quoted lines in rap rhymes

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try to come up with a) the rap tracks that have had the most of their lines quoted in other songs (if it's just a verse you could do that too I guess), and b) the rap tracks whose lines have the highest possible proportion of lines which are quotes of other raps.

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― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 22 June 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

for (a) I mean things like 'big poppa', or no doubt all those old boring hip to the hop to the hippety hop ones.

I can't think of examples for (b) but I'm just curious.

I'm sure lots of stock rap phrases are derived from old lines somewhere, but I'm more interested in pretty close quotes. say, like, jay-z's 'I see some ladies tonight that should be ridin with jay-zaay' alluding to biggie's 'I seem some ladies tonight that should be havin' my babaaay'.

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 22 June 2003 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

ugly duckling 'do you know what i'm sayin' is 90% strung together lines from other rap songs

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 June 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

most quoted:

just rhymin with biz (esp bdk's verse)

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:06 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm, that suffers a little for coherency, which I suppose like duh, but yes that's exactly what I'm talking about for (b).

and I know an obvious answer to (a) is 'the really really popular ones', but I kind of want to know down to the line.

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

'sucker mc's' deserves a nod for the beginning (two years ago, a friend of mine, asked me to say some MC rhymes...): brother lynch hung "friend of mine", CL smooth reprises them in 'down with the king' , schooly d "king of new york", snoop "hoop dreams", 2pac "got my mind made up", mos def at the end of "double trouble" on the roots' things fall apart...

(did some googling there, i admit)

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

good call on "just rhymin' with Biz", since pete rock made it a personal mission to insert cuts from that song in damn near every track he made. i wanna say that Nice & Smooth "funky for you" oughta be a candidate too, but that just could be the 'greg nice- effect'.

as far as non-rap songs, lynn collins "think" is the easy winner in my book...

regarding (b): (formerly Mad)Skillz has a song that is entirely made up of quotes from other songs, but i can't remember the name

― naturalaw-dp, Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ice-t "six in the morning" popping up in king tee 'act a fool'. also used in 'gin & juice', among others

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

naturalaw, in that area, i also nominate jimmy castor for the "what we gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time" thing

i would also like to take the opportunity to reassert how extremely important it was that fab 5 freddie said "aaah, this stuff is really fresh" (and that material put that effect on it.)

back to (a): la-di-da-di

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Tupac is the most bitten guy, probably.

Just 'Against All Odds':

Tupac - 'Payback, I knew you bitch niggas from way back / Witness me strapped with Macks, knew I wouldn't play that.'

Jay-Z on 'Some People Hate' - 'Nigga this is payback, I know you bitch niggas from way back / Niggas wanna clown but the pound it don't play that.'

Tupac - 'This little nigga named Nas thinks he live like me / Talkin' 'bout he left the hospital took five like me /
You living fantasies, nigga, I reject your deposit.'

50 Cent on 'Hail Mary - 'Little nigga named Ja think he live like me / Told 'em 'bout he left the hospital took 9 like me / You living fantasies, nigga, I be checking deposits.'

― d k (d k), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

That Skillz one is called "Ya Favorite Joints". KRS-One had a b-side like that in '93 called "Rap vs. Hip-Hop".

I want to know how many variations there are on the "Rapper's Delight" "I don't mean to brag/I don't mean to boast..." line.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 22 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

when nas quotes 'the bridge is over'on 'destroy and rebuild'.

jay z quotes pac's 'me and my girlfriend' on the blueprint and blueprint 2 and also big's 'me and my bitch' on 'songcry'

― ssean, Sunday, 22 June 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

flavor flav's "no you can't have it back silly rabbit" lione from don't believe the hype crops up all over the shop, too... my fave example by alesha from mis-teeq...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 22 June 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

good call nate, on the KRS. that's a great song

two years ago, superho!

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"M-E-T-H-O-D MAN...hattan keeps on makin' it"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 22 June 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

... i'm confused. anyway, i love when pharoahe monch says "my dick rules everything around me, CREAM, get the ass"

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 22 June 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

He says "dick" instead of "cock" (which would actually fit the acronym)? Aw hell.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

hehe DREAM

― ron (ron), Monday, 23 June 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i just find it funny 'cause it reminds me of something you'd do in 4th grade, just blurt something out like that(if any 4th graders listen to Wu). and its pharoahe monch...

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 23 June 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

cypress hill has more jackings than these, but these are the only ones i can remember right now

-"how i could just kill a man" was used in:
redman's "time for some action"
epmd "cummin at cha"

-"hand on the pump" was used in:
redman/methodman's "the rockwilder"

― naturalaw-dp, Monday, 23 June 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di" OWNZ this thread.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 June 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it just may. this thread got off track a bit, into "most sampled" or "most quoted" territory, rather than highest # of quoted lines in one song. i'm guilty

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

my dick is like the titantic/ watch it sink in the gulf of pussy/

your humble poster

― faggotry (faggotry), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

― vvvvv, Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

i like suckin diks n if u want me to do dat ill do it jus call me or add me

― dick sucker, Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

so what's the verdict on that jay-z biter or writer thing? I thought about 60-70%% were obvious homage quotes but some are buried a little too deep not to cause suspicion.
http://www.flyshow.com/_audio/JayZBiter.mp3

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

interesting!

― marc h. (marc h.), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

I think the "hotel / motel" line from "Rapper's Delight" has been quoted more than "two years ago a friend of mine..."

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Im ready to die
without a reasonable doubt
smoke chronic and hit it
doggy style before i go out
until they sign my death certificate
all eyez on me
im still at it, illmatic
and thats THE DOCUMENTARY

― al.x, Sunday, 21 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

a bit late in correcting this, but Pharoahe says "my dick rules everything around me, DREAM", not "CREAM".

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

yo man look i dont no ur name but u no mine i hear u are a fag so dont toch mine.u better watch me before u see what rappenn is all about.

― jacob griffin, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

"Six in the mo'nin"

― Gavin, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

"giving ends to your friends and it felt stupendous / chrome spokes on your japanese bike"

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di" OWNZ this thread.

In agreeance, though the stickler in me says that's a Doug E. Fresh track. Our "MC Ricky D" was just a member of the Get Fresh Crew at that point... shortly to overtake Doug E.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

My murderous techniques take over my body deliver my flows,
Watch my skills absorb the energy, my power grows,
Eminem doesn’t have skills it never shows,
He eats his mama’s pussy for lunch and recess,
Doesn’t stop there he begins a raping process,
Chop the body up and make a big fucked mess,

― D-pac, Friday, 26 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Am so fine,
I spit dis line,
Fuck wiv me,
Al fuck wiv ya mind.

― ChEeKy, Sunday, 19 March 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

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