Music Debate: What are the MOST Memorable Opening Lines in Hip Hop?

[LeftyLuchini]

"You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge"

"This is dedicated to them niggas that was down from day one. Welcome to Death Row."

 

[datruth]

jay -z renegade,[Jay-Z]
"Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels (bling bling)
Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?, microcosm of how rap has and will always be viewed

 

[CoochieMonster]

Man you had me reminiscing. There's been too many Opening lines that told you right off the bat the song would go hard.

Back in elementary, I thrived on misery
Left me alone I grew up amongst a dyin breed
Inside my mind couldn't find a place to rest
until I got that Thug Life tatted on my chest

-2Pac “So Many Tears”

When the scene unfolds
Young girls thirteen years old
Expose themselves to any Tom, Dick, and Hank
Got mo' stretch marks than these hoes
Hollin they got rank

-Goodie Mob “Cell Therapy”

Steppin' out the motherfuckin' car they in awe
I'm lookin' like a star bitch when you see me
make a wish.

-Lil Wayne “Money on My Mind”

Ya see me I eat sleep shit and talk rap

-Juvenile “400Degreez”

I'm tryin to keep my aces and my deuces all together
I'm thinkin of self-murder I know I won't live forever

-Spice 1 “187 He Wrote”

Last time I checked I was the man on these streets
They call me residue, I leave blow in these beats

-Young Jeezy "Trap or Die"

Hey, you, get off my cloud
You don't know me and you don't know my style

-Method Man "M-E-T-H-O-D Man"

 

[GhostWriter]

"When I die, fuck it I wanna go to hell
Cause I'm a piece of shit, it ain't hard to fuckin' tell
It don't make sense, goin' to heaven wit the goodie-goodies
Dressed in white, I like black Tims and black hoodies"
Notorious BIG - Suicidal Thoughts

 

[cb71109]

Mobb Deep Shook Ones

"I got you stuck off the realness We be the infamous you heard of us"

 

[Al Smith]

The world is mine, nigga get back, don't fuck with my stack, the gauge is racked...

Westside Connection

 

[Blunt]

 

[RoomService]

 

[juniorfinesse]

"yeah buddy rolling like a big shot, chevy tuned up like a nascar pit stop "lol

 

[playahaitian]

FLOCKA
"I go hard in the muhfuckin paint nigga
Leave you stankin nigga
What the fuck you thinkin nigga "

Waka Flocka Flame: Hard In The Paint

 

[playahaitian]

Waka Flocka Flame – Oh Let’s Do It Remix Lyrics ft Diddy, Rick Ross, Gucci Mane

I got my billions up f-cking with them white folk
now I don’t give a f-ck cause I’m richer than them white folks
- Diddy

 

[wedrinkandscrew]

Can't believe I aint seen this one yet


From the depths of the "C", back to the block
Snoop Doggy Dogg, Funky, yes but of the Doc
Went solo on that ass, but it's still the same
Long Beach is the spot where I served my cane
Follow me, follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip
Nine-trizzay's the yizzear for me to fuck up shit
So I ain't holdin nuttin back
And motherfucker I got five on the twenty sack
It's like that and as a matter of fact [rat-tat-tat-tat]
Cuz I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back
[Yeah, so peep out the manuscript
You see that it's a must we drop gangsta shit]
What's my motherfuckin name?

 

[ShortyCumStain]

AZ on "Affirmative Action", Nas on "The Message".

 

[P03t]

My personal fav....

Prodigy on "Survival of the Fittest" -- "There's a war going on outside, no man is safe from..."

Sick....

 

[powermoves]

cant forgot this fam
you wanna front wat jump up and get buck, if you feelin lucky duck then press your luck . - Jeru

 

[playahaitian]

Can't believe I aint seen this one yet


From the depths of the "C", back to the block
Snoop Doggy Dogg, Funky, yes but of the Doc
Went solo on that ass, but it's still the same
Long Beach is the spot where I served my cane
Follow me, follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip
Nine-trizzay's the yizzear for me to fuck up shit
So I ain't holdin nuttin back
And motherfucker I got five on the twenty sack
It's like that and as a matter of fact [rat-tat-tat-tat]
Cuz I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back
[Yeah, so peep out the manuscript
You see that it's a must we drop gangsta shit]
What's my motherfuckin name?

 

[playahaitian]

AZ on "Affirmative Action", Nas on "The Message".

 

[playahaitian]

My personal fav....

Prodigy on "Survival of the Fittest" -- "There's a war going on outside, no man is safe from..."

Sick....

 

[playahaitian]

cant forgot this fam
you wanna front wat jump up and get buck, if you feelin lucky duck then press your luck . - Jeru

 

[Damn Right]

rakim: 'I AINT NO JOKE. I USED 2 LET THE MIKE SMOKE. BUT NOW I SLAM IT ON THE GROUND AND MAKE SURE ITS BROKE'.

ice cube: (dayum near every verse off his first solo album)

 

[Punch]

"You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge"

^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^


Ice T- New Jack Huster


"Hustler.....Word I pull the trigger long"

 

[playahaitian]

^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^


Ice T- New Jack Huster


"Hustler.....Word I pull the trigger long"

 

[vandamation]

This should have been in the top 5...

 

[playahaitian]

rakim: 'I AINT NO JOKE. I USED 2 LET THE MIKE SMOKE. BUT NOW I SLAM IT ON THE GROUND AND MAKE SURE ITS BROKE'.

ice cube: (dayum near every verse off his first solo album)

 

[DEETZ181]

busta...scenario

"watch, as i combine all the juice from the mind
heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind"



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[runrun]

Craig Mack - 'Just Like Uniblab!

yes

 

[runrun]

Can't believe I aint seen this one yet


From the depths of the "C", back to the block
Snoop Doggy Dogg, Funky, yes but of the Doc
Went solo on that ass, but it's still the same
Long Beach is the spot where I served my cane
Follow me, follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip
Nine-trizzay's the yizzear for me to fuck up shit
So I ain't holdin nuttin back
And motherfucker I got five on the twenty sack
It's like that and as a matter of fact [rat-tat-tat-tat]
Cuz I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back
[Yeah, so peep out the manuscript
You see that it's a must we drop gangsta shit]
What's my motherfuckin name?

,,,and yes

 

[TimRock]

Das Efx

Bum stiggedy bum stiggedy bum hon I got the old pa rum pum pum pum
But I can fe fi fo fum diddly bum here I come
So Peter Piper I'm hyper than Pinochio's nose

 

[NICKLEBAGKILLA]

Now I'm first with a verse
So put it in reverse
When I rhyme I haunt your mind
Like a curse
But then it gets worse
All you get is one round
Fuck around and get your fronts dropped
You and your crew can catch a buckshot

D-Nice "Time to Flow"

You telling me don't curse
I reversed and did it worse
First I put a curse
In every verse
I kinda got outrageous
Check it
I even made a record how I'm doing
All these B-I-T-C-HES

Kool G Rap "Don't Curse"

 

[prospect]

The original Pac opening line....

"That's why I fucked yo bitch you fat mothafucka!!!"



That was memorable

 

[Mt Airy Groove]

Public Enemy - I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
They wanted me for their army or whatever
Picture me given' a damn I said never

 

[Mt Airy Groove]

Krs One - Criminal minded you've been blinded
Lookin for a style like mine you can't find it

 

[Mt Airy Groove]

KRS-ONE:
Well, today's topic, self destruction
It really ain't the rap audience that's buggin
It's one or two suckas, ignorant brothers
Trying to rob and steal from one another
You get caught in the mid
So to crush the stereotype here's what we did
We got ourselves together
so that you could unite and fight for what's right
Not negative 'cause the way we live is positive
We don't kill our relatives

 

[Willyum]

Two years ago, a friend of mine, asked me to say some MC rhymes... So I said this rhyme I'm about to say, the rhyme was Def and it went this way....

MC am I people call me Milk...

Bum Stickity bum stickity bum hun...

Gat damn I'm glad y'all set it off, used to be hard, now ya just wet and soft...

 

[Cybts1]

10. The Notorious B.I.G "Warning" -- "Who the f*ck is this pagin me at 5:46, in the mornin crack of dawnin, now I'm yawnin, wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin me and why..."

This one is a classic.