"I still got to wonder why / I never seen a man cry, till I seen a man die"

- Scarface

"I was forced into a life of crime/Career criminal, now my career is crime"

- Jeru The Damaja

"They try to tell me aliens built the pyramids... I swear, life's a bitch on her period."

- Kanye West

"I’ll stand you at an intersection, And rip until I make your body takeoff running in 17 different directions Like a surgeon I’ll open your chest and put my words in I’m the first one to bust lik..."

- K-Rino

"Rhymes stronger than Popeye with the spinach"

- Talib Kweli

"I can't believe they believed I would leave Like a teabag/ lookin in my face like He-Man/ Well your assumptions are kinda out of place/ And slightly off-base/ like a nigga leavin rehab"

- Phonte

"I rearrange things that could've remained bleak.. Cause you ain't doin the same, don't mean you should hate me, see"

- T-3

"These hoes the same, all that change is the outfit, Lookin’ for cheese on some mouse shit, Suck a nigga fuck a nigga then gonn’ run their mouth quick."

- J. Cole

"I'm cold enough and hot enough to freeze and then thaw / I kicked my girl out at 10 degrees in her bra."

- Eminem

"Four score and um seven years in the lab and/I know rap like Mike Tyson knows booty grabbin'"

- Masta Ace