History Main / BoastfulRap

* Music/MrBTheGentlemanRhymer's "Straight Out Of Surrey" is a boastful rap about what an awesome {{cricket}}er he is.

UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop was full of these kinds of songs

Compare BraggingThemeTune and AWildRapperAppears. If sung by a antagonistic character, can be considered a {{Villain Song}}. Also compare BattleRapping, where boastful rapping is a component of the sub-genre.

TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop was full of these kinds of songs

* "The Shadow of Def" by BraveSaintSaturn.

* TheVeronicas "Popular".
* TheRapCritic [[DiscussedTrope raps about this]] in his music video "[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/rap-critic/music-video/32367-oh-really Oh, Really?]]":
* TinieTempah's "Pass Out" is half straight example, half AffectionateParody. The hook is standard if arguably lame BoastfulRap about partying and drinking and getting all the women, but the verses contain bizarre, uncool boasts like "I got so many clothes I keep them in my aunt's house" and "I'm pissed I never got to fly on a Concorde / I been Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe". (Note: for Americans unsure about those English towns, know that they are both desperately uncool.)

* ''TheSimpsons'' episode "New Kids on the Blech," where Bart is reading aloud from the song they're to sing (sort-of rap, like the {{Boy Band}}s do):

* LilB has claimed to be God, UsefulNotes/BillClinton, the Devil, Paris Hilton, Hugh Hefner, Music/JustinBieber, Music/MileyCyrus, Creator/MelGibson, and Ellen Degeneres and to look like Jesus, Bill Gates mixed with UsefulNotes/BarackObama, and the pope. He also called himself "[[MemeticMutation The Based God]]," whatever that means.

Fuck no hell you white, you'll never be like us."\\

* Every episode of ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' involves at least some of this, with the notable exception of "Napoleon vs. Napoleon".

* Sushi K's rap in ''SnowCrash''. Which is [[StylisticSuck frighteningly terrible]] and ironically contrasted with a murder carried out by Raven, described in-book as the [[{{Badass}} baddest-ass motherfucker in the world.]]

* Every episode of ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' involves at least some of this.

-->ChristopherMarlowe, you'd better get outta my way,

* "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor ([[LinkinPark Mike Shinoda]] and Styles of Beyond working together), in which each artist gets two verses. They proceed to describe themselves in a distinctly self-satisfied fashion.

TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop was full of these kinds of songs.

Compare BraggingThemeTune and AWildRapperAppears. If sung by a antagonistic character, can be considered a {{Villain Song}}.

* Remy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo Arlington: The Rap]]" is among the better examples of parody raps about the alleged badass-ness of wealthy, largely white suburbs.

* ''Theatre/PokemonTheMewsical'' has Brock's song, which is a rap about how he's a chick magnet using Pokemon-themed words. it's... not entirely accurate.

* Toyed with by Music/InsaneClownPosse, who boast about things like sex with obese women and having magic powers in a parody of the boastful rap style.
-->Others rap about all the money they got\\

Only we'd rap about fucking a beehive.

** Gangnam is a wealthy part of Seoul, South Korea. The main line is "Oppan [Big brother is] Gangnam Style" - the song is effectively from the viewpoint of a man who went to Gangnam and now thinks he's hot stuff.

* A few of the Music/BeastieBoys' songs affirm their rapping ability, though it is at times so absurd that it's quite possibly parody ("Got more hits than Sadaharu Oh", indeed).
** On that note, Run-DMC did this pretty often too, but [[RuleOfCool no one really cares.]]

* Bradley Nowell of {{Sublime}} was fond of these, the most famous probably being from the song "What I Got" 'I can play guitar like a motherfuckin riot.'

* A lot of Missy Elliott's songs are this trope.

* Name one {{Music/Pitbull}} song that doesn't fit this trope to a T.

* That said, Music/FloRida isn't much better with this trope. Most of his bigger songs fit it very well.

* With the exception of "We Are One (Ole Ola)", the 2014 World Cup theme, name one {{Music/Pitbull}} song that doesn't fit this trope to a T.

-->--"All About The Pentiums", '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY Jack Sparrow]]" starts out as one of these, but is derailed by MichaelBolton, who's been marathoning the Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean movies. The boys attempt to regain control of the song - and fail. Though getting him to change the subject to ''{{Scarface}}'' makes it mildly more appropriate.

* Name one Pitbull song that doesn't fit this trope to a T.
** "We Are One (Ole Ola)", the 2014 World Cup theme, but that you may or may not count since it was basically a theme for a major event.

** Gangnam is a wealthy part of Seoul, South Korea. The main line is "Oppan [big brother] Gangnam Style" - the song is effectively from the viewpoint of a man who went to Gangnam and now thinks he's hot shit.

* Hot Chip's "The Warning" parodies it with a chorus that'd sound threatening, if only it weren't delivered in a mild-mannered voice more reminiscent of [[{{Garfield}} John Arbuckle]] than {{Jay-Z}}...