I like hip hop songs with sincere messages (so I don't like most of them:). Here are quotes from some of my favorite songs (1999):

* Rappin' Forte *

[ A Message for Your Mind ]

"It's kinda hard when your parents straight smoked out."
"Stay focused because there's too many blind -- blind to the purpose of life."

[ Problems ]

"Get on your own, and get you some business."
"Too many formalities, and I find that so obsolete. But I'ma keep striving."

[ Check Ya Self ]

"I don't want you to be like me; I just want you to be yourself."

* Tupac Amaru Shakur -- Makaveli *

[ Changes ]

[ Only God Can Judge Me ]

"Recollect your thoughts; don't get caught up in the mix 'cause the media is full of dirty tricks."
"Mista Police, please try to see that it's a million *o%her%u(*ers stressin' just like me."
"That which does not kill me can only make me stronger."

[ Life Goes On ]

"Life in the hood... is all good for nobody."

[ I Ain't Mad at Cha ]

"I guess change is good for any of us. Whatever it take for any of y'all niggas to get up out the hood, I'm wit cha -- I ain't mad at cha. Got nuttin' but love for ya. Do your thang boy."

[ Dear Mama ]

"There's no way I can pay you back, but the plan is to show you that I understand: You are appreciated."
"I ain't guilty 'cause, even though I sell rocks, it feels good puttin' money in your mailbox."

[ Me Against the World ]

"I know it seem hard sometimes, but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick ya chest out, keep ya head up, and handle it."

[ Keep Ya Head Up ]

"Forgive but don't forget."
"I think it's time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women."
"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. ... And then they wonder why we're crazy."

* Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony *

[ If I Could Teach the World ]

"We stand as united, but fall if divided."

* Coolio *

[ Gangsta's Paradise ]

"They say I got to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?"
"Tell me, why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me."

[ Too Hot ]

"Love is the word seldom meant but often heard."

[ The Winner ]

"You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind."
"And remember, no matter what they telling you, if you try, you can be a winner too."

* 40 Thevz *

[ C U When U Get There ]
"You need to loosen up and live a little. And if you got kids let them know how you feelin'."
"So hold your head up high if you're poor and righteous. I know time seems right, and the problems seem endless. But at the times of despair we gotta put ourselves together."
"You gotta face responsibility one day, my brother. So gather up your pitty and turn it to ambition."

* Big Mike *

[ Havin' Thangs ]
"Lock another nigga up, throw away the %u(*in' key. That's the way they punish me, *o%her%u(* society."
"Time plans change and change comes with time."

* OutKast *

[ True Dat ]
"Are you an OutKast? If you understand and feel the basic principles of fundamental truths contained within this music, you probably are. If you think it's all about pimpin' hoes and slammin' cadillac do's, you probably a cracker, or a nigga that think he a cracker. Or maybe just don't understand."
"It's only so much time left in this crazy world. Wake up niggas and realize what's going on around you. Poisoning of the food and water. Tampering of ciggarettes. Disease engineering control over your life. Take back your existance or die like a punk."

* Will Smith *

[ Just the Two of Us ]
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do. 'Cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

* Wu-Tang Clan *

[ C.R.E.A.M. ]

"Cash Rules Everything Around Me."
"We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks, and stray shots, all on the block that stays hot. Leave it up to me while I be living proof to kick the truth to the young black youth. But shorty's running wild smokin' sess drinkin' beer. And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin' in his ear. Neglected, but now, but yo, it gots to be accepted... (That what?) that life is hectic."

[ Wu-Tang Forever ]

"To my people all across the world; Japan, Europe, Canada, Austria, Germany, Sweden. Yo, this is true Hip-Hop you listening to right here -- in the pure form. This ain't no R&B with a wack nigga takin' the loop -- be loopin' that $hi% thinkin' it's gonna be the sound of the culture. YaknowhatI'msayin? All that player dressin' up on this $hi%, actin' like this's some kind of fashion show man. YaknowhatI'msayin? This is Hip-Hop right here. YaknowhatI'msayin? This is lyrics, MCin'. And yo, to y'all niggas who think you going to become an MC overnight, yaknowhatI'msayin, better snap out that %u(*in' dream."
"Pick up the Wu-Tang double CD and you'll get all the education you need this year."

[ Little Ghetto Boys ]

"Little ghetto boy, playin' in the ghetto streets. What you gonna do when you grow up, and have to face responsibility?"

[ Impossible ]

"When you play with guns son, (You can never defeat...) that causes the conflict of you goin' against your own. (.. the Gods)"

[ A Better Tomorrow ]

"Just give me a name, of who has inflicted this bitter sickness, and left us to witness."
"So many bad want to scheme for American dream, no more kings. The cash rule everything now, we going down. These babies looking up to us, it's up to us. The Million Man March MCs, get on the bus. But envy, greed, lust, and hate separate. Though the devil mind state blood kin cannot relate. No longer, brothers, we unstable. Like Kane when he slew Abel, killing each other."
"You can't party your life away, drink your life away, smoke your life away, %u(* your life away, dream your life away, scheme your life away. 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way."

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