Best hiphop verse ever

Crudivore · 09-27-2015, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Scoob V

It's hard to determine what is "the best verse" but you could put together a top 5. Here's mine:
(In no order)
Eminem - Forgot About Dre
Andre 3000 - Pink Matter
Nas - NY State of Mind (1st verse)
Kurupt - Got My Mind Made Up
Inspectah Deck - Bring Da Ruckus

Top 5 is a great idea. I love the song Bring Da Ruckus

DwnWthVwls · 09-30-2015, 02:16 PM

Jean Grae - My Crew

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I represent for a nation. Thought we was in it together
But I guess it gets strange when money rains in sunny weather
Tougher than leather? We're weaker than glass
And shattered on the side of the road. Try to get a ride, but pass each other fast
The closed aves throw hash, ice, and whips
Have blinded us. Never mind how the mind just trips for glitch
****, niggas. Rich niggas got us in tow
If it's not enough, they gotta put us all on a show
Y’all lost me somewhere between waking and coffee
That **** changed so quick, I didn't blink and it cost me
**** it, it costs us. You even know where we at?
****ed with you. I hear that we can't even open the map
Rap's dead, rap sucks, but thanks to y’all for killin' it
Grillin' it down and spillin’ its guts and fillin' it back up with trash
Wait up… I mean cash
But ain’t the two synonymous with media politics?
(You know they love it)

:P

Black Francis · 10-02-2015, 10:01 AM

Here's a verse that's constantly in my head.

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Yo, microphone check one, two, what is this?
The five foot assassin with the roughneck business
I float like gravity, never had a cavity
Got more rhymes than the Winans got family
No need to sweat Arsenio to gain some type of fame
No shame in my game cause I'll always be the same
Styles upon styles upon styles is what I have
You wanna diss the Phifer but you still don't know the half
I sport New Balance sneakers to avoid a narrow path
Mess around with this you catch a size eight up your {ass}
I never half step cause I'm not a half stepper
Drink a lot of soda so they call me Dr. Pepper
Refuse to compete with BS competition
Your name ain't Special Ed so won't you seckle with the mission
I never walk the street thinking it's all about me
Even though deep in my heart, it really could be
I just try my best to like go all out
Some might even say yo shorty black you're buggin' out

- Phife, Buggin out

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 10-02-2015, 06:53 PM

mos def's verse on thieves in the night is the perfect commentary on fame and the music industry in general... and is one of the greatest hip hop verses of all time for that reason imo

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Originally Posted by Mos Def - Thieves in the Night

Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listenin' agree
That everything you see ain't really how it be
A lot of jokers out runnin' in place, chasin the style
Be a lot goin' on beneath the empty smile
Most cats in my area be lovin' the hysteria
Synthesized surface conceals the interior
America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages
More than usually -- speakin' loudly, sayin' nothin'
You confusin' me, you losin' me
Your game is twisted, want me enlisted -- in your usary
Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly
Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception
Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the lookin' glass
Walkin' the street, wonderin' who they be lookin' past
Lookin' gassed with them imported designer shades on
Stars shine bright, but the light -- rarely stays on
Same song, just remixed, different arrangement
Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship
Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this
Screamin' brand new, when they just sanitized the old ****
Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick
That they been runnin' across stars through all the time with
I find it's distressin', there's never no in-between
We either niggaz or Kings
We either bitches or Queens
The deadly ritual seems immersed, in the perverse
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
The length of black life is treated with short worth
Get yours first, them other niggaz secondary
That type of illin' that be fillin' up the cemetery
This life is temporary but the soul is eternal
Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you
Not strong, only aggressive, cause the power ain't directed
That's why, we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
Not free, we only licensed
Not live, we just excitin'
Cause the captors.. own the masters.. to what we writin'
Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
Not good, but well behaved cause the ca-me-ra survey
most of the things that we think, do, or say
We chasin' after death just to call ourselves brave
But everyday, next man meet with the grave
I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy
I'm tryin' to live life in the sight of God's memory
Like that y'all

ghost on impossible is the most evocative story telling verse i've ever heard

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Originally Posted by Ghostface - Impossible

Call an ambulance, Jamie been shot, word to Kemit
Don't go Son, nigga you my mother****in heart
Stay still Son, don't move, just think about Keeba
She'll be three in January, your young God needs you
The ambulance is taking too long
Everybody get the **** back, excuse me bitch, gimme your jack
One, seven one eight, nine one one, low battery, damn
Blood comin out his mouth, he bleedin badly
Nahhh Jamie, don't start that ****
Keep your head up, if you escape hell we gettin ****ed up
When we was eight, we went to Bat Day to see the Yanks
In Sixty-Nine, his father and mines, they robbed banks
He pointed to the charm on his neck
With his last bit of energy left, told me rock it with respect
I opened it, seen the God holdin his kids
Photogenic, tears just burst out my wig
Plus he dropped one, oh ****, here come his Old Earth
With no shoes on, screamin holdin her breasts with a gown on
She fell and then lightly touched his jaw, kissed him
Rubbed his hair, turned around the ambulance was there
Plus the blue coats, Officer Lough, took it as a joke
Weeks ago he strip-searched the God and gave him back his coke
Bitches yellin, Beenie Man swung on Helen
In the back of a cop car, dirty tarts are tellin
But suddenly a chill came through it was weird
Felt like my man, was cast out my heaven now we share
Laid on the stretcher, blood on his Wally's like ketchup
Deep like the full assassination with a sketch of it
It can't be, from Yohoo to Lee's
Second grade humped the teachers, about to leave
Finally this closed chapter, comes to an end
He was announced, pronounced dead, y'all, at twelve ten

(ghost's verse starts at 2:40)

DwnWthVwls · 10-02-2015, 09:48 PM

Impossible is my favorite song on Forever.

RL Clown · 10-27-2015, 06:16 PM

Check out Verse 3 of these lyrics: EMINEM LYRICS - Sing For The Moment (Eminem - Sing for the Moment)

NikoGotGame · 11-25-2015, 04:37 PM

"Beauty in the struggle, happiness in the success"- j cole

Kingsc23 · 12-07-2015, 12:41 AM

Damn this is a good question. First verse in Rakim's Microphone fiend.

Black Francis · 12-07-2015, 08:05 AM

Ahmad - Back in the day

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I remember (back in the days)
When I just a little ******-o
I looked up to my bigger bro
Begged if I could kick it so
When he went out with girls I could go tagging along
Nagging if she had a sis maybe could mack a baby hoodrat
Y'all remember way back then, when it was 1985
All the way live, I think I was about ten
One of those happy little niggas singing the blues
That be always trying to bag with the shag and karate shoes
Sayin "Yo momma black; his momma this, his momma that"
Then he get mad and wanna scrap
We stay mad about, ten minutes then it's like back on the bike
To play hide and go get it with the younger hoes by the bungaloes
Then switch to playing ding dong ditch, when that gets
Old and too cold to hack it, threw on a bomber jacket.

ReachForPeach · 12-10-2015, 01:28 AM

RA the rugged man in Uncommon Valor got sick flow

10-27-2015, 06:16 PM	#16 (permalink)
RL Clown Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 182	Check out Verse 3 of these lyrics: EMINEM LYRICS - Sing For The Moment (Eminem - Sing for the Moment)

11-25-2015, 04:37 PM	#17 (permalink)
NikoGotGame Groupie Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 16	"Beauty in the struggle, happiness in the success"- j cole

12-07-2015, 12:41 AM	#18 (permalink)
Kingsc23 Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 52	Damn this is a good question. First verse in Rakim's Microphone fiend.

12-10-2015, 01:28 AM	#20 (permalink)
ReachForPeach Groupie Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 5	RA the rugged man in Uncommon Valor got sick flow