Wisdom in rap lyrics

[JaeOne3345]

Fashawn's "Hey Young World" feat. Aloe Blacc and Devoya

"The hard times you make it through teach the best lessons"

[JaeOne3345]

[JaeOne3345]

How can you front on this?

[mitchwully]

Cool stuff.. but.. any lines in particular?

[JaeOne3345]

there are tons allllll through those songs.

[RealSon]

[phillysoulman]

Originally Posted by ncoak

a sense of humor?

You had me there for a minute

[azwun25]

Pretty much any line ever said by Killah Priest.

[azwun25]

Oh i forgot, Wyclef had a simple line from back in the day that always struck me as profound...

"What do you mean John 3:16? For God so loved the world every man packs an M16"


There are many many profound thoughts to be had in rap music if you don't subscribe to the mindless drivel pushed by the labels and major radio.

[fooloof]

"why mo' niggas in the pen than in college?"

i wouldn't say it helped me, but it is a profound social statement that makes you think.

ice cube-the nigga you love to hate

from AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.

[IM WHO YOU THINK]

Tupac

"Life as a rap star is nothing without God".

Rakim
When I'm writing I'm trapped in between the lines, I escape when I finish the rhyme. I got soul.

Don't know if that qualifies as "wisdom" but I properly describes EXACTLY what is felt in writers block etc....


.

[Xplizit]

Bear witness to Allah, gave birth to all
For Allah was all, and therefore, life itself
And the universe gave birth to man
The universe was man, and man was the universe
And the universe was always existed
And existance was life
And life is Allah
And Allah had no beginning because he is, what always was
Rakim Allah, peace
Now who is God?

Rakim-Mystery(who is god)

Basically the whole song, but this part at the end is incredible...x...

[arcanjoloco]

" Mama aint raised no fool / put me anywhere on God´s green earth / I´ll triple my worth... "

[DigDouglas]

Pharoahe Monch, from Organized 'Releasing Hypnotical Gasses':

"I am one who is one with all things, thus the unorthodox I am
The paradox I am, the equinox extending my hand
into dimensions to unlock new doorways
And so the light has revealed to me that there must be more ways
And so I play with rhythms, for something more than a mere game
enabling me to advance in wisdom
Words will exist like vampires
No need for sunlight, from concentrations camps I escape
with my sanity -- in 2010 every man will be
subject to global warming, formless oval
Millions of locusts swarming
Seek and you shall find the deliverer of a rhyme
the intelligent one, utilizing the mind third vision
Surrounded by a three-sided figure, containing the brain
The triggering mechanism from which I strike
sight beyond sight, sound beyond sound
which comes from below the magma, the granite, the ground
The surface will seperate, dispersing harmful ashes
Your optics will not be able to detect
the deadly hypnotical gases
Damn it`s hard to breathe!!! But if I got one breath left;
I`ll suck wind from the valley of death, here I come
from the slums of earth to center
I reveal myself as a beast within a, unbreakable shell
Walkin through the doorways of Heaven -- or is this Hell?"
thats some unstoppable rawness right there.

[ncoak]

+1
^prolly one of the best verses of all time imo

[Nahuel]

Oye! esto es para mi pueblo
Con cariño del abayarde
Con Dj Adam y Cachete el majadero de lo pueblos
Pa\' mi pueblo que tanto quiero
De calderón pa\' Loiza entero
Oye
Ando sin prisa, pero tu lentitud me encoleriza
Y es que no bregan con Loiza (no, no bregan)
Y es que me quieren hacer pensar
Que soy parte de una trilogía racial
Donde to el mundo es igual, sin trato especial
Se perdonar, eres tu que no te sabes disculpar
Pues como justificas tanto mal
Este tu historia es vergonzosa entre otras cosas
Cambiaste las cadenas por esposas
No todos somos iguales en términos legales
Eso esta probao en los tribunales
En lo claro, la justicia siempre anda con candao
Oye, por eso estamos como estamos (que se joda sin trabajo)
Si no hay chavos pa abogados
Te provee uno el estado
Pero hermano, te llevo quien te trajo
Te matan y no desenfundan
La jaula se te inunda
Asistencia legal en defensa de segunda
Nunca va a haber justicia sin igualdad
Maldita maldad que destruye la humanidad
Con que protesta va a quitarme la libertad?
Si yo no reconozco su autoridad
Nunca va a haber justicia con igualdad
Maldita maldad que destruye la humanidad
Con que protesta va a quitarme la libertad?
Si yo no pertenezco a su sociedad
De hipócritas, vanidad y falsedad en cantidad
Mucho de to sin felicidad
Yo no tengo na, solo esta letra encabrona
Y la capacidad de no creer en tu verdad
A quien mas se le ocurriría saturar la mente
De niños inocentes con educación inconsistente
Manipulada viciosamente a conveniencia del prominente
De los pudientes
En el pasado se curaron, abusaron
Y yo me niego a no darme por enterado
Se dice que las cosas han cambiado
No te duermas, los animales andan con palos
Es que he oído a Rubén Berrios, abogan por los míos
Por eso en ninguno confió
Todos con Vieques y mi pueblo negro no padece??
O es que to's creen que se lo merecen
Poco a poco negrito ponte mañoso
Vive orgulloso del todopoderoso como nosotros
Falsos niches que se creen mejores por sus profesiones
O por tener facciones de sus opresores
Si una buena madre sus hijos no daña
Cabrones, lambones, pal carajo España
Yo soy niche, orgulloso de mis raíces
De tener mucha bemba y grandes narices
Y sufriendo dejamos de ser felices
Por eso Papa Dios nos bendice
Nunca va a haber justicia sin igualdad
Maldita maldad que destruye la humanidad
Con que protesta va a quitarme la libertad?
Si yo no reconozco su autoridad
Yo no se porque, si yo con nadie me meto (nah, yo soy tranquilo tu sabes como es)
Y siempre hay un canto de buey que le falta a uno el respeto
Yo no se porque...
Boricua
Este es el Abayarde
Trayendola como es
Metiendole fuertemente pa\' despertar a mi gente
Oye que bonito es mi Loiza
Mira que bonito es
El Dj Adam nos fuimos

[phillysoulman]

FYI, according to the Billboard charts,aside from the Hip Hop charts,there is very little(by comparison)rap on the Hot 100 singles and Top 200 albums.
Does that tell you that rap is in its final days???

[Powder Kutz]

"aight STOP! collaborate and listen...."


....rap isn't going anywhere

[roman manlord]

I can't remember the name of the song or who does it, but it's the one where he details how much a$$ he kicks, how much p*$$y he gets and how much money he has. Also, it contains tons of forced rhymes and the music is simply the same two measures looped for about 4 minutes.



I think it featured someone else on the track as well.

[CityDump Records]

Originally Posted by roman manlord

I can't remember the name of the song or who does it, but it's the one where he details how much a$$ he kicks, how much p*$$y he gets and how much money he has. Also, it contains tons of forced rhymes and the music is simply the same two measures looped for about 4 minutes.



I think it featured someone else on the track as well.

Is their a point to this comment each genre has the same type of songs were a majority of the shit sounds the same.

But your so stupid you have prolly never heard anything but whats on the radio......


That reminds me of that country song with that guy singing about that girl he missed with that guitar riff that isn't played that well.

and that one band talkin about how nobody understands them and how the world is cruel with that one guy with tight pants.....................................................

[phillysoulman]

Originally Posted by Powder Kutz

"aight STOP! collaborate and listen...."


....rap isn't going anywhere

How much you wanna bet,home slice??

[CityDump Records]

Originally Posted by phillysoulman

How much you wanna bet,home slice??

I'll Bet you philly...............

(How many years are you thinking? I am a patient man so Ill wait for my winning’s)
(also what do you wana wager?)
(I think the loser has to wear a dress and makeup and pose singing in front of their favorite mic.)

Rap has to much of a following to go anywhere. To many artists still pursue it, to many clubs still play it, and to many fans still enjoy it.

I might agree that rap will change (most music genre’s do) I think we are at the climax of the garbage rap music and hopefully we can start getting back to more Hip/Hop. It looks like it is evolving and mixing with alot of techno right now as well as mixing with other genre’s.

[lazarus]

Life can be a hard game you got to play it to win it

It’s a cold world please don’t get too wrapped up in it

Learn the rules well, so you know how to break ‘em

Big rewards come with the same risk that’s taken

Enjoy every moment, try not to regret it

Judge your success by what you gave up to get it

Keep your friends close & carry on tradition

Put family above all, that love is unconditional

Travel on your journey from infant to adolescent

You got to plan for tomorrow but also live for the present

Shallow puddles act out, get wild, cause commotion

But it’s still water types that run deeper than oceans

You got your father’s strength, your mother’s infinite love

And your brother looking out for you from heaven above

I drop jewels for your mind to help guide you through

But remember how you live your life is all on you

[phillysoulman]

Originally Posted by CityDump Records

I'll Bet you philly...............

(How many years are you thinking? I am a patient man so Ill wait for my winning’s)
(also what do you wana wager?)
(I think the loser has to wear a dress and makeup and pose singing in front of their favorite mic.)

Rap has to much of a following to go anywhere. To many artists still pursue it, to many clubs still play it, and to many fans still enjoy it.

I might agree that rap will change (most music genre’s do) I think we are at the climax of the garbage rap music and hopefully we can start getting back to more Hip/Hop. It looks like it is evolving and mixing with alot of techno right now as well as mixing with other genre’s.

yes,that will be nice.
Its the garbage that makes it bad for everyone else.

[BaySickLy]

The advantage of rap wisdom over scholastic wisdom is that it is more raw and honest. Political correctness is an agent of the "community" and serves nobody in particular exept the greater society. Rap wisdom is more about the truth, whether it is ugly or not, it's the truth. The most interesting thing about modern rap is it's congruency with psychological and biological facts about the human race. If one were to study both, one would see so much scietific truth in the content of rap songs (rap itself being a report on what is going on in current urban society - it turns out rap's commentary on the human condition is as a totality, correct). --So in reality the expressions of emotions and ideas are very in touch with humanity, unmolded by cultural machinations of sociological control. Un-neutered by political correctness or hidden agendas of conformity. An embrace of the picture biology paints of us as parasitical "survival of the fitest" creatures.

Human beings are attracted to truth because it makes us feel alive. Therefore it makes sense that young men are addicted to this artform because besides the logistics of the music or the flow-etry it delivers, it primarily provides them with truth about this world that they are trying to better understand and master. It makes sense it's the most popular music genre amongst young people.


Random unrelated example: Bun B - Get Ya Issue

[beat you down]

i don't see how documenting 'reality' or 'the truth' equals wisdom.

[BaySickLy]

Originally Posted by beat you down

i don't see how documenting 'reality' or 'the truth' equals wisdom.

Reallly?

Wisdom is a deep understanding of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to choose or act. Wisdom is comprehension of what is true or right coupled with optimum judgment as to action.

So by that definition, it's reasonable to see where truth fits into the wisdom equation.

[Id Ridden]

....rap isn't going anywhere How much you wanna bet,home slice??

It will exist, but it will very much become a niche genre, it already is actually. It's just too easy to do and requires little skill.

[Wraith]

I always found this guys lyrics to be pretty deep and profound.


" I don't wanna war
I just want a piss"

I've been there man, I feel your pain.

[beat you down]

Originally Posted by BaySickLy

Reallly?

Wisdom is a deep understanding of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to choose or act. Wisdom is comprehension of what is true or right coupled with optimum judgment as to action.

So by that definition, it's reasonable to see where truth fits into the wisdom equation.

what i'm saying is... you don't need any kind of wisdom to document what's around you.

imo it only becomes interesting if you actually have something eye opening to say about what you document. i don't see many 'rappers' doing that. the majority of them are just 'street reporters'. not very interesting any longer. we already know 'there's a war going on outside no man is safe from'