Published Wed, December 28, 2022 at 5:00 AM EST
Gotta spit it 'cause it sit on my heart/The shit I think when I look up at the stars/I went to jail, the warden put me in the hole/'Cause I wouldn't rap for the guards/I had bars back when Lambo burned my demo on a CDR/This GOAT talk, nigga, TB12/From the streets to the cell, bitch, I bail, all well (all well)/Got the AK with the catcher, we ain't leavin' no shells..."
- Freddie Gibbs ("Blackest In the Room" Verse 1)
I'm the one that tell you what time it is/Never been into selling you promises, it's hot as a pot of grits/That's not a myth, Blackness is not a monolith/A lotta niggas probably gotta see psychologists/To understand why we wallowing where the bottom is/And common sense isn't what they teaching in colleges/Shit, it's real when you done lost your last feeling/Jump, then bounce back off the glass ceiling/ Back to stealing, to Xanax and smack dealing..."
- Black Thought ("Cheat Codes")
And the velocity of trends is what referees the pace/Professionally accept what ethically I hate/So in all of my work, you see this wrestling with fate/Deceiving in the brushstrokes how aggressively I strafe/Less like putting on some makeup, more like severing a face."
- Lupe Fiasco ("Ms. Mural") verse 2
Let me try to spit it to you logically/ you got Kevin's heart but no state property/I claim whatever in this here monopoly/Park Place, Boardwalk, them Greens, I got the three/stop playin', y'all, I got a thirst in me/but I left a spot at the table, it's common courtesy/the urgency for currency certainly workin' me, purposely/even inadvertently, turnin' me into Hercules/no laggin' and that's the depth of it/if y'all don't know the roots to this, then let me Questlove it."
- Big Daddy Kane ("Slap" w/Busta Rhymes, Conway The Machine)
Hov did/Please Lord, forgive me for what the stove did/Nobody touched a billi' until Hov did/How many billionaires can come from Hov crib/I count three, me, Ye and Rih/Bron's a Roc boy, so four, technically."
- Jay-Z ("God Did" w/DJ Khaled)