Rank the songs on Big L's Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous

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Put it on
8 iz enuff
let 'em have it L
all black
lifestyles of da poor and dangerous
street struck
mvp
fed up with the bullshit
danger zone
no endz, no skinz
i don't understand it
da graveyard

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

da graveyard last!>?>!

Put It On
Street Struck
No Endz, No Skins
Da Graveyard
Let Em Have it L
All Black
MVP
lifestyles
danger zone
fed up w the bullshit
i don't understand it

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit i forgot 8 is enuff, put that after all black.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

something had to be last, dee

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck danger zone should be before lifestylez on my list

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Street Struck
MVP
lifestyles of da poor and dangerous
8 iz enuff
Danger Zone
Put it on
no endz, no skinz
da graveyard
let 'em have it L
i don't understand it
fed up with the bullshit

― s.c., Friday, 11 February 2005 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but the graveyard has the beat that sounds like a knock to the skull, plus it has jay-z and party arty and lord finesse et al.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't like the beat much. the cd (or at least my copy) is really weirdly mixed; MVP is way louder than all the other songs, and this song sounds off, too. And just because it features a prepubescent Jay-Z doesn't mean it's great. However, the dancehallish guy after Jay is incredible.

How do you feel about the other posse cut?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the one w killa kam? Its alright, i dont like it as much but Kam is pretty fascinating to hear at that age. L's verse is the best obv. (Jay-Z was prepubescent maybe in '88! Certainly not in 94)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the wide variety of flows and ability levels on 8 iz enuff. the conversational voice of the last guy is nice. and in my opinion cam's verse >>> jay's verse.

i think if this whole ranking idea runs out of steam, we should just fill the thread with quotes.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The opening Big L verse on Graveyard is just fucking nuts.

THE BIG L be lightin' n---- like incense
gettin' men lynched and when tensed i'm sellin infants for ten CENTS
cuz I'm a street genius with a unique penis got fly chicks on my dick that don't even speak ENGLISH

(skipping ahead)

A tech nine is my utensil
fillin' n---- wi so much lead they could use they dick for a pencil
known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches
I get more pussy on accident then most n---- get on purpose
I got drug spots from New York to Canada
Cause Big L be fuckin' with more keys than a janitor

(enter l finesse)
Now its the dictator whose style's greater
its the man w more wild flavors than mothafuckin nowalaters.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The shit is so packed w quoteables.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

99. I got styles you can't copy bitch, it's the triple six
in the mix, straight from H-E-double-hockey sticks

(yours, which is indeed nuts, was no. 100)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

we're gonna finish it before morning

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

98. I use words that's ill, L got nerves of steel
I'm cool, but every now and then I get a urge to kill

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

97. It ain't no food in my fridge; just body parts

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

96. A-yo I'm serious I'm not the type to joke a lot
Dressed in all black never seen in polka dots

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

95. I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

94. "they wanna know why im so fly/ a girl ask me for a ring and i put one around her whole eye."

(ouch...ouch.)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

93. "And when it comes to gettin nookie I'm not a rookie/
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopie."

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's a classic of the genre

92. My moms told me to get a job, fuck that
Aiyo, picture me gettin a job
Takin orders from Bob, sellin corn on the cob
Yo, how the hell I'ma make ends meet
Makin about 120 dollars a week?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

94 wuz the classic (does ilx not inform ppl that they are xposting anymore?)

poor whoopi. she gets so much shit on rap albums.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

91. Oh you're broke? ( *shots* ) now you're dead broke"

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

90. "I'm breakin hottie hearts, niggaz drop when my shotty sparks/
It ain't no food in my fridge; just body parts"

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

89. "I was taught wise, I'm known to extort guys/
This ain't Cali, it's Harlem n---- we do walk-bys"

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

88. Cause I know a good way to get your family together
and I ain't talkin bout a reunion motherfucker

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

87. "Me bein a virgin? that's idiotic/
Cause if Big L got the AIDS, every cutie in the city got it."

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

already did 90 dude

86. You might be kinda big but they make coffins yo' size too

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

his AIDS lines are out of control..there are two others that make me too sick to post.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

85. Girls of the 90's aint nuthin but crooks
Its all about whats in ya pockets not how ya look

(this line has always confused me, bcz why is judging a guy based on looks any less shallow than judging him based on his wallet?)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

84. "Yo, I admit, I'm a sucker/
A low down, dirty, sneaky, double-crossin canivin mothafucka/
Breakin' in cribs with a chrome bar/
I wasn't 'poor', I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'"

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i know one of the lines, and i'm not gonna post it either. the guy was obssessed with aids. it's like shakespeare and syphilis.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

conniving, that is.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

but this i'll post

83. some girls dont even know me askin me can they get some money
I'm lookin nuthin like ya poppa
I wouldnt give a chick 10 cent to put cheese on a Whopper

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

what site are you using?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

82. My girls are like boomer-rangs
No matter how far I throw them, they come back

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

81. And everytime I'm in a jam I always find a loophole
I got a crime record longer than Manute Bol

(should be top ten, really)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I was doing them from my head, then i was just doing google searches bcuz i couldn't remember the phrasing right. I should just pull out the album, but i'm going to bed now.
night.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

80. Fuck karate Big L practice Gun Fu

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

una mas

79. "L keep rappers’ hearts pumpin’ like Reeboks."

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

78. i'm undefeated that's the stone truth
cuz battling me is like fighting a gorilla in a phonebooth

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

77. in the shower's the only time you get your dick wet

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

76. Why you'll test, knowing these hot slugs will fry your chest/ taxing niggers like the IRS/ I use to front, now I am really rich you, silly bitch/ I push willy whips

― s.c., Friday, 11 February 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

75. Is Big L slow? Hell no! Bitches get fucked on the roof when I got no hotel, yo.

― s.c., Friday, 11 February 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

in a street brawl, i strike men quicker than lightning/you seen what happened in my last fight friend? aight then.

― scg, Friday, 11 February 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

73. All through high school I had braids, kept mad blades/ Stabbing teachers to death that gave me bad grades

― s.c., Friday, 11 February 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Are these all from one album? I should buy the fuck outta this.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

my diabolical scheme is working!

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i got the wild style always been a wild child/my guns go boom boom, your guns go pow pow

― scg, Friday, 11 February 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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43. What's up cause I'm a stiggy star
Breakin' 'em up and then talkin' they heart
You better believe that Big L is the man that be rippin' microphones apart

(if only bcz it's in 4/4!)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

42. There are too many young black brothers doin life bids
Cause justice means 'just us white kids'

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

41. They say that my skin was black so they attacked
Threw me on the back and stuck a gat to my fuckin cap
One murdered my man like it was okay
For the life he ended he got suspended with no pay
But if a man woulda took the cop life, he woulda got life

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

40. Whether it's the hot, warm, cool or cold season
Pigs be fuckin with a nigga for no reason

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

39. Muthafuck turnin the other cheek
Or you'll be layin in a pine box

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

38. I'm not only fed up with the cops
I'm only fed up with them punk-ass cab drivers who don't stop
They don't care if it's snowin
First they slow down, then they see your skin is brown, then they keep goin
Cause I wasn't white, the cab took flight
But I caught him at the light
And put a bullet right through his windpipe
I keep a tool with a full clip, the trigger I pull quick
Cause I'm fed up with that bullshit

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

37. I'm hotter than Cali, wicked like Harry
And fuck Sally, I rather marry Halle

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It's time to to start quoting some of the guest spots.

36. Mike Boogie:
I should never rhyme cause every time I step into a contest
Kids evacuate the premises like it's a bomb threat

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

35. Killa Kam: Talk about nines and tecs, and never shot a watergun

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

34: Jay-Z: Creep through your block fuck a glock I step
Through your neighborhood armed with nothing but a rep

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

33. Party Arty: Now some ask me how I'm gettin' jewels
I say big up big up it's a stick up stick up
I stick and move

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

32. Party Arty: I'm lethal, eatin' people
Not Jeffery Dahmer I'm the sequel

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Lord Finesse: I'm out to collect figures
I'm on some Wu-Tang shit so Protect Ya fuckin' Neck nigga
Not a role model I'm a bad figure
When it comes to rap I got skills out the ass nigga
I got it locked like a warden
Rap without Finesse is like the NBA without Jordan

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

30. Herb McGruff: With rhymes more funky than an African cabdriver

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

29. Lord Finesse: And rappers I hit 'em well
They automatically go to heaven fuckin' with me cause I give 'em hell
So don't try to front troop
When your style is played out just like an Oshkosh jumpsuit

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

28. Microphone Nut: Because to me death is like sex
And if my brain was a deck of cards I'd be missing a whole deck

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

27: Lord Finesse: So all ya new jacks kickin' wack raps
It's a fact that
I'll be on your fuckin' back like a napsack

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(back to Big L now)
26. And if ya squad flex
I'm lettin' off like Bernard Goetz

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

25. It ain't a dumb joke, listen to this young folk
Cause where I'm from -- you can choke from the gunsmoke

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

24. And yo it's not even funny
I've seen a lot of my peers give up they careers for some fast money
They could've been boxers, ballplayers or rap singers
Instead they bank robbers and crack slingers

(there's something sad about L's examples of what his peers could have been. When biggie said "either you sling crack rock or you got a wicked jumpshot" he was complaining about how few options black men in the ghetto have. But Big L doesn't even have that much perspective, and he sees sports and entertainment as the only valid ways out, even though the statistical likelihood of succeeding in these fields is slim to none.
Usually in the gansta rap subgenre of "Be Better Than Me" songs (as TI so succinctly called his), the rapper tells the listener to stay in school or read books or start a business. But Big L doesn't even bother.)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

23. And nowadays girls want you for your money
I'm like Hev, I got nothing but love for you honey

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

22. I used to have a partner in crime by the name of Chuck
We stormed the city, shootin shit up like Frank Nitty
We robbed kids and split the dough 50/50
One day we stuck a dice game on the ave. and split the cash
Then I murdered his ass and took his half
Because I'm all about ends and skins
When you got dough, you don't need no muthafuckin friends

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

21. Some say I'm ruthless, some say I'm grim
Once a brother done broke into my house and I robbed him

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Yo, how the hell I'ma make ends meet
Makin about 120 dollars a week?
Man, I rather do another hit
I want clean clothes, mean hoes, and all that other shit

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

19. I used to wait until it gets dark
And tell a nigga to strip, I wanna see some birthmarks

(oh so homoerotic)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

18. Once a nigga tried to stick me for six G's
and I put more holes in his ass than swiss cheese

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

17. Ducks be gettin thrown off platforms like P.M. Dawn

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

16. My old man in the past, stuck me up without a mask
Then his ass cold dashed with my cash fast
Fifty G's is what the creep stole; so the next day
I knocked on his door and shot his granny through the peephole

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

15. So don't try to test me, cause I can't stand test-es
Fuck around, I'll introduce you to your ancestors

(so many different ways to say "I will kill you")

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

14. I run with sturdy clicks I'm never hittin dirty chicks
Got thirty-five bodies, buddy don't make it thirty-six

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

13. Nobody can take nuttin from Big L but a loss chief
The last punk who fronted got a mouth full of false teeth
I'm known to gas a hottie and blast the shottie
Got more cash than Gotti (you don't know?) you betta ask somebody

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

12. Cause I'm a money getter, also a honey hitter
You think you nice as me? Ha ha, youse a funny nigga

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

11. Big L is a crazy brother, and I'm a lady lover
A smooth kid that'll run up in your baby mother

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

time for the top 10, folks. It's not for the weak-hearted.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Every Sunday, a nun lay from my gun spray
Fuck Carlito, we doin' shit the Devil Son's way

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Every minute, my style switches up, they said a real man
won't hit a girl well I ain't real cause I beat bitches up

(that's low)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

8. I'm takin lives for a great price, I'm the type
to snap in heaven with a Mac-11 and rape Christ

(oh my goodness)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

7. I keep a cutie with a soft booty, hoes be runnin up
"Can I get your autograph L?" No bitch, I'm off duty

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

6. I drink Moet not Beck's beer, I stay dressed in slick gear
Peace to my homies in the gangsta lean, I see you when I get there

(I find it poignant, what can I say?)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Some nigga named Dex, was in the projects layin threats
I jumped out the Lincoln, left him stinkin
Put his brains in the street
Now you can see what he was just thinkin

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

4. (Ducks better scat when the gat goes click-clack)
Or I'ma have your family dressed in all black

(the chorus that sums it all up)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

3. A-yo big shots to all them niggas on the corner
doin' something they ain't got no business doin'

(the last outro)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Facts on tracks I recite well
Everybody be like Mike but Mike wanna be like L

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

that should be
2. Facts on tracks I recite well
Everybody wanna be like Mike but Mike wanna be like L

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

1. So get behind me and sing cause every hero got a theme song

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

First they slow down, then they see your skin is brown, then they keep goin
Cause I wasn't white, the cab took flight
But I caught him at the light
And put a bullet right through his windpipe

the fucked up brutal nihilism of this is amazing. cabbie doesn't stop for fear of getting shot and ends up getting shot anyway for that very reason!

― eman (eman), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

but the cabbie didn't stop because of his racism, and he was shot as punishment. Big L is often very moralistic, in an avenging angel sorta way.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

right but by shooting him it also somewhat reinforces the cabbie's stereotype about "dangerous black men." there is def. quite a bit of moral ambiguity there and he expresses it better than any other rapper i think.

and thx for all the lyrics shmool!

― eman (eman), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah the roughest line on this shit wasn't mentioned, it was the "If I get AIDS I'ma start rapin' bitches" or something like that, its just so over the line I didn't think it belonged in the countdown.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

annoyed i missed this thread,been listening to this album loads for the last six months or so...
its amazing how many great lines there are (and,as mentioned,a few really raspy ones)
anyway,one of my favourite bits was touched upon upthread but the full rhyme wasn't given-

"i roll with scary crews,
come out of wars barely bruised,
i'm putting motherfuckers on the daily news"

― robin (robin), Saturday, 26 February 2005 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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