Ice Cube - "No Country For Young Men" [Intro] Many motherfuckers criticize pros and how they play And many motherfuckers criticize rappers and what they say Even though they criticize secretly they fantasize But they know they'll never be paid to play Yeah I'mma kill one of you young punks With an old school flow, flow, flow [Verse ] Though I walk through the shadow of death I gotta make sure that my shoes and my outfit fresh You bitches get jealous when you see me coming Y'all would too if you see my woman Now y'all know we about to do what we do This shit right here bout as sick as the flu Drunk motherfuckers wanna vomit on my shoe Niggas can't have shit prolly cause of you Rappers go to jail like Oprah go to Gail Stedman Policy don't ask don't tell Where's my Wallabees as I go get the mail Half black is the new black can't you tell ? It was blue black like Wesley Snipes in New Jack Now you got to have a white mama just to do that Tiger Woods, he used to be a safe nigga Go ahead let your daughter have a date with him He'll mate with her prolly in a wifebeater Tiger bout to change his name to cheater I don't like it when you call me Big Poppa From South Central and I hate helicopters If we at school I'll break in your locker See me with a water bottle it's prolly vodka Drink responsibly or drink constantly Be who you wanna be in this economy Drunk as sean connery at the finery Can't throw me out motherfucker I'm the honoree Trust me I'll never be the nominee I don't kiss enough ass I'm too ornery Ice cube be where the piranhas be Swimming upstream eat'n all kind of meat Westcoast treat it like hyenas Take what you want from these lying ass cheaters Eat the fuck out these fake-ass divas That's how we act when you don't wanna feed us Crazy motherfucker ever since I was a fetus Might as well join us you ain't gonna beat us Please believe us, you can ask Jesus I'mma be here bout as long as Regis Understand I never pledge of allegiance To this ball of confusion might cause a contusion boy I see you're cruising for a bruising Fucking with a principal that don't like students Don't you know detention is a lynching And if I fail to mention I'm spending up my pension No no no no The reason I hung in Cause this right here ain't no country for young men Sonny you done fucked up the Church's money I'm Redd Foxx and you that big dummy This junkyard was an empire Y'all let it get overran by the vampires Most MCs is goddamn liars Like them fucking supervisors working up at Keiser Bitch I'm not a Dodger I'm a Laker punk You'se a fucking clipper you can call me Jack The Ripper Cut you up by your gizzard then down by your liver Rooter to the tooter gut you like Flipper Dipper, y'all better treat me like the skipper Hair trigga for every nigga Every honkey and every critter I come through and kill every litter Like that like that like that... [Hook] No country for young men No no no no It's just a world of confusion No country for young men No no no no Your world is just an illusion No country for young men No no no no It's a ball of confusion No country for young men No no no no Your world is just an illusion [Outro] (WC) It is what it is mother fucker No country for young men, naw, only a country for real niggas (Snoop Dogg) For real for real, on some real shit Let me tell you what's real and what's fake Look don't let me hurt your feelings (The Game) Kings of this shit, let it be known Shit real niggas do real things, niggas better recognize That's OG shit, old school West side rollin.
If they knock on your door You already gave You don’t need no more of what’s ailing you Just lean on your soul with all that it takes May god bring you back home to America America, America, America, America. - just heard Lenny sing this on the bank of the Mississippi in the city that took Dr.King
Ras Kass - "The Red Carpet" They say you only live once, I disagree You only live twice, your life and then through your seed's So I bleed on wax and feed them the deed So when I die they got the foundation on my publishing B Plus the words that I speak, here's my family jewels It ain't all blood diamonds, but life experience tools And I be rhyming cool but my philosophy's deep Like a Dear John letter, so read em and weep And the wolves smell blood, you can feed em the meat But I’m a lycan, Underworld we can meet in the street Draw heat, but what happened to peace He got a Dirty Sanchez, like what happened to Screech Jesus, diarrheas, I mean holy shit Christ on a cracker, that's just how we spit Communion, add the wine, make the sign of the cross And I don't live in the past, chalk it up as a loss Went from, please listen to my demo to stretch limo To the pen in a cell watching Eminem on Jimmy Kimmel But I can't go out like Kimbo Slice Like Gina Corano, I'm a Cyborg we terminate Mano a mano, still Ronald McDonald, over one billion served But it's up to me to get what I deserve So I handle my biz and hustle harder than the norm The early bird gets the worm, but the hawk gets the bird
Ras Kass - "Humble Pi" Hot by proxy, I rhymed with the greatest MC's Pandemic, this the latest disease No skills, million rappers claim they trappin' with keys So I swing across bars like the flying trapeze SoCal, where I was conceived Another L.A. King, the meek die on their knees Cause of greed, mama used to read Proverb 16 (Pride comes before a fall, lose it all) And that's when you see who really got ya back Rassy bring the city joy like the Shaq attack Black mac Benz wagon with the matching hat This is backpack ratchet, nigga action packed And most of y'all garbage homie facts is facts Even if you paid big bucks to get fucked and dick sucked Hiccup then lick nuts for platinum plaques Hope you pickin' up what I'm puttin' down, wack is wack Jack Ungrateful Thanksgiving, they feasted on ribs gave us intestines Where the shits been, we made that chitlins Necessity's the mother of inventions My light bulb go off cause I don't like wishin' I'm somewhere on krypton and you just see these stars Parallel universe, free-throw shootin' meteors And slam dunkin' planets My semantics damn near tantric Dorothy came to Kansas You was never on my bandwidth And fuck FM radio stations you complacent Cause y'all play the most ignorant songs in creation Wayne said he'd make these hoes love 'em like Satan Jay partnered with Barney's with racial discrimination And Kanye gear sport confederate flags His ancestors severed heads was in confederate bags And this ain't hate, this just the truth About when blacks escape the concrete jungle, and lose humble Humility's a blessing and many men have tumbled Off that pedestal soon as your foundation crumbles
Grieves - "Half Empty" [Verse 1] I swear to god that sometimes I feel my life is going blind From the women I wake up to To the substance in my rhymes And I've abused the truth by telling myself everythings fine With all that negativity I'm ignoring, steadily climbing And undescribed But hell I know that I'm not perfect God knows I can't keep a girlfriend Cause all of my problems surface They feel I don't deserve 'em Cause their friends say that I'm worthless Unappropriately portrayed in my words And put about my music Haven't been making it lately the way that I view haven't been positive Missing the fact that it's human to get confused I bleed and bruise like all the rest of you But verbalize my blood inhale the punches love has thrown at me And breathe it out my lungs like And this all has been a mess I replaced the things I love and ripped my heart out of my chest like And I'm not so concerned with why I'm just here to count the minutes till tomorrow's sun can rise Listen.. [Hooks] How many times do you have to wake up to stop dreaming And I wrap my love notes in dust but never read 'em Many times I just try to give up to stop leaving you I have my heart broke and busted Most of its been crushed but I blame it on myself [Verse 2] Cause in the morning I don't see the right reflection That foggy mirror after my shower, I see rejection And I'm not saying I'm depressed Seems to be a common theme today These children try to hate themselves But don't know why they feel that way I got a real path paved and its been crazy In a month I almost had the clap and possibly a baby Relocated places credit companies chasing me And new age taking on in it's efficient pile of changes And I hate it cause its all so uncontrollable Losing myself inside this broken emotion of no one knows What's the point of ever falling in love I find it's more about the pain than it ever was about trust Find its more about breaking chains and being confound there that it rusts Found that love is just a test to most of us who've given up But if you think of it logistically Then love is open eye Cause its everywhere you look And its in every scar you hide [Hook] How many times do you have to wake up to stop dreaming And I wrap my love notes in dust but never read 'em Many times I just try to give up to stop leaving you I have my heart broke and busted Most of its been crushed but I blame it on myself
Rapsody - "My Favorite" (Godzilla Outro/Interlude) I woke up feeling like a million dollars Woke up yesterday, damn, had a million problems She say life still going on and on, baby, keep smiling Address nothing today like you ain't got a thousand Island Call my friends now we wildin', having fun, nonviolent Find a little balance, got me feeling like I'm Alice In wonderland, yeah, beautiful view Riding through the street listening to my favorite Didn't ya know I was gon' bring it? I never disappointed before Like D Rose with new knees I'm back on point, no joke You missed me the most, some others felt the need to divorce Hip hop it go pop, but I love this blackness And for the record, me and Jean already got a record Random, yeah, yeah, better rapping I do Riding through the street listening to old Badu Yeah, out my mind just in time Geniuses are borderline crazy says my mind Hell, I gave 'em plenty signs, yeah, all throughout my rhymes Now they calling me Future, I'm so ahead of my time When I came out the womb my mind was mentally 9 Out of order till I'm back at one, I'm tryna reach Brian Your favorite, kiss me on my neck and my spine Late nights listening my favorite
The bigger the bill, the harder you ball Well I'm throwing mine, cause my money long The quicker you here, the faster you go That's why where I come from the only thing we know is Work hard, play hard...
Brother Ali - "Star Quality" [Verse 1] Yo it's the Ahk in the flesh, of course I'm fresh Yes, I'm livin for the funk like I was Lord Finesse Last night I screamed till I lost my voice I guess Had a few things left to get up off of my chest Like I'm, facing the fact that I'm not, what my mom wanted Only gold plaque that I got, had the Qur'an on it I flipped your eviction notice over, wrote a song on it Like to hear it, here it go, light your spirit, clear your soul If I would've known that tonight was Ladies' Night I would've stopped and swabbed my balls with the baby wipe In the van, Hold your sorry little life in my hand Watch me toss it in the sky and swing right for the stands Battling me is like trying to ride your bike in the sand I'mma eat one more helping, then I'm, wiping my hands And you frustrated rappers, must hate the fact That I walk in First Ave, have so much ladies gaspin' for breath Tryin' to catch me, with the ass and the chest I ain't tryin to be rude lady, I'm just passin' a test Got enough hassle and stress, with one woman cashing my checks I'll take the compliment and pass on the sex [Hook] We like Brother Brother Brother, how ya making 'em get down Come, straight to your town, vibrating the ground Keep the people out there scared, of making a sound That's our policy, we step out there on Star Quality Brother Brother Brother, how ya making 'em get down Come, straight to your town, vibrating the ground Keep the people out there scared, of making a sound That's our policy, we step out there [Verse 2] You ain't hardcore, you soft more than Shemar Moore In a tight shirt sayin 'Let's slow this train down ya'll' You stink hoes, spills a whole, lot of nothing Got the nerve to look Ahk in the eye, you got it coming While your woman nod her face to the beat, you tasting defeat Wiping the waste from my cleats, between the space in your teeth Irrigate your facial features all hung down That little dumb frown is perfect for salt water to run down Talk harder to some clowns, cause they need it rough Make sure they never sleeping deep enough to dream of beating me, what My style's a little belligerent, isn't it? Considering that I'm belittling them, with little more then My pad and my pen and my sentiments Whether its your chorus scratching, or wack track blasting Your whole approach to rapping, is ass crack backwards Cats'll see me in the spot and act salty Stressing you save hip hop, you can't even save a wack party [Hook] [Bridge] And the preacher say "Oh Ah Hey, Oh Ah Hah" And the choir say "Oh Ah Hey, Oh Ah Hah" And the preacher say "Oh Ah Hey, Oh Ah Hah" And the choir say "Oh Ah Hey, Oh Ah Hah" [Verse 3] Brother Ali is two hundred, fifty pounds of Piss and Vinegar Few try to sit me down, they missing limbs and I got nothing on, but a lifestyle, black tuxedo An Aretha Franklin record, and I'm rockin Captain Ego like Don Dadda, shit get done proper There's only three reasons Ali would need a Ramada One; to move the bowels, Two; to steal the towels Three; Shave, shower, pray for my spiritual power I can handle this, if my man Ant would just Give me a chance to splatter some antics across his canvisses Damage is unavoidable at this point I twist joints till they pop lock, get too loud and get ya knot rocked I'm too proud to let you hop scotch through The section of the Earth that I occupy, without making you testify Best that I could do for you, is ignore you Cause I'd probably conquer you if I explore you Words from the Brother [Hook] [Bridge]
Someone sang your name today And a stranger saw me crumble Hold my broken heart and shell away Begging: bury me beside you The devil popped around today Selling promises and potions That could take our memory away Help forget I'd ever met you Tell me, can you please Kindly take away the misery? Give me a baker's dozen, please Wrap me up to go away But I want to I need to forget you Don't want to But I need to let you go The devil bent my ear today About his magical elixir That would make the sorrow go away Help me forget I'd ever met you Give me a baker's dozen, please Wrap me up to go away I want to I need to forget you Don't want to But I need to let you go
Wake up, son of mine Momma got something to tell you Changes come Life will have its way With your pride, son Take it like a man Hang on, son of mine A storm is blowing up your horizon Changes come Keep your dignity Take the high road Take it like a man Listen up, son of mine Momma got something to tell you All about growing pains Life will pound away Where the light don't shine, son Take it like a man Suck it up, son of mine Thunder blowing up your horizon Changes come (Changes come) Keep your dignity (Keep your dignity) Take the high road (Take the high road) Take it like a man (Take it like a man) Momma said like the rain (This, too, shall pass) Like a kidney stone (This, too, shall pass) It's just a broken heart, son This pain will pass away
"Too Shy To Say" You make me smile You make me sing You make me feel good everything You bring me up When I've been down This only happens when you're around And I can't go on this way... With it stronger every day... But being too shy to say That I really love you... I wanna fly Away with you Until there's nothing more for us to do I wanna be More than a friend Until the end of an endless end And I can't go on this way... With it stronger every day... But being too shy to say That I really love you... And I can't go on this way... Feelin' it stronger every day... But being too shy to say That I really love you Ohh.. ooh... I... do...
Tech N9ne - "One Good Time" [Intro] Just give me one good time Nobody is looking at me anyway Nobody is looking at me anyway Yo Yo [Verse 1] I know that I'm hardcore Know how to start wars Know how to scar yours in a fist fight Cause toughness is our floor Warriors that bar nor But this one is far tore up on this night Some people show it and then Some people hide it But other people they do it whenever they get excited but me I can't even do it when the wrongs all mine I'm saying I've been trying to do it for a long long time I get jealous when I see people do it and it's like fluid I'm thinking How can they swallow that when I can't even chew it I guess God seen it fit to label me the consoler Bestowed upon a broken show and forever be the shoulder My mission is plain to see Its freaking insanity I'm wishing the pain in me would just leave me why can't it be Simple cause on the real This one could die So I'm asking God Before I go Just give me one good cry [Hook 1] If I could cry maybe one good time I could wash away all my pain And maybe free my mind After my shows it's a lonely road So I sit up all by myself trying to cleanse my soul Nobody's looking at me anyway Just give me one good time Nobody's looking at me anyway [Verse 2] Why I got to be the one to cheer up People until they clear up When I sneeze I tear up And then I go look in a mirror So I can see how it looks When I really wanna know how it feels When I'm hella down I try to push No matter how hard no water spills for real My patience is soon to go Waiting for the balloon to blow I'm thinking back to when I used to go to funerals No matter how close we were On the inside it ached while Others be losing it I'm just wishing I could break down And I been to a lot of them And there's not a one That went on and got it done No moisture that even try even to come And this ain't no tough thing, because I've had enough pain Tears should be runnin' like mustangs Man it must rain Been trying for years But the crying been inside The Nina's been so serious there ain't no lying in his eyes And it makes me so furious When I look and I'm in genocide Please let me break down with the pain I felt when Brian Dennis died One time.. [Hook 2] If I could cry maybe one good time I could wash away all my pain And maybe free my mind After my shows it's a lonely road Sit up all by myself trying to cleanse my soul Nobody's looking at me anyway Just give me one good time Nobody's looking at me anyway [Verse 3] I look at actors crying It's as easy as fondue But what do you do when extreme hurt is upon you Real life ain't no movie homie And this ain't John Woo But I almost lost it on the ending of Jon Q And I almost lost it when Jennifer Hudson blew But I'm still waiting for that real emotion to come thru Then maybe I could get a cry God Maybe one, two? Been red for life for the first time ever me want blue (What?) Give me the blues Sometimes I turn on the news and I Look at all these feuds Then I try to make them ooze (Don't cry, no teardrops from your eye Poetry's music oh my, almost made me tear up about thinking about my children, no lie) Maybe I'm black hearted You thinking damn he shady Saying man he crazy For the way I abandon me lady One day she can repay me Yes that woman can betray me Then I'll probably cry if not then I do it if I win me a Grammy maybe [Hook 3] If I could cry maybe one good time I could wash away all my pain And maybe free my mind After my shows it's a lonely road Sit up all by myself trying to cleanse my soul Nobody's looking at me anyway Just give me one good time Nobody's looking at me anyway
Murs - "Strangulation Cypher" Aww shit, they fucked around and signed a backpacker Smart, rich, handsome, plus he's not a bad rapper I'm just a little local talent that fucked around and made it big Underground bully, pickin' on all these famous kids And the danger is, now I'm doin' Stranger biz About to make the world forget about what a major is Independent Powerhouse, running all these cowards out My enemies are all forgotten, wishin' I would shout 'em out And I don't want to hear a rapper harmonize unless He thuggish, ruggish, Lazy, Krayzie, Bizzy, Wish or Flesh But maybe I'm just hatin' cause my black ass could never sing And fuck that autotune I hope the Futures filled with better things And you a fucking liar if you say you found a better team Impossible! Like trying to fit my dick inside my wedding ring And all the bread it brings will be distributed and properly I represent for hip hop not some fucking aristocracy
Prince – Purple Rain Lyrics I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted to one time to see you laughing I only wanted to see you Laughing in the purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain I only wanted to see you Bathing in the purple rain I never wanted to be your weekend lover I only wanted to be some kind of friend Baby, I could never steal you from another It's such a shame our friendship had to end Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain I only wanted to see you Underneath the purple rain Honey, I know, I know I know times are changing It's time we all reach out For something new, that means you too You say you want a leader But you can't seem to make up your mind I think you better close it And let me guide you to the purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain If you know what I'm singing about up here C'mon, raise your hand Purple rain, purple rain I only want to see you Only want to see you In the purple rain
Talib Kweli - "State of Grace" [Verse 1] From the top, from the top, from the top, from the top From the top, from the top, from the top, from the top In a state of grace Where the talent is surrounded by the pain and the violence So the selling never safe At the same time snitching to the Jake Is the quickest way to get found at the bottom of a lake But the problem we face seems so great That we can't escape so we accept our fate So the sex and the money and the murder are the pictures we paint If an artist is a part of a community And got an opportunity to get that cake Would never come back to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga like that so fake,no different from a snake Nothing left to give cause you always wanna take If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of man, understand you ain't nothing but a waste Look into the face of a young girl Raising up like a flag when it's unfurled Got game listening to her mother's pearls And she love Beyonce cause she run the world Her mama used to run this city Way back before the nigga Puff was Diddy When it came to the music then she got real picky From New York, but preferred 2Pac over Biggie No disrespect to Ms. Wallace, but she liked to do the knowledge And she felt that Pac was more lyrical Plus she never went to college But she called herself 'Earth' found rhythm with the gods more spiritual She God in the physical And it's only natural to pray for a little you Musical so she played the umbilical chords So her daughter was born it was a miracle Music is the light when it's dark And the way that you spit your dart is a big part She grew up loving hip hop Now all her daughter got is "Love & Hip Hop" Nowadays niggas turn up for the sex Niggas turn up for the money, never turn up for the movement Ratchet reality stars that be looking so stupid Getting in the fights at reunions She used to be inspired by the writers, now she's tired of the biters No desire for the lying and the violence That's inflicted on the body in a so-called party environment Her body is politics Lost count of how many whores she was called today She won't do it no more, lost all her faith They say she exaggerate when she hollerate But it's only so much she can tolerate [Abby Dobson Hook] Help me find my way to a state of grace Stir my heart, touch my soul Feed me freedom sounds you made Help me find my way to a state of grace Lift me up with your weight Pull me to the grace [Verse 2] She wanna to be the first in her family with a higher education Her entire graduation was a dire situation Did a paper on the state of the hip hop generation But no longer felt a part of the conversation Used to be I'm a ''ride or die'' chick B.I.G. with the ''Me And My Bitch'' No objections, being an object,major label seeing a profit She ain't never been a bitch or a ho But she used to sing along when she heard it in a song She used to be front row at the shows 'til she overdosed on the testosterone Her favorite rapper invited her backstage would have stayed But she felt like she really ain't belong When she wouldn't let him hit, this nigga called her a bitch She erased all her songs from the phone You are who you fuck with, so the guy that she stuck with You can bump it or dump it, the artist she trusted Just broke her heart, so misogynistic and disgusting She tried not to judge him, in her heart she still loved him And the way that he lusting, a part of his suffering And this young man, clearly not ready for the harder discussion Female emcees acting more like a dude than a dude do, only if you knew I know a few who flow crazier than if you flew over the nest of the cuckoo But she never gonna hear them in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues from the radio playing that doodoo She on D'Angelo Pandora station playing that Voodoo, who knew? [Hook] [Verse 3] In the face of hate She'd be lucky for a balance cause the world is challenging her to be great I see lyrics as colors and shapes Put it on tape, let her know I could relate When you wish you could switch the way that you look And your nose was smaller and your hair was straight When you got no faith When you hate yourself, when you hate your race Let's get to the core Our sisters worth more than grinding on the wall half-naked She a bitch, she a whore And you rich and you shit on the poor In all of your records and ask 'em to buy it Why should I support music that constantly disrespects me? And make you dismissive of the efforts of those who get left With the charge of repping it correctly When it's free online or in a cloud Ain't no reason to touch the radio dial You wonder why you don't hear no sounds on the air And it's clear that your sales going down Down by law then you found the raw On a message board and you sounding off These niggas get the whole world, but what's the cause? No wonder why these niggas be sounding lost Rhyming is a memory The assembly line rap niggas is designed by the enemy Stop giving them your soul, gift wrap Prepackaged, fabricated shit rap Running through you like fast food - Big Mac's You don't want no problems, fix that All the time that you spent listening to that bullshit Now you ain't never gon' get back [Hook] [Outro] She don't love it, no She don't love it no more
Killer Mike - "A Christmas Fucking Miracle" The beat breaks and your teeth break Keep your canines embedded in my knuckles as a keepsake It would seem your veneers just mere souvenirs falling out your mouth and on to the landscape Me and El-P do the secret handshake Then I pummel punch a pumpkin head punk in his pimple face 'Till he's punch drunk cause he's sweet as a pound cake (Ain't he pussy, Mike?) Yeah, El, I'll say Into the wild, wildstyle ghetto child running wild Where the lions and the owls stay The powers that be even offered up reprieves Told us they ain't take us out if we bow to our knees But they can give that to the kings and the queens And the worshipers of idols and followers of things Cause I would rather be in the jungle with the savages It's kill or be killed, and I'm working with the averages My professor emeritus Say we been cursed being brought to the Americas How you raise a whole human single parent, no marriages no sense of heritage Planned Parenthood helping plan miscarriages But I'm lucky mommy already had a narrative Product of a teenage love, my arrogance Derives from the pride in the job my parents did Named Mike, I was told it was godlike Even danced with the devil, came out alright OK, honor y'all? No way Still spell Amerikkka with the triple K Word up to Spice 1 and O'Shea And any MC peeping what I go through Real rap, my last line's so true Rest in peace to Pimp C and Camu, too We do it for you