It could be a punchline or a metaphor from a rap song, a chorus, a hook, whatever... Mine in no order except recollection:
"If you don't know, then now you know, nigga" - Notorious B.I.G., Juicy
"I get my energy, from my inner G/I be in outer space, but I got inner peace." - Lupe Fiasco, I'm Beamin'
"You know I'm a dreamer. But my heart's o' gold/I had to run away high, so I wouldn't come home low" - Motley Crue, Home Sweet Home
"I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane/My life is parallel to hell, but I must maintain." - Nas, NY State of Mind
"They call me Jay Electronica, fuck that/Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYarmulke/Jay ElecRamadaan Muhammad Asalaamica RasoulAllah Supana Watallah through your monitor." - Jay Electronica, Exhibit C
"Now it is 1984/'Knock, knock' at your front door/It's the seude-denim secret police/They have come for your un-cool niece/Come quietly to the camp/You'll look nice as a draw-string lamp/Don't worry it's only a shower/For your clothes here's a pretty flower!"- Dead Kennedys, California Uber Alles
"Everytime I hear the crack of a whip/My blood runs in the cold/I remember on the slave ship/The way they brutalized our very souls." - Bob Marley, Slave Driver
"'There must be some kidna way outta here,' said the joker to thief/'There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief/Businessman he drink my wine/Plowman take my earth/None will level on the line, nobody offered his word." - Jimi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower
"You could be sitting taking lunch/And it'll hit you like a punch/It's only Tuesday" - DJ Shadow, Six Days
"They system's broken, the school's closed, the prison's open/We ain't got nothin to lose, mufucka we rollin/Huh? Mufucka we rollin/Wit some light-skinned girls and some Kelly Rowlands." - Kanye West, Power
"Verbal vomit, I keep it one-hunnit/Not the scrill, but you could call me ebonics/Sideshow's going nutty, dumbin out/Take the wrong turn and get you roof stomped out/Old school vans, doors open, me and my crew/We some stoners, we get high like Shaggy from Scooby Doo." - E-40, Go Hard or Go Home
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I'll probably keep adding to this. How about y'all?
"If you don't know, then now you know, nigga" - Notorious B.I.G., Juicy
"I get my energy, from my inner G/I be in outer space, but I got inner peace." - Lupe Fiasco, I'm Beamin'
"You know I'm a dreamer. But my heart's o' gold/I had to run away high, so I wouldn't come home low" - Motley Crue, Home Sweet Home
"I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane/My life is parallel to hell, but I must maintain." - Nas, NY State of Mind
"They call me Jay Electronica, fuck that/Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYarmulke/Jay ElecRamadaan Muhammad Asalaamica RasoulAllah Supana Watallah through your monitor." - Jay Electronica, Exhibit C
"Now it is 1984/'Knock, knock' at your front door/It's the seude-denim secret police/They have come for your un-cool niece/Come quietly to the camp/You'll look nice as a draw-string lamp/Don't worry it's only a shower/For your clothes here's a pretty flower!"- Dead Kennedys, California Uber Alles
"Everytime I hear the crack of a whip/My blood runs in the cold/I remember on the slave ship/The way they brutalized our very souls." - Bob Marley, Slave Driver
"'There must be some kidna way outta here,' said the joker to thief/'There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief/Businessman he drink my wine/Plowman take my earth/None will level on the line, nobody offered his word." - Jimi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower
"You could be sitting taking lunch/And it'll hit you like a punch/It's only Tuesday" - DJ Shadow, Six Days
"They system's broken, the school's closed, the prison's open/We ain't got nothin to lose, mufucka we rollin/Huh? Mufucka we rollin/Wit some light-skinned girls and some Kelly Rowlands." - Kanye West, Power
"Verbal vomit, I keep it one-hunnit/Not the scrill, but you could call me ebonics/Sideshow's going nutty, dumbin out/Take the wrong turn and get you roof stomped out/Old school vans, doors open, me and my crew/We some stoners, we get high like Shaggy from Scooby Doo." - E-40, Go Hard or Go Home
...
I'll probably keep adding to this. How about y'all?
