Article The Best Opening Rap Lines Ever…

Black Superman · 10-23-2008, 10:21 AM

Dudes may have caught Buckshot on Rap City on one of the last episodes and flipped the channel immediately. They don’t know what they’re missing, though. I was revisiting “Leflah Leflah Eshkoshka” the other day. Rockness Monstah killed it, but Starang stole the show if you ask me. There’s just something about his opening lines, “Ay Carumba! Starang, Gun clappa number, one on the set, man/I cut you like lumber.” He didn’t say anything spectacular there, but his presence and the way he pronounced his words made the verse classic. He hooked the listener with his first bars, which is what any MC should aim to do.

There have been some classic verse openers over the years. Some slugger MCs swing for the fences on the first pitch, but again, it’s not always about what you say. At times, it’s about how it’s being said. Here are some of my personal favorite opening lines.

“I ain’t no joke/I used to let the mic smoke/now I slam it when I’m done and make sure it’s broke” Rakim “I Ain’t No Joke,” Paid In Full

” Mic check, I walk around the street with a black tech nine by the wasteline kickin out hype shit/I don’t pretend the be the best type of rapper, but have to/show these motherfuckers what I’m after” Redman, “Tonight’s Da Night,” Whut? Thee Album

“I smoke on the mic like smokin Joe Frazer/the hell raiser/raisin hell with the flavor/terrorizing jams like troops in Pakistan/swinging through your town like a neighborhood Spider-Man” Inspector Deck of Wu-Tang Clan “Protect Ya Neck,” Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

“Rappers I monkey flip ‘em with the funky rhythm I be kickin/Musician, inflictin composition/
of pain I’m like Scarface sniffin cocaine/Holdin a M-16, see with the pen I’m extreme” Nas “NY State Of Mind,” Illmatic

“Who the fuck is this?/pagin me at 5:46 in the morning/crack of dawn and now I’m yawnin/wipe the cold out my eye/see who’s this pagin me and why” The Notorious B.I.G. “Warning,” Ready To Die

“At a thousand degrees celsius, I make mc’s melt/ fuck my record label, I appear courtesy of myself/Let me explain how I maintain thresholds to pain/I walk across the Sun barefoot lookin for shade” Canibus on The Firm’s “Desperados,” The Firm

“I never freestyle for free, without charging motherfuckers a fee/it’ll cost you a brain cell just to cipha with me” Canibus “How We Roll,” Can-I-Bus

“Take minks off! Take things off!Take chains off! Take rings off! Bracelets is yappd, Fame came off! [Ante up!] Everything off!” -M.O.P. “Ante Up,” Warriorz

“Who the fuck you think you fuckin’ with I’m the fuckin boss/745 white on white that’s fuckin Ross” Rick Ross “Hustlin,” Port Of Miami

This is just off the top. I can be here all day. Shoot! I almost forgot Phife Dawg on “Electric Relaxation.” “I like em brown, yellow, puerto rican and haitian.” Big L, Kane and Hov had some memorable openers too. What are your favorites? -Jackpot

xxl

Ghetto Pharmacist · 10-23-2008, 10:43 AM

Relax and take notes, while I take tokes of the Marijuana smoke..

CosmoFX™ · 10-23-2008, 10:46 AM

One of my favs to b honest, "Aint nuttin changed but the leaves on the trees, Ya'll come up short like the sleeves on a T.."

- U tell me

13ubba · 10-23-2008, 10:50 AM

"Im Gorilla In The Mix Fuck Around I Go Bananas With Clips"

Sparks37 · 10-23-2008, 10:57 AM

"I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines
I'm the "Quiet Storm" nigga who fight rhyme"

Prodigy "Quiet Storm" on Mobb Deep's "Murda Muzik"

Marky G · 10-23-2008, 11:02 AM

when i was just a little baby boy my mama used to tell me these crazy things,
she used to tell me my daddy was an evil man she used to tell me he hated me....

Purdu · 10-23-2008, 11:03 AM

"It was all a dream!/I used to read Word Up magazine/Salt'N'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine."

"I ain't a killer but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy"

"Freedom or jail, clips inserted, a baby's bein born
Same time my man is murdered, the beginning and end"

"Straight outta Compton, crazy motherf*cker named Ice Cube
From the gang called N*ggaz With Attitudes"

And the nastiest/sickest/craziest opening lines ever:

"I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse
I got blood on my dick cuz I fucked a corpse"

Black Superman · 10-23-2008, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Superman

“Who the fuck is this?/pagin me at 5:46 in the morning/crack of dawn and now I’m yawnin/wipe the cold out my eye/see who’s this pagin me and why” The Notorious B.I.G. “Warning,” Ready To Die

xxl

dis been my ringtone for like 2 years now... classic

DAT PROBLEM · 10-23-2008, 11:24 AM

"When I get hard with lines I shine like lip gloss,you just pissed off ya dick small and the condom slip off"

Cassidy on freeway's homicide lol

heelz211 · 10-23-2008, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Purdu

"Straight outta Compton, crazy motherf*cker named Ice Cube
From the gang called N*ggaz With Attitudes"

thats the first thing that came to my mind before i even entered this thread

Lyrikcha · 10-23-2008, 11:31 AM

Nah the best best ever is...

U might see joggin, U might see me walkin
U might see me walkin a dead rottweiler Dog
with his head chopped off in a park with a spike collar
Hollarin at em caz the son of bitch wont quit barkin

PAUL CAINE · 10-23-2008, 11:45 AM

' even my baby know his bigger brother roll wit the ratchet
he only 7 years old and know where i stash it'

banks!!!!

13ubba · 10-23-2008, 11:53 AM

Quote:

"Straight outta Compton, crazy motherf*cker named Ice Cube
From the gang called N*ggaz With Attitudes"

Hold Hold Up let Me Remix This

Straight Outta Southside, Crazy Motherfucka named Bank-o
Crack Rap, Millon Dollar Bankroll , Black lac for my outta state hoe

Da.NoRTHeRN.HuSTL · 10-23-2008, 11:55 AM

And the nastiest/sickest/craziest opening lines ever:

"I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse
I got blood on my dick cuz I fucked a corpse"[/QUOTE]

co sign this DMX crazy opener

YUNG STIXX · 10-23-2008, 12:05 PM

"first off, fuck your bitch and the click you claim/ westside when we ride come equipt with game"
-Pac

D-block4life · 10-23-2008, 12:17 PM

Cant really figure this clown out where is he from Jamaica Queens, Cali, or down south

PsychoLuke · 10-23-2008, 12:19 PM

Yo, Marley gives the slice, I get nice,
and my voice is twice as horrifying as Vincent Price
goes deep, till you fell in a spell of a sleep,
and while I'm countin' the money, you count sheep.

Kool G Raps first lines in the symphony (for his verse)

Miked24 · 10-23-2008, 12:23 PM

"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery"

Inspectah Deck- Triumph
Classic shit

Miked24 · 10-23-2008, 12:26 PM

fuck it, I gotta post the whole verse, this is a classic,

" I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me
Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits
tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics
I inspect you, through the future see millenium
Killa B's sold fifty gold sixty platinum
Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics
Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths
Black Wu jackets queen B's ease the guns in
Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function
Heads by the score take flight incite a war
Chicks hit the floor, diehard fans demand more
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly
Proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock
Wu got it locked, performin live on your hottest block"

Hakaroodi · 10-23-2008, 12:33 PM

"I know the watch botherin' your vision, but reach and i put a dot on your head like its part of your religion!" - Banks..

"G stands for Gangsta, UNIT stands for U Niggaz In Trouble, better lock and load on the double!" - Fif..

"Now, take these words home and think it through, or the next rhyme i write might be about you dunn!" - Prodigy..

Tha Unit On Top · 10-23-2008, 01:15 PM

Dam, ya'll gave some good ones, all of you, Em, Pac, Cube, Deck, X, Biggie, some good shit, really all the shit that has been posted is dope ass lines.

iNfAMOUS G-CORP. · 10-23-2008, 01:21 PM

America's got a thing for this gangsta's shit, they love me
Black Chucks, black skullies, leather Pelle-Pelle
I take spit over raymo shit, I'm a vandal
Got that silver duck tape on my Trey Eight handle

13ubba · 10-23-2008, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hakaroodi

"I know the watch botherin' your vision, but reach and i put a dot on your head like its part of your religion!" - Banks..

"G stands for Gangsta, UNIT stands for U Niggaz In Trouble, better lock and load on the double!" - Fif..

"Now, take these words home and think it through, or the next rhyme i write could be about you dunn!" - Prodigy..

^ Thats a Classic Lines By 50 & Banks

AzawX · 10-23-2008, 03:25 PM

that Biggie one is dope but the others are more or less average...

Dan Flava · 10-23-2008, 04:12 PM

go go go go go go, go shawty
it's your birthday

lol

10-23-2008, 10:21 AM	#1
Black Superman Show Time Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,588 Repped: 259 Repped 5,423 Times in 619 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 11 Times in 9 Posts	The Best Opening Rap Lines Ever… The Best Opening Rap Lines Ever… Dudes may have caught Buckshot on Rap City on one of the last episodes and flipped the channel immediately. They don’t know what they’re missing, though. I was revisiting “Leflah Leflah Eshkoshka” the other day. Rockness Monstah killed it, but Starang stole the show if you ask me. There’s just something about his opening lines, “Ay Carumba! Starang, Gun clappa number, one on the set, man/I cut you like lumber.” He didn’t say anything spectacular there, but his presence and the way he pronounced his words made the verse classic. He hooked the listener with his first bars, which is what any MC should aim to do. There have been some classic verse openers over the years. Some slugger MCs swing for the fences on the first pitch, but again, it’s not always about what you say. At times, it’s about how it’s being said. Here are some of my personal favorite opening lines. “I ain’t no joke/I used to let the mic smoke/now I slam it when I’m done and make sure it’s broke” Rakim “I Ain’t No Joke,” Paid In Full ” Mic check, I walk around the street with a black tech nine by the wasteline kickin out hype shit/I don’t pretend the be the best type of rapper, but have to/show these motherfuckers what I’m after” Redman, “Tonight’s Da Night,” Whut? Thee Album “I smoke on the mic like smokin Joe Frazer/the hell raiser/raisin hell with the flavor/terrorizing jams like troops in Pakistan/swinging through your town like a neighborhood Spider-Man” Inspector Deck of Wu-Tang Clan “Protect Ya Neck,” Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) “Rappers I monkey flip ‘em with the funky rhythm I be kickin/Musician, inflictin composition/ of pain I’m like Scarface sniffin cocaine/Holdin a M-16, see with the pen I’m extreme” Nas “NY State Of Mind,” Illmatic “Who the fuck is this?/pagin me at 5:46 in the morning/crack of dawn and now I’m yawnin/wipe the cold out my eye/see who’s this pagin me and why” The Notorious B.I.G. “Warning,” Ready To Die “At a thousand degrees celsius, I make mc’s melt/ fuck my record label, I appear courtesy of myself/Let me explain how I maintain thresholds to pain/I walk across the Sun barefoot lookin for shade” Canibus on The Firm’s “Desperados,” The Firm “I never freestyle for free, without charging motherfuckers a fee/it’ll cost you a brain cell just to cipha with me” Canibus “How We Roll,” Can-I-Bus “Take minks off! Take things off!Take chains off! Take rings off! Bracelets is yappd, Fame came off! [Ante up!] Everything off!” -M.O.P. “Ante Up,” Warriorz “Who the fuck you think you fuckin’ with I’m the fuckin boss/745 white on white that’s fuckin Ross” Rick Ross “Hustlin,” Port Of Miami This is just off the top. I can be here all day. Shoot! I almost forgot Phife Dawg on “Electric Relaxation.” “I like em brown, yellow, puerto rican and haitian.” Big L, Kane and Hov had some memorable openers too. What are your favorites? -Jackpot xxl __________________ HH Board's Top 5 or Better... Who Hotter Than Me? HIT DA REP OR CLICK THE GREEN

10-23-2008, 10:43 AM	#2
Ghetto Pharmacist Educated Minority Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 5,579 Repped: 122 Repped 611 Times in 61 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Relax and take notes, while I take tokes of the Marijuana smoke.. __________________ "Thats why the gangsta rhymers aint aspired/ Henious crimes help record sales more than creative lines.."

10-23-2008, 10:46 AM	#3
CosmoFX™ Spurs Til' I Die! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: In Da Endz.. Posts: 959 Repped: 401 Repped 34 Times in 17 Posts Neg Reps: 1 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	One of my favs to b honest, "Aint nuttin changed but the leaves on the trees, Ya'll come up short like the sleeves on a T.." - U tell me __________________ "I'm Killing It, Like A Blind Man Reading I'm Feeling It.."

10-23-2008, 10:57 AM	#5
Sparks37 Bootlegger Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: France/Germany Posts: 5,722 Repped: 2,518 Repped 6,534 Times in 1,282 Posts Neg Reps: 47 Neg Repped at 44 Times in 37 Posts	"I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines I'm the "Quiet Storm" nigga who fight rhyme" Prodigy "Quiet Storm" on Mobb Deep's "Murda Muzik" __________________ In stores on December 15th.

10-23-2008, 11:03 AM	#7
Purdu Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sesame Street Posts: 655 Repped: 151 Repped 103 Times in 53 Posts Neg Reps: 43 Neg Repped at 11 Times in 9 Posts	"It was all a dream!/I used to read Word Up magazine/Salt'N'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine." "I ain't a killer but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy" "Freedom or jail, clips inserted, a baby's bein born Same time my man is murdered, the beginning and end" "Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfcker named Ice Cube From the gang called Nggaz With Attitudes" And the nastiest/sickest/craziest opening lines ever: "I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse I got blood on my dick cuz I fucked a corpse" __________________ "Top 5 dead or alive, your list is buggin me, count myself twice, the rest of Slaughterhouse the other three"

10-23-2008, 10:50 AM	#4
13ubba Veteran Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: canada Posts: 3,403 Repped: 468 Repped 1,503 Times in 357 Posts Neg Reps: 442 Neg Repped at 159 Times in 114 Posts	"Im Gorilla In The Mix Fuck Around I Go Bananas With Clips"

10-23-2008, 11:02 AM	#6
Marky G Hip.Hop.UK.CrazyKId Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: West London Posts: 823 Repped: 271 Repped 75 Times in 16 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 1 Time in 1 Post	when i was just a little baby boy my mama used to tell me these crazy things, she used to tell me my daddy was an evil man she used to tell me he hated me....

10-23-2008, 11:24 AM	#9
DAT PROBLEM aka StreetzMostWanted... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chelas, Zona J.. Posts: 4,800 Repped: 1,668 Repped 15,178 Times in 1,479 Posts Neg Reps: 68 Neg Repped at 30 Times in 28 Posts	"When I get hard with lines I shine like lip gloss,you just pissed off ya dick small and the condom slip off" Cassidy on freeway's homicide lol

10-23-2008, 11:31 AM	#11
Lyrikcha So Kiss my ass BIOTCHES Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: woodbridge, VA Posts: 6,371 Repped: 11 Repped 792 Times in 297 Posts Neg Reps: 7 Neg Repped at 56 Times in 44 Posts	Nah the best best ever is... U might see joggin, U might see me walkin U might see me walkin a dead rottweiler Dog with his head chopped off in a park with a spike collar Hollarin at em caz the son of bitch wont quit barkin __________________ No, I don't like you, Yes, you are a better emcee then Chambers, I give props where props are due.-Smoke1Life Last edited by Lyrikcha; 10-23-2008 at 11:35 AM.

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PAUL CAINE Pauly Soprano!! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Eastside El-Barrio Wagner P's Posts: 3,976 Repped: 1,321 Repped 633 Times in 405 Posts Neg Reps: 87 Neg Repped at 121 Times in 78 Posts	' even my baby know his bigger brother roll wit the ratchet he only 7 years old and know where i stash it' banks!!!! __________________

10-23-2008, 11:55 AM	#14
Da.NoRTHeRN.HuSTL BLaZe.Da.DRo Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 66 Repped: 19 Repped 0 Times in 0 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	And the nastiest/sickest/craziest opening lines ever: "I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse I got blood on my dick cuz I fucked a corpse"[/QUOTE] co sign this DMX crazy opener

10-23-2008, 12:05 PM	#15
YUNG STIXX R.I.P DRO Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: ON 166TH Posts: 3,900 Repped: 411 Repped 1,295 Times in 404 Posts Neg Reps: 63 Neg Repped at 129 Times in 86 Posts	"first off, fuck your bitch and the click you claim/ westside when we ride come equipt with game" -Pac

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D-block4life D-block Millitant Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 173 Repped: 4 Repped 3 Times in 3 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Cant really figure this clown out where is he from Jamaica Queens, Cali, or down south

10-23-2008, 12:19 PM	#17
PsychoLuke Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 740 Repped: 315 Repped 5 Times in 3 Posts Neg Reps: 31 Neg Repped at 2 Times in 2 Posts	Yo, Marley gives the slice, I get nice, and my voice is twice as horrifying as Vincent Price goes deep, till you fell in a spell of a sleep, and while I'm countin' the money, you count sheep. Kool G Raps first lines in the symphony (for his verse)

10-23-2008, 12:23 PM	#18
Miked24 Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 48 Repped: 0 Repped 0 Times in 0 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery" Inspectah Deck- Triumph Classic shit

10-23-2008, 12:26 PM	#19
Miked24 Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 48 Repped: 0 Repped 0 Times in 0 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	fuck it, I gotta post the whole verse, this is a classic, " I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics I inspect you, through the future see millenium Killa B's sold fifty gold sixty platinum Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths Black Wu jackets queen B's ease the guns in Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function Heads by the score take flight incite a war Chicks hit the floor, diehard fans demand more Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly Proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock Wu got it locked, performin live on your hottest block"

10-23-2008, 12:33 PM	#20
Hakaroodi G-UNIT SOLDIER Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 30,516 Repped: 14,425 Repped 952 Times in 224 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 49 Times in 45 Posts	"I know the watch botherin' your vision, but reach and i put a dot on your head like its part of your religion!" - Banks.. "G stands for Gangsta, UNIT stands for U Niggaz In Trouble, better lock and load on the double!" - Fif.. "Now, take these words home and think it through, or the next rhyme i write might be about you dunn!" - Prodigy.. Last edited by Hakaroodi; 10-23-2008 at 08:01 PM.

10-23-2008, 01:15 PM	#21
Tha Unit On Top BISD November 23rd Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,194 Repped: 639 Repped 2,457 Times in 353 Posts Neg Reps: 78 Neg Repped at 123 Times in 85 Posts	Dam, ya'll gave some good ones, all of you, Em, Pac, Cube, Deck, X, Biggie, some good shit, really all the shit that has been posted is dope ass lines.

10-23-2008, 01:21 PM	#22
iNfAMOUS G-CORP. iRun****HereUjustPostHere Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: WEST - LONDON, UK Posts: 2,630,716 Posts: 7,133 Repped: 2,824 Repped 3,600 Times in 938 Posts Neg Reps: 56 Neg Repped at 94 Times in 78 Posts	America's got a thing for this gangsta's shit, they love me Black Chucks, black skullies, leather Pelle-Pelle I take spit over raymo shit, I'm a vandal Got that silver duck tape on my Trey Eight handle __________________ The consequences mean nothin', those semi auto's is bustin' Crack sellin', predicate felon...spit big words but I can't spell 'em.. Put a shot to your melon - that'll keep your punk ass from tellin'...

10-23-2008, 03:25 PM	#24
AzawX Psycho Join Date: May 2007 Location: Flight 187 - Destination Hell or Heaven Posts: 3,857 Repped: 2,064 Repped 450 Times in 134 Posts Neg Reps: 346 Neg Repped at 63 Times in 37 Posts	that Biggie one is dope but the others are more or less average... __________________ "Hip Hop used to console my soul, now its a bunch of assholes" - Crooked I

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Dan Flava Rubberband Man Join Date: May 2006 Location: Antown (Antwerp) Posts: 725 Repped: 0 Repped 36 Times in 22 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	go go go go go go, go shawty it's your birthday lol

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