Best Rap Lyrics
July 4, 2011 
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Hip Hop is filled with many great lyrics that leave you wondering how these rappers came up with them, but which ones are the best rap lyrics? I guess it’s hard to say because everyone can argue about what a good rap lyric should contain. This is true but I also believe that most people can recognize good lyrics when they hear them.
The best rap lyrics should be clever and filled with rhymes that leave your ears tingling. I would also like to point out that sometimes a lyric can still be good without actually rhyming. Okay well, these are what I consider to be some of the best rap lyrics (in no particular order), let me know what you think.
The Best Rap Lyrics
1. “Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back
and shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack
And since life is a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas
I freestyle my destiny, it’s not written in pages”
-Immortal Technique: Leaving the Past
2. “And they say it’s the white man I should fear
But, it’s my own kind doin’ all the killin’ here”
-2Pac: Only God Can Judge Me
3. “Still, niggaz run up and try to kill at will
But get popped like a pimple, so call me Clearasil
I wipe niggaz off the face of the Earth since birth
I been a bad nigga, now let me tell you what I’m worth”
-Dr. Dre: Keep Their Heads Ringin’
4. “The Moet and Alize keep me pissy
Girls used to diss me
Now they write letters ’cause they miss me
I never thought it could happen, this rappin’ stuff
I was too used to packin’ gats and stuff
Now honies play me close like butter played toast
From the Mississippi down to the east coast”
-Biggie: Juicy
5. “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”
-Bil L: Put it On
6. “I didn’t have no date to homecoming, that’s cuz I had your girl naked in my home cumming”
-Chamillionaire: What it Do
7. “Catch Me With The Crips
And The Bloods Don’t Mind No
I Don’t Bang Colors
I’m A Damn Albino
Drunk Like A Wino
Hard Like A Rhino
Flyin’ Through Ya Time Zone
Lookin’ For A Fine Hoe
Rihanna, Alicia, Mya, Big Pimpin’
I’ll Even Take A White Girl
Like Jessica Simpson”
-Ya Boy: 100 Bars of Death
8. “I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell
I am a hustler baby, I’ll sell water to a well”
-Jay Z: You Don’t Know
9. “Before I buck lead, and make a lot of blood shed
Turn your tux red, I’m far from broke, got enough bread
And mad hoes, ask beavis I get nuttin butt-head” (One of my favorites)
-Big L: ’98 Freestyle
10. “I murder a rhyme one word at a time
You never, heard of a mind as perverted as mine
You better, get rid of that nine, it ain’t gonna help
What good’s it gonna do against a man that strangles himself?”
-Eminem: I’m Back
11. “It’s funny when it rains and pours
they got money for wars but can’t feed the poor”
2Pac: Keep Ya Head Up
12. “Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel,
now they money’s gettin stuck to the gum under the table”
GZA: Protect Ya Neck
13. “A wise man sees failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic”
Canibus: Poet Laureate II Lyrics
14. “Versatile, my style switches like a faggot
But not bisexual, I’m an intellectual
Of rap, I’m a professional and that’s no question, yo”
Nas: Halftime
15. “In house beach, french countess, ten thou piece
Rent-out lease, with a option to buy
Coppin a five-oh Benz for when I’m not, far up in the sky
Puffin the lye, from my Twinzito
Up in the Benzito with my kiko from Queens, nicknamed Perico”
Big Pun: Still Not A Player
16. “CNN tryna get us to hate all the Muslims
Them niggas never talkin the truth so don’t trust ‘em
Niggas out there die about true religion
Young niggas over here dying over true religions”
Young Jeezy: Shake Life
17. “You can pay for school but you cant buy class.”
Jay Z: Swagga Like Us
18. “Since I’m in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
I ain’t no politician, but I’ll kick it with ‘em a minute
‘Cause see they call me a menace, and if the shoe fits I’ll wear it
But if it don’t, then y’all swallow the truth, grin and bear it”
Eminem: Renegade
19. “Lyrically handsome, come collect the King’s ransom
Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
Way out like Bruce Wayne’s mansion, I move like a phantom
You’ll talk about me to your grandsons”
Mos Def: Sunshine
20. “I buy my nickles from a dime that goes by the name of Penny”
Atmosphere
Big l’s part takes the cake no doubt.
Greydon Square – N Word… best lyrics ever.
these are all okay, I really like the game in church for thugs “And outta all the newcomers out, my flow’s the illest
You a close second nigga,
A banana to a guerilla
Put us in the same cage and I’ma have to peel em”
Definitely a good one.
Lupe Fiasco and Skylar Grey- Words I Never Said. Best down-to-earth lyrics i’ve ever heard.
sooo true!
not nearly as clever as these though
big L is amazing.
In my opinion the best rhymes paint a clear picture in your head of what’s being said, while making you think and at the same time be amazed by how nice the rhyming is. I also like to hear real emotion in the delivery. This type of stuff is rare these days but here’s some gems.
“Now as I open up my story, you can blaze on yo blunts,
And you can picture thoughts slowly, upon phrases I run,
And I can walk you through the days that are done.
I often wish that I could save everyone,
But I’m a dreamer..”
-Scarface
“With all this extra stressin
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finaly get to rest? Through this opression
they punish the people that’s askin questions
And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don’t settle for less – even the genius asks-es questions”
-2Pac
“We do dirt like worms
Produce Gs like sperms
Til legs spread like germs
I got extensive hoes wit expensive clothes
and I sip fine wines and spit vintage flows
But y’all know”
-Jay-Z
“Picture bloodbaths in elevator shafts
like these murderous rhymes tight from genuine craft”
-GZA
I’ll bite the hand that feeds,
Chew the steak and spit the knuckles back,
Stitch ‘em up and give em dap, before his brother’s rubberneck,
aesop, food clothes medicine
just leave this here
Ice Cube clearly missing there:
«I’m a captain,yep the head nigga in charge,
pull Air Force One, up out the garage,
I’m the grand puba You’re part of lodge.
You mortals better pay, respect to the Gods.
You can cuss more, I’m Mount Rushmore,
Now you can sell more, You still Al Gore
Nigga I’m the president, you’re just a resident,
In my Gangsta world, and you late with the fucking rent!»
WC feat Ice Cube & Young Maylay
nice blog guy, i might have got to keep coming back here
keep writing
“I’d like to thank god for blessin’ me,
and givin’ me the recipe,
to rock the microphone,
and keep hood niggas impressed with me”
– Slim Thug “Do it Again (feat. Keisa)
The mos def line is from RE:Definition… not sunshine… but still a good line
J Cole “The Autograph”:
Man, I rap so vicious but I talk so politely
Never met a baby momma, momma who don’t like me
Met a couple baby fathers though they wanna fight me
I hit her til she snooze, like the news n-gga nightly
Send her back to you when she no longer excites me
No she bitter with this n-gga
Cause he aint quite me
One things for certain baby, you are a wifey
Two things for f-cking sure
I am not the husband thoguh
So run back to him while you still can
He sticking with his wife and kid, yeah that’s a real man
I was ashamed all along and I still am
We let the lust interupt something real, damn
Girl we grown so you gotta play your own position
I wouldn’t say that you a hoe, just made a hoe decision
Eh, you can blame it on the liquor like a prohibitions
We both know that’s what you wanted girl
I know you listening
Cop this dudes album, kid straight lyrical
Definitely agree, this shit is hot and the word play is crazy. It’s an album worth getting
“my mom aint raise me to be a leach, im the coke spokesman my coke tan like caucasions at the beach, im ballin gettin cake out in the street, cuz im throwin powder like lebron nd im amazing wit the heat”
Cassidy
bruh u forgot infamous Nas:
“Plenty Henny in me, envy was simply they trend see
My enemy was every hater than was bigger than me”
Yea that’s a good one
“visions occupy my synaptic space,
commanding shape,
to illustrate my mind’s landscape.
The tall grass, the low plains, the mountainous ridges,
thickets among the forests, rivers beneath the bridges.”
-Mos Def “Hater Players”
“I’ll strike a steel pose
and hit you with some ill flows that don’t even make sense, like dykes using dildos.”
Eminem “Any Man”
“Your punchlines were originally mine,
i’ll leave you chumps hooked to that machine with the squiggly lines.
…(meh line deleted)…
We all got biscuits, the snub’s in the Guess,
and we’ll squeeze arms like blood pressure tests.”
Cassidy Freestyle
Big L hands down
“Ni^^as is mad I get more butts than ashtrays” Biggie Smalls
“Ask Beavis I get nothin butt head” Big L
“Left Hand Will Lean Him Like A Little Pass six!” Jay-Z
“Put three holes in ya head make it look like bowling balls” Fabolous
and a lot more dope lines. Your list was good though!
Eminem and jay-z …..they jst banged on to the lyrics man….
I make their heads bob in the street like speed bumps, cause every bar hit ya, hard as a muhammad ali punch
Lloyd banks.
Banks ain’t the ni**a to fool with, i have em’ out lining ya, with the blue shit from the pool stick.
Lloyd banks.
Go’ head and try and do me harm soldier,
and you’ll be in a black bag like grass out the lawn mower.
Lloyd Banks.
I got red, blue, white, don’t even ask about ice, I look like a cop car flashin his lights.
Lloyd Banks.
You know me, house slippers and baggy sweats, I throw a bitch out the crib like jazzy jeff
Lloyd Banks.
Overall, this is a good collection of some lyrical missiles all that came with a deadly delivery from the artist…good stuff!
jdobypr
http://jdobypr.com
Any of Tupacs deep lyrics should be listed here but especially the first verse of Keep a head Up. Did ya’ll forget about Saul Williams?
Check out these lyrics…
Artists losing they integrity
Just to become a celebrity
The rap game is inebriated
And anaesthetized
Drunk on fame
And its no surprise
With opened eyes
We could have predicted
The death of hiphop has been dictated
By fate and restricted
With duct tape
So we cant hear its cries
But we can hear the lies
Infected with the viruses
Of disguised irises
No prizes for realising
What I’m surmizing
I’m tired of hearing
Bout money weed and women
People rappin for a livin
But not to make a difference
jay z is so potent with the hustler and selling water to a well
BIG L is da man!! He left us too soon.
all a matter of opinion, a lot fo the quotes you picked from each artist i would have picked many other quotes over them from the same artists.
WHAT?!? where the fuck is masta ace, guru, the last emperor i mean those are the real poets…fuck tupac he was thug whith no future and so he died everybody says even nowdays that he was a god that he wrote for youth and for better purpose, well masta ace has made football club and teaches young cats from BK how to play it for free, he isn’t drinkin hennessy with snoop dogg and Dr. DRE!! And thats smth i call walk the talk;)
I want to say rest in peace
to children murder on UK streets
When the country wages a war
Theres a war going on in thier very own streets.”
Devlin ‘blind faith live lounge cover’
where the fuck is aesop rock?
just cuz your dumb ass can’t understand it doesn’t mean he ain’t making sense, bitch.
and where the fuck is El-p? or anyone from JUX for that matter. Or even fuckin’ Zach de la rocha? did you forget about that guy? or ANYONE from blue school or stones throw?!
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
Big L is sick but are you mad bro? How is Big Pun not on this list, but Chamillionaire is?
“Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn’t do diddily!”
Big pun – Twinz
Big Pun is on the list #15
Im like a river im currently flowwwwing
waka flocka flame you aint playin with the kid gucci mane pull up with 24 kidd uhh uhh i aint playin with ya shottie ak47 blow your brains out holy holy jesus christ leave yo ass hangin on the cross like a dike
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.
– Notorious B.I.G.
Thief in the night fangs in your jugular
Bleeding you dry I live in a glass house
Throwing Meteorites Appeased the gods in a previous life And I slice the throat of Sweeney Todd For get my piece of the pie I’m the angel of death Outpacing olympic swimmers Wit the titanics anchors chained to my legs All without breaking a sweat
From the underground And I’m craving the taste of your flesh Like the day of the dead Here for gaining respect Enforce the laws of gravity And draw the sword of Democles To the nape of your neck
Communist Marxist Sharpshooter locked on my target I was breast feed cancer and bottles of Arsenic Blind swordsman wandering darkness I’ll drop the queen’s severed head in the offering basket
I’m eating outta coffins and caskets
And everyone in my field of vision
Just crops to the harvest
I’m a hell-born Seraphim
Four faces with torned feather wings
Spawning forth the four Nephilim
Burying peace pipes
Diggin up the hatchet
Deepthroat my dick till it singes in your stomach acid
We unattractive ferocious creatures
I got master degree burns
After a heatstroke of genius
Rush the doors from dusk till dawn
My entrourage plot on top of Scotland yard
Cause we above the law
Withstand the force of a juggernaut
We’re the receipe for disaster
And the beats cooking up a storm
All powerful being during hours of sleeping
I levitate between the ground and the ceiling
Advance lifeform found in my semen
Haven’t started to rap yet this is
Just the sound of my breathing
A mental plane like Eynola Gay
I’m slashing open throats of backstabbers
Wit my shoulder blade
Step off the planet it would float away
Tormented by growing pains
Of my ever evolving brain
I sever ties wit heaven skies
And wage wars that makes Armaggedon
Resemble a training exercise
Third eye blessed with second sight
A centerbite I’ve survived the new mexico desert testing sites
If I do start to smoke weed I’ll take two tokes
And won’t breathe after a whole week and OD
Battling me you wont get cold feet
The meer thought of facing Possessed
Will freeze the fluid in both knees
Product of a Warlock and a Witch knock you for six
Piledrive you down a bottomless pit
Push my luck over the top of a cliff
I don’t bite the hand that feeds me
I chew it off at the wrist
I forge a sword from a thundabolt
And I’ll rub in salt into bullet wounds
Just to the make the slug disolve
- Rhyme Asylum
No mercy is what I chemically bomb on enemies
Your life’s a fucking mistake, technique is the remedy
Destroy you before you become what you intended to be
And in the future you’ll worship those that descended from me
-IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
And I’m from the murder capital, where they murder for capital. -Kanye West
I never understood planned parenthood,
Cuz I never heard of any planned parents in the hood- Kanye
My picture should be in the dictionary
Next to the definition
Of definition
Because repetition is the father of learning,
And son I know you’re barrel-burning but
Please don’t shoot me down.
-lil Wayne
I tried to pay attention
But attention paid me.
-lil Wayne
She got a light-skinned friend, looked like Michael Jackson.
She got a dark-skinned friend, looked like Michael Jackson.
-Kanye west
We buy our way out of jail but we can’t buy freedom. -Kanye
Said it was funny how our schools make us stupid and our jobs make us poor. -Lupe Fiasco
My enemies they want beef but don’t know what’s at steak. -Ludacris
You ever thought your train of thoughts has been derailed? -Gym Class Heroes
You got the power to let go of power?
-Kanye west
Said it’s silly how our schools make us stupid and our jobs make us poor.
-lupe fiasco
Her shoes so tight, I call her shoe-icide.
-Fabulous
I’m sick and tired of being so sick and tired. -Gym Class Heroes
This is a good addition all of these have very clever wordplay thanks for sharing.
Haha no problem, and this is the dopest of em all-
I met this girl on Valentines day, f-cked her in May,
she found out about April so she chose to March.
-Cyhi Da Prynce, So Appalled
Im thuggin too homie, the heater kinda like Al Bundy’s hand, believe me everytime you see me its gon be in the pants.
Chamillionaire IM TRUE
A very rare breed almost extinct.
The way I walk the way i think.
the shit i wear the shit I drink.
The way I stink, I smell like fruity hydroponic, when haters see my car they turn around and vomit.
SPM hes a plane
roses r red voilet r blue i got five fingaz the middle 1 is 4 u
u know im the best so here the door get out before i breack u it’ll to whore
set ur self on fire N still u will not be ass
hot ass me
my favorite all time is from Nas “life’s a bitch”
“I changed my motto
instead of screamin’ ‘fuck tomorrow’
that buck that bought a bottle
coulda struck the lotto”
Poisonous poems travel through walkman headphones
Into your dome Osteoperosis your bones,
Who’s the nicest nigga you know in the year two triple-oh
Spit turn to icicles in the mid air and slit your throat
Drain your carcass dry rip out your heart bitch
I write rhymes using your blood for my ink cartridges
Paleoanthropologists, polish the bones
of rapper artist after I dip in my hydrochloric waters
Sleep-through freestyles better than most these rapper’s writtens. We hate the face we’re charismatic ; Lost my temper and it never managed to surface. -Rhyme Asylum
>So big headed when I think about myself my neck fractures
>I’m asking nice ; No mask and knife
>Taking aim at the youth cause small coffins are cheaper
>Put it down for the women like a toilet seat
>Accelerate time so when in my presence ; Ten years of your life is compressed to within the tenth of a second #BARS
>Prepare for the fall like a hay fever shot
>Throwin’ up blood like a pyru
>I GOT DOPE SETUPS LIKE STING OPERATIONS (FAVORITE #BARS)
>I got you completely smashed after 8 bars, like a pub crawl
>A granite fist to the chin, Rodin’s Thinker
>It’s funny how steroided your confidence seems, when the last time you got laid hipsters were rocking big jeans/tupac was in his teens
>If you a star I’m a galaxy nigga (Cassidy)
My version:
>You star?! Fuck, I’m a galaxy nigga
Only the stupid oppose ya
Putting and end to stars like a super nova
These ruthless posers are not amazing
Fuck a star, I blow up entire constellations
>>I PUT AN END TO MORE DREAMS THAN ALARM CLOCKS
>I’ll cut you for the money, like a sapphire
>SLASH IN HIS THROAT LIKE A GUNS AND ROSES GROUPIE
I think that’s enough for now.
That’s BARS
man dos are BARS….superb..off the hook .
Glad to see Atmosphere on there. One of my favorites from him would have to be from Always Coming Back Home To You: “But then the road became empty and the people disappeared. The clouds ran away and opened up the sky and one by one I watched every constellation die.”
or Childish Gambino
“The shit I’m doing this year? Insanity.
Made a beat then murdered it, Casey Anthony.”
Jay z is the king og lyrics nw n 4eva
GOOD BUT, FUNNY Rap!
“I gotta Go Fuck a Hoe!!!”
where is mac dre in this or andre nickatina
Lemme Introduce Myself, I’m The Mac
No Just A Mac, In Fact I Wear Many Hats
I’m A Rapper, Capper, Punk Bitch Slapper
Catch With The Farmboys In A Tractor
I’m A Actor, Soon To Be Grammy Nominee
When Im On E, I Might Do Comedy
Bitches Bombin Me, Boy I’m A Dumb Dancer
7 5 7 0 Cancer
I’m A Rider, Fighter, Crest Sider
Pull An All-Nighter With Mikey On Wires
I’m A Villian And I’m The Owner Of The Building
A Thug, A Drug, To Give Ya That Feelin’
Im A Producer, Top Notch Gooser
Might Be A Thief, But Im Not No Booster
Dealt With The Roosters Everyday
Put On My Giggin’ Shoes And Do The Mac Dre
-mac dre
Sometimes I sit alone
And look deep into my soul
And i’m starrin down at something
That’s very out a control
Tolerence at zero
Emotions dead and gone
If indo was a pebble
man consider me stoned
Patience low I rest to go
I got’s to get Ahead
Motherfuck these hoes
And Impose I got to get my bread
The streets say nothing nice
They crooked like the idus
And everybody dippin seein
who can get the highest
Now check this out
without a doubt
And about to come fresher
And about that cab
And protect that ass
Don’t pannic under pressure
My stabbin like a whip
Or better an aligator
temper going up and down like a
Like a fucking elevator
- dre dog
Mos Defs lines are actually from Re: Definition by BlackStar with Talib Kweli. One of my favorite verses of all time though.
Now a nigga got baking to bake
Harlem Shake? Nah, I’m in Harlem shaking awake
Shaking to bake, shaking the Jakes
Kill you, shoot the funeral up and Harlem Shake at your wake
- cam’ron
“I’m do ahead of my time my parents haven’t met yet” big l
“lets kill the bull like a matador” earl sweatshirt
Ok so im sicker then sick
Flow make yu have to shit
im throwing shit hard on you like im michael vick
nigga know that im the shit
dont respect no nigga nor bitch
yup its a girl in the rap game and im runnin shit
running shit like a tredmill
i think you needa to take some advill
cause the way im coming at you gonna make ya head spill
Bitch im hefty like a trash bag
put em in the trash can
beat a nigga face lik drums in a rock band
fone got that nice grip
i aint talking bout that flip doe
on that at&t not that verizon doe
in the summer time i mak it snow
ice game so sick that it cools the flow
never braggin never slackin
im just stating facts on what good can happen
only a young teen girl
rocking out the world
doing this like im grown watch me catch the throne
that all i got time 4
faded off that 9 core
holla at ya girl wen yu see me walking through that door
ADD ME ON FACEBOOK -DAYA LIVINGLIFE BLACK OR FOLLOW ME ON TWIITER -Yup_ThatsDaya
Uncommon Valor by Jedi Mind Tricks is the most lyrically moving rap song I have ever heard. As for wit its all about Eminem. His album Infinite has the best puns ever spit.
Yea love the song Infinite.
Uncommon valor is by r.a. The rugged man
Sick lyricist
Also 82-92 by 1982 feat. Mac Miller
You niggas slightly off like BET award censors – Asante
I don’t show emotion
I’m a cronic lover
Don’t surface my name nigga you know I’m undercover
-DC
got to listen to jay electronica act 1 best lyrics
“It hurts but I never show, this pain you’ll never know
If only you could see just how lonely and how cold
And frostbit I’ve become, my back’s against the wall
When push comes to shove I just stand up and scream ‘Fuck ‘em all! ‘
Man it feels like these walls are closin’ in
This roof is cavin’ in, but it’s time to raise it then
Your days are numbered like pages
And my book of rhymes got them crookin’ boy
This crooked mind of mine got them all shook
And scared to look in my eyes
I stole that fuckin’ clock, I took the time
And I came up from behind and pretty much snuck up
And butt fucked this game up
Better be careful when you bring my name up
Fuck this fame, that ain’t what I came to claim
But the game ain’t gonna be the same on the day that I leave it
But I swear one way or another I’m a make these fuckin’ haters believe it
I swear to God, won’t spare the rod
I’m a man of my word, so your fuckin’ heads better nod
Or I’m a fuck around in this bitch and roast everybody
Sleep on me that pillow is where your head’ll lie
Permanently bitch, it’s beddy bye
This world is my Easter egg, yeah prepare to die
My head is swole, my confidence is up
This stage is my pedestal, I’m unstoppable
Incredible hulk you’re trapped in my medicine bowl
I could run circles around you so fast your fuckin head’ll spin, dawg
I split your cabbage and your lettuce and olives” – eminem Drop the world
he thinks his mlg pro but he is like the rest undressed fu**ing up his dress