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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

No what you hear is he's rappin to the beat.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I’ve always thought this was a pretty good one:

real G's move in silence like lasagna

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

They call me the Hiphopopotamus

My lyrics are bottomless

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

They call me the Hiphopopotamus Flows that glow like phosphorous Popping off the top of this esophagus Rocking this metropolis I’m not a large water-dwelling mammal Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that perchance?

[–] clay_pidgin 11 points 5 months ago

You can't just say "perchance".

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[–] TopRamenBinLaden 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

On Doomsday, ever since the womb β€˜Til I’m back where my brother went, that’s what my tomb will say

Right above my government; Dumile. Either unmarked or engraved, hey, who’s to say?

-MF Doom, Doomsday

I really love the wordplay with his government name 'Dumile' having a double meaning of 'Doom'll lay'. There are a bunch of other MF Doom lyrics in contention for goat status, in my opinion.

[–] Patches 7 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"Lookie here, it's just the way the cookie tear, prepare to get hurt and mangled like Kurt Angle, rookie year." -Great Day

DOOMS lyrics are insane.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

fuck tha police

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

fuckin magnets how do they work?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Or

when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung

Really that whole song is a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My anaconda don't want none

Unless you got buns hon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

But, ya know, who understands those rap guys?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ice cream scoopin', shittin' poopin', shittin', poopin'

But more seriously, MF DOOM (RIP) is one of my favourite artists, but he's been covered in a few comments already. But one of my favourites from him is:

Getting paid like a biker with the best crank
Spray it like a high-ranked sniper in the West Bank

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

interior crocodile alligator, I drive a Chevrolet movie the-atre

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Head to Bali, smoking cuban cigars, And we fuck up the party like acoustic guitars

"fuck up the party like acoustic guitars" always cracked me up so much.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be dropping these mockeries"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't know if it's the best of all time, but I really enjoy this from Common ('Sixth Sense’):

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?
Though some of that shit y'all pop true it, I ain't relating
If I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm hating

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Any couplet from Warren G's Regulate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, nate dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

One for the money, two for the better green

3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

One for the money, two for the better green / 3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Picture this I'm a bag of dicks Put me to your lips I am sick I will punch a baby bear in his shit

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It drops deep as it does in my breath. I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"I take seven kids from columbine, stand'em all in line, add an ak-47 a revolver, a nine, a mac-11 and it'll solve a problem of mine and that's a whole school of bully's shot up all at one time."

So this lyric is notable, not just for being edgy, but also because it was a product of it's time. It was published during the height of tipper gore and hillary clinton trying to appease the "moral majority" by attempting to censor rap music which is called out in the album.

Ultimately the lyric is self-censored because while the artist could have gotten away with it, the label was playing it safe, even though nothing about the lyric would have tripped the moral panic alarm. After all the rapper was white referencing a white event.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster

Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar

Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er

I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller

You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

My iconoclastic rap shtick gets my jimmy waxed like chapstick

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you got bad breath then maybe try Scope

And if you wash your ass you best use soap

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

What good is takin' over When we know what you gon' do? The only real revolution happens right inside of you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry, Puff, but I don't give a fuck
If this chick was my own mother, I'd still fuck her with no rubber
And cum inside her and have a son and a new brother
At the same time and just say that it ain't mineβ€”what's my name?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
Thinkin' of a master plan
'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand
So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent
So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My love is like lightening. It gives girls orgasms. My dick is like an airplane. It gives girls orgasms.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"Who's that peekin' in my window? Pow! Nobody now"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Step up in this motherfucker just a-swingin' my hair.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

"Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddily."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Biggie: "Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes at Penn State" or "Now honeys play me close like butter play toast"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

"Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy." - _Daylight_Aesop Rock

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

"Luda, Jada and Nas // and our bullets give you a deep tissue massage // so here's a song and dance while I make these ends // you never stood half a chance like Siamese Twins."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I was raised in the city...shitty..ever since i was an iddy biddy kiddy drinking liquor out my mama's tiddy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

We got the guillotine We got the guillotine, you better run

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They got the TV we got the truth;
They own the judges and we got the proof;
We got hella people they got helicopters;
They got the bombs and we got the- we got the-

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