When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'
Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk, Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned
I don't really know what 'respect' means. That sounds like something a kid in the street says after he's getting ready to take your coat and your shoes.
I'm from where...Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up
Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up Back coupes up & chunk the deuce up
I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that.
I'm brandin', I aint talking bout Presley. I keep a sniper, I aint talking bout Wesley.
A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.
Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.
What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I kept coming outside, I was doing my own little jostlin' to get my money.
This lost boy got fly without Peter Pan
You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.
Niggas is decaf, I stick 'em for the C.R.E.A.M.
I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.
Still here with my day jne niggas
Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.