What is the most clever rap lyric you've ever heard? (Back to the forum)

Please limit the lyric to one-line, and two lines at most. Go!

“I spit that he could pass a polygraph” — Jay Electronica.

“I got dope on the low, but I’m not a dope dealer” Dom Kennedy

“I’m a beast all wizards should be summoning. I got them tripping like I threw a foot in front of them.” — D-pryde

Pretty clever, and I love video game references :)

@Bobby, that’s the best you’ve ever heard?

The plan was — to drink until the pain over / But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover? ~ Kanye West

How about this one Kittypo: “What’s a black beatle anyway, a fucking roach?” — Kanye West.

Definitely. See, there are so many from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

“All Of The Lights, she was caught in the hype / And I was satisfied being in love with a lie”

“The system’s broken — the schools' closed, the prisons' open”

“My childlike creativity, purity, and honesty / Is honestly being prodded by these grown thoughts”

“my brother used to see me on the bottom of the totem/now im on the top and everbody on the scrotum” — Yeezy, yet again.

I have an idea for this thread: why don’t you put links to the song, as well?

For example: “You can pay for school but you can’t buy class.”

~Jay-Z (Swagga Like Us)

“Every page of my poetry is like a rhyme from the clip, the mic is always in my holster right on top of my hip, fools get flipped when my hollow tip spit at they melons, you brothers are missy misdemeanor my brothers are felons.” — Jay Electronica

“Jay Electrologist probing the globe like a geologist putting all you pusses on display like gynecologists” — Jay Electronica

“Gonna take your mama out all night
Yeah we’ll show her what it’s all about
We’ll get her jacked up on some cheap champagne
We’ll let the good times all roll out
And if the music ain’t good, well it’s just too bad
We’re gonna sing along no matter what
Because the dancers don’t mind at the New Orleans
If you tip ‘em and they make a cut”

By the mighty saucy scissor sisters.

“Killing yall niggas on that lyrical shit, mayonaise coloured bens I push miracle whips” Kanye West

“Catch me in my Mercedes, bumpin' "Ice, Ice Baby"
Screamin' Shady ‘til I die, like a half a pair of dice, life’s crazy”-Eminem-Fastlane.
Quadruple entendre in that song !
this is ONE of the best ive ever heard.

What Em_i_nem said.

I told Beavis I was nothing butt Head — Big L Freestlye

“On my way back home/now I’m in the zone/My SIM card’s a bomb/they blowin up my phone” — Wale “W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.”

The first on that comes to mind is from Lil Wayne in “Miss Me” by Drake.

“Yes I am Weezy, but I ain’t asthmatic”

One of my absolute favorites though, is from Childish Gambino’s “Freaks and Geeks”

“Took the G out your waffle, all you got left is your ego”

Also one from a couple bars later in the same song:

“An elephant never forgets, so my dick remembers everything”

Link to these lines people! It helps the newer members find there way around.
(and remember, the more Rap Genius links the better)

hahaha That elephant line is GREAT CashewXD!

Ever heard Childish Gambino before? He’s incredible.

Read this (@PrettyBoyRob): What the fuck is a Childish Gambino?

Yeah the actor turned rapper…he’s dope.

“No schoolbooks, they used that wood to build coffins
Whenever I’m in the booth and I get exhausted"
The Game – Hate it or love it

“Some people only see that I’m white, ignoring skill
Cause I stand out like a green hat with a orange bill
But I don’t get pissed
Y'all don’t even see through the mist
How the fuck can I be white?
I don’t even exist”

“Every girl I ever went out with has gone lez"
http://rapgenius.com/lyrics/Eminem/Role-model

“Every girl I ever went out with has gone lez"
How is that clever?

Not really clever, but humorous nonetheless.

I feel like some people don’t know what “clever” means. In rap/hip-hop context, clever lines should contain puns, wordplay based on homophones or other similarities, allusions to to other things in real life, references to other music, or changing popular phrases.

An example: “Found out my Achilles heel, put that one foot in the grave.” from Possessed’s verse on Rhyme Asylum’s “Event Horizon”, the sixth track on Solitary Confinement.

Cyhi’s line in “So Appalled”

just cause i stand over you doesn’t mean you understand me-Qwel of typical cats

EMINEM(MARSHALL MATHERS)-UNTITLED

Bitch, it’s time to put the math back into MATHers
Cause I’m a fuckin’ problem

Like a running back, get it man, I’m straight off the block
I can run it back n****a cause I’m straight with the Roc

Jay-Z, Dirt Off Your Shoulder

Also, anything Clipse says ever, especially Pusha T.

“Still move a bird like I’m in bed with Mother Goose"
"Skip to my loo/if you’re looking for a couple roosters in the duffel/keep the hood screaming "Cock-a-doodle doo fuckers!”

Eminem Bitch, it’s time to put the math back into MATHers Cause I’m a fuckin’ problem

Eminem Bitch, it’s time to put the math back into MATHers
Cause I’m a fuckin’ problem

Too many to say one or two.

“God sent me to strike
With skills unused like fallopian tubes on a dyke…”

“I’m sicker than AIDs infested child molesters…”

• Immortal Technique

“Telling us to pipe down’s like talking to a Meth head”– Bad Meets Evil

“But there afraid I might get Sarah Palin by the hair
And make her wear a bathing suit and take her para sailing”

“To the point you don’t suck my dick, then you’re gonna get decapitated
Other words, you don’t fuckin' give me head, then I’m have to take it” -Eminem from Bad Meets Evil’s “Fast Lane”

“Killin y'all niggaz on that lyrical shit
Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips” — Kanye West

It’s a triple entendre!

“Now, either you with me or you with me
Cuz even if you against me, running with my enemies
They ain’t nothing but mini-me’s that I created long, long ago
And they only want to cut off my lineage like the kennedys” — Jay Electronica

Coal(Cole) under pressure, now what that make? Diamonds. — J. cole

Way too long but I laughed.
“Now pan the cameras back to me and Pamela's
Amateur threesome with Hannah Montana’s manager
And Miley feedin' me sandwiches for my stamina
And Santa’s in the back laughin' cause my back’s crampin' up
Mrs. Claus trippin' balls, think she had enough
And by enough I mean we dope as fuck, she had a gram of us” -Earl

On the topic of triple entendres, this is one that I found.

“But I play a Ron Bergundy I anchor on the track like that”

“Cole keep a thick bitch I like to call Big Shirley!”

So many people mentioning the “miracle whips” one in Last Call but everyone missing this awesome one:

>I went to the malls and I balled too hard
“Oh my god is that a Black Card?"
I turned around and replied "why yes
but I prefer the term ‘African-American Express’”

“Dilla jacked Nick, I am shinin like the diamond I am draped in” -Earl Sweatshirt “Deerskin”

By far most clever line I’ve ever heard

‘On a man-made lake there’s a sheet of thin ice,
Where unskilled skaters couldn’t figure-8 twice’

The GZA — Beneath The Surface

‘Or maybe she’d retire aswell,
a match made in heaven the set fires in hell’

Lupe Fiasco — The Coolest

“Feeling like a puppet &&The devil is Chappetto"
– J. Cole.

“I work like a Mexican, spend like a white man.” — Lupe Fiasco

More poetic than clever.

“Word to the father, and Mother Earth
Seeking everlasting life through this Hell for what it’s worth"
—Guru (RIP)

“When the cock crows, my crop grows, enable me to rock flows
Strivin for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed"
—Mos

Again not clever as much as brutal imagery.

“Rock You in Your Face, Stab Your Brain wit' Your Nosebone"
—Mobb Deep