Top 10 Times Where Rappers Mentioned Professional Boxers in Their Lyrics

The Top Ten

  1. 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus) - Canibus [Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali]

    In Canibus' opening lines to this hard anthem, he compares his rap skills to the fighting abilities of the two boxing greats with a metaphor and boxing technical follow-up lines.

    "My offense is a mixture of Mike and Muhammad

    Knock a n***a unconscious and talk s**t

    In bare-knuckle boxin', speed is the object

    Weavin' and dodgin' with defensive blockin'."

  2. Platinum Plus (feat. Big Daddy Kane) - Big L [Joe Frazier]

    The ultra-charismatic guest verse by the Kane went something like this:

    "Drink Hennessy with no chasers.

    Right hook is like Joe Frazier's, I'm the bodacious."

  3. 86 - Big K.R.I.T. [Joe Louis]

    To end his opening verse, K.R.I.T. spits:

    "So I kill 'em with the low

    Joe Louis knocking down doors

    Grippin' that wheel

    They like 'What happened to the lac?'

    I told 'em 'bout this muscle."

  4. Tha Shiznit - Snoop Dogg [Evander Holyfield]

    "'Nother mission, wishin' upon a star

    Snoop Doggy Dogg with the caviar

    In the back of the limo, no demo, this is the real

    Breakin' n***s down like Evander Holyfield."

    In the Holyfield line, Snoop compares himself to the physical and mental dominance of the retired boxer.

  5. Lighters - Bad Meets Evil [Manny Pacquiao]

    Royce Da 5'9" uses a boxing metaphor to pay respect to the Filipino legend:

    "Now I'm just the cat's meow, oww, outclass the count

    Always down for the catchweight like Pacquiao."

  6. Guillotine (Swordz) - Raekwon [Mike Tyson]

    "Concrete raps, go to bat

    With 50 other n***s on the other side of the map

    'Til it's all good and all done, what we want, son

    Mike Tyson of this rap s**t."

  7. The Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five [Sugar Ray Robinson]

    In the third verse of the hip-hop staple, Duke Bootee goes:

    "All My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night

    Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight."

  8. Who Dat - J. Cole [George Foreman]

  9. Dump the Clip - Army of the Pharaohs [Roy Jones Jr.]

    The CZARFACE emcee, Esoteric, strikes an attack against competition with a little mention of Jones and his record:

    "Murderin' herbs, reveal words to your nose bone

    Murderin' herbs, I'm Larry Holmes with a left and a right

    I'm Roy Jones winnin' fights on consecutive nights."

  10. Everybody's Something - Chance the Rapper [Muhammad Ali]

    In this guest verse, Saba uses Ali's real name, "Cassius (Clay)," to relate his rhymes to the time Ali evaded the boxing draft.

    "Like Cassius ducking the draft and now the fight is over

    The type to love from a distance, not the type that told her."

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