rap music's memorable banalities

it don't matter if radio say its a hit
real niggas consider it miscellaneous shit

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Saigon on "Say It" from new Termanology mixtape If Heaven Was A Mile Away

I knew a guy like you
his name was Felipe

And if you're dirty, then go take a bath.

first of all I'd like to thank god

a pound costs six in new york
but it's half in Miami

I'm just vanishin' with the vanishin' cream - Masta Killa

I woke up this morning and had that line in my head. I never noticed it until just then. Weird.

Letters makes words
and sentences makes paragraphs

this be the drama
i'ma cause like a comma in sentence
paragraphs indented

early in the mornin' jump out my bed
grab some afro sheen and I comb my head

I've posted this before, on a similar thread, as it is my favorite example of this sort of thing:

You lied about the lies that you lied about
You even lied to your aunt when you went down south

All the way to Africa, a.k.a. the Motherland
Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
That's the right hand, Black Man
Only if you was noted as my man

I was lyrics like those that, in the summer of 97 when I worked for Domino's Pizza, led me to believe that I could have a future in this rap game.

I like the Whopper, fuck the Big Mac

More like "I like the Whopper BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!! the Big Mac"

Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
That's the right hand, Black Man

the particular banality of this dawned on me very slowly until one day i heard it and was literally in tears wit hlaughter

Never see me slip, 'cause if I slip, then I'm slippin'.

A nice big plate of/Fish, which is my favorite dish

I know a man named Hank
He has more rhymes than a sirius bank

not to pat myself on the back but i like this thread

But now I'm humble and I can only think
About New Orleans and those jumbo shrimp

I'm sure I've posted this on ILX before but I can't find it now...

Me, I'm a pimp, I ain't payin' for no sex
I'd rather buy me a car or a new rolex

Actually, wow, Kid Rock is great for this. On "American Bad-Ass" we get:

I jabbed and stabbed
And knocked critics backs
And I did not stutter when I said that.

as well as:

I like Johnny Cash and Grand Master Flash.

"Condo paid for, no car payment."

ridin droptop in the winter with the heat on

storch, can i borrow your yacht?

got the dro and the liquor
at the sto, get the swishas
tropicana and a twizzla

dro's got a lotta these

ridin down simpson me and t.i. watchin "lean on me"

basically an young dro rap about eating shark or tilapia is a memorable banality

I'm not sure how banal some of these are - I mean, Biggie saying he's got his condo and car paid for is more of a specific statement about wealth and success, right? It may not be all that thrilling but it's not exactly filling time with chatter that would be true of anybody...

Yeah, and the reason that Rakim talks about fish, is because in the song he's broke and fish is a luxury. I picture ilxors sitting around eating giant salmon steaks being all "ho hum this is so BORING."

ya without the "without money it's still a wish" of course it's gonna seem banal

quoting it alone is kinda unfair.

I AGREE GUYS.

Cigarette burns in my plush
Empty beer bottles in the brush
And my bitch actin' like a lush

<3 dj quik

those arent banal tho -- or not in the spirit of the thread -- those are just easy to identify with (parties over, dudes have trashed the place & my girl is drunk)

Yeah, there's gotta be some finer point of distinction that separates memorable banalities from rapping in a memorable way about banal subjects. They're all good lines though.

Everybody rappin like it's a commercial
Acting like life is a big commercial

In a test of three outta five
Whup anybody's ass at NBA Live

dude if you wnna get rappers started on video games

i mean asher roth has a whole song on the radio right now about how he's good at mario kart

tho in that dept., you can't get anymore banal than mr. lif

Thanks for checkin me, sit on the couch
Pick up a controller and lets play Tekken 3
Whoop that ass four times now you wanna switch
You can use Eddie now I'm Dr. Boskonovitch

on 285 i keep ridin in a circle
inside of my ride smellin like a pound of purple

Man I bring some prime Com and Whiney has to get on some Asher bullshit.

on 285 i keep ridin in a circle
inside of my ride smellin like a pound of purple

This is another one that I think counts as a legitimate lyric, I have had lots of friends who have relished the joys of getting high and driving around the loop (whether 285 or insert-your-town's-perimeter-highway) with your buddies.

YKK on your zipper

Julio Iglesias...We gettin cream like that nigga

More WTF than banal really

It's like this and like that and like this and uh

Man I bring some prime Com and Whiney has to get on some Asher bullshit.

― Styles Davis (The Reverend), Wednesday, May 6, 2009 4:00 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Don't shoot the messenger. We could have a thread of 1000000 rappers talking about playing video games.

YKK on your zipper

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, May 6, 2009 1:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is the only actual good one since los blue jeans's Big Mac post like 50 posts up.

though in the context of the lines around it the gun loading isn't all that dramatic, since he just talking about Mr. Magic and how he's not gay.

I fucked up my Jeep
I fixed it with Bondo

- Valee

'playin live 95
tradin charles smith for drexler'
―j-live

(me to myself: no way that trade is even. what a cheater lol.)

This isn’t banal so much as sort of tautological/obvious

Having cash is highly addictive
Especially when you’re used to having money to live with

Kick off your shoes and relax your socks

when I was young, I was a fan of the Jackson 5

― corrs unplugged, Sunday, October 27, 2024 4:49 AM bookmarkflaglink

giving Illmatic my first real attentive listen today, and this one really rang out to me

when i was young, i learned survival
i was a fan of the Jackson 5

For cryin' out loud, my style is wild, so book me
Not long is how long that this rhyme took me

lol no kidding, Ghostdini

Me-oh-me oh my hello hello hi
I'm not Huckleberry Finn I'm still speaking, shoo, fly

xpost/#onethread to the revive on Grandmaster Flash "The Message"

reminded me not of a specific line, but of how much i loved the warren g-affiliated duo the twinz. it was indeed hard to tell them apart and they always paid me the courtesy of saying their own names in all of their raps.

Ah-ha, this beat's got gout!

I'm Violent J and I'm back like a vertebrae