Most Canonical/Cited/Influential One Line in Hip Hop History (rhymes allowed)

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I'm thinking along the lines of what "I hope I die before I get old" may be to rock.

My nomination: "Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me"

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

influential = 'fuck tha police'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously, it would probably have to be:

"i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat"
Sugarhill Gang - "Rappers Delight"

for better or worse, that'll never stop being quoted, ever...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

and i know that wasn't one line... go on, say it: my mama got an afro with a chinstrap!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Stelfox beat me to it.

― Nik (Nik), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

round my way its either:

"caught up in the cross-fire get theyself hurt while I be sippin' gin straight in a plastic cup on a park bench on 12th st., my whole crew's famous"

Give Up The Goods (Just Step) - Mobb Deep

"My tape stay at the beginnin cuz that's how they rewind
Y'all know how we dine, we don't eat swine, and we don't drink wine
If you don't bring me some motherfuckin cognac, I kill you"

Superb on "Ghost Deini" by Ghostface Killah

― Nik (Nik), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker."

― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Two years ago, a friend of mine
Asked me to say some MC rhyme
So I said this rhyme I'm about to say
The rhyme was def, a then it went this way
Took a test to become an MC
And Orange Krush became amazed at me
So Larry put me inside his Cadillac,
The chauffeur drove off and we never came back
Dave cut the record down to the bone,
And now they got me rockin' on the microphone
And then we're talking autographs, and cheers and laughs,
Champagne, caviar, and bubble bath
You see, that's the life that I lead and
You sucker MC, this is who I be "

― brains (cerybut), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

brains--yes. Also: First verse of "Bring The Noise" fairly meme-like, esp. for the Engleesh.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Birthdays was the worst days

Now we drink champange when we thirst-ay.

― jm (jtm), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

aaah, this stuff is really fresh

― ron (ron), Sunday, 27 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps unfortunately, depending on your view:

"You've gotta fight for your right to party"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 27 April 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Bass! How low can you go?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 27 April 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

What about "Just chill...till the next episode"?

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 27 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"Thinkin' of a master plan..."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

'i like big butts and i cannot lie'

or the P.E. 'elvis' one

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not about a salary
it's all about reality
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lodi dodi we likes to party
we don't cause no trouble
we don't bother nobody

― buttch (Oops), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The Pixies version of Head On is much better, I think. They add so much more energy and get way better guitar tones.

And I LOVE Jesus and Mary Chain.

― David Allen, Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

God damn Im a retard. I should look where Im posting.

― David Allen, Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

What a brother know?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rappenin' is what's happenin'."

"Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge."

"Put your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care."

― Nick H, Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"don't push me, cause i'm close to the edge"

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

RAPPERS BE MONKEYFLIPPIN WIT THE FUNKY RHYTHM I BE KICKIN; MUSICIAN, INFLICT THE COMPOSITION

― brains (cerybut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"It'sjustlikeajunglesometimesitmakesmewonderhowIkeepfromgoin'under"

"Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm/I hook a beat up/Convert it into hip-hop form"

"This beat is my recital"

corollary to the great "Sucker MCs" choice above:
"I'm DMC in the place to be/I go to St. John's University/Ever since kindergarten I've acquired the knowledge/And after 12th grade I went straight to college"

"Fuck being hard/Posdnuos is complicated"

― chris herrington, Sunday, 27 April 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

also

"I'm only 19 but my mind is old/And when things get for real my warm heart turns cold"

― chris herrington, Sunday, 27 April 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i've got extensives hoes/with expensive clothes

― brains (cerybut), Monday, 28 April 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "don't believe the hype"

2. "I don't have no problem with you fucking me/but I have a little problem wit you not fucking me"

3. "May I have your attention please"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 28 April 2003 03:01 (twenty-three years ago)

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