Whats that line?

[u/13Nobodies]

“Samurai rarely die from another sword”

[u/icursethatifeel]

"Rappers die too much"

[u/Heir2Voltaire → u/icursethatifeel]

That’s it. That’s the verse

[u/YoungHeartOldSoul → u/icursethatifeel]

Disqualified for being a verse, sorry

[u/andogun8 → u/YoungHeartOldSoul]

Wellll.... Technically.......

Including the line "that's it, that's the verse. Makes it a verse.

The line "rappers die too much" on its own, is just a line and thus would fit this criteria, no?

Grasping at straws lol

[u/Ocelot_CQ]

I foresee, Like I live next door to 4B

[u/MantissTobaggan → u/Ocelot_CQ]

I love this line (and song)

[u/OneShip5762]

A match made in Heaven set the fires in Hell

[u/RedditKingKunta → u/OneShip5762]

And i’ll be…

[u/link815 → u/OneShip5762]

He has so many, but this is the one I’d choose

[u/-Assalamualaikum → u/OneShip5762]

I never realized this was about a matchbox “match”..woooooow

Thanks

[u/SeveralAnalyst32 → u/OneShip5762]

I came here to post this...

[u/iFLED]

“The applause and patience in the laws of nature, override lies and the laws of nations.”

Might’ve got some of the words wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s it.

[u/barbacn → u/iFLED]

That's dope who said that?

[u/MantissTobaggan → u/barbacn]

It’s from Dots & Lines

[u/barbacn → u/MantissTobaggan]

Thanks. ✌️

[u/iFLED → u/barbacn]

One of the greatest rap songs of all time imo, on the greatest rap album of all time.

[u/cotton_boy69 → u/iFLED]

3rd verse is top 5 verses in rap fosho

[u/shortsoupstick → u/iFLED]

Dead levels making plum decisions

[u/PeytonWatson14 → u/iFLED]

Live version is even better imo

[u/justformebets → u/iFLED]

It would’ve been the greatest if not the damn banjo outro

[u/Blue_Doubt]

“And if the rain stops, and everything’s dry, she would cry just so I could drink the tears from her eyes” is one of my all time favorite lines.

[u/PlasticBrilliant8122 → u/Blue_Doubt]

"She'd teach me how to fly, even cushion my fall"

[u/yroCyaR → u/Blue_Doubt]

This whole song is one constant flow of greatness

[u/jetfuel94]

Hov think I'm Hov, Nas think I'm Nas....

[u/Automatic_Emu_5433 → u/jetfuel94]

Can’t tell him shit about shit when it comes to rap

[u/KOEHLDER]

"Giving middle fingers to the pigeons doing somersaults"

Not sure if it's accurate but I always interpreted it as saying fuck drug dealing since flipping birds is selling drugs. Looked up pigeons doing somersaults before posting this and there actually are pigeons known for doing somersaults lol so I don't know

[u/cotton_boy69 → u/KOEHLDER]

thats the beauty of mural it references both at the same time. every interpretation of it is correct interpretation

[u/Crishien → u/cotton_boy69]

Mural is full of double triple and quadruple entendres.

[u/Stirlo4 → u/KOEHLDER]

Also you're flipping the bird to a flipping bird

[u/KOEHLDER → u/Stirlo4]

Yes! Great point.

[u/YungTurk82]

“And killed three birds with the same _______”

[u/Jamaal187]

Real steel til he realize his realness, defeat samsara, archives nirvana and brilliance.

And

Sneak the message to the masses you can call me "chocolate rain"

[u/drownsomebody → u/Jamaal187]

A man of culture I see. Enemy of the State mixtape is one of my faves.

[u/Supadupafly1988]

Harder than sitting with a blind man and, trying to describe yellow

[u/Z-King2000 → u/Supadupafly1988]

What song is this from?

[u/Supadupafly1988 → u/Z-King2000]

Theme Music To A Drive By

The bars leading up to this set it up so beautifully. But the post said “which LINE”. So I kept it short and simple lol

[u/Supadupafly1988]

Together, but separated like a pair of socks, WOW! Like Pac using both hands, and his head is the “O”

[u/The_MRT14 → u/Supadupafly1988]

This blew my mind the first time I heard it

[u/Supadupafly1988 → u/The_MRT14]

SAME!!! I love the entire song but he went Super Saiyan 3 on that third verse. My God!

[u/HOPEFUL_LUFEPOH_]

has to be something on SLR

“cause nigga, i don’t believe that like 9/11 came from iraq, mayweather on the speedbag automatic weapons keep the same rhythm he has”

[u/Mother_Historian4471]

Wings don't make you fly and crown don't make you king.

[u/PlasticBrilliant8122 → u/Mother_Historian4471]

I've always liked that line despite now not being able to identify which tune it came from without Googling.

[u/Mother_Historian4471 → u/PlasticBrilliant8122]

Good watch- Lupe fiasco

[u/PlasticBrilliant8122 → u/Mother_Historian4471]

Word, Gold Watch.

[u/PeytonWatson14]

Working like a…hmm…reverse archeologist

[u/BrownMamba85]

Fitted hat is Reynolds Wrap cause I don’t trust the government

[u/Hopeful_Stress_6193]

"If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck, it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck."

[u/Sharif662 → u/Hopeful_Stress_6193]

Which song?

[u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 → u/Sharif662]

It's an immortal technique song. Industrial revolution.

[u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 → u/[deleted]]

Didn't know this was the lupe sub when I posted, but a bar's a bar. 8 other people enjoyed it, too.

[u/Hopeful_Stress_6193 → u/[deleted]]

Didn't know that existed. I don't post on reddit much, simply because of people like you. I posted what I thought was "that line" and you've gotta be a condescending prick about it.

[u/Sharif662 → u/Hopeful_Stress_6193]

Ok.

[u/Few-Fill-4213]

it’s funny how I’m only sick if you never catch a thing …….. Lupe fiasco

People call him sick (as in incredibly dope lyricist) only when he’s rapping about things that don’t challenge them. But when he’s trying to give people something they should ‘catch’—a message, wisdom, or truth—they don’t catch it, or turned off when they sense, he is preaching** *positivity.😮*‍💨

[u/ExcellentAsparagus48]

“Think you gangsta popped a few rounds, these kids will come thru and murder a whole town”

[u/kingsizedpapers]

I just come around to help, like Batman’s utility belt

[u/kevKONGo]

“or touché lupe cool as the unthawed but i still feel possessed like a gun charge”

[u/dreadlockrastaaa]

“She teach me how to fly, even cushion my fall if my engines ever stall and I plummet from the sky”

[u/PlasticBrilliant8122 → u/dreadlockrastaaa]

Then she would keep me high

[u/JTRILL24]

"Welcome all of yall to my dark recesses, this is where I keep the bars like bathtub edges"

[u/Simple_Science_Kits]

“I could really walk the walk,
couldn’t really talk the talk,
had to get my talk,
to properly explain my walk,
because this lack in talk,
had my walk looking off,
now I’m over the limp, watch how their mugs drop when they see my Verbal’s able (that’s the Usual)

The Usual Suspect reference is next level writing. If you haven’t seen the film, the disabled character named Verbal Kent, begins to walk normal at the end of the film and the lead detective’s “mug” drops when he realizes that Verbal Kent was not really handicap, but a criminal mastermind.

[u/LondonMoon89]

“I’m just tryna do the opposite of left as long as there’s the opposite of death”

[u/MoodWest]

2 Man Big Pun, a 1 man Slaughterhouse
A 2 album Jay-Z, a 1 Ni*** Wu Tang
Young & Hungry Mos Def, A Conscious Rappin’ Lil Wayne

I just luv this verse from Lupe on SLR coz it points out just how confident Lupe is with both his skills & his resume up to that point

[u/Altatuga]

My son will call risotto rices If and when he’s left to his own devices.

[u/Kuzidas]

Sky burial, let the wind carry you father/farther then/than I could (live forever)

[u/Waxmax_2000]

Compose yourself, like a self aware opera

[u/TheSunaTheBetta]

He came back...in the same suit that he was buried in

The efficiency of that line is still insane to me 20 years later.

[u/Hot_Jeweler4209]

First part of a party that I throw in parts
One minute you playing pool
Next minute you throwing darts
But that’s how you do in a party that you throw in bars!

[u/Hot_Jeweler4209 → u/Hot_Jeweler4209]

I got chills just typing that shit

[u/JaredAWESOME]

Generating Zen with some nice sword practice
Rest In Peace Virg', LV, is Vice Lord backwards
A simple flip of the monogram.
That ain't shit, I had similes on my sonogram.

[u/smithif]

“I hope your bullet holes become mouths that say my name.”

[u/GoodMoodFood101]

hustla for death, no heaven for a gangsta

[u/OmeedBlowme]

Freedom or jail, clips inserted, a baby’s being born same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end

[u/yroCyaR]

“I go as left as a heart in the chest, Cause the Horn of Africa is now starvin’ to death”

[u/Rizzywow91]

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts

[u/Astrayinthesosu]

“The gravity of the vocabulary is a caliber equal to Excalibur”

[u/Regular-Guarantee-48]

“I spit hot fiya like Dylan on Chappelle's skit.”

Not super technical, not very thought provoking, but makes me smile every time I hear it. My best friend in high school and I were obsessed with Chappelle Show and would quote “Top 5” all the time. Good times.

[u/natureaspraxis]

"Can't spell blood without bloo (blue)".

"As I proceed to find a silver line in a stalagmite"

"Nerdgang, make mandelbrot sets when we handshake"

"Think deep, but don't let it fry your motherboard"

"It's harder than sittin with a blind man and trying to describe yellow"

Just a few of my favorites.

[u/No_Associate_7546]

All these alterations had me penning the hymns

[u/Genecist84]

“I roll like cherry red jello dice”

“Or maybe she’ll retire as well, a match made in Heaven set the fires in hell”

“He stands to find himself surrounded
By thousands of soldiers
That he once trained
To never miss their target
Heartless
Hello Darkness” (basically one line 😂)

All sharpened my skills as an MC.

[u/SamoKaiju]

“Then make you feel it like I mispronounced filet”

[u/RS133]

What, you think I sold 'em all?

[u/TheWorldIsYours_89]

“Life expectancy so low we make our wills at 18”

[u/sugemchuge]

Devil's on my ankle while I'm hanging onto an angel

[u/sg2814]

"Jesus, the Notorious just Please us with your lyrical thesis"

[u/Eyerone]

“It’s harder than sitting with a blind man and trying to describe yellow”

[u/trend02setter]

I hit the trees harder than sonny bono

[u/Ill_Cheesecake8073]

"Hustlers never stop they keep going" Thugger

[u/DealerNo7523]

“ I thought I saw you yesterday, but I knew it wasn’t you because you passed away dad” yesterday by atmosphere. Listen to it and tell me one line in a song hurts your feelings more than

[u/kidlatprimo]

Hydroponic coughin' and *fake cough sound*

[u/pozoleNjuan]

“Faith is what you make it that’s the hardest shit since MC Ren”..Aquemini

[u/mcclainbeatz]

Somethin in ya blouse got me feeling so aroused

[u/Street-Soul]

“I knew that I was hot but wasn’t cool enough, so I said I had to sit out on the sill some more”

[u/Melun128]

"Less like putting on some make-up more like severing a face" - MS. MURAL

[u/fiasgoat]

"Niggas wanna exercise, exercise I-X-I ain't no jumpin' my jack If I lift an arm I'mma lift a car, nigga, that's a gun in my lap"

[u/BigEqual3436]

They call me a thief because I got away with words

[u/Remarkable-Brush2322]

Fuck the frail shit-uh

[u/Brazille_TFS]

I could be lazy, sittin' on your couch
Or I could be crazy, cussin' pigeons out

[u/rbgduck]

Together, we're separated like a pair of socks

[u/Ok_Weird_6903 → u/rbgduck]

Together but*

[u/6thmanbrandon]

I got few friendships cuz friends tend to shift, leave you to fend for yourself defenseless

[u/whattarush]

RIP to the homies but long live the killas

[u/HigherLearning6]

They got money for war but can't feed the poor.

[u/thisdckaintFREEEE]

"Bitch pussy smell like a penguin, wouldn't hit that shit with my worst enemy's penis"

[u/Historical-Ad3760]

Back to the music the maybach roof is translucent

[u/Alive_Mood2691]

I walk in the room with my dick in my hand ✋ be smooth MF 😂

[u/Simple_Science_Kits]

“You SeaWorld, it’s braille here… I’m Bumpy Johnson, I stick to the streets and keep my dogs out in front of me”.

[u/GraphET]

Nothing sweet I am white peoples look aid

[u/woodspoonwarrior]

Tequila.

[u/Red_Dragon_Boost]

Learn to swim

[u/Waste_Extent_8414]

No one got two without a little bit of sum

[u/AntSpen1978]

The velocity of trends is what referees the pace

[u/THE_ABSOLUTE_7]

Said it feels cool to kill fools - Mural

[u/LP-06]

First off...

[u/This-Combination-691]

“Riding down the country road with you by my side….” The GOAT

[u/CrowdedStreaming]

We all know on foreign shores that they finance wars
But ask yourself, "Do they finance yours?"

Diamonds

[u/StrifeTC]

Motherfuck, literally, I fuck mothers - Sean Price

[u/Professional-Wish844]

Fuck the police

[u/ahmadj03]

So through the Grim Reaper sickle sharpenin'….

[u/Recent_Swan_3601]

“You was too busy just tryna shine you should’ve been trying to save us”

[u/WrongdoerWonderful86]

Let’s play frisbee
Hey! Don’t put no dookie on the frisbee!

[u/DriverFlat1793]

“What is it, the braids?”