50 Rap Lyrics That Sound Incredibly Outdated Today

Technology and pop culture references that didn't stand the test of time.

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Hip-hop has always prided itself on being ahead of the curve: the unreleased car, next season's fashion, phones from the future. The problem with being so on-point is that it's hard to stay afloat when waves move so quickly. In two years, heads have gone from rocking fitted caps to snapbacks to bucket hats, with weathermen predicting du-rags on the horizon (again).

While PT Cruisers and Pepsi Blue may come and go, lyrics are forever. Complex takes a look back at the most regrettable lines of years past, revealing a graveyard of technology and a crypt of pop-culture references that haunt our present, in 50 Rap Lyrics That Sound Incredibly Outdated Today.

Written by Eric and Jeff Rosenthal (@ItsTheReal)

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50. "So I can put the top down, and we can 'Cruise' (Cruz) like Tom and Penelope"

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49. "No Bull shit, n***a, no Ben Gordon"

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48. "You wanna make noise, make noise/I make a phone call my n***s comin' like the Gotti boys"

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47. "Fa shizzle dizzle, it's the big Neptizzle/With the Snoopy D-O-Double Gizzle!"

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46. "Givin' it up to T-Boz and Mack 10 for doing it/this ain't nothing but a gangsta reunion"

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45. "It's not even close, leave it alone/I'm Michael Jordan, I play for the team I own"

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44. "We drive Bentley's and Jags (What?), 'vettes and bikes (What?)/Two Mercedes Wagons, with kits and lights (What?)/Excursions and Prowlers (What?)"

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43. "When you least on point, putting your keys in the door/Behind you with your seeds in KB Toys store"

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42. "Load the three power, hop in the Eddie Bauer."

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41. "Seen Paid In Full, now I'm in Blockbuster/And I'm paid in full still on the block, buster"

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40. "You know me, with a skull belt and wallet chain/Shop Boyz, rock stars, yeah we bout to change the game"

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39. "I just do this shit for my click like Adam Sandler"

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38. "And I was almost famous, now everybody love Kanye/I'm almost Raymond"

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37. "Mr. Media, look inside your encyclopedia"

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36. "In your just-came-from-the-gym clothes/In a fitted cap and some Timbo's/And a pair of flats, well trimmed toes/Camera in the mirror, BBM Pose/Still killin em hoes"

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35. "Khakis on my leg, Lugz on my feet/I'm walkin up the street while boppin my feet"

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34. "Yellow Viper, yellow Hummer, yellow Benz/Yellow PT Cruiser, yellow 'Lac on rims/Drop yellow 'Vette and a platinum Rolls Royce"

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33. "Ohh I think they like me"

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32. "Heat up the clutch, 750 Deluxe"

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31. "You gotta learn to hold ya own/They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone"

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30. "And I don't reply to most BBMs, so when you see an R, don't be trippin'."

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29. "Y'all in the game, but y'all can't ball like Chicago centers"

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27. "Only dudes moving units: Em, Pimp Juice, and us"

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26. "F to the A-B, it's in the May-B, rollin' with my baby/Grippin' on a toy that you won't find at KB"

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25. "Get caught, bail out, po'-po' I tell 'em holla/In court I never show up, like Austin Powers fa-zha"

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24. "Who wants to be a millionaire, me, and you ain't got no more life lines"

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23. "N***a get the phone book look up in the yellow page/Lemme tell you how we finna get paid"

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22. "Hip-Hop is dead"

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21. "There's a new Tower Records about to stop and get a fill-up/Pick the new Cypress Hill up"

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20. "Mami threw it like a quaterback, I caught that like Rice/I call Mami Montana"

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19. "Put this in your CD-ROM/www dot Canibus dot com"

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18. "Come through wit' her, she drivin that Lumina/I'm not even thinkin bout screwin her/Let alone pursuing her"

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17. "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/When I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this"

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16. "I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get"

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15. "Hop out, looking crispy, fresh and new / in the 6, but it's a BM, and it's Pepsi Blue"

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14. "Sixty inch screen, LaserDisc with the beam"

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13. "Your screen saver say Tweet, so you got to call me"

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12. "MTV is runnin' this rap shit/Viacom is runnin' this rap shit/AOL and Time Warner runnin' this rap shit"

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11. "Actually, anything you got to ask me, fax me"

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10. "Beep me 911 or call me on my cell phone/I'll call you back to see what you gon' tell me"

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9. "I had the brew, she had the chronic/The Lakers beat the SuperSonics"

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8. "No need for alarm/Right now I'm cruising to the sounds of my enhanced CD-ROM"

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7. "And although it seems heaven-sent/We ain't ready to see a Black President"

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6. "Death Row is the label that pays me/Unfadable, so please don't try to fade this"

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5. "Public visitation, we met at Borders/told her take me back, I'll be more supportive"

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4. "I drive fastly, call me Jeff Gordon"

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3. "Check to spell it: r-e-f-u-g-e-e/Get the CD from Sam Goody, he-he"

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2. "Wanna call back all my numbers-star 6-9 me/Check my car for rubbers, but quit tryin"

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1. "Only way to roll, Jigga and two ladies/I'm too cold, Motorola two way page me"

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