The Greatest One Line in Hip Hop History (no rhymes allowed)

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'I'm thinking about your mom to a funky beat'

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Make up your mind - who you wanna pump the butt?"

― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

easy is his name and the boy's comin' straight outta compton

― dan (dan), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"My pockets are so empty I can feel my testicles!"

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I ain't ashamed!"

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Holy Shit! Hstencil posted the EXACT line I was going to!

Well, then, I'll fall back on...

"lyrics weak like clock radio speakers"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

No question about it, it was on the lastest Nas album: "Scientists claim we came from apes, but they lies, though"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i'm getting mad props like on a movie set"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

BOUNCE!

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

"so put a quarter in ya ass 'cuz ya played ya-self"

― Scott Kos (Scott Kos), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You and her ain't speakin' no more cause my dick all up in her mouth" or however it goes from "Mrs. Jackson"

I suddenly feel much more white than usual.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm lookin' like I robbed Liberace.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis." -- Guru

― Ess, Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

That doesn't come close to the preceding line: 'Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is'

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

crash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

That doesn't come close to the preceding line: 'Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is'

I dunno. That line's so strange and non-contextual... The Bruce Willis thing has a nice, multivalent joke, but the lemonade thing just, you know, asserts the popularity of lemonade.

― ess, Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh I know, it was a joke since that line is regularly trotted out for its awfulness.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

FWIW, Guru was supposedly free-styling during that whole verse. Then again, I think I'd tell everyone that if I put that line on record.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I always thought that line was a reference to that old eddie murphy-as-elvis lemonade song

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

There are no good lyrics or anything in hip-hop.

― Geir H0ngr0 (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

There are no good Norwegians either, I hear.

― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I really wish Hstencil could see the login-tag on that post.)

― anonymousish (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

heh, 'music is not supposed to be interesting'. noice one [sic]

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

"How the fuck can I be white when I don't even exist?"
"I can't rap any more, I murdered the alphabet"
"This beat is my recital"
"In the 69 my Humpty nose will tickle your rear"
"I once got busy in the Burger King bathroom"

the inexplicable line in "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" by Big Daddy Kane where he goes something something something "and made him call himself Toby" -- or am I just mishearing that?

― chris herrington, Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Take it from me, parents just don't understand"

― Geir Honky, Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

'ww I'm the shit dot com'

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

screenplay pitch: irascible cracker football coach geir hongo is sentenced to 2 wks of community service - assigned as the personal trainer to fat joe, who has been ordered by an unorthodox yet wise old judge to lose 100 lbs in two weeks or lose custody of his adopted daughter (played by the breakdancing girl from the missy videos)... there's a lot of laughs along the way, but also some lessons learned: not only does fat joe lose the poundage under the tough-but-fair tactics of coach hongo but he also learns about the odd european invention called "melody" ... meanwhile, Hongo does the running man onstage with Digital Underground in the heartwarming block party scene that close the film.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I use a word that don't mean nothin'. Like "looptid."

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Don't, don't hurt me again."

― 4mateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's a long line Fritz. Who said it?

(you forgot a 'don't' 4mat

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Mary J. Blige, my son don't accept them type of phone calls"

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

"If I was a Jew then I'd light a Menorah."

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

"And so you'll know it's me, I drop some nonsense: hippaglopeabloobablayzneeah"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck' (yeah, it's got a rhyme but it's internal so n'yah)

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Similarly: 'Gave a lady some wrinkle cream out of rat poop '

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

the inexplicable line in "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" by Big Daddy Kane where he goes something something something "and made him call himself Toby" -- or am I just mishearing that?

This is a reference to the TV series Roots, in which the African slave Kunta Kinte was renamed Toby by his white masters.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i don't have no problem with you fucking me, but i got a little problem with you not fucking me."

― s>c>, Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

certainly the winner in the economy-of-expression contest has gotta go to Humpty: "both how I'm living and my nose is large" -- it's like a koan, f'r chrissakes

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am overjoyed to see that Humpty's got the most lines cited on this thread.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let us not forget "You look like MC Hammer on crack, Humpty!"

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Homegirls, for once, forget you got class--see a guy you like, just grab him in the biscuits."
(Not a rhyme--!)

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

My sword is an axe - GZA

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like my beats hard like 2 day old shit.

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I'm wearing a dookie rope and some oven mitts!"
"My daughter scribbled over that rhyme, I couldn't read it"
"I love you like a fat kid love cake"
"My favorite New York Knick was Hawthorne Wingo"
"She was Superfly, Curtis May-feel her ass"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

That second one (Eminem, "Any Man") is probably funnier with the preceding line ("somethin' somethin' somethin', somethin' I get weeded") but I like the insinuation that he can't remember it even though he wrote it down.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i'm hittin switches on bitches like i been fixed with hydraulics"

"how do you want it" - tupac feat k-ci & jo-jo

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

"you know you're ghetto when you best clothes is dress clothes, and dress clothes is paco jeans and jelly slippers, na'mean??"

"ur ghetto 2000", kardinal

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

"radio stations i question their blackness, they say that they're black but let's see if they play this"

"bring the noise", public enemy

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Feminist women love Eminem..."

― phil wise (beachbum), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love you like the fat kid loves cakes

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

'More rhymes than Tupac got mil's in his shoebox'

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"They like me, I want them to love me like they love 'Pac"

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Been a natural born killer since I came out the nut sack."

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not sure whether to be surprised, confused or amused that I can't think of an answer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

ned whatre your top ten rap lps

― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's a very good question! I'll have to think that over. But I will always include the Divine Styler's Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light and I don't care what you think. ;-) Ready to Die probably goes in there as well, for its cinematic scope alone (though there are plenty of other reasons).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

That Divine Styler album has virtually no rapping on it, Ned?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, if you wanted to call it prog, then we have something to distract Geir with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Divine Styler rapped over an Alan Parsons Project beat once = he's OK in my book

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

scene: giant warehouse messily spraypainted with tag HIPHOP PATRIN LIKES

on the very center of the empty concrete floor inside, a tiny shoebox labelled 'songs produced by el-p' and a smaller one labelled 'songs that predicted el-p'

― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

'I've been dope ever since I was semen'

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

complementary phrase:'swimming in my daddy's big nuts' (I love you Grand Puba)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

"my scripts consist of H20, hip-hop and oxygen"

― Scott Stanley, Friday, 25 April 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Like the Knicks I got game like I worked at Hasbro."

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

These three from "Adrenaline" by The Roots:

"I chop rappers up like Chicken Szechuan" - Black Thought
"You need a special kind of mic for retarded kids" - Diceraw
"Tore their body all up, ain't no chalkin' em" - Beanie Siegel

From "Buckingham Palace" by Canibus:
"they act so chicken, they should come with a large drink and a biscuit"

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 April 2003 09:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

...the hell?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 25 April 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

"you know i got game like i read the directions"
"let me state im a hustler for real so you know i got the stolen bus pass"

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 April 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I'm a pint-wielding London fuck"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah i'm breaking the rules but the rhymes aren't that dazzling, it's more about the photographic detail and i just wanted to share:

"Legs and arms, hummin' with the radiator clickin'
Our soft patience quickin'
I couldn't slow the pace
I bust off three nuts and man the sun's in my face"

― minna (minna), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

"People ask how I make my living. By breathing ox-y-geeenn."

― cprek (cprek), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I put gum up my ass coz I likes to pop shit"

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'll be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, child educator plus head amputator

― adam b (adam b), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You won't be laughing when the buzzards drag your brother's flags into rags
You won't be laughing when your front lawn is spangled with epitaphs"

aesop rock, "daylight"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

okay, but they're internal.

― adam b (adam b), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Drunky peasants, honor the shifty mega-drawn presents
Slug a bolt one ceremonies of merit turned blood sport"
- aesop rock, "abandon all hope"

"Like I'd auction off a fuck for that blind cause you ride in"
- aesop rock "coma"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

or "i just might cure deafness"

― adam b (adam b), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You couldn't fuck with with my style if you was a nympho"
Common

"Jeg er nede med med mit eget lort som en lokal kloakarbejder"
- which is by Danish wordjugglers Rent Mel I Posen and translates to:
"I'm down with my own shit like a local sewer worker"

and we should remember to give the props to the right man for the
"I don't have no problem with you fucking me, but i got a little problem with you not fucking me" quote, namely ODB. This is probably the best of them all...

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

As a secondary nomination:

Like marijuana and shotguns, let's blow this joint.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, and:

"If 'if' was a spliff, man, we'd all be high"

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

"who decides the truth? guys in ties and suits? violent coups? private schools?"

Yeah, so that's a rhyme, it's been stuck in my head for days BUGGER OFF!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

"...and when it comes to dicks,you don't even have one"

― robin (robin), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"bi-aaa-ii-aaa-itch"
(as a, complete, chorus)

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

"hotel unknown drinking brew watching sesame street"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

"If Magic can admit that he has AIDS, fuck it, I've got herpes!"

― Scott Stanley, Friday, 25 April 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

'yo mama's got a peg leg w/a kick stand'
'yo mama's got a afro w/a chin strap'

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

"cuz tonight we're gettin off like OJ"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

"See rap to me is like my bitch right. She fuck another n-- and I get mad and I wanna kill the bitch. And I wanna kill the n--. See this is how you must step up to the motherfucking microphone."

--ODB

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

You thought I was a donut
You tried to glaze me

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Pissed on the carpet, shitted by the door'

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I don't walk, I get carried"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I never drive drunk 'cause I might spill my drink"

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I'm low-key like seashells"

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"My flows kill at high speed like Lady Di's Mercedes"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I put some bubbles in the tub so I could have a bubble bath"

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is Snoop, and if you say it out loud to yourself in the Doggsters diction, you'll realize the true value of deliverance in rap music:

"Like I said, niggaz can't FUCK with this
And niggaz can't FUCK with that"

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

"fuck gettin money for real get freedom"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You're out of your depth bitch, best fetch Mitch Buchanon"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, and, of course, the current high water mark of British hip-hop: "Spit lyrics in your face like Patrick Viera at Neil Ruddock"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Your lyrics are shitty like when I cop a squad"

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is your name Michael Diamond?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Best rap battle comeback ever?

Canibus to LL:
"99 per cent of your fans wear high heels"

LL to Canibus:
"99 per cent of his fans don't exist"

Right he was! Ever heard 'Draft Me'? Uuuuuuuurgh ...

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Biz Markie: "When I run for prez, you best be a voter"

Mike D: I take the IRT right up to Penn Station" Ad-Rock's reply: "Penn Station! Up on Eighth Ave!"

Ice Cube: "We don't just say no, we're too busy sayin' yeah to drinkin' straight out the 8 bottle"

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Gonna make a difference so we get locked"

― david day (winslow), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Keell keell keell, moider moider moider - nothing personal, G.

― bedroom, Saturday, 26 April 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

My brain makes the world dark but I'm hung like a birthmark

both copyright MC Paul Barman

― Ranier McAfree, Saturday, 26 April 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Me and your girl mad tight because we fuck a lot.

― jm (jtm), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

"We at odds till we even" - Method Man
"Went from ashy, to nasty, to classy" - Big
"My style is sex and violence, vocabulary and science, in an uneasy alliance" - Ras Kass (rhymes, i know)

― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Saturday, 26 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

"But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?"

Rakim, "Microphone Fiend"

I wanted to use that Meth line. Also v. happy to see the work of Greg Jacobs so well represented.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

the last line in Ice-T's "The House" just breaks your heart:"Why don't somebody do something, call a cop (long pause) Last night I heard gunshots..."

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

"ya got it all wrong like women in tuxedos"

"and ya comin up shorter than five danny devitos"

listen i know it rhymes but they are still the best two lines

― mIKEY carli, Monday, 19 May 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Hey yo fat girl, come here are ya ticklish?"

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 19 May 2003 09:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

she worked at Red Lobster but I didn't remember

― Neudonym, Monday, 19 May 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Company Flow the toughest penis sucky sucky'

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

"When you’re by yourself, there ain’t no one else to lie to."
- Atmosphere

― Ben, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

i'm the punky qb known as mcmahan

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:10 (twenty years ago) link

None of these surpass the thread starter.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

you can't tell me mine's not close though...

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

well, if you woulda said "I'm the rookie but I'm no dumb cookie", then maybe.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

GFK, "holla": 'like an angry crippled man don't push me'

― hjdsfd, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

"ill still be rhymin when im in your hymen"

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link

" Cheese-steak, eggs and Welch's Grape "

" Ass so big, she don't wear Daisy Dukes, She wears Boss Hogs "

" However, i say coochie down to the socks "

" My life is played out like a Jheri-Curl "

― darth nader, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 03:50 (twenty years ago) link

"I stains my sheets like the Violent Femmes"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 03:54 (twenty years ago) link

who said that?

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 04:27 (twenty years ago) link

"when I hold out my hand, bitches think it's snowin"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:08 (twenty years ago) link

robin: that was from justin warfield's song "live from the opium den"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

'as an interlude i got the gucci flip flop'

― sean., Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:51 (twenty years ago) link

"Oohhh, I make 'em aahhh when I'm cunning with my lingus."

(For the record, that line rhymes with "Mingus", as in Charles.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:56 (twenty years ago) link

"you're reign at the top was shorter than leprechuans"

― Michael B, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link

My teeth got rainbows like a gay pride parade.

― d k (d k), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

Look out, I got a snowstorm on every tooth!

― d k (d k), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

They think I work for Kellogg's, mouth full of Frosted Flakes!

― d k (d k), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

Time to pull out some Mountain Brothers gems just to keep it slanty: "I'm like a skiier at the special olympics: cold retarded"

"I'm a sentence hence your period is not stoppin me, turn it out and turn it into my property, if youre not kinky like the dread on the head of a rasta then ur probably not for me, cuz i'm the type to rock you with a piece of broccoli"

― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

This might be more than one line, but still...

I got a letter from the government, the other day, I opened it and read it, it said they were suckers.

― Sicily (Sicily), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

Two from Dick Starbuck of the High & Mighty:
"You be flirtin' with death - like playin' Frogger"
"It didn't happen - like blacks votin' for Reagan"

― BrianB, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

Schoolly D: "A little white kid called me a nigger/If I'd had a gun then I'da pulled that trigger" (yeah, it's a rhyme, but it's my favorite rhyme in all hip-hop)

New Kingdom: "Animal was my favorite drummer"

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

we chopped his body up and sent it in a next day mail pack

step to the side, bow your head like a bitch - i don't play

i was smoking joints in baghdad when you were in your dad's bag

i'm swarthy, like lardy vince lombardi comin' tardy to the party with some hearty havarti

― ron (ron), Thursday, 6 November 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

"Who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?" - GZA (internal rhyme)

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 6 November 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

have no need for dildoes when i chill with hoes - my dilz rose

― ron (ron), Thursday, 6 November 2003 04:28 (twenty years ago) link

that ain't opportunity, that's Dub knockin you in your dome

― ron (ron), Thursday, 6 November 2003 04:45 (twenty years ago) link

"Even when I say nothing its a beautiful use of negative space"

-El-P

And the Guru line about lemonade is a Chi Ali reference.

― ddrake, Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

Another El-P gem:

"Fuck laura ingles only when she's done with her chores..."

― ddrake, Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:36 (twenty years ago) link

Who can forget:

"God made dirt and dirt bust yo ass!"
-ODB

― ddrake, Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:37 (twenty years ago) link

"You looked so good I'd suck on your daddy's dick."
-Biggie

thats a killa line right there. That's my final answer.

― ddrake, Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:39 (twenty years ago) link

i kill niggers with a gun

― tal, Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:34 (twenty years ago) link

SHOCKIN YOUR ASS LIKE A FAULTY VIIIIIIBRATOR!!! love that 1

― DarrensCoq, Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:08 (twenty years ago) link

"I support dykes like my man Dick Van."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:10 (twenty years ago) link

"What I am is pissed off with Family Fortunes- get Les Dennis back"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 November 2003 11:30 (twenty years ago) link

L.L. doing one better than Biggie: "I'm so bad I can suck my own dick." Many, MANY levels of weirdness there.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

"but i wont budge if shes on her menstruation,
yeah, i wont swim in the red sea"

diamond d - k.i.s.s.

― joni, Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

L.L. Jeremy!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

i always was partial to
"fuck being hard, posdanus is complicated."

and i can't believe nobody's yet said "nappe fremm venetta", which is easily the most discussed/cited line from hip-hop on ILM.

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

The only time that phrase has come up in recent months, and it's misquoted. I have no idea why, but that makes me sad and wistful.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

like the bullfighters with two ears and the tail with two balls and the phallus

― semenentarro, Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

from "The House" by Ice-T

Voice: "But what can they do about it, man, they're only children!"
Ice-T: "You ain't no kid! Act like you give a damn! Somebody do something! Call a Cop!"
(*music stops. long pause*)
Ice-T: "Last Night I heard Gunshots."

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, my all time favourite hip hop, nay, musical lyric has to be "Smoking and drinking on a Tuesday night".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm losing patience faster than Harold Shipman."

Or is that just too far?

― Nick H, Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

"I never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti"
and
"Call me Jay-Hova because the flow is religious"

― Shmuel (shmuel), Monday, 10 November 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm far from god but I work god damn hard."
-Jay-Z

― ddrake, Monday, 10 November 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

Go ask Beavis - I get nothing but head! - Big L

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 10 November 2003 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

"Fuck a car, I'll do a muthafuckin' walk-by."
-Eazy E

― ddrake, Monday, 10 November 2003 03:47 (twenty years ago) link

why oh why did I get cappucino

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 10 November 2003 04:03 (twenty years ago) link

Ludacris' "Coming 2 America" is the greatest song evah for one liners. The Delta Airlines line and the Danny de Vito lines are done to death but what about:

"You got rims on your truck? I got rims on my skates!"

― Nick H, Monday, 10 November 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

"If I had a baby I might go broke" - Spoonie Gee

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 5 January 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

"Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn" - Sugarhill Gang

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 5 January 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

"How ya like me now, punk?" - Natalie Maines

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 5 January 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

I'm like Che Guevara with bling on, I'm complex

― sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

She got a white-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson, got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

"If it were a sandwich I'd serve it with ham"

- censored version for a school's year six performance of 'Ice Ice Baby'

Real line is something like "If it were a drug I'd sell it by the gram"

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:37 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm more necessary than violence on the Amistad" - Jean Grae

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link

"And you can't spit nigga so you obviously must swallow" - Masta Ace

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck the world. Stick my dick in the ground.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:07 (twenty years ago) link

"No hip-hop connection between us and Janet Reno!"

Man, how I still miss that skate game.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:11 (twenty years ago) link

slavery's a motherfucker, like slave masters fucking my mother.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago) link

that was blueprint on ICU. and on the same track by...im not quite sure right now:
"to jump on my dick you need a trampoline, a bungie cord, a life jacket, a pastor, and funeral arrangements"

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:46 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm makin the dough but don't call me Doughboy" - Ice Cube

― Scott Bloomfield, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

"I wouldn't fuck her with yo dick, she ain't got nothin to give me"
-Mac Mall

"Forget Oreos, try Cool J cookies"
-LL Cool J

"better get yourself a lyric-proof vest"
-Mc Dynamite

and my favorit hook:

"I got a mirror in my pocket and I practice lookin' hard
Mirror, mirror make the call
Who's the hardest of them all
I got a mirror in my pocket and I practice lookin' hard
Right before I go to bed
I make sure that my mirror's there"
-E-40 featuring The Click

― Jacky Tran (waxyjax), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...

"My rottweilers drink Moet"-Lil Wayne

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 February 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

"And on the radio, they're playin' Thin Lizzy" (Original Concept, "Here Come the 5-Oh!")

― Begs2Differ, Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

"+ with your wrinkled pussy,i can't be your loveeeer!"-slick rick

― sirus (sirus), Thursday, 5 February 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

Musta been a white guy that started all that

― angel duster, Thursday, 5 February 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

"...jerkin off to gay porn while wearin your girl's blouse" -- akrobatik, "internet mc's"

― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 6 February 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"I kick niggas in the ass, reboot them like laptops." Ludacris "Cry Babies"

― Bill Smith, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:48 (twenty years ago) link

are these half a couplet or an actual solitary line

― asfdzxc (asfdzxc), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

"i don't have a problem with you fuckin me
but i got a little problem with you not fuckin me" ODB

― umop apisdn (umop apisdn), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

gimme ANY microphone and god DAMMIT I'll WRECK it

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 07:17 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

When I die, fuck it I wanna go to hell
Cause I'm a piece of shit, it ain't hard to fuckin' tell
It don't make sense, goin' to heaven wit the goodie-goodies
Dressed in white, I like black Tims and black hoodies - big

― DF Logo, Thursday, 20 May 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link

"you are now about to witness the strength.. of street knowledge"

― don (don), Thursday, 20 May 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link

"ridin' on the train with no dough...sucks."

― mike a, Thursday, 20 May 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

"Keep my breath smellin like shit so I can get funky"

"Beatin' motherfuckers like Ike beat Tina"

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

"Bisexuals on stage eating fruit loops"

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

"Your mom's in my business"

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

I see a tape recorder and I grab it
No you can't have it back silly rabbit

Genius.

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

Obviously it rhymes, but who cares?

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

Me! I didn't want rhyming to be a factor here, cause then mundane statements like the above get put on the same stage as truly genius ones.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

i got beat on the ol' dirty "i ain't got no problem with you fuckin' me..." so here's:
"i'm the cunt breathed asshole eater and if you let me physically eat it, it only gets BEEEELLLCH"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

"BOTH MODEL AND ACTRESS LOOK GOOD ON MY MATTRESS."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"nobody listens to techno"

― , Monday, 10 October 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"no more fishin' for your fish"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

honeeze feel it deep in they placentas

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Forty ounce in my lap and it's freezing my balls

― joygoat (joygoat), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't rap, I explain things real good.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Show no shame, feel no pity

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

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