In rewatching "Quiz Show" and "Finding Forrester", I found it especially intriguing that both movies climaxed a scene with a 'quote game' - an intellectual game for the esoteric and elite few who are nerdy enough to memorize individual and distinct lines from Dickinson, Shakespeare, Tennyson, etc. poems to quiz the challenger. I always found this sophomorically impressive, not that I would ever be nerdy enough to quote anything from a dead European poet.

However, since the new American cultural idiom (or does that exist?) tends to be in areas much less respectable (or artsy-fartsy) than dead European poetic jargon, I figured the contemporary equivelent of such a game would be to quote rap.

So test yourself. Rack your mind. Recreate yourself and intellectually indulge to see if you can place the title and artist.

"Today I didn't even have to use my AK / I guess it was a good day."

"Even though you was a crack fiend, mama / you always was a black queen, mama"

"See to live is to suffer but to survive well that's to find meaning in the suffering."

"Stereotypes of a black male misunderstood....and it's still all good."

"Have you ever been hated or discriminated against? I have / I been protested and demonstrated against."

"I don't rap to get the women. Fuck bitches / Gimme a fat slug who cooks and does dishes."

"I sold my soul to the devil, and the price was cheap / yo it's cold on this level cause it's twice as deep / But you don't hear me, ignorance is bliss and so on / Sometimes it's better to be thought dumb, Shall I go on"

"How many brothers fell victim to the streets? / Rest in peace, y'all niggaz / There's a heaven for a G"