'ten rap moments'

Number 1

[Eric B]: Yo Rakim, what's up?
[Rakim]: Yo, I'm doing the knowledge, E., I'm trying to get paid in full
[E]: Well, check this out, since Nobry Walters is our agency, right?
[R]: True
[E]: Kara Lewis is our agent
[R]: Word up
[E]: Zakia/4th & Broadway is our record company
[R]: Indeed
[E]: Okay, so who we rollin with?
[R]: We rollin with Rush
[E]: Of Rushtown Management. Check this out, since we talking over
this def beat that I put together, I wanna hear some of them
def rhymes, know what I'm sayin? And together, we can get
paid in full...

[Rakim]
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
So I start my mission- leave my residence
Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid
So I think of all the devious things I did
I used to roll up, this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny
Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money
But now I learned to earn cos I'm righteous
I feel great! so maybe I might just
Search for a 9 to 5, if I strive
Then maybe I'll stay alive
So I walk up the street whistlin this
Feelin out of place cos, man, do I miss
A pen and a paper, a stereo, a tape of
Me and Eric B, and a nice big plate of
Fish, which is my favorite dish
But without no money it's still a wish
Cos I don't like to dream about gettin paid
So I dig into the books of the rhymes that I made
To now test to see if I got pull
Hit the studio, cos I'm paid in full

One of hip hop's moments of true discovery, a moment you only discover when you've finished strolling through the streets of inequity.

"Geronimo
Look out below
Here comes the Brother with the offbeat flow
I just fell from the mothership
Outhere Brothers 'bout to rip it on another tip, slip
Don't trip, check out how i do it
Malik is in the house I turn your body into fluid
As i come from the depths of Doom
i snap back at you ow! with the boom"

The concept of a snap coming back at us is something we can't even begin to think of, especially when there's an offbeat flow coming straight at us. Malik is in the house, and there he shall stay.

Simon, would you like to make a point in this thread?

funny: recommendation to "track down" that oh-so-obscure prince paul album.

funny: "an interesting point (they both ride horses!!)"

stupid: "our Technics turntable"

i don't understand what makes these moments so special. he's picked mainly safe bets, and said very little of interest about them.

does anyone have a sound of the police 12" single they want to sell?

it's like if someone did a list called "10 Rock Moments" and the first three songs were "A Day In The Life", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Anarchy In The UK".

Yeah like Beck's lyrics are surreal right. He's not a melting clock in a Dali painting, more like a wristwatch with a digital display in some weird font that looks kind of cool but is ultimately unnecessarily difficult to read. How's that for absurd metaphors? And why do people find that "Life's not a bitch..." line to be so quotable?