N.W.A - Express Yourself
Time: 2:44
You ain't efficient when you flow, you ain't swift
Movin' like a tortise, full o' rigor mortis
There's a little bit more to show

severity; something hard to endure
Heard in 56 songs (193M+ combined views) — most famously in "Express Yourself" by N.W.A.
Updated August 5, 2026
Time: 2:44
You ain't efficient when you flow, you ain't swift
Movin' like a tortise, full o' rigor mortis
There's a little bit more to show

Time: 0:50
Aunque es perder el tiempo
A ti, que te pasó tan lejos el rigor del llanto y la melancolía
Si nunca dije la verdad, fue porque la verdad siempre fue una mentira

Time: 1:01
Come and break it down
Looking good, Juggalos, but some of y'all still got rigor mortis
We need to loosen on up

Time: 0:21
(He dead), I killed him (amen), bitch
And this is rigor mortis, and it's gorgeous when you die
Ali recorded, and I'm Morpheus, the matrix of my mind

Time: 2:16
Picada y camella con la DEA, el que no gurrea no culea
Siente el rigor, mija, no me lo abandone, chúpeme las güeva'
Shh-shh-shh, las güevitas, las güevitas, sienta el rigor, mija

Time: 1:32
And nobody fucks with him
Rigor mortis and post mortem
He's dying of boredom

Time: 2:15
Cessa, crudel
Tanto rigor
Oh, oh

Time: 1:13
Foto in guardia con il pugno, non siete abbastanza forti
Quando avrai pagato i debiti sarai già in rigor mortis
0049, pusher turche parlano male il tedesco

Time: 2:29
But these motherfuckers never claim to be the smartest
I'm a artist that'll paint your rigor mortis
You silly rabbit nigga, here come the tortoise

Time: 1:05
En flor de primavera
Que el tiempo marchitó muriéndose al rigor
De los inviernos

Time: 1:23
No te suelto más
Somos hijos del rigor
Más la cuerda aprieta el cuello

Time: 0:16
When you wake up
Cobwebs on your eyelids, stuck in rigor mortis
Just get going

Time: 1:38
¡Cariño, mi vida! Criatura de rubí
¿Qué puedo hacer sin tu rigor?
Esa ternura incierta

Time: 3:02
♪
Taunting rigor mortis
I feel it draw me in

Time: 0:31
Pressure point
Rigor mortis
Induce

Time: 0:09
Except the one Masicka, I tell my dawgs, "Go sick 'em"
They wanna study me, but they couldn't copy my rigor
In the drop top, my nigga, go tell badmind fi keep up

Time: 0:47
But we were near the same spot his (my) son died, is that why? (Six)
He examined his gun with such rigor
I watched as he methodically fiddled with the trigger (seven)

Time: 0:31
Then roll away with it, 'cause you're cold as ice
You might as well (tune in to Rigor Mortis Radio)
You might as well (tune in to Rigor Mortis Radio)

Time: 3:36
Leather soft, you niggas softer
What's that smell? Rigor mortis
South Beach, socks off

Time: 3:05
Your spirits leave your body and your mind clears
The rigor mortis starts to set, now you outta here
You start your journey into outer space

Time: 0:31
Work that shovel with vigor, Gravedigger
Before rigor mortis sets in, dig
Dig, dig, Gravedigger

Time: 2:54
I told these pussy niggas let the lions in
Your record labels left with rigor mortis
I just closed another deal worth another 40

Time: 1:26
Hi, I'm serving soup, it's a cream mock tortoise and a yummy red
That pairs with rigor mortis
It's all so dopey, I'm complaining

Time: 1:03
Teu calor alucina
E a pleno rigor domina
Feito uma coisa que mata de prazer

Time: 2:19
Settle the score
It's better when you see rigor mortis
I act like a Taurus but move like a tortoise

Time: 1:55
Body parts in my man's Maserati car, then party hard in Madagascar
While rigor mortis'll grab ya, him retarded, I'm pass that
Gloves on, where the mask at? Too many love songs

Time: 0:33
Play my album for the corpse in a hearse
It's so live, the flow could make the rigor mortis on a mortal reverse (Clue)
These niggas reckless, tryna disrespect the Lord of the church

Time: 1:32
El llanto en mis ojos
Será de rigor
Y voy a extrañarte

Time: 0:36
Compound of patience
Reel out rigor
Trash the book, the film, fell face off

Time: 2:18
They riggin' the game, because you fightin' the biggest artist
They tryna have me stuck in this position like rigor mortis
Turn my back on you just to give you the biggest target

Time: 2:03
It's somethin' liberating about escaping the house
Forgetting the daily rigor of shit that's stressin' you out
Got my imagination wondering and plotting about

Time: 0:44
Can you feel your skin yet turning cold?
The rigor mortis is stiffening
It's a dead life in this cold, dead world

Time: 1:56
Since you gone and lost your head
Rigor mortise has set in, daddy
What's the use of havin' muscles

Time: 2:17
Horrific visions through my brain
Her rigor mortis starts to set
Memories of passion overwhelming me

Time: 2:49
Taunt the loose frays
Tirelessly tainting these heavy veils of grey with rigor
Oh, my soul begins to tire

Time: 2:48
Can you explain all our divided pain?
What still remains after the rigor mortis
Poured gasoline, ghost in a dead machine

Time: 1:26
Slicing back flesh I tear, subject to malacia...
Advanced rigor mortis, the corpse internally bruised
Kaleidoscope livor mortis, the carcass a shade of livid blue

Time: 2:15
If a rapper stiff as me, he prolly ain't breathing
That's rigor mortis, I hope y'all absorb this flow gorgeous
How I'm teaching

Time: 0:39
Bluing flesh quivers, loosened and bloated.
Final stage of death, rigor mortis unfolded.
Faces of white staring right through you.

Time: 2:31
Life after death
Rigor mortis cadaverous remains
Cremation into ash

Time: 2:44
Big shit, send it for route and finish him out
Joints stiff from rigor mortise while we swimmin' in waters
Women with daughters will have us niggaz sinnin' with orders

Time: 0:57
ni tiene final.
Y en rigor a la verdad, la fiesta ya termino.
Adios, amigos, adios

Time: 0:43
And I've got a run in my hose
Rigor mortis has been kind to you
And left you in a sexy pose

Time: 0:00
I don't see why you won't groove, won't have this dance with me
Rigor Mortis will set in, just sit there and you'll see
The music sounds to good for you to look and act this way
![Cameo - Rigor Mortis [Original 12" Mix]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a3H9obT2w9A/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 1:23
Outrora simples bermuda
Agora ultravestidos de elegante ultraje a rigor
E o amor, e o amor, e o amor, e o amor

Time: 1:36
Se a te giunge il mio pregar
Non mi punisca il tuo rigor
Meno severi, clementi ognora

Time: 1:43
yo ablandaré
el rigor del cruel destino
lamparilla ardiente de mis ojos

Time: 4:53
Your finger's on the trigger wishing you were bigger
All the while you've got the soul with rigor mortis
Like Travis Bickle said, "Suck on this"

Time: 2:00
Tente y no cantes, Jilguerillo
Con las alitas de tu rigor
(...)

Time: 1:20
Again by the deceased
Rigor mortis is your future
Death ignored your pleas

Time: 0:40
Doze motocicletas no lugar do contrabaixo
Para reger o conjunto, um guindaste à rigor
E na hora do breque

Time: 0:48
When our skin and cells are beankrupt we'll be deposit in the dust.
Try to stay soft and remember to bend the chance to get supple will not come again 'cause in time you will find rigor mortis sets in.
I failed and I failed but my failures were passing, grew hair and a tail and was all the while asking, "Does it stay like this?

Time: 1:02
Death ascending
Rigor mortis to be, consumed
Deathbed stained red

Time: 3:00
Eyes closed forever ere the first tear could dry
Mouth sealed by rigor mortis before the first newborn cry
Dissected infant on the table, dead-cut and dry

Time: 0:22
As minhas ricas tamancas
Pediam traje a rigor
Vestido curto e decote

Time: 0:57
♪
Stand in line at the playboy rigor
Ski mask yawning at my face
