[Eminem:] It's like this like that and like this... I'm the illest rapper to hold the cordless, patrolling corners Looking for hookers to punch in the mouth with a roll of quarters I'm meaner in action than Rosco beating James Tar Senior And smackin his back with vacuum cleaner attachments I grew up in the wild hood, as a hazardous youth With a fucked up childhood, that I used as an excuse And ain't shit changed, I kept the same mindstate Since the third time that I failed 9th grade You probably think that I'm a negative person Don't be so sure of it I don't promote violence, I just encourage it I laugh at the sight of death As I fall down a cement flight of steps And land inside a bed of spider webs So throw caution to the wind, you and a friend Can jump off of a bridge and if you live, do it again Shit, why not? Blow your brain out I'm blowing mine out Fuck it, you only live once you might as well die now
[Tupac:] Our lifestyles be close captioned Addicted to fatal attractions Pictures of actions be played back In the midst of mashin' No fairy tales for this young black male Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail, and crack sales Hustlin' and heart be a nigga culture Or the repercutions while bustin' on backstabbin' vultures Sellin' my soul for material wishes, fast cars Wishin' I live my life a legend, immortalized in pictures Why shed tears? Save your sympathy My childhood years were spent buryin' my peers in the cemetary Here's a message to the newborns, waitin' to breathe If you believe then you can achieve
[Bizzy Bone:] We keepin the light on at Ruthless and I ain't fuckin the boss Lookin at me sexy Take your clothes off But my dick'll go soft! Never mix bussiness with your sickness Enemy see me flipin in the picnic With your lil' divide and conquer But my sister was ready to bomb her! Get off the dizznik and off my voice Me and my boyz Give us a choice How could you tell Sony that I was the Only one making noise Ain't it a breech of trust Look in the gutter, unh, never judge yo book By it's cover word to the motherfucka I... I didn't stutter but what if I lost it and Came in the office and nobody noticed With liquid explosive on top of Versace Clothes give up the ghost Krayzie's Picasso, lil' Layzie like Caesar, Stacks like lil' Pesi N Casino and Wish don't give a fuck! O I'm Gambino -n- the walkin dead Woke up on the wrong side of the bed Bible of survival Triple six rivals, triple six rivals
[Common:] In front of two-inch glass and Arabs I order fries Inspiration when I write, I see my daughter's eyes I'm the truth, across the table from corporate lies Immortilized by the realness I bring to it If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music My music, you either fight or dream to it My life is one big rhyme, I try to scheme through it Through my shell, never knew what the divine would bring to it I'd be lying if I said I didn't want millions More than money saved, I wanna save children Dealing with alcoholism and afrocentricity A complex man drawn off of simplicity
[DMX:] If I'm gonna rob I'm a rob all night If I'm lookin' for somethin' it's probably a fight If I'm goin' fuck bitches then they better be tight If that's dead, then the head better be right If I gots to play I'm a play till I win Since I gots to be here can't wait to begin Wanna fuck shorty can't stand shorty friend 'Cause honey friend fuck many, many men Stay with' the rats 'cause the rats is real Wanna fuck? Then we fuck already know the deal Shit, fuck what you look like just show the real Then I keep spot that we can go to chill I love my, get down for the hoes Only reason I come around is for the hoes Pipework - I lay it down for the hoes Hit em off with that dark brown, you know?
[Tupac:] I see mothers in black cryin, brothers in packs dyin Plus everybody's high, too doped up to ask why Watchin our own downfall, witness the end It's like we don't believe in God cause we livin in sin