Thanksgiving References in Rap Music. Kool G. Rap on Marley Marl’s “The Symphony” (Verse 3), "Take a deep breath, because you don't have another left/Coming back like I'm avengin' my brother's death/Making veterans run for medicine/'cause I put out more lights in a fight than con edison/Rip the damn cage like I'm on a rampage/And if you want rage, I'm-a make front page/Read the headlines, suckers, today's the deadline/Your head is way past bedtime...", 26. ", 40. However, a metaphor is a little harder to practice and requires a deeper explanation. "All the world's a stage . Nas perfected it and added things like quadruple metaphors. So much of the rhetoric has come from an opportunistic place, from politicians scapegoating the city to journalists and activists exploiting their issues as a springboard to higher relevance.Â, For all the fingerpointing and stumping, thereâs too little attention paid to how Chicagoans are coping with all the death around them. His creative mind and unique perspective on […] II” (Verse 1), "You can put your whole army against my team and/I guarantee you it'll be your very last time breathing/Your simple words just don't move me/You're minor, we're major/You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player/Don't make me have to call your name out/Your crew is featherweight/My gun shots'll make you levitate/I'm only nineteen but my mind is old/And when the things get for real my warm heart turns cold...", "His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy/There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti/He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs/But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down/The whole crowd goes so loud/He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out/He's choking how, everybody's joking now/The clock's run out, time's up, over, blow! Feel free to follow his obvious Twitter musings that seemed brilliant at the moment @andrejgee. Must.Learn. "Wallace" is a song recorded by American rapper Azealia Banks for her debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste (2014). From ruing âtime I spent on some locked-up shitâ and expressing astonishment that âI did shit with Mariah,â to clarifying that heâs still âthe same nigga from Berks Street with them nappy braids that lock,â he poured his life into the extended verse which serves as the quintessential âashy to classyâ testimony of the 2010s. 25. The book is a collaboration between two rap poetry aficionados separated in age by fifty years. Andre 3000 on UGK’s “Int’l Players Anthem” (Verse 1), "So I typed a text to a girl I used to see/Sayin' that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be/And I apologize if this message gets you down/Then I CC'ed every girl that I'd see-see 'round town/And hate to see y'all frown, but I'd rather see her smilin'/Wetness all around me, true, but I'm no island/Peninsula maybe/It makes no sense, I know crazy...", "If you think you can out rhyme me, yeah boy I bet/Cause I ain't met a m******** who can do that yet/Trendsetter I'm better my rhymes are good/I got a gold name plate that says I wish you would...", 77. El-P on “The Last Huzzah (Remix)” (Verse 5), "In the end when a dozen or so adjourn to reason/You'll find the verdict return corrupted in murderous seasons/With inverted 31's and other unlucky omens/That's why I chug 7 and 7's til I'm f***** homeless/And every time you think my fifteen minutes of fame are up/I'll spit another sixteen to prove to the world I f***** own it...", "Shorty, I'm there for you anytime you need me/For real girl, it's me in your world, believe me/Nothin' make a man feel better than a woman/Queen with a crown that be down for whatever/There are few things that's forever, my lady/We can make war or make babies, back when I was nothin'/You made a brother feel like he was something/That's why I'm with you to this day boo, no frontin...", 95. What a way to close out the decade. Notorious B.I.G. The transfer of power can take place on a verse, song, or album, but you know once . But sometimes putting together one sharp verse is all you need to earn you legendary status. The unabashed nihilism of a âCodeine Crazyâ is explained by the stress he unloads on âMy Savagesâ from Monster.Â. Bid Daddy Kane on “Set It Off” (Verse 1), "As I shoot the gift MC's stand stiff/While my rhymes stick to you like skippy and jif/Feel my blood fist, or my death kiss/The rap soloist, you don't want none of this/Supreme in this era, I reign with terror/When I grab the mic believe you're gonna hear a/Fascinatin' rhyme as I enchant them/So let's all sing the big daddy anthem/Go with the flow, my rhymes grow like an afro/I entertain again and Kane'll never have no/Problem, I can sneeze, sniffle and cough/E-e-e-even if I stutter I'mma still come off/Cos rappers can't understand the mics I rip/They sure enough ain't equipped, that's why they got flipped...", 18. This was one of the last moments that Kanye stood for something that Black America stood with him on.Â, The development of the verse represents everything we loved, and have come to resent, about Kanye. KRS-One – “MCs Act Like They Don’t Know (Verse 1), "Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody/Call up KRS, I'm guaranteed to rip a party/Flat top, braids, bald heads or natty dread/There once was a story about a man named Jed/But now Jed is dead, all his kids instead/Want to kick rhymes off the top of they head/Word, what go around come around I figure/Now we got white kids callin' themselves n*****.../The tables turned as the crosses burned/Remember You. Itâs a revelatory verse that offers insight into why he hasnât pursued the âtypicalâ solo artist career, even when heâs clearly capable of rhyming with the best of them.Â, Chicago has been at the fore of so many social and political conversations throughout the 2010s. His bottomless voice and oft-dapper fashion sense can someone give off the vibe of an old soul singer. Best Rap Verses Of 2021 So Far Top Hip Hop Verse Of The Year Complex A self-portrait by the controversial music artist shares his private thoughts on everything from his inner struggles to his relationship with his daughter, in an account complemented by drawings, hand-written lyrics, and previously unseen ... Commemorates Bruce Springsteen's twenty-fifth anniversary as a recording artist with a volume containing his song lyrics, personal reflections, and photographs and illustrations by such artists as Annie Liebowitz and Herb Ritts. 125,000 ... His line about the DEA and CCA gave a Post-Trayvon Martin generation food for thought about white supremacy as a well-oiled machine.Â, He sounded like he was at a breaking point. From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the "Billboard" charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. Cole is beloved for his humility, but he had a massive chip on his shoulder on âLooking For Trouble.â At the time, he was a fledgling artist still looking to build an identity and foundation. From the infamous Jay Z vs. Nas feud to the far-reaching East Coast vs. West Coast dog fight to the battle for the title of King of the South, here are 50 of the most brutal diss lines in rap history. He followed Kendrickâs verses by bemoaning the âsalt all in my wounds,â before culling into the trauma that the streets have incurred upon him. Here are some popular quotes from some of the best rappers. Itâs triumphant. Lauryn Hill on the Fugees' “How Many Mics” (Verse 1), "Plus you use that loop over and over /Claiming that you got a new style/Your attempts are futile, Ooh chile/Your puerile, /Brain waves are sterile/You can't create, you just wait to take, my tape's/Laced with malice/Hands get calloused /From gripping microphones from here to Dallas/Go ask Alice if you don't believe me/I get Inner Visions like Stevie...", "It's - HIP HOP!, strong or not/This is rap basketball, stats all you got/Long as you hot, and your flow could hold up/To knowing all of your short goals is long shots!/Ninety percent of you n***** ain't hard/Here just to get a rep, you not gang stars/The finest flow will amaze, rap without me/minus The Source, minus the Quotable page...", "How many MC's must get dissed/Before somebody says, "Don't f*** with Kris! JAY-Z’s verse on Meek Mill & Rick Ross’ âWhatâs Free?â (2018), This time last year, JAY-Z could seemingly do no wrong, and âWhatâs Freeâ was his manifesto on navigating capitalism as independently as possible, with his integrity intact. Hip hop uses a style of singing called rapping. Key line: "I'm waitin on one of you rap niggas to namedrop/'Cause bitch . 9. Lil Wayne on DJ Khaled’s “We Takin’ Over” (Verse 5), "I am the beast/Feed me rappers or feed me beats/I am untamed, I need a leash/I am insane, I need a shrink/I love brain, I need a leech/Why complain on easy streets?/I don't even talk, I let the Visa speak/And I like my sprite Easter pink", 62. He sets off everything with the context that, âI grew up in a ruthless ass environment,â before going on a distressed stream of consciousness. Jay Rock’s verse on Kendrick Lamar’s âMoney Treesâ (2012), Jay Rock told Complex that when Kendrick Lamar asked him to jump on “Money Trees”, he âtook his time.â That care is evident throughout the fiery verse in which he followed up Kendrickâs waxing on the treacherous pursuit of a dollar with his own tale of âbakin’ soda, yola whippin/’ain’t no turkey on Thanksgivin.’â Rock tore the verse with intensity, rapping questions like âwhat else is a thug to do/when you eatin’ cheese from the government?â into a flow that had the momentum of an 18-wheeler speeding downhill.Â, If Good Kid M.A.A.D City was the veritable sequel to West Coast cinema standards like Menace 2 Society and Boyz N The Hood, then Jay Rock got himself a classic scene in the proceedings.Â, 14. And yes, there is some genre-bending crooning going on too.Â, If you didnât see your favorite verse, know we probably considered it, but it just couldnât fit. Ghostface Killah on Wu-Tang’s “Impossible” (Verse 3), "But suddenly a chill came through it was weird/Felt like my man, was cast out my heaven now we share/Laid on the stretcher, blood on his Wally's like ketchup/Deep like the full assassination with a sketch of it/It can't be, from Yoo-hoo to Lee's/Second grade humped the teachers, about to leave/Finally this closed chapter, comes to an end/He was announced, pronounced dead, y'all, at twelve ten...", 35. Gathered together in one volume for the first time, here are all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin the lyrics of more than 1,200 songs, 400 of which have never before appeared in print along with anecdotal, historical, and ... But his best appearance, and most important singular verse, came before all the feature fixation. His line about the, He sounded like he was at a breaking point. 11. Busta Rhymes on A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario” (Verse 7), "Uh, uh uhh, all over the track man/Uh, pardon me, uhh, as I come back/As I did it yo I heard you beg your pardon/When I travel to the Sun I roll with the squadron/Rawr rawr like a dungeon dragon/Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin'/Try to step to this, I will fits you in a turban/And had you smelling ripe, like some old stale urine. Jadakiss on “We Gonna Make It” (Verse 3), "Might find your man dead in the ocean/(He be aight though)/You know dead rappers get better promotion/Why we don't laugh at death, and cry at birth/Never say you can't do it til you try it first/Be the young n***** eager to pull it/But it's a message in everything trust me, even a bullet...", 50. Heâs been sprinkling glimpses of his still otherworldy lyricism on, that he canât âkeep upâ with artists like Young Thug and Lil Wayne, but his tongue-twisting verse â kicked off by the meta gem âI don’t even like rapping fast, but that’s how the world come to meâ â proves heâs still melting just about anyone bar-for-bar.Â, He rode âSorryâsâ evocative piano with precision, packing every space with a rhythmic cadence laden with the kind of wisdom and maturity that only comes through life experience.âIâve learned that apartment is way more exciting than a big ass house on a hill,â he rhymes, before candidly lamenting his, Chicago has been at the fore of so many social and political conversations throughout the 2010s. He caught flack for admitting that he doesnât, The deeply personal verse references his late âgranddad Quick,â the mother, . Cee-Lo on Outkast’s “Git Up, Git Out” (Verse 1), "You need to git up, git out, cut that bull**** out /Ain't you sick and tired of having to do without /And what up with all these questions? Not surprisingly, our list of the 100 greatest rap verses (equipped with snippets of each) is based on lyricism, delivery, cultural impact and overall awesomeness. Similes use the words 'like' or 'as' to compare two dissimilar things. The 100 Best Rap Songs of All Time: 2018 #23 Cleveland.com: 100 Greatest Rap Verses Of All Time: 2018 #70 200 Greatest Hip-hop Songs Of All Time: 2021 #111 Complex: Peter Rosenberg's 25 Favorite Female Rap Songs: 2012 #2 The 50 Best Rap Songs by Women: 2013 #8 Ego Trip: Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98: 1999 #29 The Source She had precision, animation, and quotables, and set a bar for feature verses for the decade.Â, 1. Thanksgiving Rap Snoop Dogg. But the best Drake is a pissed off Drake. Mick Jenkins - Pieces of a Man. The deeply personal verse references his late âgranddad Quick,â the mother of one of his children India who âheld me down when I was broke,â and a dead friend who had him âdumping ashes on your obituary, I know you feeling me.â The verse ends with Future regretting how much his fame has impacted his relationships, noting âif Esco didn’t love me, would’ve been done jumped ship.â Future has offered plenty of despondent, reflective verses over the past decade, but âMy Savagesâ is his most gripping. The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation--before he was tragically shot down in the very neighbourhood he was dedicated to building up. "Wallace" is a song recorded by American rapper Azealia Banks for her debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste (2014). Drake on Rick Ross’ “Stay Schemin’” (Verse 2), "It bothers me when the Gods get to acting like the broads/Guess every team doesn't come complete with n**** like ours/That's why I see no need to compete with n**** like y'all/I just ask that when you see me you speak up n**** that's all/Don't be ducking like you never wanted nothing...", 91. Having a standout verse on one of Kanye West’s, Drake has spent the better part of the 2010s in pensive mode. Most people who hail artists like Eminem haven't studied and or appreciated the craft long enough to develop an independent taste. So if you don't know by now, the verse section is the part where you ill rap lyrics will go. Written by veteran journalist and music critic Marcus J. Moore, this is much more than the first biography of Kendrick Lamar. “It’s an analytical deep dive into the life of that good kid whose m.A.A.d city raised him, and how it sparked ... Here are the 20 best rap verses from that year. Answer (1 of 9): You think a you're a soldier of the game and you think you got a name But when I start talking fame all I hear about you is lame They say you look like a lion but you're really tame I can look around your crew and label them the same I wouldn't pet you though, I'm not trying . One is more freeform and rhythmically complex. Crafting a verse of the year list is daunting. When Kendrick Lamar recorded “Cartoons & Cereal,” he was surging toward the crown that he holds today as mainstream hip-hopâs most beloved lyricist. Q-Tip on A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions” (Verse 1), "Back in the days when I was a teenager/Before I had status and before I had a pager/You could find the/Abstract listening to hip hop/My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop/I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles/The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael/Its all expected, things are for the lookin'/If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'/Come on everybody, let's get with the fly modes/Still got room on the truck, load the back boom...", "Check it, my weed smoke is my lye/A ki of coke is supply/When I'm lifted, I'm high/With new clothes on, I'm fly/Cars is whips and sneakers is kicks/Money is chips, movies is flicks/Also, cribs is homes, jacks is pay phones/Cocaine is nose candy, cigarettes is bones/A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox/Fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cop/And if you got rubbed, you got stuck/You got shot, you got bucked/And if you got double-crossed, you got f*****. Thugger's verse is one of the best of his . This was one of the last moments that Kanye stood for something that Black America stood with him on.Â, The development of the verse represents everything we loved, and have come to resent, about Kanye. 1 / 11 10 Rap Verses That Could Prove Kanye West Wrong - Amid an investigation for an [alleged] attempted paparazzi camera snatch and a resurgence of headlines about that infamous sudden seize of . Making a great hip hop song is one thing. But the best Drake is a pissed off Drake. Even . Rap Verses - How to Write Rap Bars. As of the date this piece was published, Funkmaster Flex has done 139 freestyles, and none have met the standard of Black Thoughtâs 10-minute blackout in 2017. but he wasnât just free riffing about his lyrical supremacy; the freestyle could have been split into an EP and been one of the yearâs most thought-provoking projects. Found inside – Page 147One of its best songs, “Roman Holiday,” is expertly produced by BlackOut (Winston Thomas, n.d.), credited as BlackOut Movement. ... In short, “Roman Holiday” is a high-energy, creative, and complex mix of instrumentation and production, ... For this reason, though vocals may be (and often are) included on left-field albums, they tend to function more as a rhythmic element as opposed to show off verbal . Heâs been sprinkling glimpses of his still otherworldy lyricism on guest verses all decade, but none more spectacularly than on T.I.âs âSorry.â André has bashfully said that he canât âkeep upâ with artists like Young Thug and Lil Wayne, but his tongue-twisting verse â kicked off by the meta gem âI don’t even like rapping fast, but that’s how the world come to meâ â proves heâs still melting just about anyone bar-for-bar.Â, He rode âSorryâsâ evocative piano with precision, packing every space with a rhythmic cadence laden with the kind of wisdom and maturity that only comes through life experience.âIâve learned that apartment is way more exciting than a big ass house on a hill,â he rhymes, before candidly lamenting his role in Outkastâs demise, pondering, âwhy do we try so hard to be stars, just to dodge comments?,â and rhyming about the guilt of making love to your ex off a pill and telling dopamine lies. Itâs not just other drug dealers who took advantage of Ka and his family, but the wealthy who subsist on Brownsvilleâs poverty.Â, This verse could make the most ardent conservative rethink their biases.Â, 21. But those who smile the most can be hiding great pain. "Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive." — Notorious B.I.G. Filled with exclusive insights from hip-hop's most innovative artists, such as Tech N9ne, Crooked I, The Pharcyde, Das EFX, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Big Daddy Kane, this book takes you through the intricacies of rhythm, rhyme, and ... Guru on Gang Starr’s “Moment of Truth” (Verse 2), "Suicide? From Buc Fifty's "Dead End Street" to Jadakiss' "We Gonna Make It," these are the 17 best Alchemist beats of all time. ", 36. The Young Sinatra is next up for Best Verse! Found inside – Page 2012Zach Frydenlund of Complex wrote; "While the song was already catchy as hell, Ty Dolla adds another element to the single".[30] Rap-Up also gave a positive review to the remix with writing that Ty Dolla Sign starts the song with ... © 2021 Advance Local Media LLC. @* as a hobby/One of my idols aint no joke so why in the &^#% should I be/Fly me to the Bahamas, ruff rhymer/Dramas what your kickin, wicked is how Im a/Approach ya, the locster, whos quick to up and smoke ya/Your lookin like a smoka, grinnin like the joker...", 68. Why Bushwick Bill Matters chronicles this crucial artist and explores what he reveals about the relationships among race, sex, and disability in pop music. She started the verse by rhetorically asking, âKeep your head up, when did you stop loving thy,â before rhyming about her own journey toward loving her skin. Gunplay has a reputation as a jovial, slightly batty underboss of MMG. Hip-Hop and Rap are a craft, an art. Here are his top 20 verses: the ones that shocked, the ones that awed, the ones that knocked us out and held us in the trunk. Whenever Nicki Minaj goes live on Instagram, the Queen rapper never fails to . 5. Nicki Minaj’s verse on Kanye West, JAY-Z, Rick Ross, & Bon Iver’s âMonsterâ (2010), If you look up the definition of âbreakout,â in 10 different dictionaries, you should see pictures of Nicki Minaj making 10 different expressions. on Puff Daddy’s “Victory” (Verse 2), "Francis, M to the iz-H phenomenal/Gun rest under your vest by the abdominal/Rhyme a few bars so I can buy a few cars/And I kick a few flows so I can pimp a few ****/Excellence is my presence, never tense/Never hesitant, leave a ***** bent real quick/Real sick, raw nights, I perform like Mike/Anyone - Tyson, Jordan, Jackson/Action, pack guns, ridiculous/And I'm, quick to bust, if my ends you touch/Kids or girl you touch, in this world I clutch/Two auto-matoes, used to call me fatso/Now you call me Castro...", 3. Post Malone is rapper in verses and a singer in choruses and bridges usually. Snoop Dogg on Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” (Verse 1), "Give me the microphone first, so I can bust like a bubble/Compton and Long Beach together/Now you know you're in trouble/Ain't nothin' but a G thang, baby/Two loc'ed out *****, so we're crazy/Death Row is the label that pays me/Unfadeable, so please don't try to fade this", 1. 20. Not surprisingly, our list of the 100 greatest rap verses (equipped with snippets of each) is based on lyricism, delivery, cultural impact and overall awesomeness. Weâve all had to incredulously tell a motherfucker, âhold up wait a minute, yâall thought I was finished?â whether verbally or otherwise. Thought reflected on not forgetting where he came from with lines like, âThem brothers said, âdon’t go from written bars filled with rage/to primetime television and your gilded cage.ââ, He ârapped on a doctrine levelâ about going âfrom Similac and Enfamil/to the Internet and Fentanyl/when all consent was still against the will.â Seemingly every 8 to 12 bars veered toward new subject matter as he ate through Mobb Deepâs âBurnâ instrumental like a ravenous lion. In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's ... But the answer doesnât matter on âUltralight Beam,â a, standout that was one of Kanyeâs last truly great moments. His bottomless voice and oft-dapper fashion sense can someone give off the vibe of an old soul singer. The criteria isnât limited to pure technical lyricism; otherwise a select few artists would have dominated it.Â, This list showcases the full spectrum of whatâs been going on in the rap game this decade. Black Thought on The Roots’ “Web” (Verse 1), "The way Thought put it down be confusing some of y'all/Cats can't walk while chewin' your gum 'n all/With a keyboard got do with a drum 'n all/School 'em on stage like I'm doin' a seminar/Professional type, I'm adjusting my mic/Go to war kid I'll give you any weapon you like/Give you something to run from/Bust off your dum-dum/Stop kid, that hot s*** you know where it come from...", 41. Straddling that line between rap and electronica, left-field hip-hop is a producer's style rather than an MC's, the emphasis placed more on the perfect beat than the perfect rhyme.
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