Favorite self-awareness bars from rappers

[GPBear]

Wanted to rhyme like Common Sense
But I sold 5 mill ain't rhymed like Common since

If skills sold truth be told, I'd probably be, lyrically Talib Kweli


MF DOOM was always self-deprecating at times, think he called himself a 'grizzly bearded weirdo' once
I wrote this one in B.C. D.C. O-section
If you don't believe me, go get bagged and check then
Cell number 17, up under the top bunk
I say this not to be mean, wish bad luck or pop junk

Deck too
"22 long hard years and still struggling...
Handcuffed the back of a bus, 40 of us, life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough."

 

[SunZoo]

My lyrical content contains subject matter
That sucks up all these fukked up, young kids at a
Alarmin' rate, common denominate
Add it up, and you see just why I dominate
I try to stimulate, but kids emulate
and mimic every move you make, Slim, you great!
But wait, can't you see I'm only hear to entertain?
I gotta be the one to go against the grain
It's how I see it, feel it, live it but it's inhumane
For me to see you be influenced then pretend you ain't
But they don't understand that I been through pain
If you get to know me I can be a friend you gain
But you can't just stand there and try to judge
It hurts but your jealousy prolly tears you up inside as much
And as such, I pleasure every button that I touch
I treasure every glutton that I punish in my lust - Eminem "stimulate"

 

[JQ Legend]

Regardless of that, I've seen things as far as the crack
that'll make the hardest, largest, artist heart just collapse
I'm part of all that that's why it's so hard to go back
and start it from scratch
I'm locked and I'm trapped, in a giant cage
Trying to savor these few dying days
I have left to the form of flesh; should I lie in my grave?
I'm trying to persuade my mind to try to be brave
and not give death the satisfaction of seein me dying afraid - Big Pun

Im ashamed I’m Latino from the Bronx and gotta ask what song this is but

“I’m sick of working dead end jobs with lame pay
And I’m tired of being hired and fired the same day
But fukk it, if u know the rules to the game, play
Cause when we die, we know we all going the same way”

 

[wizworld]

The line about being ugly in song cry

I can see why Jay had issues with Harlem dudes. He was doing business with the same people who would just casually call him ugly. He had to deal with a bunch of people like this when he came Uptown.


He dealt with it because there was good money to be made.

 

[Yehuda]

I'll never be picture-perfect Beyoncé
Be light as Al B or black as Chauncey
Remember him from Blackstreet? He was black as the street was

Man Kanye's color struck like a mf.

 

[Headcase]

Dear Diary by Masta Ace. Especially in the 2nd verse when reflecting on the battle with Boogieman at the Lyricist Lounge.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Word.

 

[Pazzy]

 

[Pazzy]

"Cause my heart pumps foul blood in my arteries
And i cant turn it back cause it's a part of me"

Prodigy-"up north trip" (RIP)



"6 feet 2 and still wack on the court"-rza blood brother

"I never sold cocaine in my life but I'm still the fukking man"-luda

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

“He looks to himself when he needs someone to hate on”
-DOOM

 

[YourMajesty]

“The first rap I wrote was five pages full of bullshyt and lies
About me killin' nikkas and flippin' pies
But when I got by myself, I found myself
And realized that if I was a child in these times
I wouldn't want to follow in the steps of these guys”

Curren$y

 

[Mandizi]

"Yo I admit I'm a sucka
a low-down dirty stinkin double-crossin conniving muthafukka
breakin in cribs with a crowbar
I wasn't poor I was po I couldn't afford the o-r"

Big L (r.i.p.) one of the best punchlines ever

 

[Zero]

Im ashamed I’m Latino from the Bronx and gotta ask what song this is but

“I’m sick of working dead end jobs with lame pay
And I’m tired of being hired and fired the same day
But fukk it, if u know the rules to the game, play
Cause when we die, we know we all going the same way”

 

[Budda]

Nore

Yo, yo Melvin Flynt drop, my whole collasso stop
I can't believe I fukked up and made a half-ass album
My excuse is, my pops just died, and I ain't wanna make music
My pops just died

If Nore wasn’t a rapper he could have easily been a comedian lol.

 

[Budda]

I'm an ignorant and negative nikka
I sell crack, bust guns, pop shyt, and say I'm better than nikkas

holiday had me crying b

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