Tuesday, July 29, 2008

when you speak of the dopest MC ...

i thought about writing this post the other day when i was listening to pandora on my iphone and wu-tang's triumph came on. inspectah deck's first verse of that song is one of the best ever. i thought about writing this post again when later main source's live at the bbq came on. nas kicks off that songs (and his career) with a TIGHT verse. it could quite possibly be my favorite single verse of all time.

and then today, i'm listening to bumpy knuckles' new album, crazy like a foxxx (pretty good so far ... but i haven't listened to much yet), and i finally gave in and wrote the post (obviously). listening to bumpy knuckles (aka freddie foxxx) reminds me of his verse on gang starr's militia. his verse on that track is just ... hard ... fierce ... ferocious. it's one of those tracks that just kinda hits you.

all three of those songs (triumph, live at the bbq, and militia) are made by those single verses. without those verses, each of those songs would be nowhere as good as they are.

anyway, what other single verses should be added to this list?

4 comments:

terence said...

eric b is president. "i came through the door, i said it before"

Brian said...

yeah, i was definitely thinking that one too.

Allie said...

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DJ Bozo said...

Some of my favs are:

Cage's 1st verse on "Good Morning"

RBX's verse on "Stranded on Death Row"

Ice Cube's verse on "Straight Outta Compton"

Mos Def "The Rape Over"