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''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 missous!''
''Upgrade my system at least twice a day, I'm strictly plug-and-play! I ain't afraid of [[
''I'm down with [[Bill Gates]], call him 'money' for short.
I call him up at home and I make him do my tech support!
It's all about the pentiums, what!"''
|'''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]''', "All About The Pentiums"}}
[["I Am Great" Song|Boastful, self-aggrandizing songs]] really occur in all genres, but it's particularly common for [[rap]]pers to rap about how they're badass/what they can do, about their possessions, homies, and stuff, about who they are, or a combination of all of the above.
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Compare [[Bragging Theme Tune]] and [[A Wild Rapper Appears]]. If sung by a antagonistic character, can be considered a [[Villain Song]].
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== Straight Examples ==
* A few of the [[Beastie Boys]]' 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 [[Rule of Cool|no one really cares.]]
* [[N.W.A.]]. Sort of. They popularized all this.
* [[Music/Ludacris|Ludacris]] - "Stand Up", bragging about his various club antics and including the memorable line "Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless, feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace"
** [[Ludacris]]' ''Rollout'' someone in amazement of his loot.
** In fact, a B-side on his first album is called "Mouthing Off":
{{quote|They call me Seymour Butts, cause I get mo' ass than most
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Follow the leader cause I'm meaner than medulla oblongota
My [[A Tribe Called Quest|Tribe's on more Quests]] than ''Midnight Marauders'' }}
* [[Rihanna]] has a verse on "LOYALTY." by [[Kendrick Lamar]] that boasts her "bad girl" status.
* The Binary Star song "Honest Expression" is largely a reaction to this trope; an extended tirade about how everybody who makes Boastful Rap songs is a poser who is killing hip-hop.
* Knuckles the Echidna gets into the act in ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure]]'', trying to convince us that he didn't chuckle in every single one of his ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3]]'' appearances, or that he has any form of visible musculature.
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* 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.'
* ''LL Cool J'''s battles with ''Kool Moe Dee'' were the stuff of [[Hip Hop]] legend.
* Lil B has claimed to be God, [[Bill Clinton]], the Devil, [[Paris Hilton]], Hugh Hefner, [[Justin Bieber]], [[Miley Cyrus]], [[Mel Gibson]], and [[Ellen
* Lupe Fiasco's "Superstar" was a surprising deconstruction of this trope. Though he wasn't parodying those who boast, it was definitely more about the insecurities and loneliness that come from 'gangsta' celebrity rather than the perks, fame, and money.
* [[Kanye West]]: Oh, yes..
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