My 5 all-time favorite raps
Freddie Banks
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Man these lists get old, don't they? I mean who can ever narrow shit down to JUST FIVE.
Well, I did it. And Im happy about it.
These are my official 5 favorite rap cuts ever, in no particular order:
Microphone Fiend - Eric B & Rakim
La Di Da Di - Slick Rick
Throw Your Hands Up - 8 Ball, MJG, and Outkast
What Would You Do - Dogg Pound
Triumph - Wu Tang
Obviously sentiment played a part in my choices (as it would in yours, Im assuming).
YOUR ALL TIME 5, GO!
Well, I did it. And Im happy about it.
These are my official 5 favorite rap cuts ever, in no particular order:
Microphone Fiend - Eric B & Rakim
La Di Da Di - Slick Rick
Throw Your Hands Up - 8 Ball, MJG, and Outkast
What Would You Do - Dogg Pound
Triumph - Wu Tang
Obviously sentiment played a part in my choices (as it would in yours, Im assuming).
YOUR ALL TIME 5, GO!
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Life Is Too $hort
I Got It Made
Jeep Azz Nigguh
Set It Off
I Know U Got Soul
Went for the raps most permenently embedded on my brain. Sure I could come up with 50-eleven replacements within 5 more minutes of thinking about it though.
"The zips be so fluffy, the whole Town love me."
Biggie on 95 Freestyle Live (sorry, cliche)
Kane's first verse on "Long Live The Kane" tied w/ KRS on "Love's Gonna Getcha"
Erick Sermon on "Rampage" just bc his voice works so so well here
Kool Keith on "Chorus Line"
so many I'm forgetting -- not particularly crazy about the above list.
Verses -
-Slick Rick's last verse on Lick the Balls
-middle verse of Pharcyde's Runnin
-Kool G Rap's verse on Know Da Game
-Def Jef's verse on Shaq's Skillz (don't sleep, lol)
-BDK's first verse on Set It Off
But top 5 verses/lines is an even better question. Run with that, if you will.
Big Daddy Kane - "RAW" (1st Verse)
Gza - "Shadow Boxin" (Meth's Verse)
Biggie - "Kick in the Door" (1st Verse)
Mobb Deep - "Shook Ones Pt. 2" (Prodigy's Verse)
Eminem - "Any man" (1st Verse)
Pos on "I Am I Be"
LL Cool J on "Rampage"
Pharoahe Monch on "Extinction Agenda"
Kool G Rap "Streets of New York" (both verses)
Ice Cube on "A Bird in the Hand"
La Di Da Di - Slick Rick
Microphone Fiend - Eric B & Rakim
Rappin' and Rockin' The House - Funky 4 + 1
tough for #5 its impossible for me to pic between these two tracks, one being the essence of hiphop (BDP) and what Criminal Minded meant to the hiphop culture, but man Prince kills this track so much thats its such a hard toss up...and w/ Jazzy killing it the way he does...
He's The D.J., I'm The Rapper - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Criminal Minded - BDP
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too
Because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate
And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alleyway
You'll admire all the number-book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
Drivin' big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers
You say I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool
But then you wind up droppin' outta high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
Got sent up for a eight-year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
Bein' used and abused to serve like hell
'til one day, you was found hung dead in the cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young so...
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its deep shit man, i'll never forget hearing it for the first time (about 84ish), it was only a few years after it dropped, oddly enough my uncle had it at the time, first hiphop i ever heard, we sat in his trans-am with the t-bar roof and shit at a rollerskating rink pumping it outside...lol
Nas -"The World Is Yours"
Wu Tang Clan -"C.R.E.A.M"
Jay-Z -"D'evils"
Notorious B.I.G -"Niggas Bleed"
Outkast "Aquemini"
Verses
Nas "Live At The BBQ"
Jay-Z -"D'eveils (2nd Verse)
Canibus '97 DJ Clue Freestyle
Big Pun "Super Lyrical" (featuring Black Who?)
Inspectah Deck 'Triumph"
peace,xavier
LL Cool J - Live At After Midnight, 1984
Kool Moe Dee- vs Busy Bee, 1981
Rakim - Lyrics Of Fury
Kool G Rap - Men At Work
The Moe Dee verse? Or the baw ditty baw bullshit?
I'm partial to the baw ditty baw bullshit myself
2. Dylan
3. Dylan
4. Dylan
5. Dylan
"Because I spit hot fire!" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all 5 (or more) of mine could come from this album.
Lookin like virgin with the see-through back bought from
the Indian kid off the rack -- sterling silver delivery
Y'all tryin to fool me actin bougie with the platinum wannabe
It look real, stainless steel appeal, that's not the Presidential
Let's keep it confidential; you ordered that fuckin kit
in the ad in The Source boss -- step up your rep up
in genuine fashion I caught your ass in;
with your name on the rented car lease
Feathered top hat, zoot suits with vinyl alligator boots
Extreme dream with no apartment space
You frontin in the fly ride and empty place
with your rent due on the first of the month
Your second month you exit, portrayin to girls
like you everything in the world
Fuck master, prepare to face disaster as I pass ya
Movin Galactica with no capacity
You ain't got enough to buy a small soda in Johnny Rocket's, B
Posin with baldhead black girls with a Florida tan
tryin to act like you the man
Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck
Party-figure perpetrator, undercover hater
Smell your cheap cologne in the elevator
Dope you smoke, half of y'all can't never touch the mink coat
with your four carat white gold you look like you're pantomiming
Tryin to rhyme off of unflexible facial bone structure
I crush ya, down to the paso
like spicy foods burnin through your asshole
Remember I did the damage to your lasso
then threw your Pampers in a manhole; your engineer walked away
with ponytails like Annie Mae, laughin and talkin the other way
You was the first rapper to pull out grease
and turn your butt the other way
Your girl think you're tough, big buff and rough
...and I'm looking at your list, so I'm going to say:
My Summer Vacation (the whole song)
Eminem on What's the Difference
Pharoah - Simon Says (this whole list could be pharoah)
Kwest - 101 Things... (ALBUM VERSION)
Kool G Rap - It's A Shame (the whole song)
krumbsnatcha's verse on gangstarr - make em pay
black thought on quills.
bootlegs verse on dayton family - blood bath
pig pun / fat joe freestyle on funk flex 2
gfk - nutmeg
#1
#2 rakim - my rhyme ain't done
#3 chill rob g - ride the rhythm
#4 bdp - poetry
#5 kool g rap - road to riches
Outkast "ATliens" (dre's verses)
Biggie "I got a story to tell"
Snoop "Lodi Dodi"
And something relatively recent:
So I'm watchin' her fine ass
Walk to my bedroom, and thought to myself
That's the shape of things to come
She said, Why you in the club, you don't make it precipitate?
You know, make it rain when you can make it thunderstorm
I'm like, Why?
The world needs sun
The hood needs funds
There's a war going on and half the battle is guns
How dare I throw it on the floor
When people are poor
So I write like Edgar Allen to restore, got a cord-
Umbilical attached to a place that can't afford
No landscaping, Or window draping
This old lady told me,
If I ain't got nothin' good, say nathing
That's why I don't talk much
I swear it don't cost much, to pay attention to me
I tell like it is, and I tell it how it could be
The hood be
Requesting my services, Oh don't get nervous it's
Step yo game up time, These ain't them same old rhymes
Designed to have you dancin' in some club
Niggas write to me
Woman be up in they tub
Expoliating with hey pom poms
Yellin' GO 3000!
I'm in my whatever bumpin' Mois
A 100 miles in
Runnin' Runnin' Runnin' Runnin'
Summon
Woman
Come in
Sit down, heard you need some plumbing
Done in
I'm in
A swell mood
A rather swoll mood
Until she told me that she told dude
That she'll be back, she's going to the store
I didn't know she had a boyfriend, so the door
I pointed her to
I said, Call me when ya'll break up
I don't fuck nobody bitch
And never own a Jacob, know what time it is
Nigga just tryin' to live
Like a Nigga supposed to live
If I still drink that malt liquor
I pour the beer
On the ground for niggas not around
I started off starvin'
Now they got me out here Brett Farve'n
Trynna see if I still got it... (got it...)
I guess it's like a bike think about it...
(oh oh oh no no)
... bout it... bout it... (oh oh oh no no)
Oh oh oh...
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y.
Scarface - Now I feel ya
Big L - Put it on
Z-Ro - Platinum
...and GZAs verse on "Street Corner".
Melle Mel = GOAT
cosine on BDK,
BDP the first verse on this - is hard as hell.(imo krs one kept killing everyone lyrically right up until sex & violence),
Kool G Rap
RAKIM
further mention goes to lord finesse, big l - the list goes on and on - so many greats.
Also: Ice Cube on 'Straight out of Compton' the first time you heard that???
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!
- KRS 1 on Part time Sucker.....its called vocabulary. difficult, isn't it ? At least is looks that way when you witness it .Kill (kill? ) meaning to deprive of life Fiancee: future wife
- LL Cool J on Rock the Bells.....on the microphone you will never recoup......
- T La Rock on It's yours.....commentating, illustrating........
-Nas on Live at the BBQ......street disciple my rhymes are trifle.....
No love for the original version?
Massive Fail
b/w
Young Holt Unlimited Plays Superfly > Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
That Kwest song cracks me up--especially the shit at the end: "While you working at Mickey D's, your girl's working on DEEEEEEEZ!"
b/w
I wanna change my Kool G Rap nod from "Streets of New York" to "Kool Is Back" :hard_as_fuck:
Then for some reason the second thing that I thought of was Dre's verse off this.
I will think of 3 more things soon...
Now we're talking.
Big difference..... :game_over: