Going Commando Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Harlem Renaissance by Immortal Technique Harlem once was red line district ratedDesignated ghetto like the yellow star of DavidAnd you wonder why people don't own they homes'Cause the racist bank wouldn't **** mortgage a loanUntil after the invasion of gentrificationEminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiationAnd it's frustrating to look at every dayLike watchin' a porno on 56kBiohazard labs instead of store roomsWhat's next mother****, projects as dorm rooms?You ain't foolin' nobody in this community, dudeWith your little fake Manhattanville community groupIvy league real estate firms are corruptThat lay siege to your castle like the Moors in EuropeThey treat street vendors like criminal riffraffWhile politicians get the corporate kickbacksHarlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayedModern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved'Till they start deporting people off the propertyEthnically cleansing the hood, economicallyThey want to kill the real Harlem RenaissanceTryin' to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopauseThe savior is a metaphor for how we set it offGuerrilla war against the rezoning predatorsWhen I speak about Harlem I speak to the worldThe little Afghan boy and the Bosnian girlThe African in Sudan, the people of KurdistanThe third world American indigenous manPalestinians, Washington Heights DominicansDisplaced New Orleans citizensBeach front Brazilian favelas that you livin' inThe hood is prime real estate, they want back in againI didn't write this to talk ****, I say it becauseSome of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance wasWe had revolution, music and artisansBut the movement was still **** up like Parkinson's'Cause while we were giving birth to the culture we lovePrejudice kept our own people out of the clubOnly colored celebrities in the partyAnd left us a legacy of false superiorityW.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus GarveyAnd we ended up selling out to everybodyThe Dutch soldiers and the John Gotti's bankstersModern day gangsters, immobile armyThey want to move us all out the NYCLike they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decreeSo support your own businesses and institute of knowledge'Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economicVideo is NSFW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemocystem Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 i love Immortal Technique, but like a lot of Talib Kweli's early solo stuff, Black Thought, Pharoah Monche....a lot of their community based lyrics...while "real" are very short-sighted. what i love the most about the Black Star album was that Mos Def seemed to hem in Kweli's lyrics towards a broader, more "American struggle" relevancy. the Black Star album, while it has a couple of very ethno-centric tracks, the rest of the album....especially Thieves in the NIght (above) is very relevant across almost any American platform. not saying one's better than the other...but for some obvious reasons, i relate more to one than the other, & i appreciate it a little more when lyrics try to be more relvant to humanity as opposed to a particular sect of people. just my 2c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Flights back and forth Pop corks of the best grapes Make the best CDs and the best tapes Don't forget the vinyls Take girls, break spinals Biggie be richie like Lionel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Thread win. Big Pun, Deep Cover 98 "Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know That we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddly" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Oh immortal technique http://ktla.com/2015/03/27/rapper-immortal-technique-arrested-after-alleged-beating-robbery-of-t-shirt-sellers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Forgot how amazing Eminem - Rap God is. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 From the most under-appreciated member of the Wu-Tang Clan. I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophiesAnd hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' theseMockeries, lyrically perform armed robberyFlee with the lottery, possibly they spotted meBattle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hitsTremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Do Itch Big Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Are any y'all into girls like I am, let's be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's highDJ's spinnin' are savin' my mindFlash is fast, Flash is coolFrancois sez fas, Flashe' no doAnd you don't stop, sure shotGo out to the parking lotAnd you get in your car and you drive real farAnd you drive all night and then you see a lightAnd it comes right down and lands on the groundAnd out comes a man from MarsAnd you try to run but he's got a gunAnd he shoots you dead and he eats your head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Heh. HogNose going old school with Blondie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Truthfully this thread could be filled with pages of lyrics from Paul's Boutique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipwhich Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Little Wayne, 6 foot 7 foot "Move salad like lasagna" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Heh. HogNose going old school with Blondie. Now I can't get that damn song and video out of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Same here. Thought it's been like that every time I've listen/seen the video since I first saw it in 82. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonArtest15 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I see Pun's verse from Deep Cover '98 was highlighted....so I'll go with Lupe's ENTIRE "Dumb it Down" track. He ****ing killied it from start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Not hip-hop lyrics, but a line from my very favorite hip-hop artist, in a movie, and is my #2 movie of all time. "I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick's hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ~ICE-T, New Jack City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Little Wayne, 6 foot 7 foot "Move salad like lasagna" It's actually "Real G's move in silence like Lasagna" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipwhich Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 It's actually "Real G's move in silence like Lasagna" I know, it's a running joke in my family. Some people think it's move salad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I met a German girl in England who was goin' to school in France Said we danced in Mississippi at an Alpha Kappa dance. It wasn't me no no child it wasn't me. It musta been some other body no no child it wasn't me. - George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I know, it's a running joke in my family. Some people think it's move salad. oh lol My bad. Wayne says some really odd **** sometimes so it makes sense lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the burgundy and gold Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 This thread is great, I think I ran out of likes unfortunately. Seeing as a lot of my classic favorites have been posted I'll see if I can add a little J Cole to the mix. This whole song is awesome but one little clip I like is: I’m ill enough to kill cancer: baby, I’m chemoDown in Miami and I throw like MarinoGet a whole lot of you-know and she bald like an EagleNo, not on top but down thereShe say she want to hop on top, "girl, I don’t care"You better get yours fore I reach mineCause then I’m throwing peace signsIf you a freak, I can take you to your peakGirl I do it to the maximum: Nissan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Bruhhhhh That is one of my favorite mixtapes of all time. Amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonArtest15 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Canibus' 2nd verse on Second Round KO.... Straight up DESTROYED LL Cool J. Whole song is fire, tho...but that 2nd verse, bruh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillUnknown Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Brother Ali's 1st verse from "Rain Water" "And I can't stop feelin' empty smilin' A wise man once told me that every cloud has a silver liningI wanted to believe him but it's a trick to find 'emWhen the people around me continue dyingGranddad was in the twilight of his lifeWhen he closed his eyes tight and opened his wrists wideWhat make a tenth round fighter with the winning scoreDecide to eat or throw it's hollow for the whistle blowMaybe I'll never knowBut I inherited his poetic soul so the symbolism's yet to showWas life so obscene that death's more serene?Or was an old author tryin' to write his own closing scene?Nothing stings like knowing that the woman that gave me this lifeIs being eaten from the insideI thought we never make **** rightI wish I had of viewed it once clear before you were done hereThat's two in one year that I let leave hereLoving me without shedding one single tearEither I'm one of the strongest people leftOr y'all should stone me for even tryin' to steal breath" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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