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50 Greatest Rap Lyrics of All-Time

Can you guess all of the songs that contain Westword's 50 greatest rap lyrics of all-time?
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Artist
Song
Lyrics
1
Nas
N.Y. State of Mind
"I never sleep 'cause sleep is the cousin of death."
2
Rakim
I Know I Got Soul
"I start to think, and then I sink/Into the paper like I was ink/When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines/I escape when I finish the rhyme."
3
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
The Message
"Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge/I'm trying not to lose my head/It's like a jungle. Sometimes it makes me wonder/How I keep from goin' under."
4
2Pac
Dear Mama
"And even as a crack fiend, mama/You always was a black queen, mama."
5
The Notorious B.I.G.
Juicy
"We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us/No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us/Birthdays was the worst days/Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay."
6
Jay-Z
Moment of Clarity
"If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be/Lyrically, Talib Kweli/Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense/But I did 5 mill' -- I ain't been rhyming like Common since."
7
Eminem
Lose Yourself
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy/There's vomit on his sweater already: mom's spaghetti/He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready/To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting/What he wrote down. The whole crowd goes so loud/He opens his mouth but the words won't come out/He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now/The clock's run out, time's up, over -- blaow!"
8
AZ
Life's a B***h
"We were beginners in the hood as Five Percenters/But something must have got in us cause all of us turned to sinners."
9
Rakim
Paid in Full
"Thinkin' of a master plan/Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand."
10
Kendrick Lamar
Poetic Justice
"If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?"
11
Lil B
Real Life
"Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer/I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers/How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas."
12
Nas
The World Is Yours
"I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)/I'm out for dead presidents to represent me."
13
Kanye West
Family Business
"As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?/Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?/And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it/And if you did, then that's family business."
14
Public Enemy
Fight the Power
Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant sh*t to me. You see/Straight up racist that sucker was, simple and plain/Motherf**k him and John Wayne.
15
The Notorious B.I.G.
You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)
"You're nobody 'til somebody kills you."
16
Eminem
Renegade
"See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie/While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me/Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics/In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer."
17
Lil Wayne
6 Foot, 7 Foot
"Real gs move in silence like lasagna."
18
Jay-Z
99 Problems
"I've got 99 problems, but a b***h ain't one."
19
2Pac
Hail Mary
"I ain't a killer, but don't push me/Revenge is like the sweetest joy, next to getting pussy."
20
Blu
The World Is (Below the Heavens)
"Every man has his own heaven/The difference is the way he envisions it/So if you make your heaven pictureless/By the time you die, you'll be drifting in an imageless field/So fill your heaven full of blessed thoughts/ .../I got a question: If a man can make his own heaven/Then can he make his path to get to it too?
21
The Notorious B.I.G.
Who Shot Ya?
"I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek/Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet/Thundering, shaking the concrete."
22
Kendrick Lamar
HiiiPower
"The sky is falling, the wind is calling/Stand for something, or die in the morning."
23
Lil Wayne
I Feel Like Dying
I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars/I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars."
24
Aesop Rock
Daylight
"Life's not a b***h. Life is a beautiful woman/You only call her a b***h because she won't let you get that pussy."
25
Raekwon
C.R.E.A.M.
"No question I would speed for cracks and weed/The combination made my eyes bleed."
26
Ice Cube
A Bird in the Hand
"A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush."
27
Big Daddy Kane
Ain't No Half Steppin'
"Brain cells are lit. Ideas start to hit/Next the formation of words that fit/At the table I sit, making it legit/And when my pen hits the paper. Ahh sh*t!"
28
Snoop Dogg
Gin and Juice
"Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice/Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind."
29
Eminem
The Way I Am
"And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse/And just blurt this berserk and bizarre sh*t that works/And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve/All this tension dispensing these sentences/Getting this stress that's been eating me recently/Off of this chest and I rest again peacefully."
30
Cage
Agent Orange
"Pour beer out for yourself because you're walking dead/I'll burn your house down like a f**king Talking Head."
31
Lil Wayne
I Feel Like Dying
"Swimmin' laps around a bottle of Louie the Thirteenth/Jumpin' off of a mountain into a sea of codeine/I'm at the top of the top, but still I climb/And if I should ever fall, the ground will then turn to wine."
32
2Pac
Changes
"First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers/Give 'em guns, step back and watch 'em kill each other/It's time to fight back, that's what Huey said/Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead."
33
Earl Sweatshirt
Chum
"Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins/Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is."
34
Jay Electronica
The Pledge
"The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home."
35
Common
Retrospect for Life
"I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl/Turnin' this woman's womb into a tomb/But she and I agree, a seed we don't need/You would've been much more than a mouth to feed/But someone I would've fed this information I read/To someone my life for you I would've had to leave/Instead I led you to death."
36
MC Ren
F**k the Police
"F**k the police, and Ren said it with authority/Because the n***as on the street is a majority."
37
Prodigy
Shook Ones (Pt. II)
"For all of those who wanna profile and pose/Rock you in you face, stab your brain with your nose bone."
38
Kid Cudi
The Prayer
"And if I die before I wake/I pray the Lord my soul to take/But please don't cry/Just know that I have made these songs for you."
39
Cage
Ballad of Worms
"I tell her keep her head up/Even though I gotta hold it up for her/And she seizure when she try and get up."
40
Masta Killa
Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
"Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty/What justifies the homicide when he dies?"
41
J. Cole
Villematic
"You hate it before you played it. I already forgave you."
42
Shad
I Don't Like To
"Y'all cowards couldn't rap this dope with a Zig-Zag."
43
Run D.M.C.
My Adidas
"My Adidas walk through concert doors/And roam all over coliseum floors."
44
Hopsin
The Ill Mind of Hopsin
"The term real n***as publicly used/And I need to know what it means 'cause I'm f**king confused/Are you one for always busting your tool with nothing to lose/And something to prove to homies up in your crew?/Is it because you're selling drugs to get loot/And brag about how you done been shot and stabbed, like it's fun to be you?/But your life's a struggle, right? And you just hustling through/Nah, you hamster-ass n***a. You just stuck in a loop."
45
K'naan
Strugglin'
"My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly/Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me."
46
Scarface
No Tears
"I got this killa inside of me/I can't talk to my mother so I talk to my diary."
47
Lauryn Hill
Zealots
"And even after all my logic and my theory/I add a "Motherf***er" so you ignorant n***as hear me."
48
CL Smooth
They Reminisce Over You
"T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet?/In front of Big Lou's, fighting in the street/But only you saw what took many time to see/I dedicate this to you for believing in me."
49
Wale
Is There Any Love?
"You n***as so-so like a seamstress."
50
Mos Def
Mathematics
"Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients/Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in Playstation."
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