Tag: dr. dre
-
I’m expressin’ with my full capabilities,
-
Enunciate well, so that you can tell:
I am not illiterate, no, not even a little bit.– The D.O.C., “It’s Funky Enough,” No One Can Do It Better, 1989
-
I got bitches in the livin’ room gettin’ it on,
And they ain’t leavin’ till six in the mornin’.– Snoop Dogg, “Gin and Juice,” Doggystyle, 1993
-
Sick, sick dreams of picnic scenes:
Two kids, sixteen with M-16’s and ten clips each,
And them shits reach through six kids each,
And Slim gets blamed in Bill Clint’s speech to fix these streets?Eminem, “Remember Me?” The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000. More from Em… -
If we gotta dumb down our style and ABC it, then so be it,
Cause nowadays these kids just don’t give a shit ‘bout lyrics.
All they wanna hear is a beat and that’s it,
Long as they can go to the club and get blitzed,
Pick up some chicks and get some digits.
And the DJs playing them hits, “Oh, this my jam, this my shit!”
We don’t know a word to a verse, all we know is the chorus,
Cause the chorus repeats the same four words for us.Eminem, “Syllables," 2010 -
They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam.
All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo
With the ugly Kardashian…
Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.Eminem, “Berzerk,” The Marshall Mathers LP 2, 2013 -
Know the shit I don’t write be the illest shit that’s ever been recited in the game,
Word to the hyphen in my name!Jay Z, “The Watcher 2,” The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse, 2002. Jay Z dropped the hyphen today. -
I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes…
Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.Dr. Dre, “California Love,” from 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me, 1996 -
My life is full of empty promises and broken dreams…
I’m hopin’ things look up; but there ain’t no job openings.
I feel discouraged, hungry and malnourished,
Living in this house with no furnace, unfurnished.
And I’m sick of workin’ dead end jobs with lame pay,
And I’m tired of bein’ hired and fired the same day.
But fuck it, if you know the rules to the game play,
Cause when we die, we know we all going the same way.Eminem, “Rock Bottom,” Slim Shady LP, 1999
-
Fuck the car, I do a muthafuckin’ walk-by.
Eazy-E, “The Grand Finale,” from The D.O.C.’s No One Can Do It Better, 1989 -
Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies
In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up
When the temp goes up to the mid 80’s.Eminem, “Forgot About Dre,” The Chronic 2001, 1999 -
It’s kinda hard bein humble in the belly of the struggle,
Doin things that probably get you in trouble.Busta Rhymes, “Been Through the Storm,” The Big Bang, 2006 -
In this lifetime, you got two things:
Bad and good, and ain’t nothin’ in between.Cold 187um, “Untouchable,” from Above the Law’s Livin’ Like Hustlers, 1990 -
Hip-hop is universal now, it’s all commercial now.
It’s like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.Eminem, “If I Get Locked Up,” from Funkmaster Flex and Big Kap’s The Tunnel, 1999