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Does Mystary of Da Chessboxin have the best lyrics of any rap song?

cryptoadam

Banned


Probably my favourite rhyme

My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation
Like the Emancipation Proclamation


And my favourite verse maybe in all of Rap

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide, when he dies?
In his own iniquity it's the
Master of the Mantis Rapture comin' at cha
We have an APB on an MC Killer
Looks like the work of a Master
Evidence indicates that's it's stature
Merciless like a terrorist hard to capture
The flow, changes like a chameleon
Plays like a friend, and stabs you like a dagger
This technique attacks the immune system
Disguised like a lie paralyzin' the victim
You scream, as it enters your bloodstream
Erupts your brain from the pain these thoughts contain
Novin' on a nigga with the speed of a centipede
And injure any motherfucking contender

And thats not even going into Ghostface or ODB's verse.

Just for anyone all the lyrics

The game of chess, is like a sword fight
You must think first, before you move
Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon
When it's properly used, it's almost invincible
Raw I'ma give it to ya, with no trivia
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia
My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation
Like the Emancipation Proclamation
Weak MC's approach with slang that's dead
You might as well run into the wall and bang your head
I'm pushin' force, my force your doubtin'
I'm makin' devils cower to the Caucus Mountains
Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire
Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah
I come from the Shaolin slum, and the isle I'm from
Is comin' through with nuff niggaz, and nuff guns
So if you wanna come sweatin', stressin' contestin'
You'll catch a sharp sword to the midsection
Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk
Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk
A man vexed, is what the projects made me
Rebel to the grain there's no way to barricade me
Steamrollin' niggaz like a eighteen wheeler
With the drunk driver drivin', there's no survivin'
Ruff like Timberland wear, yeah
Me and the Clan, and yo the Land cruisers out there
Peace to all the crooks, all the niggaz with bad looks
Bald heads, braids, blow this hook
We got chrome tecs, nickel plated macs
Black Axe, drug dealin' styles in phat stacks
I only been a good nigga for a minute though
'Cuz I got to get my props, and win it yo
I got beef wit commercial-ass niggaz with gold teeth
Lampin' in a Lexus eating beef
Straight up and down don't even bother
I got forty niggaz up in here now, who kill niggaz fathers
My peoples are you with me where you at?
In the front, in the back killa-bees on attack
My peoples are you with me where you at?
Smokin' meth hittin' caps on the block with the gats
Here I go, deep type flow
Jacquie Cousteau could never get this low, I'm
Cherry bombin' shits boom
Just warmin' up a little bit, vroom vroom
Rappinin' is what's happenin'
Keep the pockets stacked and then, hands clappin' and
At the party when I move my body
Gotta get up, and be somebody
Grab the microphone put strength to the bone
Duh-duh-duh enter the Wu-Tang zone
Sure enough when I rock that stuff
Guff puff I'm gonna catch your bluff tuff
Rough, kickin' rhymes like Jim Kelly
Or Alex Haley I'm a Mi Beetle Bailey rhymes
Comin' raw style, hardcore
Niggaz be comin' to the hip-hop store
Comin' to buy gro-cery from me
Tryin' to be a hip-hop MC
The law, in order to enter the Wu-Tang
You must bring the Ol' Dirty Bastard type slang
Represent the GZA, Abbott, RZA, Shaquan, Inspectah Deck
Dirty Hoe gettin' low wit his flow
Introducing, the Ghost face Killah
No one could get illa
My peoples are you with me where you at?
In the front, in the back killa-bees on attack
My peoples are you with me where you at?
Smokin' meth hittin' caps on the block with the gats
Speakin' of the devil psych, no it's the God, get the shit right
Mega trife, and yo I killed you in a past life
On the mic while you was kickin' that fast shit
You reneged tried again, and got blasted
Half mastered ass style mad ruff task
When I struck I had on Timbs and a black mask
Remember that shit? I know you don't remember Jack
That night yo I was hittin' like a spiked bat
And then you thought I was bugged out, and crazy
Strapped for nonsense, after me became lazy
Yo, nobody budge while I shot slugs
Never shot thugs, I'm runnin' with thugs that flood mugs
So grab your eight plus one, start flippin' and trippin'
Niggaz is jettin' I'm lickin' off son
Wu-Tang
Wu-Tang
Wu-Tang
Wu-Tang
Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide, when he dies?
In his own iniquity it's the
Master of the Mantis Rapture comin' at cha
We have an APB on an MC Killer
Looks like the work of a Master
Evidence indicates that's it's stature
Merciless like a terrorist hard to capture
The flow, changes like a chameleon
Plays like a friend, and stabs you like a dagger
This technique attacks the immune system
Disguised like a lie paralyzin' the victim
You scream, as it enters your bloodstream
Erupts your brain from the pain these thoughts contain
Novin' on a nigga with the speed of a centipede
And injure any motherfucking contender
My peoples are you with me where you at?
In the front, in the back killa-bees on attack
My peoples are you with me where you at?
Smokin' meth hittin' caps on the block with the gats
The immune to nearly any weapon
When it's properly used, it's almost invincible
Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon
When it's properly used, it's almost invincible
It's properly used



 
I still have 36 Chambers on rotation after like what, 25 years? Fantastic album and this is a great song.

Hard to pick a favourite lyric of all time but I could definitely list some that I love. No particular order of importance or anything but I really like the end of Pun's first verse on Twinz.

Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did we know
That we riddled two men who didnt do diddily

@1:02

 

June

Member
Wu-Tang are fire but stuff like that is generally too over-the-top and boisterous for me to consider as deep or something that really touches you.

First song that comes to my mind for dope lyrics and story is this:






In jail, without the bail, in jail

[Hook over Intro Speaking]
You know what I'm saying, you got these wack emcees out here, you
Know what I'm saying, they do three days in the county, you know what
I'm saying, and come home and write a rhyme about doin' bids, you know
What I'm saying, shankin', shankin' people, doin' time, they don't know
Nothing 'bout time. Man, I got people locked down, you know what I'm saying

[Verse 1: One Man Army]
We was handcuffed, in the back of the bus, forty of us
The road it was rough, plus nobody I could trust (trust)
Headed upstate, no chance for escape
Barbed wire and guards and the gun tower secured the gate
My uncle's fate, was life without parole
Thank God I was blessed with an out date
I can't wait, but I got to
You probably wouldn't have did what I did to catch a bid, but I'm not you
I got a crew still on the street, they don't write me letters
No time to visit a brotha, or bother to send me cheddar
Never did I sweat it, I know they got a life to live
My man J, had a wife and kid
And these are the consequences, my actions committed
Some cats that I used to visit, now I live with
Along with swillas, killas, drug dealas, some rich brothas
Crackheads, con artists, child molesters, dick suckers
All types of individuals
Sorta like a melting pot for criminals
The system is designed to stock it plentiful
This old cat from the hood
Told me, "Out of every bad situation comes some good"
Its understood
Prison ain't good for my health
Lookin' in the mirror, introducing me to myself
I studied my thoughts, my ways, the routes I took
Though I read daily, it ain't all about the books
Its all about the lessons you learn, through your experience
Applying it in a positive way, period
All praise due to Allah, I used to scheme
'Til he showed me the straight way, Sirat al-Mustaqim
Now I'm on the V-I, telling Moms about Islam
She called me a blasphemous fool, I stayed calm
The world wasn't ready for the changes I made
They was waitin' for the nigga I was in twelfth grade
Everyday, the same old thing, I walked the yard
Set up in the chow hall, with Abdul Rahim
Cats waitin' in infirmary lines, for they medicines
Moorish Americans, walk around, with circle sevens
And older heads playin' horseshoes, sometimes chess
Trippin' when I first seen a faggot with breasts
In the shower with a cat, gettin' hit from the back
White dudes, on basketball courts, kickin' hacky-sacks
Board games, card games--face it
Everybody, time on they hands--most of it wasted
Anything to make the time fly, soon as possible
Some cats used to sleep all day, that's unacceptable
Heads getting cracked over unpaid debts
Either a shank or a lock in a sock would do the trick
Correction officers, devil's advocate
And when its time to go home, parole boards wasn't havin' it
Life was hell every day, the devil's tryin' me
But I paid my debt, to society
And after twenty-seven months, of my life, I'll tell you one thing
I know why the caged bird sings

Yo, yo, yo, yo
In jail, without the bail (repeat)

[Hook over Outro]
You know what I'm sayin', this goes out to all the caged birds
Everybody who know why the caged bird sings, you know what I'm sayin'
I know why the caged bird sings {*2X*}
In jail, in jail, in jail
I sang the same song
When I was upstate, I couldn't flap wings
 
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Here is another lyric I like. In fact the wordplay in this whole song is entertaining to listen to. The basic setup is Big Mike trashing a dude who has to pay to get a piece. Big Mike, being the playa playa he is, is the man and can bang this chick whenever he feels cause he "ain't giving up a penny".

It reaches a point where he thanks the other dude for paying to get the chicks hair done. That way she showed up looking all nice for Big Mike...

Every time you fucked her you got to pay a fee
And oh yeah thanks for getting her hair done for me g
It looked good when she came over the other day
Sucking on my dick all I could see was her hair anyway

What's happening mister big man with all your money and cars
I see you walking around like you's a motherfucking star
Expensive clothes high class hoes
Right now you're on top of the world I suppose
Claiming that you're macking but I know that you ain't
The only time you can pull a ho is when you [pulling] out your bank
Taking [on] my [wine] and my gang and shit
So you can get your dick wet mister slick
But after all that yo you still can't keep her
'cos a nigga likes myself can come along and sweep her
And have her screaming oh big mike
Nigga you slanging them dollars but you ain't slanging that dick
Why now you know I [???] your ho so now you run and get your pistol
Madder than a bitch screaming that I dissed you
But nigga I ain't diss you you know the story joe
Don't check the motherfucking pimp check the ho

Now baby's playing for your money you're playing her for her drawers
She takes your money brings it to me I'm playing both of y'all
Who's the mack who's the motherfucking pimp
Who's the motherfucking man and who's the motherfucking simp
It ain't me 'cos I ain't giving up a penny
Steady fucking her while you be giving up plenty
Now nigga tell the truth I ain't a dunce
Out of the six times I fucked her you might have fucker her once
And after you caught a nut you had to get up prime time
And take her to the nearest store so she could spend your dough
Every time you fucked her you got to pay a fee
And oh yeah thanks for getting her hair done for me g
It looked good when she came over the other day
Sucking on my dick all I could see was her hair anyway
Remember that shirt that she bought you on your birthday
I got two of those and pair of pants and shoes on the first day

Huh I'm just a playa y'all

Now every time you see her you want to grab her butt
And act like you love her but she don't give a fuck
Don't want to meet your friends don't to drive your benz
Just want to get your ends and then she's gone again uh
Flipping on a mission with another nigga you know
Even though you try your hardest you can't figure this so
Seen it before but you still laying down for the tramp
Gave you some pussy got you sprung and then she just up and [vamp]
Now tell me what that be like
Bought her some shit to wear [???] for her hair she with me right
Face it nigga that's the way you made her
The bitch that she is to day but me I'm a playa


@2:15 for the lyric in question
 
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Most tracks on Jeru The Damaja's rookie album were some of the fiercest examples of mid 90s lyricism you will ever hear.

As far as a scientifically masterminded Tetris-like combination of words skillfully...

ah shit, just listen


Another album I still listen to regularly. Come clean is a ridiculous tune.


You couldn't come to the jungles of the East poppin that yang
You won't survive, get live, catching wreck is our thing
I don't gang bang or shoot out bang bang
The relentless lyrics the only dope I slang
I'm a true master you can check my credentials
'Cause I choose to use my infinite potential


 

mekes

Member
Wu-Tang are amazing. So much great stuff released by those guys whether as a collective or individually. The longevity is incredible, I’d still check for a Wu album in 2020. Or a RZA, Ghostface etc.

My own personal favourite is Lupe Fiasco - Put You on Game

Don't you know that I run this place
And I've begun this race
Must I rerun this pace
I'm the reason it's become this way
And their love for it is the reason I have become this praised
They love my darkness, I make them heartless
And in return they have become my martyrs
I've been in the poem of many a poet
And I reside in the art of many a artist
Some of your smartest have tried to articulate
My whole part in this
But they're fruitless in their harvest
The dro grows from my footsteps
I'm the one that they follow
I am the one that they march with
Through the back alleys and the black markets
The Oval offices, crack-houses, and apartments
Through the mazes of the queens
The pages of the sages and the chambers of the kings
Through the veinses of the fiends
A paper chaser's pager, yo, I'm famous on the scene
One of the oldest, most ancientest things
Speak every single language on the planet, y'kna mean?
I am the American dream
The rape of Africa, the undying machine
The overpriced medicine, the murderous regime
The tough guy's front and the one behind the scenes
I am the blood of this city
Its gas, water, and electricity
I'm its gym, and its math, and its history
The gunshots in the class
And you can't pass if you're missin', G
I taught them better than that
I taught them aim for the head and hope they never come back
I'm glad your daddy's gone, baby, hope he never comes back
I hope he's with your mother with my hustlers high in my traps
I hope you die in his trash
I can't help it all I hear when you're crying is laughs
I'm sure somebody find you tied up in this bag
Behind the hospital, little baby crack addicts had
Then maybe you can grow up to be a stripper
A welfare-receiving prostitute and gold digger
You can watch on TV how they should properly depict you
The rivers shall flow with liquor, quench your thirst on my elixirs
I am the safe haven for the rebel runaway and the resistor
The trusted misleader, the number one defender
And from a throne of their bones I rule
These fools are my fuel, so I make them cool
Baptize them in the water out of Scarface pool
And feed them from the table that held Corleone's food
If you die, tell them that you played my game
I hope your bullet holes become mouths that say my name
 
Hip hop Gaf in full effect?!?!

Raw I'ma give it to ya!
With no trivia!

I always fucked with U God, I don't care what anyone says. His verse on it's yourz is another classic. Super freaks physique like Raphael Sadique.

I would say Triumph, bar for bar is probably better, especially considering the whole crew spit on it,.

This is a subject that speaks to me. Been listening since the late 80s man. For today's episode I'm going to bring something that I found to be very rad. Not sure how many people have beard of the Fu-Schnickens but when I first heard them in the early 90s they blew me away.

They've got great beats and awesome wordplay amongst the three members Poc-Fu, Moc-Fu and especially Chip-Fu. They were doing the whole kung fu thing at least a year before Wu-tang. Poc-fu even managed to make Lucky Charms reference a year before GZA did on 36 Chambers!

Poc-Fu
I hope you're ready Grover it's all over Jehovah
I'm thinking pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars and green clovers

GZA
Blaow! now it's all over
Niggas seeing pink hearts, yellow moons
Orange stars and green clovers

Fu-schnickens are legendary to me, I still listen to their first album F U Don't Take it Personal all the time.

Ok so this tune is called Movie Scene and it is awesome for many reasons, one of them being it contains one of the earliest examples (as far as I know of) of someone rapping backwards. Chip-fu nails the delivery and the whole "I'm ready to rhyme back, I'm ready to rhyme forth" lead in is hype af.

Nalp retsam eht htiw CM eht mi
Means I'm the MC with the master plan
Dnatsrednu t'nod sCM dna detingi steg cim eht cim eht, damn
Why means the mic gets ignited and MC's don't understand
Down with the cop, the com, the Moc and Poc
I love pih poh, which is hip hop
This backwards lyrical style that I drop from the pot ytippit, the tippity
Top
So give me the cim, in otherwords the mic
This style is epyh, oops, I mean hype
I mastered a style that's not a sub nuts od I tub
Togrof I spoo, oops I forgot
Deppirg si cim eht nehw toh get I
This style is ffur, in other words ruff
I'm a true Fu-Schnicken
Nekcinhcs-Uf got many many styles
I write with a ebiv
Always come out of a battle htiw yrotciv


@2:55

 

MastAndo

Member
Yeah, I would say so...and with a dope beat to boot. What a ridiculously good track.

I do think, verse-wise, Inspectah Deck's verses on Triumph and CREAM take the cake though.
 
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Old Retro

Member
This is a subject that speaks to me. Been listening since the late 80s man. For today's episode I'm going to bring something that I found to be very rad. Not sure how many people have beard of the Fu-Schnickens but when I first heard them in the early 90s they blew me away.

They've got great beats and awesome wordplay amongst the three members Poc-Fu, Moc-Fu and especially Chip-Fu. They were doing the whole kung fu thing at least a year before Wu-tang. Poc-fu even managed to make Lucky Charms reference a year before GZA did on 36 Chambers!

Poc-Fu


GZA


Fu-schnickens are legendary to me, I still listen to their first album F U Don't Take it Personal all the time.

Ok so this tune is called Movie Scene and it is awesome for many reasons, one of them being it contains one of the earliest examples (as far as I know of) of someone rapping backwards. Chip-fu nails the delivery and the whole "I'm ready to rhyme back, I'm ready to rhyme forth" lead in is hype af.




@2:55



Yo! I looove Fu-Schnickens. Ring the Alarm is an alltime great crossover of rap and reggae like KRS-One and Jamal-Ski. I would have thought they would have gone multi-platinum when Shaq joined them.

Continuing the theme of ill lyrics and powerful delivery...



Whole album is SCIENCE
 
Yo! I looove Fu-Schnickens. Ring the Alarm is an alltime great crossover of rap and reggae like KRS-One and Jamal-Ski. I would have thought they would have gone multi-platinum when Shaq joined them.

Continuing the theme of ill lyrics and powerful delivery...



Whole album is SCIENCE


My man! I always love meeting people who know about Fu-schnickens cause they appear to be quite unheard of. Fuckin Jamal-ski. It's been awhile since I heard that tune haha. Had to go look it up on youtube and have a listen. Props on the x-clan love too.

Keeping up the slightly off topicness of this particular rap/reggae crossover stuff, I always really liked Mad Lion. Remember Shoot to Kill? It wasnt tremendously popular but is still such a rough sounding badass tune.

 
I won't let this thread die! I'm thinking this may just end up being my go to hiphop sounding board.

Lately I've been revisiting a lot of old Pete Rock stuff. Legendary producer/DJ/emcee. His particular jazz influenced style of hiphop. There is one song in particular that has always just blown me away.

The core loop is sampled from a song called "Water No Get Enemy" by Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. I have it timestamps in the link but feel free to listen to the whole thing after checking out the sweet keyboard style....



Incredible song.

Pete Rock was a master at manipulating and placing samples and loops to produce silky smooth beats that just make your head get moving. Listen to this masterful use of that key loop sample in Ini's "Grown Man Sport"



Mindblowing. I get goosebumps when this comes on. To me this is a near perfect beat. The lyrics are pretty good as well, minus that kinda corny french section near the end, but this beat is just incredible. A near perfect fusion.



Standin' six feet tall, that's a long way to fall
But not worried 'cause my vision ain't blurried
The I'n'I is hotter than the spice and curry
So don't stress the father or you might feel the fury
 
I won't let this thread die! I'm thinking this may just end up being my go to hiphop sounding board.

Lately I've been revisiting a lot of old Pete Rock stuff. Legendary producer/DJ/emcee. His particular jazz influenced style of hiphop. There is one song in particular that has always just blown me away.

The core loop is sampled from a song called "Water No Get Enemy" by Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. I have it timestamps in the link but feel free to listen to the whole thing after checking out the sweet keyboard style....



Incredible song.

Pete Rock was a master at manipulating and placing samples and loops to produce silky smooth beats that just make your head get moving. Listen to this masterful use of that key loop sample in Ini's "Grown Man Sport"



Mindblowing. I get goosebumps when this comes on. To me this is a near perfect beat. The lyrics are pretty good as well, minus that kinda corny french section near the end, but this beat is just incredible. A near perfect fusion.

I remember listening to Lupe Fiasco talk about how hard it was for their producer to recreate the TROY beat. The best sampled beats are usually the ones that are chopped in a very subtle way that makes it seem simple when you first hear the original material. But ya, Pete Rock is easily one of the producer GOATs. I wish he made more bangers in the vein of Be Easy from Ghostface - it was a nice medium between old school Pete and something new.
 
I remember listening to Lupe Fiasco talk about how hard it was for their producer to recreate the TROY beat. The best sampled beats are usually the ones that are chopped in a very subtle way that makes it seem simple when you first hear the original material. But ya, Pete Rock is easily one of the producer GOATs. I wish he made more bangers in the vein of Be Easy from Ghostface - it was a nice medium between old school Pete and something new.


Dude you want to talk about goosebumps inducing beats, t.r.o.y. gets me every fuckin time. I just fired that up on youtube and got chills. Very complex beat. The amount of layers going on in the song is wild. The main sax loop taken from Tom Scott - Today sounds quite different in the original song. The way Pete Rock slowed it down to match the tone and subject matter going kn in t.r.o.y. is fantastic.

It transforms it from an almost upbeat, improvisational jazzy sound to a solemn retrospective feel as c.l. smooth "reminisces" about Trouble T. Roy. Once again he took samples that had a very different feel originally and manipulated them into what fit the tone of the song he was trying to make. Great stuff.
 


I remember back in Grade 9 a buddy and I ate a whole wack of mushrooms. His bedroom closet was basically speakers stacked on top of each other, all various brands cobbled together into this closet of awesome. We laid around listening to music and this tune came on.

I was laying there with my eyes closed and near the end of the song when it starts going "knock em out the box rick......knock knock knock knock knock em out the box rick out the box Rick knock em out the box rick" I was trippin right out. It ended up sounded like ducks quacking. "Quack qua qua qua quack quack" and to this day, decades later, I'm still reminded of that moment. It is seared into my memory.

Edit: this part haha

 
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I still have 36 Chambers on rotation after like what, 25 years? Fantastic album and this is a great song.

Hard to pick a favourite lyric of all time but I could definitely list some that I love. No particular order of importance or anything but I really like the end of Pun's first verse on Twinz.



@1:02


Is 90's rap peak rap?

Love the grimy under produced sound of 90's rap.



THIS IS OFFICALLY A 90'S Rap thread now..











 
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Deleted member 713885

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I ain't done..
We gotta get that Ragga 90's goodness. Was Sunday nights out of Philly for me when I would tune into Power 99 for these.





THE BEST REMIX EVER (HARD TO FIND. MASHUP/SHOOKONES+BUSH BABIES+BOUNT KILLAH)




That RaeKwon+BountyKilla track..
 
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I cant stop!!









The Remix was so much better (Wind Parade)


Reminds me of the Wind Parade remix used for this classic ragga jam
 
I'm drinking and listening to Cuban Linx II - that album has so many gems. Probably the best hip hop sequel outside of Dre's 2001?







Can I get a suuuuuueeeeeeeee?!?!?!
 
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