alternative-hip-hop

"Lately I've been in a life like limbo, Looking out of a smudged up window. We're not sure where our lives are going. Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in. Don't know where our next dollar's coming from, Living the life of a poor musician. Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5, Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive. If it wasn't for the rhythm, I think we would have given up by now. This system has gotten the best of me, Now I pray for God to invest in me My dignity, invest his glory. Give me the strength so I can finish the story. Keep on searching for the right way to go out, Coz going out is what it's all about. Huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active."

"I told the niggas please let us pass, friend. I said please 'cause I don't like killin' Africans. But he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube. But I had to take the brother out for being rude. And like I said before I was mad by then. It took three or four cops to pull me off of him. But that's the story y'all of a black man, Actin' like a nigga and get stomped by an African. You see I am everyday people. You see, I am everyday people."

"Lord it's obvious we got a relationship, Talkin' to each other every night and day. Although you're superior over me, We talk to each other in a friendship way. Then outta nowhere you tell me to break Outta the country and into more country, Past Dyesburg and Ripley Where the ghost of childhood haunts me. Walk the roads my forefathers walked, Climb the trees my forefathers hung from. Ask those trees for all their wisdom, They tell me my ears are so young (Home). Go back, from whence you came (Home). My family tree, my family name (Home). For some strange reason it had to be (Home) He guided me to Tennessee (Home)."

"Mr. Wendal has freedom, A free that you and I think is dumb. Free to be without the worries of a quick to diss society. For Mr. Wendal's a bum. His only worries are sickness And an occasional harassment by the police and their chase. Uncivilized we call him. But I just saw him eat off the food we waste. Civilization, are we really civilized, yes or no? Who are we to judge When thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved And killed over a racist grudge? Mr. Wendal has tried to warn us about our ways, But we don't hear him talk."

"Now I see the importance of history, Why my people be in the mess that they be. Many journeys to freedom made in vain By brothers on the corner playin' ghetto games. I ask you, Lord why you enlightened me Without the enlightenment of all my folks. He said, cuz I set myself on a quest for truth And he was there to quench my thirst, But I am still thirsty. The Lord allowed me to drink some more. He said what I am searching for are The answers to all which are in front of me. The ultimate truth started to get blurry. For some strange reason it had to be, It was all a dream about Tennessee."

"Take me to another place, take me to another land, Make me forget all that hurts me, let me understand your plan. Take me to another place, take me to another land, Make me forget all that hurts me, let me understand your plan."

"I say, "Are you doing as much as you can for the struggle?" (no) "Am I doing as much as I can for the struggle? (no) Then why do I cry when My people are in trouble (yo) My ancestors slapped me In the face and said (go) Harriet Tubman Told me to get on up. Marcus Garvey said the negro, You get on up. My brother Malcolm X... Need I name more? It ain't like we never Seen blood before. Come on, let's talk Revolution, now (revolution). All my people say (revolution). All my brothers say (revolution). All my sisters say (revolution)."

"Around 16 or 17 years old, I started finding out about some of the animal cruelty things, and ethically it just didn't make sense to me to keep eating meat, so eventually I stopped. … I was watching an HBO special about eating habits and different cultures, and they actually showed in China how people eat cats, and I'm really fond of cats, and I just happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn't eat my cat what's the difference between eating a cat or a cow? If certain animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that's not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal terms across the board."

"I'm 21 now, and still can't deal with what's real But I'll be damned if I give up and settles for pills."

"We'll get high, and hide We are lovers to the glamorous white girl so fine."

"You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the '."

"I'm mighty tighty-whitey, and I'm smugglin' plums."

"You're pretty when I'm drunk, and I'm pretty fuckin' drunk"

"The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn. Burn motherfucker, burn."

"Life's short and hard, like a body-building elf So save the planet and kill yourself"

"You know what I really want in a girl? Me."

"Like my scrotum, here it is in a nutshell"

"This hardcore ghetto gangster image takes a lot of practice; I'm not black like , no I am white like is."

""Forever" never seems that long until you're grown"

"You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather"

"Ya white tee, well to me, look like a night gown, make ya mama proud, take that thang two sizes down."

"Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo."

"Don't want to meet your daddy, just want you in my caddy."

"Daddy Fat Sacks B-I-G B-O-I, its that same motherfucker that put them knuckles to your eye."

"She was, fine as fuck I wanted to sex the ho up. She said "let's hit the parking lot so I can sick your duck.""

"It took you momma nine months to make it, but it only took that nigga thirty minutes to take it."

"I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit."

"I'm the one that won that dance contest, 'Cause you know I dance the best."

"Your rhymes are fake like a Canal Street watch. You're hearing me and you're like "Oh my god it's Sasquatch!""

"'Cause I'm a freaky streaker like Winnie the Pooh T-shirt and no pants, and I dance the bugaloo."

"Hey could you please pass me the peas? And let me get a tissue if you think you're gonna sneeze."

"I went to get a loan and they asked my race. I wrote down "HUMAN" inside the space. It's a disgrace how they try to debase. It ain't the bank's damn business how my lineage trace."

"Kickin' lyrics right through your brain, When you hear this sayin', you'll be right as rain."

"All you Trekkies and TV addicts, Don't mean to diss don't mean to bring static. All you Klingons in your grandma's house Grab your backstreet friend and get loud."

"Which of you schnooks took my rhyme book? Look, give it back, you're wicky-wack. With your ticky-tack calls, didn't touch you at all. I didn't touch your hand, man, you know it’s all ball."

"I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex, 'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks."

"I don't care what you heard, or care what you seen, I swear it wasn't me in Bear Magazine, Because I'm not that hairy, oh contrary."

"What'chu talkin' 'bout Willis? Who the illest? You know my name's Adam, stop callin' me Phyllis."

"Dip dip dive, so-socialize Open up your ears, and clean out your eyes."

"I said, "Doc, what's the condition? I'm a man that's on a mission." He said, "Son, you'd better listen Stuck in your ass is an electrician."

"Bam! Super nature, god damn. Cerrone on the microphone, I am. Ad-Rock, aka, sharp cheddar, My rhymes are better. What the Helen of Troy is that? Did I hear you say my rhymes is wack? I'm beautiful, you can't touch me. If you pick a rose, well, you might just bleed."

"Like George Whipple on New York 1, Got a hairy ass and that's no fun!"

"Sometimes I like to brag, sometimes I'm soft spoken, And when I'm in Holland I eat the pannenkoeken."

"I can't stand it, I know you planned it. I'ma set it straight, this Watergate. I can't stand rocking when I'm in here, 'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear. So while you sit back and wonder why I got this fucking thorn in my side Oh my god, it's a mirage, I'm telling y'all, it's sabotage!"

"I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast."

"I've got more rhymes than I've got grey hairs And that's a lot because I've got my share."

"You shoulda' never started something you couldn't finish, 'Cause writing rhymes to me is like Popeye to spinach."

"I want to say a little something that's long overdue: The disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends, I want to offer my love and respect to the end."

"Have you seen what I mean, I'm the little gnome that's in your dreams."

"Money Mark, you know he's not having it, Just give him some wood and he'll build you a cabinet."