Stats: 50 Greatest Rap Lyrics of All-Time

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#	Artist	Song	Lyrics	% Correct
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!"	88%
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."	63%
1	Nas	N.Y. State of Mind	"I never sleep 'cause sleep is the cousin of death."	62%
18	Jay-Z	99 Problems	"I've got 99 problems, but a b***h ain't one."	60%
4	2Pac	Dear Mama	"And even as a crack fiend, mama/You always was a black queen, mama."	55%
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."	51%
10	Kendrick Lamar	Poetic Justice	"If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?"	40%
17	Lil Wayne	6 Foot, 7 Foot	"Real gs move in silence like lasagna."	37%
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."	34%
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."	31%
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?	25%
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."	25%
22	Kendrick Lamar	HiiiPower	"The sky is falling, the wind is calling/Stand for something, or die in the morning."	24%
19	2Pac	Hail Mary	"I ain't a killer, but don't push me/Revenge is like the sweetest joy, next to getting pussy."	23%
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."	23%
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."	20%
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."	19%
25	Raekwon	C.R.E.A.M.	"No question I would speed for cracks and weed/The combination made my eyes bleed."	17%
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."	16%
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."	15%
9	Rakim	Paid in Full	"Thinkin' of a master plan/Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand."	14%
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."	13%
14	Public Enemy	Fight the Power	Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant sht to me. You see/Straight up racist that sucker was, simple and plain/Motherf*k him and John Wayne.	10%
43	Run D.M.C.	My Adidas	"My Adidas walk through concert doors/And roam all over coliseum floors."	10%
33	Earl Sweatshirt	Chum	"Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins/Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is."	8%
50	Mos Def	Mathematics	"Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients/Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in Playstation."	8%
40	Masta Killa	Da Mystery of Chessboxin'	"Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty/What justifies the homicide when he dies?"	6%
36	MC Ren	F**k the Police	"Fk the police, and Ren said it with authority/Because the n*as on the street is a majority."	6%
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 fking 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."	6%
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."	5%
15	The Notorious B.I.G.	You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)	"You're nobody 'til somebody kills you."	4%
26	Ice Cube	A Bird in the Hand	"A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush."	3%
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!"	3%
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."	3%
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."	3%
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."	3%
46	Scarface	No Tears	"I got this killa inside of me/I can't talk to my mother so I talk to my diary."	2%
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."	1%
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."	1%
49	Wale	Is There Any Love?	"You n***as so-so like a seamstress."	1%
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."	1%
41	J. Cole	Villematic	"You hate it before you played it. I already forgave you."	1%
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."	1%
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."	0%
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."	0%
42	Shad	I Don't Like To	"Y'all cowards couldn't rap this dope with a Zig-Zag."	0%
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."	0%
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."	0%
45	K'naan	Strugglin'	"My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly/Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me."	0%
34	Jay Electronica	The Pledge	"The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home."	0%

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