Has there ever been a song to have more phrases enter the cultural lexicon than Ether?

[Professor Emeritus]

We STILL quote this shyt.

I use at least one line from this song in daily speech.

"murdered you on your own shyt"

"gave you a style for you to run with"

"smile like a proud dad, watching his only son that made it"

"Calling my crib and I ain't even give you my numbers"

"name a rapper that I ain't influenced"

"I know you aint talking about me. You?"

"dikk-riding fagot, you love the attention"

"shyt that make your soul burn slow"


And of course, just straight "Ether"

[edit: @dora_da_destroyer makes a fair argument that it needs the credit for "stan" as well]



There are a dozen other quotables but I'm listing those for sheer sustained use. It's been over 20 years and you still hear at least one of them on the daily.

 

[Mystic]

Nobody quotes any of those in real life but Ether

 

[Apprentice]

Ether is really the only reference I hear from the song nowadays

 

[Piff Perkins]

Nobody quotes any of those in real life but Ether

Nah. Me and my brothers been using "smile like a proud dad watching his only son that made it" since it came out. Hell one time I wasn't thinking and said that shyt to my dad, after he showed me some basic shyt he finally figured out how to do on his computer.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Stan as a verb and noun came from this as well. Of course it was Em’s song but no one called someone a stan or talked about stanning people until ether

 

[STAN JONES]

who the fukk says any of those phrases

 

[Redwood]

I would say probably Hit 'Em Up, Takeover, & Stan are on par with Ether.

I dunno about Story of Adidon though

 

[GollyImGully]

“U Been on my dikk..you love my style”

I used that when im fukking with my girl

 

[Professor K.]

I would say probably Hit 'Em Up, Takeover, & Stan are on par with Ether.

I dunno about Story of Adidon though

Only so many times where "YOU ARE HIDING A CHILD" would be applicable to the situation

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Lex Tha Con would be a dope rapper name for some reformed convict that wants to show the youth a different path

 

[NormanConnors]

All facts, Ether is arguably the goat diss track

 

[Sad Bunny]

Ether and Stan are words I often hear.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I would say probably Hit 'Em Up, Takeover, & Stan are on par with Ether.

I dunno about Story of Adidon though

What did stan introduce and where and how is it a diss track? No one used the word stan until ether despite it being one of Em’s seminal tracks

 

[jj23]

"murdered you on your own shyt"

"gave you a style for you to run with"

"smile like a proud dad, watching his only son that made it"

"Calling my crib and I ain't even give you my numbers"

"name a rapper that I ain't influenced"

"I know you aint talking about me. You?"

"dikk-riding fagot, you love the attention"

"shyt that make your soul burn slow"


And of course, just straight "Ether"



There are a dozen other quotables but I'm listing those for sheer sustained use. It's been over 20 years and you still hear at least one of them on the daily.

We don't believe you, you need more people....

 

[Redwood]

What did stan introduce and where and how is it a diss track? No one used the word stan until ether despite it being one of Em’s seminal tracks

I wasn't correlating Stan to the other two as part of a diss track, I was only using using that as an example for what OP stated.