By The Pretenders (1990)
On album Packed! (1990)

…-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-d-downtown akron!
Move to the beat. baby the beat of the city
Rubber glove me when you love me
Promise me…
…-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-d-downtown akron!
Downtown me - baby strip me
Chop me, adopt me, bend me like…
…-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-d-downtown akron!…

Introduction to “Up South in Akron 1959”
By Bill Adler
“Up South in Akron 1959” is a fairly natural outgrowth of my friendship…
…in Manhattan about a month ago. For no particular reason, he launched into a reminiscence of his days as a child shoe-shine boy in Akron…
By Yukmouth (2003)
On album Godzilla (2003)

Rap-a-Lot mafia, nigga
Oakland to Akron to the motherfuckin PA
They love us boy, feel me?
And free Pimp C, nigga
[Ampichino…
Ampichino still be duckin the law
We got big blocks of raw
Ya'll got little rocks like Arkansas
Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati
Brooklyn…
…to Oakland (they love ya boy)
Akron to Cleveland (they love ya boy)
KC to (?) (they love ya boy)
'cause everycity that I go I be thuggin boy…

Rap-a-Lot mafia, nigga
Oakland to Akron to the motherfuckin PA
They love us boy, feel me?
And free Pimp see, nigga
(Ampichino…
Ampichino still be duckin the law
We got big blocks of raw
Y'all got little rocks like Arkansas
Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati…
…to Oakland (they love ya boy)
Akron to Cleveland (they love ya boy)
KC to (?) (they love ya boy)
'Cause everycity that I go I be thuggin' boy…
By Devin (2022)
On album HEARTS (2022)

Rap-a-Lot mafia, nigga
Oakland to Akron to the motherfuckin PA
They love us boy, feel me?
And free Pimp see, nigga
(Ampichino…
Ampichino still be duckin the law
We got big blocks of raw
Y'all got little rocks like Arkansas
Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati…
…to Oakland (they love ya boy)
Akron to Cleveland (they love ya boy)
KC to (?) (they love ya boy)
'Cause everycity that I go I be thuggin' boy…

…-American men in the Akron police department. Big J was big in size and status. He was probably between 40 and 50 years old when I…
…was respect and appreciation for the law. And if he didn't get it, he could be very nasty.
One day in the summer of 1959 something happened that changed the way I looked at Big J and the Akron…

…in Baltimore. My life is full. But I'm 64-years-old now and sometimes my mind wanders back to my youth in Akron, Ohio. That's when I…
…was an "Akro-nite" known as Jerome Huling. We had some wild times in those days. Here's a story I call...
Up South In Akron Ohio…

Cruel Akron bloody bastard I now spit on you
You can turn my bones to black ash but I'll move the moon
I will light your evil…
…for the mighty and proud firelord
Arwald's acid broke the silver chains
before his very last breath
Akron laughing really doesn't know…

Cruel Akron bloody bastard I now spit on you
You can turn my bones to black ash but I'll move the moon
I will light your evil…
…for the mighty and proud firelord
Arwald's acid broke the silver chains
before his very last breath
Akron laughing really doesn't know what…

Memphis, Denver, Portland, Vegas
Tucson, Fresno, Akron, Tampa
Pittsburgh, Newark, Plano, Lincoln
Lubbock, Durham, Salem, Dayton…
Chicago
Houston, Philly, San Diego
Phoenix, Boston, Fort Worth, Austin
Memphis, Denver, Portland, Vegas
Tucson, Fresno, Akron…

Mexico momma came from, College Park I came from
The way I be LeBron Jameing these girls I'm from Akron
Migos…
Mexico momma came from, College Park I came from
The way I be LeBron Jameing these girls I'm from Akron
Migos…

Hook : This is a warning X3 Welcome to the city of Akron where all the block dudes be capping. Instagram hoes…
…came out of a test tube
Hook : This is a warning X3 Welcome to the city of Akron where all the block dudes be capping. Instagram…

…Akron would make the swap in a second
No GEICO, I decide to talk (w)reckless
Throw the ropes and the ring on like wrestlers
I just…
…Akron would make the swap in a second
No GEICO, I decide to talk (w)reckless
Throw the rope and the ring on like wrestlers…

…Akron, a city of thieves
And mysteries
Saw a car on fire
On the corner of the street
Police Search-in, for niggas in my dad's…
By Kanye West (2013)
On album Yeezus (2013)

They still burned his jersey in Akron
If I don't get ran out by Catholics
Here come some conservative Baptists
Saying he overreactin…