Hip Hop Quotes - Page 21

• When I get involved, I give it my heart,
  I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
  But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't.
  It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Mean, Heart

  Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock

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• All I see is sissies in magazines smiling...
  Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?
  Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'?
  And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

  Eminem

  Rap, Shoes, Coats

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• My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
  '87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
  She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
  She had the club foot, with that little arm,
  I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Feet, Laughing

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• We live in a society created by an empire
  That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era,
  A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life,
  That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

  Coolio

  Rap, Empires, Eras

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• Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

  Cee Lo Green

  Rap

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• They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam.
  All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo
  With the ugly Kardashian...
  Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.

  Eminem

  Sorry, Powerful, Rap

  Song: Berzerk

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• Anything worth having is hard to keep,
  I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
  So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
  I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.

  Ghostface Killah

  Sweet, Regret, Love You

  Song: You Know I'm No Good, Album: More Fish, 2006

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• You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen
  Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Rap, Kitchen, Matter

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• Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
  And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

  Phife Dawg

  Being Yourself, Lying, Rap

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• It seem like everybody dress tight now,
  And I just want my credit.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Dresses, Credit

  Song: Gifted

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• I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
  I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
  Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
  Wish America had universal health care...
  Cause ain't no help here.

  Ed O.G.

  Christian, Rap, America

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• There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
  A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
  When the wind blows, and the world turns,
  And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
  And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
  And the stars gleam.

  Q-Tip

  Baby, Stars, Rain

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• I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
  MC's be out like bank robbers,
  Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
  DJ...the getaway driver.

  GZA

  Rap, Fleeing, Survivor

  Song: Living In The World Today

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• Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
  The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

  Kelvin Mercer

  Rap, Debt, Earth

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• Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators
  That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'

  MF Grimm

  Pain, Rap, Earth

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• Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
  The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
  But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
  Let no one forget about the hard part.

  MC Serch

  Rap, Heart, Ghetto

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• There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet,
  I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

  Sadat X

  Rap, Mma, Everyday

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• You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
  Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
  Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...
  But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Games, Presidential

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• Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story,
  3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory.
  4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years,
  I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here.
  Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills,
  8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's.
  It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

  Mos Def

  Rap, Years, Law

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• Now what Clan you know with lines this ill?
  Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

  Method Man

  Rap, Lines, Time To Kill

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• They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

  Kool Keith

  Baby, Rap, Simple

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• We got it on lock like Barack got the nomination

  Masta Ace

  Rap, Locks, Nominations

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• Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
  Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

  Pete Rock

  Rap, Humble, Style

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• Next time you see a brother down
  Stop and pick him up,
  Cause you might be the next one stuck.

  Grand Puba

  Brother, Rap, Might

  Song: Mind Your Business

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• Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
  Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.

  DMX

  Rap, Never Forget, Involved

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