10 Hip-Hop Songs That Reference Popular Video Games

8. Lil' Wayne - Dough Is What I Got (2007)

Lil' Wayne is impossible to ignore when considering genre-defining hip-hop of the 21st century - even though Lil' Wayne's debut solo album released in 1999. The mixtape Da Drought 3 came with the track Dough Is What I Got, samping Jay-Z's Show Me What You Got. Lil' Wayne had the dough and the flow:

"Gotta talk about the flow 'cause you is concerned,

Only down-south rapper could've been in The Firm,

Or the Commission or Wu-Tang, n****,

Tryna tell you I can kick it like Liu Kang, n****,

Got that Sub-Zero flow, how you owe me, ma?

Make her get over here like Scorpion."

All credit to Wayne here: it's great he managed to use "kick it" without resorting to the Beastie Boys sample but then goes and blows everyone away by fitting not one, but three separate Mortal Kombat characters in the space of three lines.

That's just one small reason among many, many others for the widespread admiration of Lil' Wayne.

Contributor

Bryan Langley’s first console was the Super Nintendo and he hasn’t stopped using his opposable thumbs since. He is based in Bristol, UK and is still searchin' for them glory days he never had.