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pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前

What is the best hip hop lyric of all time?

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What is the best hip hop lyric of all time?

pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前
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    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

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      Was that a test?

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

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      HO-TEL MO-TEL HOLLIDAY INN!!!

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

    real G’s move in silence like lasagna

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      I don’t get it. What is lasagna, here?

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        The “G” in “Lasagna” is silent

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          Sure, but what does lasagna have to do with being silent?

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            It’s a metaphor.

            The “g” is silent in the pronunciation of lasagna.

            This gives the meaning that “real gangsters” operate silently.

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              OH! Wow did I whoosh myself there. Thanks for the friendly clarification!

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          Except it’s not really, because it changes how the N is pronounced

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            Gotcha, so it’d be “real g’s are soft like lasagna”

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    They call me the Hiphopopotamus

    My lyrics are bottomless

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      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?

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        You can’t just say “perchance”.

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          STOP.

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      This was my first thought too lol

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    On Doomsday, ever since the womb ‘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.

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      Rip

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      “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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      I never listen to him myself, but everything I hear of his lyrics are genius on another level, I’m unsure anybody else can really compete, at least not as consistently

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    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.

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      My anaconda don’t want none

      Unless you got buns hon

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      But, ya know, who understands those rap guys?

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    fuck tha police

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    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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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      Ice cream scoopin’, shittin’ poopin’, shittin’, poopin’

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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

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      Obligatory link to the very old meme version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OXuLRqiiKYI

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    fuckin magnets how do they work?

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    “In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey”

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    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.

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    “I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries”

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      deleted by creator

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    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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      As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she’s very plain

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    Any couplet from Warren G’s Regulate.

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

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        they droppin and yellin, it’s a tad bit late; nate dogg and warren g had ta regulate…

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          Think that’s “droppin’ and yellin’”

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            shit you right

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    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

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