History Main / BoastfulRap

* Spose's song, fittingly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYws8biwOYc "I'm Awesome"]], talks about how he still lives in his mom's basement, only made friends online because he's way too shy in real life, never works out, is too poor to eat at Subway, can't roll blunts despite smoking weed all the time, is horribly out of fashion, talks to himself in his Facebook wall, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking drinks light beer.]]

[[IAmGreatSong Boastful, self-aggrandizing songs]] really occur in all genres, but it's particularly common for {{rap}}pers to rap about how they're [[BadassBoast badass/what they can do]], about their possessions, homies, and stuff, about who they are, or a combination of all of the above. Rapping about [[SelfDemonstratingArticle how good they are at rapping]] is also a popular subject.

* Rihanna, ''Hard''

* Spose's song, fittingly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYws8biwOYc "I'm Awesome"]], talks about how he still lives in his mom's basement, only made friends online because he's way too shy in real life, never works out, is too poor to eat at Subway, can't roll blunts despite smoking weed all the time, talks to himself in his Facebook wall, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking drinks light beer.]]

* Spose's song, fittingly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYws8biwOYc I'm Awesome]]

* Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now".
* DJ Khaled's ''All I Do Is Win'' might be one of the straightest examples to hit the charts in recent years. Features guest spots from Music/TPain, Ludacris, Music/SnoopDogg, and Music/RickRoss, and every single one of them is attempting to one-up each other.

->''"Yeah, paying the bills with my mean computing skills! Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills!''
->''Got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM! I never feed trolls and I don't read spam.''
->''Installed a T1 line in my house! Always at my PC double-clickin' on my mizzous!''

->''I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him 'money' for short. I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support! It's all about the pentiums, what!"''

* Knuckles the Echidna gets into the act in ''[[SonicAdventureSeries Sonic Adventure]]'', trying to convince us that he didn't chuckle in every single one of his ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic 3]]'' appearances, or that he has any form of visible musculature.

* Let's be honest here - hip-hop itself largely consists of this trope, especially in TheEighties and TheNineties. Artists like Rakim, the various members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Big L, and more perfected the BoastfulRap. Doesn't stop a lot of it from being CrowningMusicOfAwesome, though.

* ProfessorElemental has "Splendid", where he pleasantly raps about how his life is great and he's "really pleased". "Fighting Trousers", his diss song, is a more aggressive, but still silly, take on this, full of [[TakeThat attacks]] on Music/MrBTheGentlemanRhymer

* Olive from ANTFarm [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlYSkmWDopg spits fire on the M-I-C mostly about her genius-like talents ]]

* DJ Khaled's ''All I Do Is Win'' might be one of the straightest examples to hit the charts in recent years. Features guest spots from T-Pain, Ludacris, SnoopDogg, and Rick Ross, and every single one of them is attempting to one-up each other.

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sar5WT76kE NASA Johnson Style]]" is a parody of "Gangham Style", obviously, but is boasting about NASA's achievements in space exploration and sciences instead.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ov1DDjHt8c Epic Rap Battle]] by RhettAndLink is pretty much a boasting competition.

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8e6-IeQ0aw Natalie's Rap]]". NataliePortman is fucking ''scary''.

* The opening of "(My Name Is) Theatre/{{Macbeth}}" by MitchBenn (the ''Too Late To Cancel'' live bonus track version):

* [[OlderThanYouThink In 1984,]] "The Rappin' Duke" was JohnWayne claiming to be the first rapper.

* Sushi K's rap in ''Literature/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.]]

* WebVideo/{{Dormtainment}} parodies the tendency for rappers to rap about how "hood" they are in their video "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2C7fChb1c Straight Outta Dunwoody]]"[[note]] Dunwoody is an upper middle class suburb of {{Atlanta}}[[/note]]:

** In ''AnarchyReigns'', Maxmillion has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqmLcB6OhoU Unlimited Resources]], a song that describes how nothing can stop him and how he'll destroy all in his way. There are also now two song for the ladies, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4lCIwG4fA I Know U Want Me]] for Rinrin and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULGewxG8o9g It's All About Me]] for Feirin.

* From SelfDemonstrating/TheLonelyIsland:

* {{Prince}}'s "My Name Is Prince."