Lyrics To Go

Last week while I was walking home, “Frontin'” came on my playlist, reminding me of two things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIBTrN5Odbg

Pharrell has been awesome and insanely hot for a very. long. time. AND
There are certain lyrics that just stick with you, bringing home the brilliance of a song

I love making lists, but haven’t made one in a while, and since I can’t get a certain verse out of my head, I’m thinking this is the perfect time to put together a list of some of my favorite lyrics, non?

Before we start, let me just say to all you music heads: don’t go bananas on me because I didn’t include the greatest Wu-Tang rhyme of all time or the best Stones lyric. Like I said above, these are some of my favorites, not all of them.

And if you think I missed a few – which I am certain I did, in fact I’ve already got some I would like to add, but I’m limiting myself to 10, so I’m going to chill – add them in the comments. I’d love to see your list and compare notes.

So without further ado, let’s do this, bitches.

10 FIERCE LYRICS

1. Every time your name was brought up, I would act all nonchalant in front of an audience, like you was just another shorty I put the naughty on, but uh, truth be told you threw me for a loop, this Hov, I’m too old to be frontin’ when I’m feeling Denzel and acting like you ain’t appealing when you are, stunting like you ain’t my only girl when you are, I’m ready to stop when you are (Jay-Z, Frontin’)

2. My practice extending across the atlas, I begat this, flippin’ in the ghetto on a dirty mattress, you can’t match this rapper / actress, more powerful than two Cleopatras, bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti, MCs ain’t ready to take it to the Serengeti, my rhymes is heavy like the mind of Sister Betty, L. Boogie spars with stars and constellations, then came down for a little conversation, adjacent to the king, fear no human being, roll with cherubims to Nassau Coliseum, now hear this mixture, where hip hop meets scripture, develop a negative into a positive picture (Lauryn Hill, Everything Is Everything)

3. There I am in my younger days, star gazing, painting picture perfect maps, of how my life and love would be, not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection, my compass, faith in love’s perfection, I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen. (Indigo Girls, Love’s Recovery)

4. Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug, if you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug, come and spread your arms if you really need a hug (Tribe Called Quest, Can I Kick It?)

5. Cause I’m cooler than a polar bear’s toenails, oh hell yeah (OutKast, ATLiens)

6. Na Na, y’all can’t touch her, my sex drive all night like a trucker (Foxy Brown, I’ll Be)

7. Woke up the next morning, Nikki wasn’t there, I looked all over and all I found was a phone number on the stairs, it said thank you for a funky time, call me up whenever you want to grind (Prince, Darling Nikki)

8. Pretty looking road, try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin, don’t ask me why I’ll keep my promise, melt the ice, and you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance, but fear is in your soul, some people call it a one night stand, but we can call it paradise (Duran Duran, Save A Prayer)

9. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the funk will make me freak, if I should die before I waked, allow me Lord to rock out naked (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sir Psycho Sexy)

10. Coke on her black skin made a stripe like a zebra, I call that jungle fever, you will not control the threesome, just roll the weed up until I get me some, we formed a new religion, no sins as long as there’s permission, and deception is the only felony, so never fuck nobody wit’out tellin’ me, sunglasses and Advil, last night was mad real, sun comin’ up, 5 a.m., I wonder if they got cabs still (Kanye West, No Church in the Wild)