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

[Professor Emeritus]

Nobody quotes any of those in real life but Ether

I made the thread after someone used "smile like a proud dad, watching his only son that made it", and it made me think of how many of these phrases I keep hearing.


"murdered you on your own shyt" and "gave you a style for you to run with" are used all the time here and elsewhere, and all the others are used on occasion as well. Literally have posters in the OP and commenters after that confirming it.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

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

I dunno about Story of Adidon though

Takeover has "You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song", "You had a spark when you started" and "We don't believe you, you need more people". That's pretty good but it doesn't match Ether's list. Hit 'Em Up and Stan don't have any phrases on par with what Ether put out, and ironically Ether is really the song that helped popularize "Stan" as a word folk actually used.

 

[Redwood]

Takeover has "You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song", "You had a spark when you started" and "We don't believe you, you need more people". That's pretty good but it doesn't match Ether's list. Hit 'Em Up and Stan don't have any phrases on par with what Ether put out, and ironically Ether is really the song that helped popularize "Stan" as a word folk actually used.

Takeover also had Jay's math error

 

[staticshock]

Takeover has contributed more quotes to the culture

 

[Slim Charles]

Think of all the million people that have been called a Stan IRL and online. The one thing Jay can say he was the original of, was being called a Stan

 

[Piff Perkins]

I love Hit Em Up but I'm not sure it has any lines that get passed around like Ether or even Takeover.

 

[jj23]

Takeover has "You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song", "You had a spark when you started" and "We don't believe you, you need more people". That's pretty good but it doesn't match Ether's list. Hit 'Em Up and Stan don't have any phrases on par with what Ether put out, and ironically Ether is really the song that helped popularize "Stan" as a word folk actually used.

""Insert subject here" is the army, better yet the navy" is practically a coli tradition.

Ether coined the phrase"ether' but it's a stretch to claim it has as many quotables as Takeover.

 

[JustCKing]

I love Hit Em Up but I'm not sure it has any lines that get passed around like Ether or even Takeover.

The rant at the end of the song has lines that get passed around.

 

[JustCKing]

""Insert subject here" is the army, better yet the navy" is practically a coli tradition.

Ether coined the phrase"ether' but it's a stretch to claim it has as many quotables as Takeover.

That army/navy line is a bite off of B.G.'s "Cash Money Is An Army". Can't say that Jay took a hot line and made a hot song because it was a hot song before Jay made it a hot line.

 

[JustCKing]

I submit these:

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I submit these:

Those are good contributions. Someone gotta start making lists tho or there ain't no debate. I still have Takeover #2 but Ms. Jackson and Ain't No Fun both bring competition.

 

[DontEemTry]

Is this a troll post?

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Nobody quotes any of those in real life but Ether

I literally know tons of dudes who would just be spitting lines from either and laughing over the years. That shyt was comedy and stuck.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

"Taebo ho"
"36 in a karate class trying to work it out trying to be brolic."

I heard both these used to clown people back then. The karate line people just use to change the age and say the rest.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Don’t forget Gay-Z and Cockafella Records