Most Powerful/Moving Rap Verses

Saul Williams (feat. Esthero): Tao of Now

Saul williams :
Children of this night
Only some will star the sky
Only believers in death will die
And fathers must feather the wings of women
For the unfeathered masses dangle ridiculous
Carrying crosses to phalayx filled tombs
The future sails silence through blood rivered wombs
That ripple with riddles of cows and spoons and births
Moons and earths
Sun-centered at noon

Saul williams :
Now here i stand
Court jestering infinity
Fetal fisted for revolution
But open hands birth humility
Now what is the density of an egoless planet?
Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings?
I'm slouched into sling steps and kangoled with gang reps
But my orbit rainbows saturn rings
Mystical eliptical
Presto polaris
Karmic flamed future when saturns and aries
And now I'm a fish called father
With gills type dizzy
Blowing liquid lullabies through the spine of time
I'm certain of saturns rivers and all else is fact
So baptise me in the stars
And wrap me in nighttime
Moon blue
Pupil my sight with orange balls of light
And echo my plight
Through the corridors of metaphor
What else are we living for if not to create
Fiction and rhyme?
My purpose is to make my soul
Rhyme with my mind
Mind over matter
Minds create matter
minds create fiction
As a matter of fact
As if matter were fact
Matter is fact
So spirit much be fiction
Science fiction
Art fiction
meta fiction

Esthero :
The tao of now
Is here amongst the living in the voice of children is the tao of now
You are the divine reflection of this earth
She does not belong to you
No there is no need for your correction
All river run in the same direction

Saul williams :
If you're serving the father there's no sun with out mother
Parent bodies discover
Water bodies and drown
Wade me in the water
'Til atlantis is found
On the sea floors of self
I'm starfish and unbound
Heard the way of that mound is stone mountain
Underwater volcanoes erupt water fountains of youth
Test this carnal equation cancel out wind and truth
Swirl me beyond sometimes
Drench me water proof
Let eves drop forever
Rain sunsets on my roof
As I sit on the front porch of my sanity
Deciphering hambones to van gogh this vanity
Oiled egos
Canvased and framed
To be reborn unborn unburied unnamed
A reflection through a blood stained glass window

Esthero :
There is a monster living
It's the voice of children
It is the tao of now

Saul williams :
Of souls, gone yellow round the edges
Carbonated dreams and blurred daily lives
But let family bring focus
Out of swamps blossom lotus
The muddy water blue daughters of infinity
Grant we water bodied bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity

Esthero :
Now...
There is a monster living its in the voice of children
It is the tao of now

Saul williams :
Yes we rise with the tides towards divinity
The muddy water blue daughters of infinity
Grant we water bodied bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity....
Yes we rise with the tides towards diviinty
Now we rise with the tides towards divinity
'Cause we rise with the tides towards divinity

Esthero
The tao of now
Is here amongst the living in the voice of children is the tao of now
There is a monster living it's in the voice of children
It is the tao of now
 
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Killah Priest - Happy

I know this thread isn't for posting the whole of tracks but I think it is necessary for the beauty and depth to be in context:

A homeless man smiles at me
Showing no teeth
A young man laying dead in the cold streets
He was a victim, beaten bad by the police
And every day another funeral
There's more grief
And every day I like to pray when I see the sun
And if there ever was a lost tribe we the one
In every hood, there's a project with us in it
The old man in the dust goin' nuts - finished
Years before they used to say
He used to own a business
Caught him on taxes
Guess you're black
You got to know your limits
And everybody try to be happy some way
I think of dinners in the winters on a Sunday
And everybody's poor
But we always pulled through it
'Cause of Marvin's influences
We always played his music
My pops said he was a troubled man
Courtesy of Uncle Sam
Then I hit the streets and start hustlin'
But I can see my grandmoms when she dressed for church
A stylish hat, white dress with a matching purse
And I could hear her singing loud with the choir
Marching in, with the face of joy
Proud 'cause her heart's with Him
And she could live everlasting in pure peace
No longer worried eyes, speak to him before I sleep
And I stood by the door when she came at me
She said "You got to endure, and learn to be Happy"

Stood right beside me
Look deep inside me
She had inspired me to be
Happy
Stood right beside me
Look deep inside me
She had inspired me to be
Happy

My friend wrote his mother
"Mom, I'm doing better now
My last year in college, told you I wouldn't let you down
And how is things around the house?
I know you still fussin'
I finally heard from Ralph he said he had appeal comin'
He wrote me last week, told me him and dad don't speak
They both be actin' like they kids if you ask me
But anyway, how come you never wrote me back?
This is like my fourth letter to you
I was hoping that
You could send me something
It's gettin' cold winter's comin'
I know you standing, laughing
Saying that I'm up or into something
I love you mom, Sincerely Yours"
As the nurse paused
From reading hers letter body attached to a cord
Into a breathing pump the stroke she had was too much
She's in a coma, been that way for a few months
And if her son knew, believe me, he would split in two
And going back to using drugs before quitting school
But just smile, 'cause your mother's still here
Try to live, and be proud, make her heart full of cheer
Fill your mind with tranquility, she's free
Give your hearts space and liberty and then peace
The words are golden, emotion, devotion
Just hush, feel her touch for a moment
My life's paradox, watched by crooked cops
But the Lord carries me, just to be
Happy

Dedicated to my grandmother, Ms. Louise Staley
I love you, Grandma
 
Goodie Mob - I Refuse Limitation (Cee-Lo's verse)

Well I woke up this mornin with the same frustration from situations like these
Got a call about some work from one of them temporary agencies
No high school diploma or any college degrees
I can't enlist but they'll draft me if there's a war overseas
Oh please
Of course I can slice some OZs
But see I'm one of those aspirin MCs
And uh bills are due so at times I'm doubtful and everyone disagrees
But I'd rather struggle on my feet than to live on my knees
So my uniform tight workin all night at Mickey D's
Got about 90 dollars and some change after the government
get they fees
These minimum wages ain't enough to feed my babies
Purposely these limitations on black folks opportunities
So I quit cuz I'm tired of being one of those overworked
underpaid employees
Stop carin at all went on and did a few small burglaries
It seems like my face done turned into forgotten memories
And I ain't gettin away with nothing because I know he always sees
But see right now I need to see how I can get this here dope sold
I done stuffed in my pocket as many rocks as it can hold
They gon get high so I'ma get my money even though it's freezin cold
Now how many times you done heard this story told?
Believe it or not, it's some very intelligent junkies
But dependencies is eatin away at they souls like disease
Anyone can turn into somebody who covets and envies
Unequal economics can easily make you some enemies
And the crime rate never drops to the cops ride around in threes
I knew he would have killed me if I did anything but freeze
They found the rest of the dope in some nearby shrubberies
In a dimlit room being questioned by these authorities
And they gave me some time in correctional facilities
And now my woman's gotta take on a man's responsibilities
 
^ jea, the verse cee-lo spit on "Git Up Git Out" really connects wit me. dood dropped hella jewels be4 singin.

I'm thinkin' about my mom
As time travels on
Dead and gone
Died unexpected
Depression, a billion bad thoughts, brain infected
Suffocation, deep contemplation
Just thinkin' and waitin' like she's comin' back
But facts is facts and my heart is black
I'd give up anything for her to be here
Just five minutes
I could whisper in her ear
"I love you" but in my heart you'll always be near
Never again will I waste the opportunity
The lunacy (so stupid)
To think for eternity, there will always be
And not just a memory
Don't intend to be too busy for your family
Cause time travels on but this song is a part of me
For you to see
Don't take them for granted
The worst fate is when it's too late to understand it
^ majik most verse from Celph Titled & Buckwild - Time Travels On f. Majik Most & Dutchmassive
 
Illogic's verse on Cold Out Here. Off the Greenhouse Effect EP-Electric Purgatory.

You think tomorrow is a promise but it's only a request
So while you're payin' homage, be sure to watch your step
The people you acknowledge, and those you haven't met
Are on the lookout
Hopin' that you'll fall to your death
Didn't want to see me make moves, because they're stagnant
I'm droppin' off my luggage while they're gatherin' more baggage
Their progress is sluggish, I maneuver fantastic
The gridlock, I rise above it, they're fighting the traffic
They only see the dunk, they don't see the assist
They say all I have is luck, but I worked hard for this
It's hard to stay grounded cause I'm not scared of flyin'
The only thing that causes me fear is not tryin'
They criticize the steps I make but they don't bother
I stepped out on faith and now I'm walkin' on the water
My wife is proud to follow me, I'm happy as I wanna be
You thought that you caught up with me but now I'm where you wanna be
A message to my legacy
Be the silver lining
Even if you fall on your face, just keep grindin'
They need to re-channel all the energy they hate with
The world is on my shoulders but I told you that I'm Weightless.

Also, this entire song by Brother Ali.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPaYZ26Cw0
 
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Too many to post, but this one brings back so many memories of blasting this shit on the way to a fight all by my God damned self...

It's the return of the real nigga with real shit
and when the smoke dies down its still a nigga left to deal wit
This mutha fucker standin one deep solo
exercising parts of the game but don't know
I bring it to a mutha fucker full throttle
and any mutha fucker want pain I brought the full bottle
now take ya two of these and call me in the morning
three times point blank range wit no warning
Nigga I'm straight killa slash for show drama
and every mutha fucker involved gon' face drama
Punk I aint no mutha fucka rappin in song
You bust your caps when you rap
but I bust back at your dome, bitch
And this is always all day killa
and bitches who be stressin me out I get rid of
I'm still a guerilla in these goddamn streets
walkin up on mutha fuckers and leavin 'em sleep
(Cause if you gonna ride then we can ride)
But 99.9 of the times you gon' die
(Die mutha fucker die mutha fucker die)
Mutha fuckers crowdin my space they gon' die

Scarface - No Warning (ripped from lyrics site)


I relate to this verse a lot too, and you won't find deep shit like it nowadays:

Me and my family moved in our apartment complex
A gate with the serial code was put up next
They claim that this community is so drug free
But it don't look that way to me cause I can see
The young bloods hanging out at the store
24/7 Junkies looking for a hit of the blow, it's powerful
Oh you know what else they tryin to do?
Make a curfew especially for me and you
The traces of the new world order
Time is getting shorter
If we don't get prepared people it's gone be a slaughter
My mind won't allow me to not be curious
My folk don't understand so they don't take it serious
But every now and then, I wonder
If the gate was put up to keep crime out or to keep our ass in

Goodie Mob- Cell Therapy
 
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eyedea & abilities-exhausted love

"something provoked the whole globe to lower expectations
damn, what's wrong with my generation?
we was the cream of the crop but it seems we've been robbed
that's what happens when you trade in all your dreams for a job
and every day it gets less and less exciting
I would make a difference but I'm busy faking this instead of trying"

"I ain't changin for you I'm not reaching for the sky
I would if you could give me one good reason why I should even try
because after a while this never ending lame game of what's better
could fracture your smiles mainframe forever
it's so fun to be in love..or so I've heard
the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word
I used to try to make heaven right here on earth but that'll only
happen if you find someone else to do the work
I'll be suprised when my psychosis turns out to keep the driving focus
while I hold the same blurred cloud as burnt out dope heads
so for now my worthless counterwork has found a purpose
everytime a pound of dirt produced I get my frown referbished"
 
GZA - Stop The Nonsense

I see youngsters little teenagers
Walking around with beepers and pagers
And who's beeping them? Oh it's the boss
Making sure no one is taking a loss
On his multi-thousand dollar operation
But how does he thank them for their participation
Whatever the pay, it's still not enough
Cause what they got into is some serious stuff
Hours a day back and forth on the strip
Sending customers far on a trip
And this roots of all evil brings about war
Cause you wanna open up another crack store
Children can't play in the parks and things
Because a stray bullet might be headed for the swings
You never though about that, oh I guess not
All you thought about was owning your own spot
To putting more and more people to sleep
But ya heading for a pothole six feet deep
You see the problem has gotten more serious
and the community is getting more furious
Get it deep in your head I told you so
It goes way beyond just saying no

Chorus: Stop the nonsense

Remember Steve with the blue Jag?
They found him cut up and stuffed in a bag
He had his own operation uptown
And there was plenty other drug dealers he would cut down
In other words he was living foul
Shootin up neighborhoods acting wild
He said he had to protect his drug trade
Which we manufactured throughout arcades
He made sure his enemies felt the pain
WHoever he felt was a threat, got slain
Like Donna, who was only sixteen
And she was employed on another drug scene
She try to set up a hit on Steve
But he sliced her throat until she could not breathe
This is what happens when you deal
You don't care on who you got to kill
I might walk outside and get shot
Because I live next door to a drug spot
And I don't need this stuff in my vicinity
Of me being shot for mistaken identity
This is the stuff that Steve was on
Now he's dead long and gone

Chorus: With his old nonsense
 
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Inspired Flight feat Scarub // It's The Chemicals

Scarub:
There's a universe inside us, all made of liquid.
It's a case of inner space, chemically dependent.
Through the veins to the brain, a whole solar system,
And I'm a jet-setting space cadet experimenting.
Yep, I vow to this, I'm an alchemist.
I mix emotion up with thoughts and the outcome's bliss.
Inhibition ain’t my boss, without a doubt take risks.
The price of progress with that cost? I'll dish out them chips
And chip at it like a sculptor carve out a wish.
I'm on a chemical romance and life is a trip
A slow dance with destiny, and her hands I grip.
She quick, but I chase; freeze, tag, I'm it.
I keep running like a fountain, so deep as a crater is wide, high as a mountain goat.
And I'm immune to this altitude, got a high tolerance for substance. How bout you?
They say its abuse; I call it a skill rapid a river run through me like a chemical spill, no harm.
When I'm induced I live at will, whoa, the mind-marsh mellows like some lucky charms.
Blast off from an armchair into space.
So fast, so high got a sprinter's face.
So vast, vanilla skies, I can smell and taste the chemicals in them depending on the prescription.
Self-medicated chemists mixing up some inventions,
Experimenting and tripping,
Entering new dimensions.
With my eyes wide shut, intuition and vision,
Side effects make you feel like you're flying and swimming all at the same time, man
I ain't lying, no fibbing.
Throughout all found a wisdom broken down like a prism.
I think I'm neighbors with the man on the moon.
Chemistry's like music and I am in tune.

Come and lay, I'll kiss you on the eyelids,
then we'll sleep and dream good things.
Don't you know it is just the chemicals
in our brain that cause us pain?
 
Blue Scholars - Sagaba

We hardly know ourselves if we know nobody else
And only in our loneliness can home become a hell
 
Suffa on the last track of State of the Art: Fifty and Five. First time I really heard I broke down in tears from how fucked humans are, but hey I'm a sensitive lass :P

Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgement,
so they spent a thousand nghtimes in the desert fighting something that they couldnt find,
that made it something that they couldnt find,
left us all lamenting all the wrongs that they couldnt right.
This is for the second time that weve been here before,
from Vietnam to Saddam we always needing a war.
Neo-Conservative rose up like viet cong their fingers on the trigger we wont be here for long.
They killed MLK and named a day after him,
they killed JFK and named an airport after him,
some guy shot a monster called reagan so he could bone a girl named Jodie Foster if only he'd known.
They tested nukes in the atmosphere the sea and the dirt,
and they tested all these missiles just to see if they'd work. Now France got em, Russia got em,
India and Pakistan, Korea want em, states want em pointed at the Taliban. Iran and Afghanistan sands of the arab lands,
orders from portable commands and armoured caravans,
internet 3G cellular phones, serial killers buildin mini cells in their homes.
And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy-son of Sam,
Macarena, Superman, chicken dance, running man,
Generation X and generation Y,
And the generation next will degenerate and die,
Cause we got holes in the ozone that we put there ourselves,
Now the poles are a no-go, earths cooking itself,
And we cant look at ourselves so we got saline, botox, eighteen, fake tits, ninteen detox,
Don't stop, get it, get it, can't afford it get it credit,
Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat? then you better ched it,
Ab-swing, blue blocker, Tupac or Biggy,
East coast, west coast, Fat Joe or fifty,
Thatcher the shifty iron lady, Tony Blair,
A princess died, some say cause she got Dodi there,
Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise,
Of no children in poverty, wish that could have been honest,
We had abbot and costella, right wing overloads,

Promises and children, they threw em both overboard,
Overwrought refugees thrown to a group home,
Or jailed for the crime of looking for a new home,
Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died
Genocide, in Africa, Serbia, Cambodia, pesticides, bio-toxins, chemical warfare,
All's fair in love and war, more work for the pallbearer,
More terror, more unjust search and seizures,
A tidal wave came and claimed the coast of Indonesia,
Quakes in Iran, Japan and California,
Greenhouse gas turned the world into a sauna,
The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters,
Of partners, mourners, fathers and daughters,
They chassed us, caught us, numbered us to sort us,
Raped up, scorned us, to break us they bought us,
Third world kidneys for captains of industry,
Uprising in the street, corruption in the ministry,
A blowjob brought about the fall of a dynasty,
And MP3s saw the fall of an industry,
Doubled population, halved accommodation,
Carved up resources and we starved the poorer nations, Beirut, Chechnya, all hell,
Broke loose, belin, ninteen eighty nine man, the wall fell,
Cold war ended but that didn't stop more shells,
Waco lit up the sky like burning oil wells,
A world laid waste addiction,
Tell Orwell truth's always stranger then fiction,
Big brother's on closed circuit TV and on cable,
Reality's now scripted, celebrity's for sale, jeopary and jail, seized, depossed,
Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's,
We had the Enron collapse, and white-collar crime,
Investors they were taxed, a dollar for a dime,
The blue chip companies and blue-sky mines,
We no longer choose sides we choose sidelines,
Rich bleeding the kind, blind leading the blind,
And history repeats, no competing with time,
Gasses eating the minds of the vets that they bing home,
The plague of agent orange, gulf war syndrome,
Soldiers sent home, posttraumatic stress leave,
STDs cause the sleeve aint sexy,
AIDS shook the eighties, grim reaper with a bowling ball,
Metallica, kill em all, let god scold em all,
The Guildford four, chicago seven,
Mumia, mandela, oceans eleven,
Half past twelve on friday the thirteenth,
Dawn of the dead, a nightmare on elm street,
Weapons free environment, war zone, phone home,
Melanoma grow as we soak in the ozone,
Home-grown, HYDRO, cocaine, NITRO,
Werewolf in london, american physco,
Cyclones, bushfires, bush firing scuds,
Baby boomers, woodstock what happened to the love?
What happened to the cubs? they def em to the wolves,
Set a trial for pedophiles, they let em in the schools,
Set em on the students, turned em on the kids,
And everyone responsible should burn for what they did,
And if they try to deny then an eye for an eye,
The government and church on which we try to rely,
Both rob us till it hurts chasing lie after lie,
Like astronauts chasing a pie in the sky,
They landed on the moon but can't seem to return there,
Makes some question if they ever really were there,
And if they were there now and they looked back,
Would we look them in the eye, could we look back?
Cause when we look back at what we have done,
Can you believe what we have become?
As we walk into the sun,
Can you believe what we have become?
As we walk into the sun.
 
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass

Verse 1 (Aesop Rock) Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist Wither by the watering hole, water patrol What are we, a heart huckabee, art fuckery suddenly? Not enough young in his lung for the water wings? Colorfully vulgar poacher at a mulch like 'I'ma pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt.' (Fine) Sign of the time we elapsed When a primate climb up the spine and attach Eye for an eye, by the bog's life swamps and vines They get a rise out of frogs and flies So when a dog fights hog-tied prize sorta costs a life The mouths water on a fork and knife And the allure isn't right It's gore on a war-torn beach Where the cash cows actually beef Blood turns wine when I leak for police Like 'That's not a riot, it's a feast, let's eat.'
Chorus (El-P and Aesop Rock) And I will remember your name and face On the day you were judged by the funhouse cast And I will rejoice in your fall from grace With a cane to the sky like 'None shall pass.' None shall pass, none shall pass
Verse 2 (Aesop Rock) Now if he never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix he wouldn't relate to the rouge vocoder bliss How he spoke through a no-doz, motor on the fritz 'Cause he wouldn't play roll over, fetch, like a bitch And express no regrets though he isn't worth the homeowners piss To the jokers who pose by the glitz (Fine) [ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/none-shall-pass-lyrics-aesop-rock.html ] Sign of the swine and the swarm When a king is a whore who comply and conform Miles outside of the eye of the storm With a siphon to lure and a prize and award While avoiding the vile and bizarre that is violence and war True blue triumph is more Like wait, let it snake up outta the centerfold Let it break the walls of Jericho. ready? go. Sat where the old cardboard city folks Swap tails with heads like every other penny throw
Chorus
Verse 3 (Aesop Rock) Okay, woke to a grocery list Goes like this: duty and death Anyone object, come stand in the way You can be my little Snake River Canyon today And I ran with a chain of commands And a jetpack strap where the backstab lands if it can. (Fine) Sign of the vibe in the crowd When I cut a belly open to find what climb out What a bit of gusto he muster up Make a dark horse rush like enough's enough It must'a struck a nerve so they huff and puff Till all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck And it's a beautiful thing To my people who keep an impressive wing span Even when the cubicle shrink You gotta pull up the intruder by the root of the weed NY chew through the machine
 
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