gaming
Electronic Arts
By: Elton Jones
Published Apr 13, 2021
Your favorite MCs do a lot of things in their leisure time. They tend to roll up & smoke some trees, get into some passionate debates over random topics with the whole entourage, indulge in some sports-based activities, etc.
Another hobby most rappers indulge in is most definitely video games - that’s pretty evident considering the abundance of lyrics from the best wordsmiths that just so happen to be about the best consoles, characters, games, etc. On the regular, a clever bar about gaming will come across your headphones and force you to push the rewind button to catch it once more. And there are even those cool instances where a rapper will dedicate an entire song to their game of choice. It’s safe to say that the rappers we bang out of our speakers on a daily basis love to hand out L’s in the very same games we play for hours on end.
We went into our memory banks and did our Google’s to find the most memorable rap lyrics that are all about showing love to gaming as a whole.
1. Bazooka Tooth, zoo-keep the paper route with janky funds and favors/Cradled by twelve empty Zelda heart containers
Aesop Rock, “Babies With Guns”
2. Crack mothers, crack babies, and AIDS patients/Youngbloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation
Mos Def, “Mathematics”
3. I'm PS4 in HD and the screen is plasma/You're Atari 2600 with a weak adapter
Joell Ortiz, “Slaughterhouse”
4. Attention all haters, get off your boy's d**k/Tell your b***h to come here, she can play with my joystick/Up up down down left right left right B, A, B, A, Start/Now tear it apart
Saigon, “Get Busy”
5. Rival Schools, Batsu, purchase you ought to/It came with one free CD, it's like I bought two/I hope they make part two for Dreamcast/'Cause games I seen in mags, you won't believe they have..../Yeah, I'll admit that PlayStation improve/Come visit feudal Japan with me and Tenchu/Bushido Blade II with swordplay so accurate/Mega Man Legends, but I had to buy a map for it
Del The Funky Homosapien, “Proto Culture”
6. I'm sorry like Atari who's the cousin to Coleco/Vision, caught a RICO, back on the streets like Chico
Andre 3000, “Skew It On The Bar-B”
7. Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
Notorious B.I.G., “Juicy”
8. Battlin' me is hazardous to health/So put a quarter in ya ass 'cause you played yourself
Big Daddy Kane, “The Symphony”
9. I can't sleep like a child on Christmas Eve/Like a tender head girl in a shop gettin' a weave/Like a woman in labor about to produce the seed/Or Method Man with PlayStation and an ounce of weed
RZA, “Insomnia”
10. Or better yet a Terminator, like Arnold Schwarzenegger/Try to play me out like as if my name was Sega
Everlast, “Jump Around”
11. I had dreams that I would blow like a Nintendo Cartridge
Anderson.Paak, “Without You”
12. I tell the cash get over here, it's like I'm Scorpion on Mortal Kombat
A-Reece, “To The Top Please”
13. Pass me the pork roll, don't really walk anymore/Ever since I invented a gun that shoots portals
Seth Sentry, “Reservoir Dogs”
14. All got expensive cars, won't allow a jacker to see me/I ride with bananas and shells like Mario and Luigi
Chamillionaire, “The Game Gonna Cost a Fee”
15. Came a long way from extension cords in the window/Borrow neighbor's power just to plug up the Nintendo
Danny Brown, “30”
16. I heard that she wanna go and party, she wanna go and party/N***a, don't approach her with that Atari/N***a, that ain't good game, homie, sorry
Kendrick Lamar, “Poetic Justice”
17. Hey look, my homies told me back when I was playing my Nintendo/To stay away from windows, cause bullets, they tend to hit those/My mama told when I got the PSone/To skip the BS and lead us or be as numb/As every other brother throwing up colors in my community/I knew better, but couldn't do better but then I grew to be
Lecrae, “Daywalkers”
18. Ayo, I cop power pellets (and y'all call 'em bricks)/I make little dots (and y'all chop rocks to flip)/Before Junior, they had me out on a chas /Running from these ghost monsters y'all calling the jakes/All I do is stack loot, run around and eat fruit/And harass these lady cops named Pinky and Sue/My whole life been a maze in a chase/Can't keep still without these monsters on my back invadin' my space/I got two hitmen that'll bury you brothers/They rule the underworld, you know 'em as the Mario brothers/Straight cannons, and won't hesitate to shoot ya/And they stay goin' to war with that Latin King Koopa/I got a worker named Frogger, when I say jump he leap/A highway boy who be runnin' the streets/With that package, dodgin' through traffic that's narrow/And my n***a Donkey Kong bringin' weed in by the barrels
Beanie Sigel, “Mac Man”
19. F**k your gun talk, play 'No Doubt', you 'Gwen' 'don't speak'/You ain't shooting nothing but air, you Nintendo Wii
Rock (Boot Camp Clik), “BK All Day”
20. My new b***h, call her my PS3/You? Your b***h's p***y, call it my Xbox
Royce da 5′9”, “Airplanes Freestyle”
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