NandoLeaks Punch Lines: Hip-Hop Lyrics That Pay Hommage to Muhammad Ali
“They try to box me in like Cassius Clay / Hey I’m like Muhammad when he fasted” — Common, “The Game”
I never kissed the ass of the masses, I’m the black molasses
Thick and I lasted past these rat bastards
They try to box me in like Cassius Clay
Hey I’m like Muhammad when he fasted
“Don’t box me into the corner, I/ Float like a butterfly, sting like Muhammad A/ On training day I go too hard, ask Antoine Fuqua” — X Ambassadors, Jamie N Commons feat. Jay Z “Jungle (Remix)”
“I remember when Cassius Clay flipped the script/ Taking trips to Zimbabwe/ Africans started calling the God, Ali Bombaye” — Fugees feat. John Forté, A Tribe Called Quest & Busta Rhymes, “Rumble In The Jungle”
[Verse 7: Busta Rhymes]
I remember when Cassius Clay flipped the script
Taking trips to Zimbabwe
Africans started calling the God, Ali Bumbaye (so bwoy)
So bright, it be the God stricken
God nutrition, lightly stricken (ha)
Blows that feel like you was poison bitten
Ha, yo, I’m ’bout to blister you and your sister
Predicting every ass whipping before my fights my nigga
This be your last warning once you walk right past the doorman
Ali and Foreman gonna’ lock ass until the morning
Marvel finances provided by Joseph Mobutu
Special guests of honour like the Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We watched the Rumble In The Jungle
To see who be the targeted uncle, to be the first to fall and fumble
‘Nuff blows they getting thrown, like solid milestones
Internally shaking up niggas, imbalance your chromosones
With the force of a thousand warriors
When I bust your ass, identify me as the lord victorious
“Met Ali, he told me I’m the greatest” — Will Smith, “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”
“America tried to emasculate the greats / Murder Malcolm, gave Cassius the shakes/ Wait, tell them rumble young man rumble / Try to dim your lights tell you be humble” — Jay Z, “F.U.T.W.”
Muhammad Ali engaging in some of his famous trash talk
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