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I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

Jiyong hyung's mind can go wild and think a lot of things. This was my first time writing my own lyrics so I only thought about myself, but Jiyong hyung won't do that. He'll think, 'Ah, this type of rap suits T.O.P., this part suits Seungri.' That's how he writes lyrics, but I can't do that yet.

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive. So the day some niggaz come for you, I'm really not surprised.

Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel or anything. It's a sad thing. I try really hard to get them to go out and listen to things. It's amazing what you learn. ... I'm still trying to learn. It's not like I'm going to be a calypso singer. That's not going to happen, but I'm sure there's something in that, that I can learn from and apply to my own work.

know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.

Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin', Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

Let me keep it 100% real with you, when there was park jams nobody rapped at a park jam when I was rapping and that's a fact. You can ask anybody don't just take my word for it do your research cuz it seems everyone wants to make themselves bigger than what they are.

Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are small as balls of clay Astray into the Milky Way, world's outasight Far as the eye can see, not even a satellite Now stop and turn around and look As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took! So keep starin' soon you suddenly see a star You better follow it, cause it's the R.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

Let's test the waters... Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

Life is real, reality is not a dream. Those who chose to sleep...I wake em up, Cause you're sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.

Life is a gamble, we scramble for money, I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.

Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you've got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it's a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.

Like a crowd in my head, so loud. I wonder what it's like to be dead, I hope it's quiet. Noise in my head like a riot. Any remedy you have for me, I'll try it.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions, All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

Live each day like your last...one day you'll be right.

Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself

Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet.

Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

Love or hate me, I stay hate free They say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me

Makin' veterans run for medicine, Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.

Mary, you make me wanna eat you Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past... Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

Me and Frosted went to get a drink. But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think. She ordered potassium, calcium, Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium. She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch... I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth.

MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em, And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em. I'm the best takin' out all rookies, So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.