OK, I've got a few:
"He's the better of the best,
best believe he's the baddest,
Perfect timing when I'm climbing on my rhyming apparatus
Lot of guts
When he cuts, girls move their butts
His name is Jay here to play he must be nuts"
- Run DMC - "It's Tricky"
"Playing makeup, wearing guitar"
- Replacements - "Left of the Dial"
Almost any rhyme by Rakim, the lyrical master. A couple of beauties from "I Know You 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..."
"Picture a mic, the stage is empty
A beat like this might tempt me
To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain
Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train
But I'll wait 'cause I mastered this
Let the others go first so the brothers don't miss
Eric B. break the sticks (you got it)
Rakim will begin when you make the mix"
"Think about it -- wait -- erase your rhyme,
Forget it, and don't waste your time,
'Cause I'll be in the crowd if you ain't controlling it,
Drop the mic, you shouldn't be holding it.
This is how it should be done
This style is identical to none
Some try to make it sound like this but you're getting me
So upset that I'm wet 'cause you're sweating me"
"First of all, I'm the soloist, the soul controller
Rakim gets stronger as I get older
Constant elevation causes expansion
I write my rhyme while I cool in my mansion
Then put it on tape and in the city I test it
Then on the radio the R's requested"
A few lines from "Fell in Love With a Girl" by the White Stripes:
"she turns and says "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating"
"my left brain knows that
all love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
and I said it once before
but it bears repeating"
