Favourite lyrical performances (rap)

[So Ruff]

Song-wise. I post some of mine, then you post some of yours.

Biggie - Warning
Nas - 2nd Childhood
Jigga - What More Can I Say?
Main Source - Looking at the Front Door
GZA/Genius - Labels
Redman - Noorotic
PE - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Gang Starr & Nice 'n' Smooth - DWYCK



No wait - actually, scratch that last one.

[Micodin]

CJ Hood - Recipe

[cj hood]

'bout time i got props...

[earthling]

Ghostface-Nutmeg

[Micodin]

Tony D - Check The Elevation

[Mcmac]

CJ Hood - Recipe
joke right?

[cj hood]

joke right?


post one of your tracks little boy...

[Mcmac]

HAHA :D
i love u CJ

[mickill]

Sort of in rough order of most favorite to less most favorite:

Jay Z's intro verse on The Dynasty or Friend Or Foe
BIG on Ten Crack Commandments
Ghostface on Nutmeg
Rakim on I Ain't No Joke
Slick Rick on Lick The Balls
Chuck D on PE's Night Of The Living Baseheads
Big Daddy Kane's verse on The Symphony or Raw
Pharoahe Monch's verse on Organized Konfusion's Bring It On
Mase on DMX's Niggaz Done Started Something
Beanie Sigel's verses on Crew Love
AZ on Life's A Bitch
Eminem's verse on that remake of BIG's Dead Wrong or on Jay Z's Renegade
Big Pun's verses on Super Lyrical
Snoop on Dogg Pound's Big Pimpin'
Inspectah Deck's verse on Gangstarr's Above The Clouds
Aceyalone on Anywhere You Go
Big L on Ebonics
OC on Time's Up
LL Cool J on Craig Mack's Flavor In Your Ear remix
Ras Kass on the Soul On Ice remix or Come Widdit
Ludacris on Ciara's Oh
Cormega's verse on the original version of Nas' On The Real
Phesto's verse on Souls Of Mischief's That's When Ya Lost
B Real on Cypress Hill's Audio X
Kurupt on Dogg Pound's New York, New York
Andre 3000's 1st verse on Outkast's Return Of The G
Method Man's verses on BIG's The What
Threat on Lettin Niggaz Know
Ice Cube on The Predator
Raekwon on Incarcerated Scarfaces
Scarface on CMW's N2 Deep
Common on Watermelon
Kool G Rap on First Nigga
Canibus on How We Roll
Freeway's verse on The Beatnuts' U Nomsayin
Just Ice on Original Gangsta Of Hip Hop
KRS One on BDP's My Philosophy
2Pac on Raw Fusion's #1 With A Bullet
Sticky Fingaz' verse on Onyx's Shut Em Down
Grand Puba on Brand Nubian's Step To The Rear
Everlast on House Of Pain's House And The Rising Son
Redman on Def Squad's Check N Me Out
Fabolous on Gotta Be Thug
Prodigy on Keep It Thoro

[Mcmac]

how could u be fucked writing all that down just to let people know what songs you think have great lyrical performces?

[Tzar]

Masta Killa on Mystery of Chessboxin

[Micodin]

Sort of in rough order of most favorite to less most favorite:

Jay Z's intro verse on The Dynasty or Friend Or Foe
BIG on Ten Crack Commandments
Ghostface on Nutmeg
Rakim on I Ain't No Joke
Slick Rick on Lick The Balls
Chuck D on PE's Night Of The Living Baseheads
Big Daddy Kane's verse on The Symphony or Raw
Pharoahe Monch's verse on Organized Konfusion's Bring It On
Mase on DMX's Niggaz Done Started Something
Beanie Sigel's verses on Crew Love
AZ on Life's A Bitch
Eminem's verse on that remake of BIG's Dead Wrong or on Jay Z's Renegade
Big Pun's verses on Super Lyrical
Snoop on Dogg Pound's Big Pimpin'
Inspectah Deck's verse on Gangstarr's Above The Clouds
Aceyalone on Anywhere You Go
Big L on Ebonics
OC on Time's Up
LL Cool J on Craig Mack's Flavor In Your Ear remix
Ras Kass on the Soul On Ice remix or Come Widdit
Ludacris on Ciara's Oh
Cormega's verse on the original version of Nas' On The Real
Phesto's verse on Souls Of Mischief's That's When Ya Lost
B Real on Cypress Hill's Audio X
Kurupt on Dogg Pound's New York, New York
Andre 3000's 1st verse on Outkast's Return Of The G
Method Man's verses on BIG's The What
Threat on Lettin Niggaz Know
Ice Cube on The Predator
Raekwon on Incarcerated Scarfaces
Scarface on CMW's N2 Deep
Common on Watermelon
Kool G Rap on First Nigga
Canibus on How We Roll
Freeway's verse on The Beatnuts' U Nomsayin
Just Ice on Original Gangsta Of Hip Hop
KRS One on BDP's My Philosophy
2Pac on Raw Fusion's #1 With A Bullet
Sticky Fingaz' verse on Onyx's Shut Em Down
Grand Puba on Brand Nubian's Step To The Rear
Everlast on House Of Pain's House And The Rising Son
Redman on Def Squad's Check N Me Out
Fabolous on Gotta Be Thug
Prodigy on Keep It Thoro


wow, your a relly big fan of top-ten pop rap.

[Kid Presentable]

wow, your a relly big fan of top-ten pop rap.

It's possible he just likes hip-hop enough to give it all a chance, and not pretend to have better things to do.

I dunno, I'll see what he says.

[Micodin]

It's possible he just likes hip-hop enough to give it all a chance, and not pretend to have better things to do.

I dunno, I'll see what he says.




Hey, whatever. I wasnt dissing him. I've just never seen a list with "favorite" anything with Fabolous in it. I was just making an observation.

[cj hood]

my copy of Raw Fusion has been sitting in the used cd shop downtown for the past 14 years.....

[So Ruff]

s'more:

Big L on "Da Graveyard"
Redman on EPMD's "Hardcore"
Freddie Foxxx on Gang Starr's "The Militia"
Jeru The Damaja on "Ya Playin' Yaself"
Keith Murray on "Escapism"
Canibus on LL's "4, 3, 2, 1"
Ludacris on "Cry Babies"
Andre 3000 on "Da Art of Storytellin', pt. 1"
Sean Price on "I Love You (Bitch)"
Kool Keith on "Ego Trippin"
Rae on "Can It Be All So Simple"

[greedygretchen]

right now i am absolutely obsessed with

Too Short- Don't Fight the Feeling

from too short to the chicks to the rapper that they call 4tay, the performances and lyrics are bad ass-i love it :p

[mickill]

wow, your a relly big fan of top-ten pop rap.
I'm just honest with myself. If you're feeling that Tony D, which I personally think is straight ass, that's cool. I'm just guessing that you haven't actually heard the Fabolous track I cited, anyway. It came out before his first album, before he went limp and before he dropped the "Sport" from his name. I don't even listen to dude, but it was a good performance. But yeah, Tony drops hot lines like "Solid funky from the flamin caucasian". So you win.

And if Luda never spit anything that interesting in my opinion until he jumped on a track with "the queen of crunk", so be it.


Hey, whatever. I wasnt dissing him. I've just never seen a list with "favorite" anything with Fabolous in it. I was just making an observation.
Don't bite your tongue.

[PaddyBoy]

Heres maybe my fav verse ever:

Run's House:

ah, once again my firend
not a trend for then
they said, rap was crap
but never had this band
(Jay kicks in...)till the ruler came
with a cooler name
make ya dance and prance and draw the fans to stades
name is Run my son
number one for fun
not a gun that's done and get done by none
the others act in fact ya just wack i kill
[DMC] why?
[RUN] because its fun my son and Run heads the bill!


Try to read through that and not sing along.

[mickill]

They Call Us Run DMC, from the same album, is pretty nice too. I think it's just as underacknowledged as Groove To The Sound and Bob Your Head.

[Micodin]

I'm just honest with myself. If you're feeling that Tony D, which I personally think is straight ass, that's cool. I'm just guessing that you haven't actually heard the Fabolous track I cited, anyway. It came out before his first album, before he went limp and before he dropped the "Sport" from his name. I don't even listen to dude, but it was a good performance. But yeah, Tony drops hot lines like "Solid funky from the flamin caucasian". So you win.

And if Luda never spit anything that interesting in my opinion until he jumped on a track with "the queen of crunk", so be it.


Don't bite your tongue.


Heh, me putting down Tony D was a little joke. Its nice that you picked it up, because I can bet 98% of the people that read it didnt know who he was. I'm not a fan of the one "that has more flavor than stove top stuffin'". I'm just a fan of his crappy single and even worse video.

Anyhoo, you can like pop-rappers... whatever. I'm not slighting you for it. I was just sayin'.

[cj hood]

They Call Us Run DMC, from the same album, is pretty nice too. I think it's just as underacknowledged as Groove To The Sound and Bob Your Head.


Groove to the Sound makes BFH worth buying........i think Big L's was the best mc to come out in the past 10 years or so.......RIP.....his freestyles were amazing!!!

"i only roll with originators/chicks stick to my dick like magnets on refrigerators"

this is a spill over from the '2 words' thread....but Big L was better then jayz, rakim, nas and krs combined!!!!

[roosta]

MF Doom "Operation Doomsday"
Talib Kweli "Lonely People"
RZA on GZA's "4th chamber" (favourite verse EVA!)
Every meth verse ever

Plus, true bout Big L.

[customX]

biggie-machine gun funk (y)

[mickill]

Groove to the Sound makes BFH worth buying........i think Big L's was the best mc to come out in the past 10 years or so.......RIP.....his freestyles were amazing!!!

"i only roll with originators/chicks stick to my dick like magnets on refrigerators"

this is a spill over from the '2 words' thread....but Big L was better then jayz, rakim, nas and krs combined!!!!

Better punchline rapper, yes. He couldn't tell stories, though (The Heist was seriously eh). Plus he definitely wasn't the most versatile rapper ever and he didn't really have the best voice.

[Kid Presentable]

No probs Micodin. (y)

Big L-Put it on (keepin rappers heart pumpin like Reeboks)
Big L-Size em up
Jay-Z-Takeover
BIG-Kick in the Door
BIG-One more Chance
Eminem-The Way I am
Run DMC-They call us Run DMC
Public Enemy-By the time I get to Arizona
Nas-The Message
Cappadonna-Ice Cream
Ghost-Mighty Healthy
Redman-How High (remix)
Deltron 3030-Madness
Co Flow-8 Steps
Co Flow-Patriotism
De La Soul and Doom-Rock Co. Kane Flow
De La-Millie pulled a pistol on Santa
Murs-Transitions az a ridah
Mos Def-Hip Hop
Debbie Harry-Rapture(but more cause she was crazy saucy when she was younger)
Ice Cube-King of the Hill(pwned Cypress Hill)
Cypress Hill-Illusions
Pete Rock and CL Smooth-T.R.O.Y
The Roots-Water
Talib Kweli-Get By
KRS ONE-Sound of Da Police
KRS ONE-The M.C
KRS ONE-M.C's act like they don't know
Beastie Boys-Pass The Mic (Nothing wrong with this lyrically imo)

Most of my favourites have already been listed.

[Gareth]

while we all talk about cappa, i think him on winter warz is kinda nice. don't know really what he is saying but its nice so whatever.

luda makes good monosyllabicly [is that even a word?] titled pop tracks into great ones [see: yeah and oh].

[xrocketman]

while we all talk about cappa, i think him on winter warz is kinda nice. don't know really what he is saying but its nice so whatever.

luda makes good monosyllabicly [is that even a word?] titled pop tracks into great ones [see: yeah and oh].

yeah thats a really good one. its long as shit but he kills it.


RZA - duck seazon
ice cube - mans best friend
nas - represent


and more biggie and big l.




oh yeah and how can i forget inspectah deck on triumph.

[Micodin]

MCA - Year And A Day

[mickill]

MCA - Year And A Day
I think his verse on 3 Minute Rule is much better.

[Qdrop]

So

Mase on DMX's Niggaz Done Started Something

Everlast on House Of Pain's House And The Rising Son


dude....

.....

[BangkokB]

Rawww Rawww
Like a Dungeon Dragon

[mickill]

dude....

.....
The Ma$e verse is seamless. You'd be lying to yourself if you listened to it and said it was trash.

The Everlast track was all freestyled. I think it's pretty nice.

I'd like to add Mista Grimm on the track Indo Smoke, Dres on Black Sheep's La Menage and GZA and Meth on Shadowboxin'.

[Qdrop]

The Ma$e verse is seamless. You'd be lying to yourself if you listened to it and said it was trash.

sigh.

The Everlast track was all freestyled. yeah. sure it was.
freestyle...sure.

[BangkokB]

5 Minutes of Funk
This ain't no junk
So get your bottom off the tree stump

Followed by

Bite It
Yum
Bite It
Yum
(into some sort of hip hop scat)

[mickill]

KRS One picks on fat hippie rappers and tried to battle Nelly, man. Don't give me none of your pompous hip hop purist 'tude, Q.

And it was off the head, jerkoff.

[g-mile7]

2pac-Heartz Of Men
Biggie-Unbelievable
Big Daddy Kane-Aint No Half Steppin'
Ice-T-Colors
Ice Cube-Good Day
Ras Kass-Nature of the Threat
Inspecta Deck-Truimph
ODB-Shame on Nigga
Murs-Letter to a Black Boy
Gza-Swordsman
Rakim-Paid in Full/The Watcher 2
Jay-Z-Girls, Girls, Girls
MC Breed-Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'
Tribe Called Quest aka q-tip-The Chase pt 2
Snoop-Deep Cover

[Qdrop]

top of my head:

dres (black sheep)- the choice is yours
KRS1 - the sound of the police
Redman - anything off Dare is a Darkside
Beastieboys- anything off Paul's boutique
everyone on The Scenario
biggie - gimme the loot
beastie boys - negotiation limerick file
eminem - till i collapse
eminem - lose yourself

[Qdrop]

KRS One picks on fat hippie rappers and tried to battle Nelly, man. well somebody has to.

And it was off the head, jerkoff. prove it.