your opinion, best ever rap tune?

JayoFella · 21-10-2010 12:33am #1

ok all what do you think is the best ever rap une take a minute because there is millons to choose from,

ill start it off

tupac: thugs mansion acoustic version ft nas

tbh · 21-10-2010 8:13am

Nas - get down. From gods son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-VnubADQuA

edit: ha! didn't spot Nas in the OP.

GodlessInfidel · 21-10-2010 1:15pm

Memory Lane by Nas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UfAzKSEFSg

Nolanger · 23-10-2010 8:23pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epEQhxslprE

23-10-2010 8:24pm

eazy e - boyz in the hood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmMO8iilaE

UrbanSea · 24-10-2010 12:10am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0wsET8__Y

Orizio · 24-10-2010 1:43am

I got styles sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia,
slaughter your circulatory like lukemia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbewHCQPS8

Orizio · 24-10-2010 1:52am

I hold cannons that shoot balls of flames,
Right in they fat mouth then I carve my name,
Nas - too real, Nas - true king...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbllyL7xk

Not exactly the greatest song ever, but up there. Crazy overlooked. Why can't Nas spit like this anymore? A serious reminder as to why he was the greatest ever.

Orizio · 24-10-2010 1:55am

While I'm at it, the greatest verse of all time?

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold,
I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe,
When I'm deceased, by then the beast arise like yeast,
to conquer peace leaving savages to roam in the streets...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMPxSi9iUM

Orizio · 24-10-2010 2:02am

Runner-up(s) to 'Rather Unique'...

We chillin like a villain and a nigga feelin right,
in the middle of the ghetto on the curb, but in spite,
all of the bull**** we on our back starin at the stars above,
(aww man) Talkin bout what we gonna be when we grow up,
I said what you wanna be, she said, "Alive" (hmm),
It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes,
I coulda died, time went on, I got grown,
Rhyme got strong, mind got blown, I came back home,
to find lil Sasha was gone,
Her mamma said she with a nigga that be treatin her wrong,
I kept on singin my song and hopin at a show,
that I would one day see her standin in the front row,
But two weeks later she got found in the back of a school,
With a needle in her arm, baby two months due, Sasha Thumper...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjD1X2SD2-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G0Uos-Le9M

holystungun9 · 24-10-2010 2:24am

+1 for get down. How he can tell a full story like that in rhyme is a testament to his abilities. Also Rae is another favourite for me.

**** I'm struggling to pick one and I know this goes against the thread title but anyone of these depending on the day, maybe a diff one for each day of the week....

T.R.O.Y. Pete Rock and C.L.
Can't stop the profit Jeru
Come Clean Jeru
Unbelievable Biggie
Code of the streets Gangstarr
Mass Appeal Gangstarr
C.R.E.A.M. Wu

HATCHET IRL · 24-10-2010 2:35am

This would have to be mine, tells two sides of da same story and no matter how many times i listen to it it gives me chills. R.As verse is just ridiculous and its based on his fathers time in vietnam which makes it even more ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KpWMNxnM

and just cause Orizio got to pick more than one ill throw this in:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNcS5Wl2qlo

Was listenin to verbal intercourse tonight, sick ass beat.
i think hip-hop itself is under rated in Ireland fullstop

Orizio · 24-10-2010 3:35am

Rounding out the top ten:

Now, my oral demonstration be like clitoral stimulation,
to the female gender, ain't nothin better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NywdVBwzurU

Words of a chain I don't feel but I see,
visions from me,
at twenty three making us free in my community
one day is what I live for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsFDvyLGEk

18 years younger than my mama,
But I rarely got beatings cause the girl loved drama...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOcVWQY2bc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCnqDvvZrcM

Early in the morning when the sun starts to creep,
When the birds start to chirp and crackheads go to sleep,
Moms was comin' in I heard her keys go clink,
Wearin' nothin' but pumps, bikini, and fake mink,
Even though she served, for 50 dollars-a-pop,
Hardly had enough for rent after Jesus re-copped,
That day the landlady got her rent before he got his knot,
Slammed momma's head against the front bolt lock...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPr1JLoYLW4

My sleep is interrupted by food on the stove,
Not gun shots, we're immune to those,
Some of my friend's first bids is two to fours,
Others are on the run with huge rewards,
Mothers watch Son's walk through the door,
For the last time 'til they go view at the morgue...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoc34ZNghqo

You try to stop mines from growin, I'll make your blood stop flowin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gYFrWF6UE

As we spring back to the past, it was all happening fast,
We glorified coke and smoking crack in a glass,
When b-boys danced to the latest jam,
You could say this man was the greatest fan,
When shoelaces were fat, and all the rapper's faces were black,
And light-brown, a box with the right sound was all you needed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9khJP_mR8Iw

Yeah, this is brand new Uptown still in the box,
This is the Yankees, 10-nothin', killin' the Sox...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHZJIpif6c

Choices blocked off, childhood gone,
Just future cubicles and retirement homes,
But you can't see it happening, live savagely,
Only thing you put passion in is Zig-Zag packaging,
Swallow Oxycontins to find solace,
You need a fix so you hit some blockhead for his wallet,
But the gun jams and the cops come to take ya,
And now that bullet ain't the only thing thats caught up in a chamber...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26GNjcQjh5Y

Shad dude, when was the last time you grabbed a pen,
And worked your brains out, spat flames out,
You tame now,
Sort of got this half-way lame style,
And this is sort of an aside, but you've gained pounds,
Spending all day layed out on that same couch!,
Whatever happened to 'I want a clair huxtable',
And 'the only rap videos I make are instructional',
I think you got a little bit too comfortable,
And you still out of love, so what you gonna do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoM6t5SMFFw

Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders,
So when we begin to assassinate your cast members...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrBLAYtnbA

I'm deep down in the back streets - in the heart of Medina,
About to set off something more deep than a misdemeanor,
Under the subway, waiting for the train to make noise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUC8h7YFrM

Now we're strung on needles, and some are plungin evils,
So study and be wise in these days of darkness...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpIkOXgAmg

When I was a young boy chillin in my daddys nuts,
All I could hear was a rhyme and dope cuts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-oLqMwzvBY

One day when I’m the nigga gettin’ money, gettin’ cash, gettin’ signed
Getting the **** out the ghetto, cause I’m tired of crime.
But it’s a crime that I feel this ****ing waste of time.
But sometimes I feel like this **** here is a waste of time, yours and mine.
To these niggas out here trying to rhyme.
Your reason for a better should of been genuine.
I do it because it gives me a sort of peace-of-mind.
And for the love...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeiXXu8eNBA

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtKtovmZ98

I ain't Denzel but I know Im'a star...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH-1vTik8gE

Seaneh · 24-10-2010 8:59am

I push these lyrics through any MC, and make it burn
So the niggaz who be rhyming next, will miss a turn
When you speak of who's the dopest MC, I don't come up
But when you speak of who's the livest
MC, I stay what up, what's up?
I got stripes while you got strikes and bogus mikes
Do what bitch niggaz do best *UTFO sample* bite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUapg2mOehI

UrbanSea · 24-10-2010 1:54pm

Thanks for putting the video in right,Orizio.

Mickolution · 24-10-2010 2:13pm

Orizio wrote: »

While I'm at it, the greatest verse of all time?

I'd have to go with Cappadonna's verse on Winter Warz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWJYq5xChQ

Always loved Public Service Announcement too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2YhtP-m4_0

Boom_Bap · 24-10-2010 3:06pm

@ Seaneh - Me and a couple of people where discussing The Militia recently and we concluded that the verses before Bumpy Knuks is all just filler. For that reason it cannot be the best tune ever.

I think if i started to think about the best song ever, i wouldnt be able to stop, much like Orizio

greenbetty69 · 24-10-2010 7:52pm

some song....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6jvhfKm6Ko

holy guacamole · 24-10-2010 8:42pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opWYnUpNtG8

bonkeyfonkey · 24-10-2010 9:52pm

Hands down Wu Tang-Triumph! "I bomb atomically!"

Borneo Fnctn · 24-10-2010 10:20pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFSvUMxDWak

HalloweenJack · 25-10-2010 12:57pm

Way too many but a few songs that I always go back to are:

Wu Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
Raekwon - Ice Cream
OutKast - Skew It On The Bar B
Jurassic 5 - Contribution
Ice Cube - Doing Dumb ****

As for best verse, André 3000's in International Player's Anthem.

Scuid Mhór · 25-10-2010 1:02pm

changes by tupac. gotta be the very best.

bogman_bass · 25-10-2010 8:41pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li9XW0Jz8WU

Express yourself - NWA

Executive Steve · 25-10-2010 10:33pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-jF4fbuoCE

He had her leakin' transmission fluid, said it was an accident, he didn't mean to do it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fTzVncfXY

cause without you, there's be no me and without no unity there would never be any happiness; you could smoke a pound of cess and it still won't relieve your stress, god bless... my thought process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vL0zhBdCk8

Battling me, that would be an embarrasing mistake, like promoters who don't get the "h" in the right place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYkDwzi-FI

If we wasn't hanging out in cocaine spots, we was at the candy factory, breakin the locks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjmr4pBlcQ

deep black, sirens penetrate the silence, blinding lights shining dilate the iris, drivers shot hybrids and clock mileage, deep in the dawn, light heavy on the eyelids