D-the D-the Y-the D-the I-the D, it's Diddy...." - Sean Combs on his funny new song

"If heaven had a height, you would be that tall"






"I don't get many complements, but I am confident..."Talib Kweli

"Suckas break like Turbo and Ozone" Redman

Like cats keep saying, the dude has so many great lines. It's funny how some emcees who deliver so consistently can get overlooked by peeps for these new jacks....know?

"The D-the I-the D-the D-the Y-the D-the I-the D, it's Diddy...." - Sean Combs on his funny new song

This post got me smilin so hard my (face)cheeks hurt!
:)
ps....
damn! comm...he's good for uuu

>I definitely posted on the common's
>wackest line thread. Cause,
>I mean, he's ill, but
>he can be wack like
>anyone else. But check
>it. Let's give some
>love and point out Com's
>best line. If we
>could, as well, give Black
>Thought some love here too.
> Cause I hear some
>peeps say he talks about
>the same shit in every
>track beacause he's not "counscious".
> I think beacause he's
>not tied to a title
>like that. he talks about
>a lot of shit.
>So give it here. But,
>I gotta go to bed.
> I'll post my fav's
>when I'm not gonna pass
>out. Peace, asana

"pro black like Craig Hodges, with my Dashiki in the cleaners"

I don't know if that's the exact line, I havn't peeped it in a few weeks, but any refrence to my man Craig Hodges is already ground for a classic line. Maybe that's why I still hold Common as my #1 MC, even as some of his newer joints don't have the same appeal they used to.

"Music is a gift that is sacred
I opened it and used hopin you could grow to it" - Com

"Consider me the entity within the industry without a history
of spittin the epitome, of stupidity -- livin my life
expressin my liberty, it gotta be done properly
My name is in the middle of e-Kweli-ty" - Talib Kweli

like the kweli qoute, speakin of which?

anybody catch the reverb joint on hbo this past week?

kweli ripped that shi*!

peace
albinored

Immortalized by the realness i bring to it
If revolution had a movie--I'd be theme music
My music you either fight, fuck or dream to it
my life's like one big rhyme, i try to scheme through it

Hot Isht!

you pronounce my name: K-W-E-L-I

"This music is so much bigger than me."

One of my favorites

"I go broke like Melba Moore. Why should a Mel with a BA get moore than me, when Rashid got a MC degree?"
ComSense


Natural1 is Back from the dead like, Lazarus

"My name is drama. That's why it starts with ER" Erick Sermon

...the way you mark the game and rub off like henna/I remain like a tatoo...

from Cold Blooded

can't remember the parts before and after, but this line is dope


I'm back from the dead like Lazarus.
Natural1
"My name is drama. That's why it starts with ER" Erick Sermon

"...and test up your game like a ref, ree in teh besta 3 out of five, whoop anybodys ass in NBA Live..."


I bet I can whup Com's ass in NBA Live. I'm the champ.

Out.
J

--Envisionin' the hereafter/ Listenin' to Steve Wonder/
On a ?est 4 love/ Like the proceed drummer/ I strike like
lightning, and don't need thunder/ Inhale imagination, and
breathe wonder...


--Its a cold world and niggas need summer/
At times, my going forward--seems like retreat...

NOW THATS A INTRO 4 DAT ASS!! THE LYRICS ARE CLASSIC!! FROM
THAT ILL ASS SAMPLE, TO THE VINYL SCRATCHIN' THE BEAT BACK
IN AT THE END, THAT WHOLE JOINT IS THE ESSENCE OF COM!!

-PARDON MY GIRLISH GLEE, BUT I BEEN WAITING MY WHO

That is my favorite Common joint. That and "Thieves in the night"
by Blackstar is some of the most poetic shit ever. Those two songs hit me in the heart when I heard them. I had to sit my ass down.

chicka chicka i'm,chicka chicka on,chicka chicka my my own shit,like an entrepreneur that stepped in manure.

Hmmm...I can't really say his BEST line because that would be hard as hell. But this past week I been listening to One Day a lot, and that CD had some pretty tight ones. Also, keep in mind that "Hungry" is probably in my top three favorites. How could it not be with lines like this??
"shit is so banging niggas say its gang-related"
or
"skip ladies this is rip a muthafucka night"
"you need to do more deleting and less saving"

Also
"Inhale imagination and breathe wonder"
"its gonna be some drama you try and sit Com down, this ain't comedy"
"I came through the corra-dor with the aura, Raw chicago mora, scope the horror"
"If you believe in heaven, why is the choice hell?"
"The cops, ya'llknow what they be one, a nigga's life is like a field that they play on"

And I could go on forever, but these are ones I can think of now.

Peace

~~~welcome to my sig~~~

"For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us at night." - James Baldwin

"Ain't nobody perfect, cause ain't nobody free."- Nina Simone

"If you God then save your own, don't mentally enslave your own"- Cee Lo

"Only the strong go crazy; the weak just go along."- Assata Shakur

i ran thru the moss like Randy,touchin down wit close friends and family...
nerve i got to talk about these niggas wit a gun,musta really thought i was God to take the life of my Son.

"I flip styles like a channel with a control that is remote/
Engage in a page, and with words I elope.......I-ROCS like a Z28/
at any rate/ brothers gain interest cause I loan them microphones/They couldn't house the shit, so they had to rent to own"
Sum Shit I wrote- Ressurection Album

ThuŠ ŠP@k€ ŽåRåTHû©kYâ

some of this land I must own/outta the city they want us gone/tearin down the jects creatin plush homes

you know I ain't the type to walk around in matching shirts/a relationship is effort/ I will match your work/ I wanna be the one who makes you the happiest/ and hurts you the most/they say the end is near/ it's important that we close

"Somedays I take the L to gel with the real world
Got on at 87th, stopped by this little girl
She recited raps, I forgot where they was from
In 'em, she was saying how she made brothers cum
I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected
How many dead folks this art resurrected
How many nations this culture connected
Who am I to judge one's perspective?"

wonderful, wonderful shit


-b

I haven't read and posts but the initial one... but my two favorite lines are:

"I wanna save children"

and

"Wanted to be a star until I seen I was the sun"

"If I don't like it I don't like it, doesn't mean that I'm hatin"

and

"to get a certain kind of man you gotta reach a certain place too, at that destination, a king will annoint you"

What about "For you to grow he had to go so what you stopping him for?"

This line either wasn't heard or was slept on...Speaking to RAPPERS:

"You off-balanced/
You talk about violence too much/

I take mindstates on blind dates and then go dutch.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Complexity has effed
up the human race in
more ways that can be
counted.- Mathmagic

I ran through the MOSS like RANDY TOUCHhing DOWN with GOD, close friends, and family, recognize the voice in the wilderness COMM Since '92 and I'm feeling this...time travelin

I breath heavy like a ol' man
wit' a cold can of old style
with a stone isle profile
mixed between Malcolm X and Sef when i go wild

the whole damn song.. im on some calm shit watch com get complicated simple muthafuckers say the way that com communicated was too complex.... fk it the whole joint.
and NO DEFENSE.... sheeeesh get tha quotin fools..
peace and walk comfortably
strife... INF

mixup.
im thinkin of charms alarm..

some more..

"just call me keopectate in relationships i'm runnin shit/so dont b comin to me with that we can go out, you pay/cancel that bitch, it's the un-american way.."

"not a hater of the playas im more like a coach or an owner, i used to love her, but now i bone her.."

"if this track was a broad i'de b bonin the shit out of her.. bang!bang!bang!, then see what i could get out of her"

i want a job but i aint lookin, "how come" i aint tryin to degrade myself, bein nobody's coward/ im a couch bum, what makes it bad i had incentive/ but that disentegrated to a state that stagnated'

peace
strife....inf

"you can't spit, so you obviously swallow" - masta ace

"my music, you can either fight fuck or dream to it"

"i express like an interstate/hyper when i ventilate/my rap pieces penetrate and infiltrate your mental state"

"if revolution had a movie i'd be theme music"

"i'm nestle when its crunch time"

"i hope you wake up in time for the revolution, or you gon be like 'i cant believe it! i got shot!'"

______
your friendly neighborhood lurker,
Taco

"The phone is ringing, oh my god"
-Q-Tip

"Don't watch the Bulls as much, got too many white boys/
A million black men walking in 1 direction, cream of the crops/
Resurrection"

Resurection Remix, circa '94. Still True today, but I'm feeling Brad Miller.

If you don't have that extended H.E.R single from back in the day, pick it up. Soul By The Pound Remix + 2 vesion of H.E.R & The resurection remix, all classics.

Asked my God how he thought traveling the world sound/
found it hard to imaging he hadn't been past downtown

Out of all of brotha com's lines that line hit home. It made me think how most of us don't get the chance to brorden our worldly perceptions.


I bet on brothas with nothing to live for/ to give more to the struggle/ they already at war
- Talib Kweli

kats quickly losing hope/ thinking the only way of coming up is selling dope/
why must we hang our folks with they modern day rope
-Solbrotha

Look how far el dordos and wine bottles drug us/ least god and the sun love us
-Common

"a man does not live on bread alone / what good is a Range when it's time to head home?" afrodisiac for the world

i think this thread should be locked already.




aim: kittyswift1;-)

:9
"i'd rather take it easy, keep it brezzy."-mos

...I've seen weight turn into cadillacs with 'dopeman' plates...

...sometimes i think about moving to a warmer place/
then the lake and skyline, give a warm embrace...

...harmonizing through beepers and reefer/
the city's got my people in a sleeper/
talk's gettin' cheaper...

& so so so so many more

Peace,
Steve
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