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[ShdwDrake]

"Jewish girls eat my meat, its not kosher"

 

[PantherLotus]

stick your head in the sand like ostriches, we be cuttin' you up like little sausages

 

[Blair]

I do my own thing when the phone rings,
Maybe I'll answer, maybe I'm busy.


- Yo-Landi Vi$$er

 

[DarkGiygas]

Get a car, and I throw some two o's on it
Dick is hard, so I throw a few hoes on it

 

[Seven Force]

"I'm seein' body after body and our Mayor Giuliani
ain't tryin' to see no black man turn to John Gotti,
My daughter use a potty so she's older now,
educated street knowledge Ima mold her now..."

 

[Dreams-Visions]

"Nig*as is mad I get more butt than ash trays."



<3 Big.

 

[Mayyhem]

"Leave you in the middle of nowhere like the letter H"

"Ask beavis I get nothing but head"

 

[owlbeak]

"I don't answer phones, I'll never reveal the Wu-Tang secret!"
"BITCH TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES!"
"If I don't get paid two or three million dollars by Monday, Ima bring on the armageddon!"
"It ain't lambskin, you can't use the word napkin."
"You ain't ringin' a bell, you ain't bustin' a grape, you ain't imitatin' me on this fuckin' tape."

-ODB

Pretty much every line he says is a fucking gold mine.

 

[samus i am]

Your flow's never wet, like grandma pussy,
I'm always good, like grandma cookies

It's goin' down like the Catalina wine mixer,
She goin' down like the hands on my time ticker

 

[Villain]

Two favorite lines from the same song;

1) "If God had an iPod, I'd be on his playlist"
2) "I met this girl on Valentine's Day, fucked her in May
She found out about April, so she chose to March."

CyHi Prince in So Appalled from Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

 

[CRS]

"Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type" - Lupe

One of my favorite lines of all time:

"Because the bud is just the tasty tantalizer.
The bud not the beer cause the bud makes me wiser." - Fatlip

 

[AppleBlade]

Canibus:

- "I'm above average with verbal semantics
the aurora borialis in the form of a rap ballad
you look at me like "poor bastard
why cant you manipulate Billboard with all your metaphor magic?"


- "but if you wanna see some hardcore Canibus just say so
and i'll come out the eggroll with seven death scrolls
if you can find a better flow?
then I can find a dinosaur on the Galapagos archipelago"


- "Sentences go through re-synthesis
I leave em looking bleaker than Memphis is
Without Rockefeller membership
Don’t be an optimist and try to rock with Bis
You end up in an iced-out sarcophagus"

 

[Satch]

"They call me Jay&#65279; Electronica.
Fuck that, call me Jay ElecHannukuh,
Jay ElecYarmulke, Jay ElectRamadaan, Muhammad Asalaamica, RasoulAllah Supana WatAllah through your monitor." Jay Electronica - "Exhibit C"


"Swag sw-sw-swag bruh, brrrang-dang-dang your girlfriend" Lil B Based God - "Ellen Degeneres" (makes me laugh every time)

 

[DrFunk]

"hit 'em with a kryptonite brick
children come and poke his dead body with a stick
wrote this lyric from in the bed with a chick
she had the tightest grip around the head of...mahhhhh!

bic...now can i get my pen back" - Doom, Batty Boyz

 

[Giant Robot]

"Gigabyte my sausage" - EDAN

"Oh shit, there's a horse in the hospital" - Dr. Octagon (although that part is not really sung. Just one of my favorite quotes to an opening)

 

[Kusagari]

"DON'T LET THE VAMPIRES GETTTT YOUUUUUUUUU"

 

[RepairmanJack]

Canibus:

Ah, a fellow canibus fan. Where were you at in the fresh meat thread when I was called a hipster? heh.

 

[venne]

"I drop unexpectedly like bird shit"

-Notorious B.I.G.

 

[Naked Prime]

"Step to the stage, Too Late I blew it up"

Kid of Kid & Play

 

[starblade]

"Ima fuck this beat, you bitch you ya better cum"-lil wayne

"N***a where your blunt I can make this pussy smoke" - Trina

"How in da fuck can fo' byrds give you a life sentence? but give a white person seven years for money laundering millions" - plies

"At times my highway leads to bleak direction. So I seek confession speaking to beats, I call it resurrection..." - cyne

"I had a dream, I had a dream...but it whatn't nothing like Dr. King" - Lil boosie

"Tired of living poor even worse I'm black, my stomach hurt so I'm looking for a purse to snatch" - tupac

"I want a new bentley and my auntie need a kidney and if I let her die her children never will forgive me" - jeezy

"You need to fill our schools, rebuild our church and homes, stop killin' my own kind and leave my Earth alone" - trick daddy

 

[Stat Flow]

Playin me before I take the ring and pawn it
The long arm of the law couldn't even put they fingers on it ~ MF DOOM

 

[Angry Fork]

Most people here listing lots of mainstream stuff so i'm gonna list some of my favorites from underground artists. I'm also gonna cheat and post some verses instead of just lines. These aren't famous also obviously just ones I like.

i'm a broken machine
my past is water under the bridge but the lies have poisoned it from upstream

Chino XL - Skin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ChdeidHyk

i wrote anthems from antonyms
harmonies from homonyms
created cinema from synonyms
livid to eliminate that illustrious life you're living in
wrote rhetoricals in rhythms
i could paralyze with a parable
make rhymes out of religion
crucify you with a prefix
or suffocate you with a suffix
wrote lectures so infectious they're known to infect the listeners
who dissin us? yo punks you wait
i punctuate
my karma's the comma
that put you inside of a coma
hyphen, dot-dot, semi-colon
leave you semi-swollen
Question mark: You pregnant?
oh you're not? I love you, period.

Chino XL - Wordsmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM6itMg9nGg

cuz i'm beyond them, on some futuristic cyborg shit
i close my eyes when i freestyle so i could read what prints across them
then raise my arms like a sorcerer and cast a fireball into the audience
to barbecue your brain organs
you feel like you've been thrown in a microwave oven
i flame broil suckas.
Then hit them with some more shit, the raw shit
call my reinforcements, the four horsemen
take a big piece of chalk and
draw a line across the stage pulpit
I dare a motherfucker to cross it.

Canibus - 100 bars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kT3zGDd3k

let's toast to the beautiful people
the ones that made you afraid to be you
the ones that trained you to hate your shell
the ones that sold you your favorite self

Atmosphere - Vanity Sick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q67FEUmRaU

as i grow older i get colder, like the declining
climate of earths environment, entirely tireless
rhymes come from a higherness of wireless dialect

Canibus - Poet Laureate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmLKiNxWW0

a wise man see's failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic

Canibus - Poet Laureate 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iUWGhnqBxM


Anyone looking for dope tracks/artists in general with lots of great lines (obviously much more than this but just trying to link whatever comes to mind quickly):

Louis Logic - Classy McNasty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdYYns3w2uQ

Brother Ali - Rain Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJQJesMs9s

Stuff by Chino XL, Canibus, Royce da 5'9", Ras Kass, Eyedea, Louis Logic, Brother Ali, Jedi Mind Tricks, Apathy, etc. If anyone wants some new music or they want to get into underground hip hop just youtube around and anybody that cares about complex lyrics, rhyme schemes, etc. should be able to find some amazing stuff starting with those artists.

Here's a couple mainstream ones that came to my mind quickly though:

i've got miracle lyrical capability all in me
with the agility to escape a killer bee colony
so get your cameras and capture how miraculous
i rap for all you draculas and showed you all how wack he was
i meant it as a diss, cuz you don't possess the pizzazz of this
i'm hazardous enough already as it is

Eminem - Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN3T2Jo-9G0

windows tinted on my ride when i drive in it
so when i rob a bank, run out and just dive in it
so i'll be disguised in it
and if anybody identifies the guy in it
i'll hide for 5 minutes
come back, shoot the eye witness
fire at the private eye hired to pry in my business

Eminem - Criminal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88rsI9ltRZA

I never asked for nothing I don't demand of myself
honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth
death before dishonor and I tell you what else
i tighten my belt before I beg for help
foolish pride is what held me together through the years i wasn't felt
which is why i ain't never played myself
i just play the hand i'm dealt, i can't say i've never knelt
before god and asked for better cards at times to no avail
but i never sat back feeling sorry for myself
if you don't give me heaven i'll raise hell

Jay-Z - Justify my thug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fwQQ5UrSAY

It's too bad Em and Jay turned so shitty ever since around 2004. They're pure garbage now but at least there's still the stuff from 2003 and earlier to cherish. There's lots of lines from Tupac, Nas, Rakim, etc. but i'm too lazy to post so much as i've already posted enough already.

 

[starblade]

Your flow's never wet, like grandma pussy,
I'm always good, like grandma cookies

It's goin' down like the Catalina wine mixer,
She goin' down like the hands on my time ticker

A No Ceilings fan I take it?

 

[Stinkles]

It was her fucking hus-bend, six-foot-ten, I knew my life would soon end, some bitch tried to kill me.

 

[Barnaby_Jones]

I think grime should be allowed to be included in this too.

The Ghetts vs P Money battle is full of funny lines and jabs that I think deserve a place here. They might not be the most eloquent of lyrics but they definitely get the message across.

P money response to Ghetts
"i use the mac like it's photoshop, bare faces gettin' chopped off when i edit"
"got deep metaphors that you won't understand, 20 years later you're like oh I get it"

Ghetts - All black winter
"i'll put man to sleep like I be the guy that he bought his bed off"
"tell him if he wants beef kill a cow"

Ghetts - Suicide

P money - The dub
"you ain't got a deal stop hypin', you're lying, that's a jobseekers form you're signing"
"i make the gal dem sing for- shut up, listen, I can't hear no girls singing"
(referencing Ghetts - Sing for me)

Ghetts - Destruction of the eiffel tower
"tell Paris i'm Baghdad, suicidal, 2 bombs in a backpack, tickety tick tick BOOM, I deliver the hits, sick tunes, like sing badabada, i made more money off a song that flopped than p money has in his whole career so sing badabada!"

P money - The warning

I don't think that these are the best lines in hip hop/rap/grime but I felt that grime should be represented at the very least and to get some more people on the tunes.

When it concerns rap though, some of the lyrics off Kanye's College dropout are definitely up there. Eminem is also a lyrical word-smith worthy of mention and some of his lyrics are up there with my favourites. I'll chime in with 'em after i've had a brief runthrough of their catalogues.

 

[Smeghead]

'Oh my god, is that a Black Card?'
I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term
African American Express - Kanye

 

[Lambtron]

"Five nine, six one, I call 'em the Twin Towers. Had 'em in a triple stack, hit 'em both in the shower." -Young Jeezy

 

[Booshka]

"Fuck Tae Kwan Do, I tote .44's" BIG

"Can you handle, half a chicken in the door panel." Westside Connection

 

[Ogni-XR21]

"Men never died for flags they died for politicians, the shadiest breed of the mental magicians" - The Goats

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Lemonade was a popular drink, and it still is.

 

[Stat Flow]

And I would post Mos Def's verse from TITN but its too long to be considered here. Favorite rap verse of all time.

 

[samus i am]

A No Ceilings fan I take it?

Yep, he killed that song.

 

[PantherLotus]

ONE-LINERS, dammit! If I wanted lyrics.com I'd go there.

Another:
What'ya crunch a bunch of crunch-a-munch? -em

 

[Cedric]

"Big L is the rebel type, I'm tough like a metal pipe,
fuck a benz cause I could pull skinz on a pedal bike"

"Turn your tux red, I'm far from broke, got enough bread
And mad hoes, ask beavis I get nuttin butt-head"

 

[BlazeDSM]

Lil' Wayne: 6 foot 7 foot

Young Money, Cash Money
paper chasing, tell that paper, "Look, I'm right behind ya"
bitch, real G's move in silence like lasagna
people say I'm borderline crazy, sorta kinda
woman of my dreams,




I love how he said that line.

 

[RepairmanJack]

Stuff by Chino XL, Canibus, Royce da 5'9", Ras Kass, Eyedea, Louis Logic, Brother Ali, Jedi Mind Tricks, Apathy, etc. If anyone wants some new music or they want to get into underground hip hop just youtube around and anybody that cares about complex lyrics, rhyme schemes, etc. should be able to find some amazing stuff starting with those artists.

Would second this greatly. Canibus, Royce, and Ras Kass especially.

 

[tycoonheart]

I forget the name of the song, but it was a Brother Ali track and the line goes something like this:

"God blessed me with two heads, so every time I masturbate its a stroke of genius"

 

[Blackace]

I might talk a different language but I'm not Scottish
Got more homies in jail, than I do in college - E 40

 

[spermatic cord]

"If you wanted a date, don't come
Now you gotta make it easy for me don't run
You call this shit kids, well I call these kids cum
And you call this shit rape but I think that rape's fun"

 

[Repgnar]

I rip it hardcore, like porno-flick bitches
I roll with groups of ghetto bastards with biscuits

Wu-Tang

 

[Tashi]

"Put it together, I rock hoes, y'all rock fellas"

"And, Eminem murdered you on your own shit"

Props for those

"Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is, I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis"

"Try to put shame in my game to make a name, I'ma put it on a bullet and put it in ya brain"

"Life's a bitch but God forbid the bitch divorce me"

"You know what I'm like, you play it in ya system every night"

"I never sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death"

 

[killthekampers]

"the holiest wars wars bring prophets and I don't mean moses" Cunninlynguists - Murder (act2)

"dream big nigga, play that shit in IMAX" Cunninlynguists - Dreams

 

[opticalmace]

Has gotta be Nas or Eminem IMO. Would have to dig to pick out some quotes..

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

"My mother has informed me that it is her wish that I should hit you with enough force to render you unconscious"

 

[MidnightCowboy]

Rappers claiming they sick I heal niggas for good -J. Cole

 

[computers putin']

I'm sure I could think of something better, but Nas on Raekwon's Verbal Intercourse pops to mind.

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold
I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe
When I'm deceased, by then the beast arise like yeast
to conquer peace leaving savages to roam in the streets

not really a one liner but still

 

[RepairmanJack]

"I never said that battlein me would be impossible, I just think it's highly mother fuckin improbable"
"You talkin to a n*gga that'll spit molecules to sub-atomic particles strong enough to stop a bull"

 

[computers putin']

Oh, and how could I forget!

"I get the boosters boostin', I get computers putin', y'all get shot at, homie I do the shootin' '

KILLA!!!!!!!

 

[DOBERMAN INC]

"love war fuck a truce,Still move a bird like I'm in bed with mother goose"

 

[PantherLotus]

There's several different levels to Devil worshippin: horse's heads,
human sacrifices, cannibalism; candles and exorcism
Animals having sex with 'em; camels mammals and rabbits
But I don't get into that, I kick the habit - I just,
beat you to death with weapons that eat through the flesh
And I never eat you unless the fucking, meat looks fresh
I got a lion in my pocket, I'm lying, I got a nine in my pocket
and baby I'm just, dying to cock him
He's ready for war, I'm ready for war
I got machetes and swords for any xxxxxx that said he was raw
My uz' as, heavy as yours, yeah you met me before
I just didn't have as large an arsenal of weapons before
Marshall will step in the door, I lay your head on the floor
With your body spread on the bedspread, red on the wall
red on the ceiling, red on the floor, get a new whore
Met on the second, wet on the third;
then she's dead on the fourth - I'm dead wrong.


Ok, this is actually one line.