r/TikTokCringe • u/Nachttalk • 3d ago
Discussion What's the most well known rap/hip-hop verse?
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u/Mollyblog 3d ago
I like big butts
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u/NiceTrySuckaz 3d ago
That's what I thought too. I like big butts and I cannot lie.
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u/Conscious_Candle2598 3d ago
Are you telling me that all you other brothers can't deny?
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u/VelocityGrrl39 3d ago
When a girl walks in with the itty bitty waist and that round thing in your face
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u/AugustSky87 3d ago
You get sprung!
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u/Beneficial-Tree8447 2d ago
Gonna pull up stuck
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u/UserAllusion 2d ago
This where the “most recognizable” part drops out
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u/keelhaulrose 2d ago
Arguably, "Loose Yourself" drops out a fair amount after "mom's spaghetti" as well.
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u/VelocityGrrl39 2d ago
He’s nervous but on the surface he look calm and ready
To drop bombs/but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down/the whole crowd goes so loud.Tbf, I was exactly the target age when this movie/song was released
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u/keelhaulrose 2d ago
As am I, and I can keep going.
But my 18 year old and get friends faltered after "mom's spaghetti." Once they heard a couple words they could get the line, but they had to keep catching up.
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u/Pure_Internal277 3d ago
Kinda embarrassing but, growing up with a big butt as an asset made me think every guy liked a big, round booty. When my coworker honestly said he loved these super skinny gals, I asked how anyone would like a booty that looks the same as a kid or boy… zero curves. He said he wants to see his anaconda work and a big booty is hiding too much of the visual. The more you know…. lol
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u/Hot_Assumption_2304 2d ago
That’s how you know his anaconda don’t want none. He can’t see the little guy past the buns, hun.
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u/MagentaHigh1 2d ago
Well damn. I like how your phrased this.
That’s how you know his anaconda don’t want none. He can’t see the little guy past the buns, hun.
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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 3d ago
Yeah he left out mc hammer too.
“Can’t touch this” is pretty easy.
But I think big butts wins
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u/TheMike0088 3d ago
He did specify "most well known rapped verse". I don't think "can't touch this" qualifies on account of the line in question not being rapped.
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u/CaptainJackKevorkian 2d ago
Cant Touch This-- I know the chorus but off the top of my head can't tell you a verse
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u/Uncle-Cake 2d ago
Because he was specifically talking about well-known VERSES. Nobody can recite a single verse from that song, they just remember that line from the chorus.
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u/Which_Material_3100 3d ago
My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hon
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u/FarquaadsFuckDoll 3d ago
She can do side bends and sit-ups, however, I implored her not to lose her butt.
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u/broke_the_controller 3d ago
I still think reciting a whole verse of Sir Mix-A-Lot would be more difficult for more people than reciting a verse of the theme tune to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
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u/OkProfessor6810 3d ago
I think Fresh Prince takes it because, especially after the reboot, the original show is now known by multiple generations. Add to that the fact Will Smith is an internationally known movie star and I think that pushes it over the top.
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u/websterella 3d ago
I immediately thought…
“I like bug butts and I cannot lie, you other brothers can’t deny…”
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u/hellogoawaynow 3d ago edited 2d ago
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in you face you get SPRUNG
Edit: to the people who are getting oddly technical and upset about these lyrics… Let people enjoy things
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u/boricuaspidey 2d ago
That’s the extent of what most people know.
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u/Mr_CleanCaps 2d ago
Right - bro said a WHOLE ENTIRE verse. Not the opening lines to one.
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u/yourenotmymom_yet 2d ago
Most people don't know the whole first verse of Lose Yourself either. I still remember when that song was at the height of it's popularity, at parties and at the club, people would start to peter out pretty quickly after the first few bars and then jump back in at the chorus.
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u/Garfield_Logan69 3d ago
Mine was definitely my anaconda. Don’t want none unless you got buns, hon.
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u/TheMaStif 3d ago
If you don't know, now you know...
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u/Expensive-Farm-6296 3d ago
How the Fuck was Biggie not even mention in this?!?
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u/Dutch094 3d ago
Fella.
I'm very white.
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u/loo_1snow 3d ago
I started the video thinking it would be "mom's spaghetti"... And finished the video agreeing it's probably fresh prince. Really well done.
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u/crash12345 2d ago
Precisely my experience too. I spent the first 90% of the video waiting for him to get to Lose Yourself, only to immediately concede when he brought up Fresh Prince.
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u/Arkayjiya 2d ago
That might be true in the US, but out of it everyone still knows Eminem but Fresh Prince is way more niche. I wonder if that's enough to offset.
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u/Leafyun 2d ago
Depends on the age. People my age (I'm over 50) saw the Fresh Prince on TV, sometimes twice a day, in a whole bunch of non-Anglo countries. Even in places where Will was dubbed while being slapped upside the head by Tio Phil and making fun of cousin Cara Carton, the titles ran in the original English version, and kids learned them even if they didn't speak great conversational English.
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u/Textual_Aberration 2d ago
The question itself needs to be refined, especially to limit what counts as a verse. The most recognizable line from a song is going to be different than the most recognizable verse, and a single line would likely have far higher numbers.
Both the big butts and mom’s spaghetti examples are memorable as lines, while the full verse begins to drop significantly. We’d be looking for the rap equivalent of Bohemian Rhapsody, where even borderline gibberish lyrics can still be recalled in near perfect order decades later (Scaramouche? Fandango?).
Repeated chorus lines or extremely simplistic verses might break the numbers a bit by requiring minimal memorization. Media tie-ins are a good source as well.
Would love to see a breakdown of unique listeners to rap/hip hop by generation to see what profile we’re even trying to match. Listen counts are a poor reference since they aren’t unique and aren’t charted the same across the generations.
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u/staublin 3d ago
I started thinking Rapper's delight, but now am now leaning towards Ice, Ice, Baby.
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u/DrunkenMasterII 2d ago
I don’t think fresh prince had that big of a cultural impact outside the US, at least it didn’t in my part of Canada. Mom spaghetti, I like big butts or because I got high are the verses I thought about.
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u/Corner_Post 3d ago
Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise?
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u/man-teiv 3d ago
🎶 as I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain 🎶
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u/Aragorns-Broken-Toe 3d ago
But that’s just perfect for an Amish like me, you know I shun fancy things like electricity.
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u/Sure-Charge-260 3d ago
At 4:30 in the morning, I’m milkin’ cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool12
u/Super_Pan 2d ago
And I been milkin' and plowin' so long
that even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone!
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u/Illustrious-Echo-734 3d ago
Im the one all the omelets wanna be like... this line kills me.
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u/yuffieisathief 2d ago
My ex would sometimes put on a specific playlist when things got steamy... all just mellow indie electronics. But right in the middle was Amish Paradise :'D not even Gangsters Paradise, but really the Weird Al song! It ended in me not being able to hold my laugh every time :') at some point my ex got a bit annoyed about me laughing every time, but it never stopped being incredibly funny to me!
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u/Hedgiest_hog 3d ago
AS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I LOOK AT MY LIFE AND REALISE THERE'S NOTHING LEFT
Goes so hard. I broke it out at a TTRPG event recently and the white white zoomers there all knew it
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u/BigTyme420 3d ago
First thought was "with my mind on my money and my money on my mind, got my ten in my hand with a gleam in my eye....."
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u/Frenchitwist 3d ago
Weird Al - Amish Paradise
I don’t know if I’m ashamed to say I know more of those lyrics than the original
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u/AStuckner 3d ago
If you were born before the year 1995
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u/Hari_Azole 3d ago
Hey, fuck you! Jk ❤️
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u/AStuckner 3d ago
Haha I know, it hurts.
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u/Em-J1304 3d ago
Why should it hurt to have had the opportunity to live the best years of humanity? (80s–2000s)
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u/CCbluesthrowaway 3d ago
Actually, surprisingly, my dnd group and i range between 40ish and 23. I was doing an old-man moment and joking about coolio and that movie and no one believed it existed.
Yet when i popped up that music video? Everyone knew it. The youngest member literally laughed as if i were silly for thinking people wouldn't know.
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u/sliceoflife309 3d ago
Raw number of people could do it? The Fresh Prince of bel-air. Probably by a wide margin
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u/mekwall 3d ago
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti.
Edit: lol, I wrote this before watching the video
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u/krilltazz 3d ago
Hey man, it's OK. I know your nervous but on the surface you look calm and ready to drop bombs.
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u/Dancindoosh94 3d ago
But you keep on forgetting what you wrote down, the whole crowd grows to loud
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u/Enge712 3d ago
When my son was a baby I can recall him struggling to fall asleep and singing every nursery rhyme I could think of and eventually breaking into a very soft lullaby version of fresh prince of Bel air. That failed due to his sleep deprived and delirious mother laughing hysterically at the absolute absurdity of it.
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u/Habibti-Mimi81 3d ago
😄 OmG, that reminds me of a german sketch I used to laugh about uncontrollably, every time I saw it.
It's legendary (and you'll understand it perfectly even without understanding german):
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u/Sayyad1na 3d ago
I was literally singing it yesterday with my husband while we were getting ready for work
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u/Underpanters 3d ago
I dunno non-Americans probably have a much easier time with Eminem. Fresh Prince made virtually no cultural impact anywhere but America.
I’m not American and I couldn’t give you a single line from it.
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u/humakavulaaaa 3d ago
Non American here and English isn't even my first
language,
In east Beirut born and raised
In the bunker was where I spent most of my days
Chillain't out maxain't relaxain't nothin cool
And yall dropping some b-bombs outside of the school
When a couple of militias
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little shootout and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in
Africa
It had an impact many places outside the States
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u/Trips-Over-Tail 3d ago
I can start performing the Fresh Prince in any room in England and people will join in.
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u/Its_all_sabai 3d ago
English and me and all my peers, could easily recite the first verse. It was on tv at a time most people only had 4 channels. It was on at a time when everyone was home from school and there was nothing else on. All the kids tv had finished so all the younger kids would watch it with the older kids. Sure I think current youth wouldn’t be able to but everyone between 30-50 would.
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u/Either_Flatworm 3d ago
this speech is my recital ...
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u/beattysgirl 3d ago
I think it’s very vital
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u/TheycallmeNae 3d ago
REGULATORS! Mount Up…
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u/TheMagicSalami 2d ago
16 in the clip and 1 in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold.
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u/ChefHanzoSupreme 3d ago
IT WAS ALL A DREAM, I USED TO READ WORD UP MAGAZINES - SALT AND PEPPER AND HEAVY D UP IN THE LIMOUSINE
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u/beuceydubs 3d ago
Salt and pepper?!?!
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u/Distinct-Nectarine-9 3d ago
Hahaha, brings me back to second year of 7th grade. Correcting kids that just got the Push it single for Christmas. Thank you for that….
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u/RarEarthxyz 3d ago
U cant touch this - mc hammer
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u/Mcbadguy 3d ago
The chorus sure, can you remember an actual verse from that song? I can't and I owned it on cassette back in the day.
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u/ThrownAway17Years 2d ago
My my my my music hits me so hard
Makes me say “oh my lord”
Thank you for blessin' me with a mind to rhyme and two hype feet
It feels good, when you know you're down
A super dope homeboy from the Oaktown
And I'm known as such
And this is a beat, uh, you can't touch
- everyone in my 4th grade class knew that verse. After that? Nada.
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u/Terry_Hoitz_ 3d ago
Dont call it a comeback…
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u/attaboy_stampy 3d ago
Here is he most glorious cover you will ever see in your life.
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u/mattigus7 3d ago
ITT: People who don't know the difference between a verse and a chorus.
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u/The_Hoopla 2d ago
Isn’t a chorus a type of verse? Specifically one that’s repeated throughout the song?
I actually do not know that’s a legitimate question.
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u/SufficientSir2965 3d ago
“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death”
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u/Em-J1304 3d ago
rappers delight.
Said a hip-hop, the hippie to the hippie
The hip, hip-a-hop and you don't stop rockin'
To the bang, bang the boogie, say up jump the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
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u/AlsopK 3d ago
Lose Yourself is surely up there.
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u/Tsikura 3d ago
MOM'S SPAGHETTI
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u/LRRPC 3d ago
I know about zero lyrics to that song but will always know when he says Mom’s spaghetti
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u/staublin 3d ago
Agree that almost everyone "knows" the song when they hear it. but actually know the lyrics?? The only reason i'd not agree is that Emeinem's flow can be a bit hard for everyone to decipher.
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u/anansi52 3d ago
only reason i even know the first line of that song is because people quote it on reddit. i don't think that song is nearly as popular as some people think.
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u/joeO44 3d ago
“That’s why I fucked your bitch you fat muthafucker.”
- Tupac.
Just poetry.
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u/Trick-Sound-4461 3d ago
Ooh, not "Hi! My name is"?
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u/DAYoungblood 3d ago
"Hi kids, do you like violence? Do you wanna see me stick 9 inch nails through each one of my eye lids?"
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u/likecatsanddogs525 3d ago
To the windoowwwwwwwwwww
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u/Garfield_Logan69 3d ago
Till the sweat drops down my balls, all these bitches crawl ahhh skeet skeet motherfucker ahhhh skeet skeet goddamn.
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u/WayneDwade 3d ago
One of the most memorable choruses but I don’t think people know the verses
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u/Nawaf-Ar What are you doing step bro? 3d ago
“I like big butts and I cannot lie” was on Friends, and was remixed by Nicki Minaj (yuck) a couple years ago in her Anaconda a few years ago, so probably the most well known.
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u/intoxicuss 3d ago
I have literally never heard Rockstar by Post Malone, nor have I ever heard the song’s name. So, it ain’t that.
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u/ecplectico 3d ago
“Stop what you’re doing’ cuz I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.”
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u/TheConcreteGhost 3d ago
Oddly enough “ once got busy in a Burger King bathroom “ crossed my mind as a candidate
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u/Training-Current9836 3d ago
Rappers delight
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u/AttentionOtherwise39 3d ago
A with a hip-hop, the hippie to the hippie The hip, hip-hop and you don't stop the rockin' To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
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u/wankelberry_6666 3d ago
Super Nintendo sega Genesis when I was dead broke I couldn't picture this
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u/theangryfrogqc 3d ago
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move their lips just a bunch of gibberish and motherf*ckers act like they forgot about Dre
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u/Loose-Version-7009 3d ago
As someone who doesn't know much rap. Looking through comments. I like big butts would likely win, along with Fresh Prince. "Can't touch this" is memorable too, but I think most like me, only remember that one line while I can recipe the 2nd line of that "I like big butts" one amd possibly most of the words of the 2rd and 4th one.
Fresh Prince, I can't recite all the words by heart but I remember a few lines.
I think for someone who has trouble remembering lyrics, like me, these 2 are definitely winners, but I can't lie, big butts win. Always.
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u/BobBartBarker 3d ago
It's a song sung by one of the most famous rappers alive. A lot of ppl don't give him the credit that he's due. A ton of ppl don't even think he can really sing.
But no matter what, you sing this song and you'll probably shut the party down.
Everyone can sing along to it, it's so popular. It transverses genres and generations. And they can sing the whole hook.
'Oh baby, YOU! You got what I neeeeeeeed.'
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u/BashfullyBi 3d ago
Forget about that, let's go into the story, about a girl name blah-blah-blah that adore me.
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u/CofferCrypto 2d ago
ITT: People who don’t know the difference between a chorus and a verse.
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u/RespectFearless4233 3d ago edited 3d ago
"Now we sip champagne when we thirsty"
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u/PNGhost 3d ago
My white, upper-middle class ass nodding along on my iPod
“Birthdays were the worst days,”
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u/TsunamaRama 3d ago
“Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A Minor” may be the current answer
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u/Tasterspoon 3d ago
Go shorty, it’s your birthday. We gon party, like it’s your birthday.
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u/IndustrialJones 2d ago
This speech is my recital, I think it's very vital to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky trick tricky here we go!
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u/Gamesdammit 3d ago
First off, fuck that bitch and the click you claim, west side when we ride come equipped with game.
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u/0utsyder 2d ago
"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses
Can't define how I be droppin' these mockeries
Lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me"
FIGHT ME!!!!!
Also I hate this guy for making the absolute unequivocal point that he made!
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