Favorite Tetsuo & Youth + Pharaoh Height 2/30 Quotables

[NoHalfWay]

The whole card scheme

"The Beloved T-Rex says
Grown man bars is somethin' you gotta deal with
Whole hand cards but nothin' that you can build with
That sound like bullshyt from out a bull mouth
Even the tepee is a full house
Simple shelter keep you out the cold
If you hold it close together, we'll never fold
Why you lettin' the devil beat you out your soul
You don't believe in God then at least believe in odds
This house of our is just a house of cards
Just without the yards, and nice adjacent parks
We was born black but that shyt'll make you dark
Even with a handful of hearts
Mind on the club just to find a little love, my regards
Cause when your P-O-V is poverty
It's like D-O-C a lottery, that D-O-C be lock and key
Finna D-O-P-E bob and weave
And the boxer boxin' free
Up out them rings like it was Rocky 3
Caught up in the game now
Look at how we came out like olly olly oxen free"

If it was Andre 3K rapping some of this shyt nikkas would lose their minds

 

[ThisWorldAintRight]

#Bars


This man ain't no joke on that microphone.

 

[NoHalfWay]

"Paradigm shifter
South Carolina nine shrine shine giver
But not enough dimes to be a crime line tipper"

 

[Arithmetic]

My rap position, was black condition, and activism
Ammunition for abolition, missions attacking systems
But they're not apt to listen, unless it's dropping on Activision
Are we apps, or are we bodies filled with apparitions?
Operating applications, stuck inside an Apple prison
Chicken hack, and download updates that lack religion
Or are we more...
...Than soil tainting, disloyal changelings
Preoccupied with boy and Goyle chasing, and foiling other's royal saintings?
I sit back and watch the world, through eye holes, in my oil paintings

 

[Arithmetic]

The whole card scheme

"The Beloved T-Rex says
Grown man bars is somethin' you gotta deal with
Whole hand cards but nothin' that you can build with
That sound like bullshyt from out a bull mouth
Even the tepee is a full house
Simple shelter keep you out the cold
If you hold it close together, we'll never fold
Why you lettin' the devil beat you out your soul
You don't believe in God then at least believe in odds
This house of our is just a house of cards
Just without the yards, and nice adjacent parks
We was born black but that shyt'll make you dark
Even with a handful of hearts
Mind on the club just to find a little love, my regards
Cause when your P-O-V is poverty
It's like D-O-C a lottery, that D-O-C be lock and key
Finna D-O-P-E bob and weave
And the boxer boxin' free
Up out them rings like it was Rocky 3
Caught up in the game now
Look at how we came out like olly olly oxen free"

If it was Andre 3K rapping some of this shyt nikkas would lose their minds

Love this song. Don't know how I forgot about it. Lupe can flow on anyone's song, anyone's beat. dap/rep

 

[ball15life]

5th year with the DOC
You can see what's CO see
Robocop opt his COP
3 hots and a C-O-T
Lived in a small town, his whole life
Never left, soundin' like the hole, right?
Either working at the prison, or it's no lights
In the system working with the po-lice
In the prison stripping nikkas phone rights
Got a malice, on the other side of the bars
Watching nikkas get smart, watching nikkas get strong
Watching nikkas get home, he jail us
But deep down he jealous
With each sweep down, he tell us
With each beat down, he help us
Wrong one gon' knock his ass out though
It's why he gotta lock all the nikkas out for
Warden told the boy he better calm down
Step back from the brink and put the bomb down
But how the whole world in your palm sound?
It's why they treat nikkas like shyt
Writing raps to the taps, keep the face mask on 'em these nikkas might spit!

 

[Anti-Anime]

So many quotable on TRON. I spin that joint so many Fukkin times a week

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Can't be eyes closed when you side scroll
You not the first person
The first person from your first curse, until your first cursive
And your curse words is in the curve version
It occurs virgin is the word version
That refers perfect to the first person
In the third verse, who's really me..
In the third person, but prefers the first one, that's me..
Again... - Adoration Of The Magi

His flow was water right there

TRON still one of my favs tho

 

[NoHalfWay]

"Dirty needles breaking all the old records"

Just let that line settle in for a second

5th year with the DOC
You can see what's CO see
Robocop opt his COP
3 hots and a C-O-T
Lived in a small town, his whole life
Never left, soundin' like the hole, right?
Either working at the prison, or it's no lights
In the system working with the po-lice
In the prison stripping nikkas phone rights
Got a malice, on the other side of the bars
Watching nikkas get smart, watching nikkas get strong
Watching nikkas get home, he jail us
But deep down he jealous
With each sweep down, he tell us
With each beat down, he help us
Wrong one gon' knock his ass out though
It's why he gotta lock all the nikkas out for
Warden told the boy he better calm down
Step back from the brink and put the bomb down
But how the whole world in your palm sound?
It's why they treat nikkas like shyt
Writing raps to the taps, keep the face mask on 'em these nikkas might spit!

New approach might help a nikka bowl better
New hoes (holes) might help a nikka hold together
Or will the new lane lead em' to the same pen (pin)?
And the hunger strike in em' to the same tin (ten)?

Bowling/Prison metaphors

 

[newworldafro]

Keep saying.....why Nas ain't give Lupe a feature or vice versa in what...10 years of Lupe being "known" ...
.....and I'm a Nas Stan.

Apologize, this a Lupe thread...... that boy good!!

 

[Maximus Rex]

Yeah, lots of options, now up is down, two player
Now A is jump and B is punch
You seein' somethin' that weren't there
To find friendliness in a nemesis, it's a old test
3 buttons, see somethin'
That's emphasis on genesis
its levels to this shyt

 

[B-Mint94]

Not on either project but:



"Even rejection is perfection when i'm thru with rhymes
They cut the floors out my cutting room
Just to make them out the doors of the Guggenheim
Raps catholic church
Discarded bars would kill just to get back in my verse"

 

[erker]

Fantastic thread! "Lupe got no quotables on Tetsuo & Youth" my ass...

Alot of great ones have been mentioned already. I really like Blur my Hands:

you starting at the end, that’s the part where you begin
I skip the bullshyt so we can start it where we win
Yeah, spoiler alert
I can hear you all saying “boy you’re a jerk”
But it’s cool though, know we gotta rule yo
Get in, then we win and do it all again, ho

Love this reference to Falling Down too:

Sitting in your car, just listening to the bars
And there's traffic all around and you feel like falling down
And the music that I'm spewing out, enough to calm it down
'Fore you know you're out your car with your briefcase walkin' round
And them dollars from the budget that went to S1 Production
And Sebastian on the hook, like being dug by Michael Douglas
So don't start that walk through Echo Park
When life's a one-on-one and you caught up in the jam
Just show some love back to your number one fan

 

[Monoblock]

"We G's coach us back if we die in business
My Lord is my chemist, my sword is from Khemet
Egyptian fonts and ankhs
Scottish writes (rites) with Montblancs let us stomp
I walk as my father walk, master builder is what I thought"

dropping that alchemical principle, ancient knowledge & freemasonry shyt

"Where the golden means,(fibonnaci) so the overseer gets overseen
And the over here's are the older things
Can see the bell but don't know the rings
The rings are not sounds, but circles
Wear these on your virtues
See through these circles just like Steve Urkel
Till it's all universal (LABEL)
And it harmonize in like proportion to the larger size (as above so below)
And it's dynamic in the high standard
So each degree has a part to price (degrees of freemasonry)
See big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser worlds and so on to viscosity"

dropping that science

"To make gold from garbage is not the alchemical point of this math
But truth be told it's the pursuit of gold that turns the goal of men into trash
The soul's gold and they turning gold into cash
And your reflection is your connection to more collections of more directions and paths
If your reflection is a mask, then you're reflective of mass
To see yourself just look at me then split your reflection in half"

More alchemical principles and deep metaphors that goes over nikkas heads, possibly the deepest and trippiest verse I've heard in my life

Dots & Lines is lowkey one of the most profound songs I've heard in my life, all of it has deeper spiritual meanings in reference to how selling your soul to a label isn't worth it & you should "Go straight and don't sine" in reference to sine waves

The Dots & Angles also have deeper meanings to, nikka said In A Line 5 times, referring to pentagrams & 3 angels/angles referring to deep sacred geometry

Lupe is the undoubted GOAT

 

[Danie84]

2nd verse of Adoration of the Maji, tho

...made GTAV yoga/Super Mario Bros/Sega Genesis BARZ into one complex rhyme scheme

But, that's the Lupe steal like Lupin the 3rd, I know