people only mentioned in one rap song ever

Sadaharu Oh

I wanna know if Jay-Z has ever gotten lyrics from his writing team and said "no guys, back to the drawing board." And if so, what they were.

Jimmy Saville.

quote the lyrics, fam

scott joplin

GangStarr Lyrics - Jazz Thing Video Version Lyrics

featuring Branford Marsalis (instrumentally only)

* original version appeared on the "Mo' Better Blues" soundtrack

"I would like to play a.. little tune I just composed not so long ago"
"Ms. Billie Ms. Billie Ms. Billie Holiday"
*HORNS*
*drum roll* *piano keys played*
*HORNS*
"Byrd..?" *trumpet solo* *group horns*
"The music called jazz.." Guru
*HORNS*

Guru
It's roots are in the sounds of the African
or should I say the mother.. bringin us back again
From the drummin on the Congo, we came with a strong flow
and continue to grow
Feet move, to the beat of the t'balo
Now dig the story and follow
For then it landed, on American soil
Through the sweat, the blood, and the toil
Hear, "Praise the Lord," shouted on chain gangs
Pain they felt, but it helped them to maintain
Scott Joplin's rags, Bessie Smith's blues
St. Louis blues, they were all the news
Ringin smooth.. in all the listeners ears
Fulfillin the needs, and plantin the seeds
of a jazz thing

King Oliver's group was a train comin through
to Chicago, bringin the New Orleans groove
And when Satchmo blew, the audience knew
Basil Street blues was the whole house tune
it was music.. great to dance to
Great to romance to with a lot to say to you
Relaying a message, revealing the essence
of a jazz thing

* DJ Premier cuts "jazz music" *

In the 40's came be-bop, the first be-bop
The real be-bop, so let me talk about
Diz' and Byrd, givin the word
Defining how a beat could be so complete
Playing with ferocity, thinkin with velocity
About ornathology, or anthropology
and even ?, and this is real history
Theolonious Monk, a melodious thunk

No mistakes were made with the notes he played
His conception, was recondite.
A star glowing bright among dim lights
The critics did cite that he sounded alright
Charlie Mingus, such nimble fingers
Droppin the bass, all over the place
and Max Roach, cymbals socking
Bass drum talking, snare drum rocking
Restructuring.. the metaphysics
of a jazz thing

John Coltrane, a man supreme
He was the cream.. he was the wise one
The impression of Afro Blue
and of the promise, that was not kept
He was a GIANT step, and there was Ornette Coleman
He was another soul man
The original invisible, playing great music
I wonder why the ?Bangles? couldn't use it
Now listen see
The real mystery is how music history
created by white men or any other white man
that pretended he originated "uh-huh.."
and contended that he innovated "uh-huh.."
a jazz thing
("Of course we know who can really blow")
Scheamin on the meaning
of a jazz thing

And this music ain't dead, so don't be misled
by those who said that jazz was on it's deathbed
Cause when Betty Carter sings a song
ain't nuttin goin on, but simply good music
And you won't refuse it
She's takin her time, makin the nuances rhyme
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone
with a big old tone, recitin poems
with notes as words, and haven't you heard
NEXT STOP BUTTER, RIGHT PAST OLEO
Now there's young cats blowin
And more and more people, yes they will be knowin
Jazz ain't the past, this music's gonna last
and as the facts unfold, remember who foretold
The 90's, will be the decade of
a jazz thing "I love jazz music" (3X)

* Primo scratches "I love jazz music" *

A jazz thing

"i'm servin this track like steffi graf/roger federer there's no competitors" -wfb

not a person but bun b has to be the first person to mention facebook in a rap song right?

paul wall did on his 1st album

Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Eminem. Kidding. :)

log onto facebook, tryna find a good look

I was gonna say "Rod Carew" but really Beastie Boys refs are just too easy.

"why did governor mcgreevey get caught with a lizard?" - jada

Canibus refs are also too too easy

"I slayed MCs back in the rec room era/ My style broke motherfuckin' backs like Ken Patera"

"Big suede boots, kick in your face like Eyal Berkovic"

there's gotta be at least a dozen of these in Madlib/Quasimoto's "Jazz Cats", right?

"hit mics like ted koppel/rifle expert/let off the eifell/burn a flag in the grass it's spiteful" - ghost

"can i make it damn right/i be on the next flight/payin cash, first class/sitting next to vanna white" - nelly

I'll skate on your crew/ like Mario Lemieux

jada mentions ted koppell in the track he did on amerikaz nightmare, i think. i was just listening to it the other day.

"I use to run base like Juan Pierre," Jay-Z

"hit mics like ted koppel/rifle expert/let off the eifell/burn a flag in the grass it's spiteful" - ghost

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:09 (41 minutes ago) Link

who could forget krs on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpEtdOKSc8

YOUR LYRICS ARE STIFF LIKE DAVID KOPPEL

Dirty alone I never do what the pope says
I'm tryin' to get money like Felipe Lopez

HOW COULD ONE CHANDRA BE SO LEVY

sorry

Reagan is the prez but I voted for Shirley Chisholm

"Y'all Danny DeVitos/ small n*ggas" -Foxy Brown, "I'll Be"

writin rhymes since biz mark and daddy kane was on prism / got a brave heart like the one named shirley chisolm - phife

there's gotta be a million danny devitos right

"i'm a wizard like chris whitney" - ali

im gonna stop doing sports ones cuz this thread'll get real boring real quick

"st. louis is the truth like sojourner/ don't need a burner we learn from ike turner" - murphy lee (i'm sure i'm wrong about this one tho)

sojourner truth or ike turner? both mentioned like 8 million times

BEATIN MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE IKE BEAT TINA

"I ball and you're just Eric Dampier, dawg."

lil wayne sports refs are too easy

(forget the fact that i started it off)

BEATIN MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE IKE BEAT TINA

-- and what, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:19 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"Beat the odds like Ike beat on his first wife" being my personal fave.

"I'm like Federico Fellini/ I'm like AC/DC, dirty deeds done cheaply"

hitting a woman + misguided confidence at gambling... is this the most dom passantino lyric ever?

Biggie: "Told the bitch 'Gimme yo' scarf'"

"the way kathie lee needed regis that's the way i need jesus" - rhymefest lol

'had to be liquor / made you wanna battle me quicker / soon as i wrecked the flow you left the show like kathie lee gifford' - king dom

mixtape for after you get hardsonned = me in this thread

Kodanshi

to be fair i dont expect you to be familar with freestyle verses by copywrite's weed carriers

pretty sure copywrite carries his own weed

shirley chisolm's been mentioned a bunch of times, not even including method man's "clinton is the prez, i STILL voted for shirley chisolm"

there's gotta be a bunch of cam'ron ones

"My dream team wrestle for cheese like Eric Bischoff"

copywrite & king dom ghostface freestyle

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6851148c499a2c/

kathie lee ref @ 3:30

"Spittin' lyrics in your face like Patrick Viera at Niel Ruddock."

OK, how the fuck does Snrub know Blak Twang lyrics?

snrub= quality over quantity

"I'll stop the world and melt with your mother/Got a cat in the cooler, ask Crispin Glover"

Justin Warfield on Bomb The Bass's Brain Dead. He mentions Jim Jarmusch at one point too. And Charlie Bucket, and Veruca Salt.

r.a. the rugged man did a movie with crispin glover!!

I guess the frozen cat reference relates to Glover's "Rubin and Ed". Which I haven't seen.

canibus:
and they barbecued birds to the bone
they burned incense in a buckminster fuller type dome

jackie chan... and that bitch macgyver

i assume wayne's not the first one to "angela lansbury," but he's the one i've heard.

Jordan = kathie lee is a no go

In a Lex watchin Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons
--nas

Ethan, can you restart this thread so it's about people mentioned in one rap song ever and not mostly a depository for shitty pop culture references that have probably appeared in more than one rap song.

(that wasn't directed at you J.S.... it's about the way these threads always turn out. Like the "words only mentioned in one song" list and people were all just shitting out "banana!")

Ask Him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
--Talib Kweli - "Get By"

"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypothesis
can't define how I be droppin these mockeries."

Inspectah Deck on Wu-Tang's "Triumph".

"Niggas call me young black Socrates/West indies/Bitch drop to your knees"

Has Robitussin ever made it to a rap lyric? It seems like it should.

Okay, what about this one:

"I like rhymin' like Mascis
my beats are like molasses
sweet and slow like Jackie Onassis
with Alzheimer's, social climbers
slip on my diarrhea
MCs sound the same, like onomatopoeia."

I'm pretty sure Jackie Onassis has between mentioned somewhere else, but not this Mascis dude. I myself didn't know who he was before hearing the name in this song and searching the net to find out what the hell Mike Ladd was talking about there. (At first I thought he said "masses".)

"Test the change cuz of the fantasies they try to feed us
Under the bridge drumming for flea an anthony kiedis
I ran from elitist who got the truth confused
It's the manphibian and the one roots manuva"

-- charlie tuna on "join the dots" by roots manuva

so not worth it

Elroy Cohen - who the hell is that? And why'd he get the Gas Face?

"My dream team wrestle for cheese like Eric Bischoff"

-- Dom Passantino, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:45

always made me O_o

Wu-Tang Incorp. take your brain on spacewalk
Talk strange like B-jork, great hero Jim Thorpe
How can I put it? Life is like video footage
Hard to edit, directors, that never understood it

"i scramble like randall with his/ cunningham but the only thing running is numbers, fam"

YOUR LYRICS ARE STIFF LIKE DAVID KOPPEL

-- and what, Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I thought of this too. He does mean Ted, right?

TALK STRANGE LIKE BEEEYORK

how many murdered on your album, is that just for attention?
labels got yall like muppets so ima play jimmy henson

wrist pinker than miss piggy the puppet hoes love it

"Bringing more blues to brothers than jon belushi and dan ackroyd" - Chino XL.

Several other Belushi's out there, but this is the only case I found where Ackroyd gets love.

usually belushi's coke OD is what gets acknowledged

Hugh Grant is also referenced in the track "for liking the sugar brown" "like fucking dangelo" (which for a sec I thought meant they were suggesting he fucked d'angelo). But Nas says he's "gonna surprise you like Hugh Grant in 8 1/2 weeks" in "Blindfold Me" which is either a confused, confused reference to Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 weeks or more likely a reference to the movie Nine Months (YEARS after it came out!), which reaffirms Kelis' claim in some interview that she and Nas sit around watching movies like Best In Show most of the time.

ok actually re-reading the verse it IS a fucked up 9 1/2 weeks reference but it would be great if he felt the need to bring up a 90s preggers movie when knocking up Kelis.

Has Robitussin ever made it to a rap lyric? It seems like it should.

Attackin' like Robitussin on a cough
So if you know like I know - step off!
- some BDK lyric

"Reagan is the prez but so was Harry Truman" - Biz Markie
(for the Truman ref, not Reagan)

Not a DOOM fan, I guess, eh croupier?

The way he take no prisoners and show no pity
It's how son became a big man from a Black boy
To name names, a really big fan of Dan Aykroyd
He feel they need to give him his own dance
This his only chance to shoot the gift like a lone glance

yeah robitussin is all over:

'i got that tussin, that scummy, and that angel dust/ so pick yo high i will supply"

"I can't front, I love LA like Randy Newman"

when Craig Mack sez "girls scream like I'm Keith..."

which Keith was he talking about?

I bet Doom is the only cat to drop these guys, though...

hey say he's a cross between Adnan Khashoggi
and Sho Kosugi, he said your chain is sure dookie
The piece is like a mystery entity, ill spooky

"I knew this fat kid named D'Angelo Bailey"

(he's only ever been mentioned in "Brain Damage, right?)

probably keith sweat

"Say say say like Paul McCartney, not hardly"

(oops, Geto Boys had "fuck Paul and the rest of y'all")

yeh i suspected him (xps)

"Say say say like Paul McCartney, not hardly"

-- mike a, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:58 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

(oops, Geto Boys had "fuck Paul and the rest of y'all")

-- mike a, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:58 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

"Girls look at me like I'm part of The Beatles/ I'm not honey /But I could be your Paul McCartney/ Ebony and ivory into my jacuzzi"

on my day off/ with david sonnenberg i play golf

"There's three of us but we're not the BEATLES!"

Eminem and D12 must have quite a few

"Make him eat the barrel/Modern-day Pharaoh/Now he's zipped up like Leather Tuscadero" - Ice Cube

Not a DOOM fan, I guess, eh croupier?

more like I forgot how to spell his last name!

I thought of that "there's three of us" line, but that's the Beatles, not McCartney proper.

"I'll play Brian Epstein and Pete Best your ass" (actually, I just made that one up)

fugees are good for this:

"if i lose control will send me to the penitentiary / such as alcatraz, or shot up like al hajj malik shabazz"

"Time after time, ask cyndi lauper/ boss, you don't want to fuck with my partners"

Original rude boy, never am I coy
You can be a shorty in my ill convoy
Not to come across as a thug or a hood
But hon, you got the goods, like madeline woods

"Take the dove from your battlefield son, fuck Pat Benatar"

Janet Reno comes to town collecting all the money
You stayed one day, then ran away, and started actin funny
She caught you down on 15th Ave., you tried to hide your trail
She found your ass and locked you up, now WHO can post no bail?

"take cover wit the radical, urban latino/no hip-hop connection with us and janet reno"

One shot, Two shot, Three shot, Four
Somebody shoulda stopped me from drinking any more
When I was sober that broad looked like Al Gore
Now she look a lot more like Demi Moore

Probably other refs for both, actually. Still, I like the combination.

"Like GG Allin I'm crazy ill"

Chino XL did a lot of name dropping - mostly recent deaths "I'm out like John Candy" stuff on his first album. But I'm not going back to listen to it.

I forget - have any rap songs ever mentioned God? Or Mafia heavies?

Compare the sound to another, and let's see
I slam shit up like Wayne Gretzky
- Diamond D

Ron Studda spin the wheel back like his name was Pat Sajak
on Wheel of Fortune.. that's how we keep it scorchin
- Grand Puba

Cause you're a nickel dime sucka, who hangs with Tommy Tucker
- EPMD

feel like pat sajak, cats ask if they can buy an e

youll sell everything includin the mannequin / they got a new bitch now you jennifer aniston

fuck pat sajak, never did nothin for a n*gga

how many murdered on your album, is that just for attention?
labels got yall like muppets so ima play jimmy henson

You should put this on a placard next to the museum exhibit.

are there any Obama lines yet

"My raps ignite the people like Obama" -- Common

huh - not exactly an answer I was hoping for

Chingo Bling talks about how he stole Demi Moore from Ashton Kutcher in "Ball Everywhere I Go".

"We don't vote - we vote for Oprah, Obama and Eric B" gfk

hahaha!

common drops obama on the "why" remix too (but he was actually ahead of his time there)

juelz calls himself the young obama on black republicans

its hardly the only mention but i love that pac mentions bob dole on 'how do u want it' which is supposed to be this care free party jam

paris - sheep to the slaughter

Who do the fightin' for these rich white folks, and they wars
No it ain't Drew Carey, Dennis Miller or stars
Fox News, Mike Savage, Bruce Willis or Rush
Won't be MSNBC, CNN or a Bush
Never Toby Keith, Hannity, O'Reilly or Clint
Ain't ClearChannel - know they ain't supportin' dissent
Ain't Blair, Kid Rock, or Tom Cruise or vows
Of James Woods, Rob Lowe, Tom Selleck or Powell
Not Arnold Schwarzenegger, he ain't gonna shoot, or
Ted Nuget cause in war the targets got weapons too
Ain't Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton or Ridge
Or Ann Coulter, or Joseph Lieberman or the rich

Read an old magazine, check out a new dress
I'd be having conversations with Cornel West
Killer Mike don't give a damn if it's me ya ain't liking
The last great debate I had was with Michael Eric Dyson

xpost ^also mentions cruise and o'reily

love 'thats life'

You can follow or lead like Commander Picard
You can have +The Whole World+
Or be satisfied with the boulevard - Killer Mike

the "commander picard" thing has always bothered me :/

usedta play back then, now you all grown up like rudy huxtable

"we on a treadmill like OK GO"

I'll drop 'em in a minute
Like the dollaz
In my pocket, Speedy Gonzalez
Couldn't stop the way I spin it
I'm known for breakin' every speed limit
TLC - Switch (during a Left Eye rap)

Wu-Tang slang, I'll leave your headpiece hangin'
Bust this, I'm kickin' like Segall, out for justice
The roughness, yes, the rudeness, ruckus
Wu Tang Clan - Bring the Ruckus

.....so it would seem I can't spell (or spell check, even) Seagal. Sorry, all.

Sir Mix-A-Lot, National Anthem

The Pentagon had a plan for a rescue
They said intelligence never makes miscues
The thirty-first was a day of death
Lieutenant Colonel Higgins, you know the rest

G. Dep also shouted out Steven Seagal:

"I'm like, Seagal with the steel but 'Harder to Kill'"

one of the first songs i ever recorded had this lyric:

"Everybody's a critic like Robert Christgau. Please, you could get clobbered right now."

"PW Botha gets a gas face"

Homeboy throw in the towel/your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell.

"Height of Muggsy Bogues, complexion of a hockey puck"--phife

"you know i got rhymes like abe vigoda"

my supersonics leave you mute like maggie simpson

All my hos come off the track/Even Jackie Joyner's here

"I'm the Michael Schumacher of the Roc roster"

We dedicate this to cats that's been thuggin/Vinnie Paz get more hoes than Jim Duggan

All my hos come off the track/Even Jackie Joyner's here

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, November 7, 2008 11:28 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nat turners wit burners, jackie joyner kersee
taught yall niggas how to rap reimburse me
-ghost on the jump off

yeah there's another jackie joyner one i'm trying to think of

ah found it...freeway, except he says it in his weird freeway kinda way so it sounds more like "jackie JERner"

Two words, Freeway, two letters, A-R
Turn y'all rap niggaz into two words, fast runners
Like Jackie Joyner, you better sleep with your burner
The heat skeet, blow a reef through ya car

Paul Barman has a lot of these:

'I make paintings based on grids just like Chuck Close"

"But I'm a lonely guy since my honeypie ran off with Ione Skye"

"My pissed off Jimbrowski
Turned three colors like Krzysztof Kieślowski"

"My name is Jane Pratt, before you jerk off on my head please pass me that rain hat"

"He backlashed my booty
like I was Susan Faludi"

We dedicate this to cats that's been thuggin/Vinnie Paz get more hoes than Jim Duggan
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 7 November 2008 16:40 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

from some kardinal offishal song

where you gonna run when god wanna do ya
j edgar hoover i wish i woulda knew ya

I wanna know if Jay-Z has ever gotten lyrics from his writing team and said "no guys, back to the drawing board." And if so, what they were.

― lukas, Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:50 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

joe budden is good for these--

had this bugaboo bitch keep wantin me to romance her
always poppin up so i called her george costanza

the thing that bugs me about joe budden is that he's always dropping people only mentioned in one rap song ever

like kevin everett

Yoko Ono's rare appearance in a Public Enemy song - can't think of any others, except that Le Tigre song where they list the great women of NYC..

Whatcha gonna do? Rap is not afraid of you
Beat is for Sonny Bono, beat is for Yoko Ono
Run DMC first said a deejay could be a band
Stand on its feet, get you out your seat
Beat is for Eric B, and L.L. as well, hell
Wax is for Anthrax, still it can rock bells
Ever forever, universal, it will sell
Time for me to exit, Terminator X-it

where you gonna run when god wanna do ya
j edgar hoover i wish i woulda knew ya

― and what, Friday, November 7, 2008 11:59 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

J. Edgar Hoover, and he coulda proved to you
He had King and X set up
Also the party with Newton, Cleaver and Seale
He ended, so get up

Yoko Ono's rare appearance in a Public Enemy song - can't think of any others

Da Lench Mob

We beat him down like we were loco and said "Fuck John Lennon" and his punk bitch Yoko

KRS

Can't hang with my vocals, better you fuck with Sonny Bono, or Yoko Ono... but KRS oh no no.

joe budden is good for these--

had this bugaboo bitch keep wantin me to romance her
always poppin up so i called her george costanza

― and what, Friday, November 7, 2008 12:02 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://checktherhime.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/wale-the-mixtape-about-nothing-mf.jpg

last song on this ^^^

Hacksaw Jim Duggan some of these niggas is frontin'/Nuff' of these niggas is nothin'

from some kardinal offishal song

― t_g, Friday, November 7, 2008 11:58 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

New Heltah Skeltah has a Duggen line on it.

You guys suck so bad at this.

sorry i dont rock enough catchdubs cosigned hipster rap to know every seinfeld ref u crumb

i like that joe budden does this cause it just hammers home the fact that he spends all day at home watching tv and reading blogs

"catch wreck like sam kinison, convincingly" - ras kass

you can't post on ILX 400 times a day and feign ignorance of a much ballyhoosed Seinfeld-themed mixtape that may, very likely, have a George Costanza ref somewhere in its 80 minute runtime.

"catch wreck like sam kinison, convincingly" - ras kass

― and what, Friday, November 7, 2008 12:35 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

EPMD

I, the Afromerican, black citizen
To make you scream loud as hell like Sam Kinison

Here come a bitch with the fly puss', and a nigga with the fly dick
In the Mickey and Mallory mode, rollin through the streets on 24's -twista and lil kim

I'm having more fun trying to debunk the ones people post than coming up with my own

"But I'm a lonely guy since my honeypie ran off with Ione Skye"

ad rock down with the ione
listen to the shit because both of them is boney
-qtip on "get it together"

there's another ione shoutout on some other beasties song, too

Here come a bitch with the fly puss', and a nigga with the fly dick
In the Mickey and Mallory mode, rollin through the streets on 24's -twista and lil kim

killers born naturally like mickey and mallory
not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
- blackstar

I think ice cube or yo yo mentioned 'em too

Yeah, I was gonna say re Constanza, "what about Wale?" But I haven't actually heard the mixtape.

We all hang with tickets for Van Halen, Gorefest, Autopsy, Def Leppard and Spaz

tho Kool Keith does actually mention Gorefest in another song.

there's gotta be a necro joint that mentions those dudes

lol speaking of necro "i got a wide variety of high society whores like rosanna arquette"

going way way back to the early days of '75 and the black spades
chilling with my homeboy muscleman ron and the boogiedown bronx bka pilar
-just-ice "going way back"

I even learnt caucasians were really the tribe of edom
the white image of christ is really cesare borgia
and the second son of pope alexander, the 6th of rome
and once the picture was shown
that's how the devils tricked my dome
-killah priest, "B.I.B.L.E."

I'm not playing with a full deck
up to my neck like toulouse-lautrec
-beastie boys, "the move"

but yeah beastie boys is kinda cheatin

sorry i dont rock enough catchdubs cosigned hipster rap to know every seinfeld ref u crumb

― and what, Friday, 7 November 2008 17:32 (2 hours ago)

I don't know dude, you seem to be pretty familiar with it. Besides, you're kind of throwing stones in a glass house in a thread about obscure refs by mostly mediocre rappers

thank you for your contribution

now let's get back to quoting those mediocre rappers like krs-one, epmd, and wu-tang

HARRY ALLEN

http://harryallen.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/harry-allen-bio.jpg

I be tossin, enforcin, my style is awesome
I'm causin more Family Feud's than Richard Dawson
And the survey said -- ya dead
Fatal Flying Guillotine chops off your fuckin head

good thread but i suck so bad at this

i mean 'good thread' in that i enjoy the bickering

really proud to know this but here's last emperor from the krs/zack de la rocha track off lyricist lounge vol 1:

to all my black magic romancers and acid rain dancers
develop close ties like jerry seinfeld and george costanza

"take cover wit the radical, urban latino/no hip-hop connection with us and janet reno"

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 25, 2008 10:10 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why is this line in my head 24/7

mekhi phifer

my team are life stoppers watch me split ya life up
like mekhi phifer in the movie clockers

- black rob

Kind of a stretch, but Pat McCarran and Francis Walter (of the McCarran-Walter Act) are namechecked in Jello Biafra's outro to Ice-T's Freedom of Speech.

damn, shows how much i know about rap

got 'draulics on my golf cart, fuck a six fo
knew a hoe like gonzo, witta big nose

- j-zone

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b136/jusbidnis/hoity.gif

are you holding out on previously unseen soulstrut graemlins ????

My knowledge of rap lyrics is very slim compared with most of this thread's participants, but it's kind of fun to just Google "[SOMEONE'S NAME] site:ohhla.com" and see what comes up.

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/goat.gif

juggaknots

Ayyo, we're not to be fucked with
Like a hooker with the AIDS virus til they try this
Heyo my flow is fatter than that chick Elvira's breasteses

I admit to not being able to come up with any examples right now, but I swear I've heard Elvira in another rap song at some point.

I'm rock, I'm roll, I'm Nat King Cole
Shostakovic drownin' in a fishbowl
[...]
I'ma a book, a poem, by Leonard Cohen
[...]

We played a little blackjack at the casino
The man dealing cards looked like Brian Eno

- Earthling (debut album; can't remember the titles; probably lots more on it)

Your search - elvira site:ohhla.com - did not match any documents.

I'm kind of astounded by that.

ctrl-f "skiles"= text not found

ha, I was just about to post that phife line

lol at a lot of this thread btw, esp. at the idea that the fugees are the only rappers ever to mention malcolm x

Benjamin Bannister possibly?

Stay humble stay low blow like Hootie / True pimp niggaz spend no dough on the booty

Oops, I think I mean Benjamin Banneker. (Drawback of oral tradition!)

oliver wang
What's Jean Grae's beef with Oliver Wang?

Has David Sonenberg been mentioned apart from Wyclef playing golf with him on his day off?

the first half of this thread is unbearable

Pervis Ellison

DMC namedrops Peter Lorre in Kurtis Blow's "8 Million Stories"

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I'm rock, I'm roll, I'm Nat King Cole
Shostakovic drownin' in a fishbowl
[...]
I'ma a book, a poem, by Leonard Cohen
[...]

We played a little blackjack at the casino
The man dealing cards looked like Brian Eno

- Earthling (debut album; can't remember the titles; probably lots more on it)

From the same (great) song: "my gosh, my gosh, I'm Juliette Binnoche"

"the way kathie lee needed regis that's the way i need jesus" - rhymefest lol

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:34 (2 years ago)

lol

player haters be givin me harsh looks/but i'm just trying to sell records like garth brooks -- big L

thanks for hipping me to "Earthling". i no longer feel bad about completely ignoring all that ukhh that neil kukococopufflani talks about so earnestly

man, i want to retroactively ban J0rdan S. for how fucking terrible he is on this thread

"take cover wit the radical, urban latino/no hip-hop connection with us and janet reno"

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 25, 2008 10:10 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like come on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROZllkxVshM

tbf he started listening to rap in 200x

i really sucked at this

"niggas hear me and take more notes than connie chung"

?

as in, is that one?

"hater commentators, call em pat buchanans" - curren$y

oh shit, i remembered that wrong, it's big krit

"this is hiphop/ it ain't pop like kylie minogue" - black thought

i'd say William Cooper except I can't be sure that A. Nas didn't rap about him more than once and B. that there aren't Illuminati-influenced rappers that mentioned him

It's a new sherriff in town, and it ain't Reggie Hammond

I forget - have any rap songs ever mentioned God? Or Mafia heavies?

― mike a, Friday, January 25, 2008 7:17 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

a+++

are you holding out on previously unseen soulstrut graemlins ????

― some dude'n'em (and what), Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:42 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

classic post

Toussaint L'Ouverture in "These Dreams" by Defari??

paris - sheep to the slaughter

Who do the fightin' for these rich white folks, and they wars
No it ain't Drew Carey, Dennis Miller or stars
Fox News, Mike Savage, Bruce Willis or Rush
Won't be MSNBC, CNN or a Bush
Never Toby Keith, Hannity, O'Reilly or Clint
Ain't ClearChannel - know they ain't supportin' dissent
Ain't Blair, Kid Rock, or Tom Cruise or vows
Of James Woods, Rob Lowe, Tom Selleck or Powell
Not Arnold Schwarzenegger, he ain't gonna shoot, or
Ted Nuget cause in war the targets got weapons too
Ain't Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton or Ridge
Or Ann Coulter, or Joseph Lieberman or the rich

― and what, Friday, January 25, 2008 12:04 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bruce willis gets fucktons of mentions in a lot of work.

Lemonade was a popular drink and in still is
I get more props den stunts den Bruce Willis
A poet like Langston Hughes and can't lose when I cruise
Out on the expressway
Leavin the Bodega I say "suave"
Premier's got more beats den barns got hay
Clips are inserted into my gun
So I can take the money, neva have ta run

(gangstarr, DWYCK)

i've def heard numerous die hard references in other songs.

Now I'm not barely Alvin Ailey
But I make fly dance music daily

Tech N9Ne - "Mental Giant"

It went to my head like it's my first time
To be cocky, i’m just a giant when I burst rhyme
My leg is humongous, is ya’ll’s vs. mine?
Steppin to mine, I can’t stop my leg like Robert Klein

Of all the goons, I'm gonna guess that only some dude is old enough to get that one

Also btw rev, Alvin Ailey ref in Masta Ace's iconic "Me & The Biz"

also ATCQ's "Lyrics to Go"

i was wrong about that one

reading James Sturm's great piece about pitching gags to the New Yorker on Slate this week reminded me of Paul Barman's "She almost shrank off when I said "Take your top-tank off," I can draw a thousand times better than Robert Mankoff"

From the new Danny Brown

Cause bitch I'm Frankie Lymon
Heath Ledger hyped in a jacuzzi doing that John Belushi

Willing to proven wrong though

Akon:
Her body's not real
It looks like Crumb drew her

me n my girl'll run like Luke n Laura

george strait, right?

Geto Boys did it too

oh word

Tech N9Ne - "Mental Giant"

It went to my head like it's my first time
To be cocky, i’m just a giant when I burst rhyme
My leg is humongous, is ya’ll’s vs. mine?
Steppin to mine, I can’t stop my leg like Robert Klein

― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:52 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of all the goons, I'm gonna guess that only some dude is old enough to get that one

― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:02 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

just saw this, dying

:)

a possible two-fer? A.C. Green and Ben Vereen at the end of Dr. Dre's "Big Egos"?

A.C. Green probably not due to punchlines about his virginity

e.g. You know what's a crazy thing? \ Some girls'll make you wait longer than A.C. Green (http://ohhla.com/anonymous/misc/r_and_b/dg_remix.jam.txt)

wow. I never knew that about him, weird.

I've always thought he was a cool dude, the only guy I liked on a team I otherwise detested (2000 Lakers)

Not a person but I think T.I. Is the only person to rap about the stuffed animal named Teddy Ruxpin.
"teddy ruxpin nigga, I'm a bear."

guess who this is

Sitting on a truffet, puffing on the best cut buds
Trying to get butt from Miss Muffet
Me and Teddy Ruxpin sturring up a ruckus
Egging all the houses, smashing all the pumpkins

luriqua

i'm like grizzly adams with a bear / any n*gga out there want the free, he better come prepared

— No Limit rapper Freedom, ca. 1998

nevermind, meth got that one: "Even Grizzly Adams couldn't bear" XD

"Check it out yo, I smile like Groucho Marx"

- Fu-Schnickens feat. Shaq, "What's Up Doc?"

Opposite of this, people you would never have expected to be mentioned more than once, but are:

He was referenced by Richie Rich in Tupac Shakur's song "Rather Be Ya Nigga", in the line, "Smoke blunts, but leave them stunts up to Super Dave," in the Ice Cube song "Wicked", with the line "We'll have to break his ass up like Super Dave," in the A Tribe Called Quest song "The Chase, Part II" with the lyric, "We flippin' on niggas like we Super Dave," in the Cool Calm Pete song "Lost" with the line "You(r) fake stunts that's strictly for Super Dave". On Fat Joe's song "Bet Ya Man Can't (Triz)," Cuban Link raps, "We do maneuvers like Super Dave, always with a group of babes" and as well as in the line "At the hot tubs making a gang of waves, Hoe in the cunt doing stunts like Super Dave" in the song "She's Just A Freak" by The Luniz.

“hittin mothers and their daughters similar to Woody Allen”

not a person, but I always chuckle when I hear Kool Keith mention "Inside Herman's Head" on "One Two, One Two"

Obviously not the only song, but Big Daddy Kane was probably the first to mention Don Cheadle, shouting him out back in 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95fAAsxcZzc

Went from the station straight to Orange Julius
I bought a hot dog from my man George Drakoulias
-Beastie Boys "Stop that train"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTWlVXDpg8c

"I make paintings based on grids just like Chuck Close" - MC Paul Barman