Hip Hop Quotes - Page 22

• Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on,
  First they're guilty, now they're gone!

  Chuck D

  Rap, Smell, Hollywood

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,
  Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Games, Hammers

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• If you love someone, you should say it often,
  You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin.
  Wake up, it's important that you know that
  No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Important, Coffins

  Song: Poor Georgie

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• I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes...
  Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

  Dr. Dre

  Rap, Years, Games

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• I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em.
  Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
  They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
  I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

  Kool Keith

  Stupid, Rap, Writing

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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Dancing

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
  But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
  Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July...
  And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.

  Flavor Flav

  Lying, Rap, July

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• I'm down for you, so ride with me.
  My enemies your enemies,
  Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Enemy, Causes

  Song: Never Had A Friend Like Me

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• I'm expressin' with my full capabilities,
  And now I'm livin in correctional facilities.
  Cause some don't agree with how I do this,
  I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

  Dr. Dre

  Buddhist, Rap, Causes

  "Song: 'Express yourself'(Album: Straight outta compton)". 1988.

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• I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
  Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

  Q-Tip

  Uncles, Rap, Swings

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• Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear
  To stack more dough more calmly this year.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Years, Dough

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• It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken,
  And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.'
  Pigs on parade, but bacon fryin' and cookin',
  Cause kids' tired of dyin' and walkin' round like they shooken.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Tired, Kids

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• We fight every night, now that's not kosher
  I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer
  And wake up to be greeted by an argument again
  You act like you're ten
  So immature, I try to concentrate on a cure
  And keep lookin' at the front door.

  Extra P

  Rap, Fighting, Night

  "Song: 'Looking at the Front Door'". 1991.

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• I make niggas eat dirt and fart dust,
  Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Я" Us.

  Ludacris

  Rap, Dust, Giving

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• I never fronted, you can get it if you want it...
  Won't say I'm the best, but I'm not that far from it.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Want, Ifs

  Song: Gameplan, Album: The Awakening, 1996

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• I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
  Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

  Dres

  Rap, Twenties, Sound

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• In this life ain't no happy endings;
  Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Years, Fake

  Song: Runaway, 2013

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• Music just ain't what it used to;
  We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

  Jadakiss

  Song, Rap, Used

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• You've got to realize that the world's a test,
  You can only do your best and let Him do the rest.
  You've got your life, and got your health,
  So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

  Cee Lo Green

  Rap, World, Tests

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• If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

  Cormega

  Rap, Crime, Mics

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• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
  Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  G. Dep

  Rap, Sleep, Lunch

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• For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

  J-Live

  Rap, Style, Earth

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• It's ninety-six degrees in the shade...
  Before I catch blood on my blade.

  Keith Murray

  Rap, Blood, Degrees

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• On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
  Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

  Positive K

  Rap, Squares, Competition

  Song: Step Up Front

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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