Ik krijg hem de laatste tijd maar niet uit mijn hoofd. Misschien moet ik mij zorgen maken?

Wake up in the morning and I ask myself:
is life worth living, should I blast myself? (doe geen moeite, dat zullen anderen wel doen)

2pac - Changes

Lang niet meer dat nummer gehoord, geen behoefte aan ook, maar opmerkelijk dat het ineens zo aanwezig is. En dan ook deze lines. Neemt overigens niet weg dat het toch een sterke manier is om een nummer te openen. Het pakt je meteen bij je strot. 2pac was in zijn tijd toch wel een van de weinigen die op zo'n manier zijn emoties weergaf. Als je het zo leest lijkt het wel een beginzin van een zelfmoordbrief achter gelaten door een pubertje dat uit frustratie - omdat hij daar beneden maar geen haar groeit! - dit heeft neergepend. Bij 2pac gaat het toch wel een stuk dieper, een stuk geloofwaardiger, maar dat hoef ik niemand duidelijk te maken dus houd ik ook op.

Big Pun op Super Lyrical:

Ay-yo my murderous rap verbal attack is actual fact
Tactical tracks match perfectly with graphical stats.

Extince op Grootheidswaan:

Ik kijk bij jou naar binnen dwars door de ruit
ik zie er is een feestje en nodig mezelf uit.

Fuck a penny for my thoughts, here's a dollar

Akin(CYNE) op Soapbox

Inderdaad.

Dat deze nog niet genoemd is:

"Adults kill for drugs plus the young bucks bust
Duckin handcuffs, throats get cut when dough rush"

De opener van Inspectah Deck's verse op Duel of the Iron Mic.

RZA in Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin To Fuck Wit:
I be tossin, enforcin, my style is awesome
I'm causin more Family Feud's than Richard Dawson.

Niet al te diepzinnige, maar wel goede van The Game in The Documentary:
What happened in hip hop
That got pac and big shot

2pac met Hail Mary:
I ain't a killer but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin pussy

Ghostface Killah in Investigative Reports:
Yo, I grab the pen for revenge and let loose, see
Like Muslims, standing on the block, rocking a khufi

Inspectah deck op triumph:

I bomb attomicaly,
Socrates philosofies and hyphotoses
can't devinde how i'm dropping these mockeries

Deze had ik ook meteen in mijn hoofd...The rebel I-N-S komt altijd dope op het oudere werk van the wu.

Op protect ya neck bijvoorbeeld vind ik em erg dope:

I smoke on the mic, like smoking Joe Frasier
The hell raiser, raising hell with the flavor
Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan
Swinging to your town like your neighboorhood Spiderman

Eminem, Insane:

I was born with a dick in my brain
Yea fucked in the head
My step-father said that I sucked in the bed
'Til one night he snuck in and said
We're going out back, I want my dick sucked in the shed

Notorious BIG op de Flava In Ya Ear remix van Craig Mack;


'Niggas is mad I get more butt than ash trays,
Fuck a fair one I get mines the fast way,''

Craig Mack zelf kan er ook wat van:

In Get Down --> AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Totaal niet om de tekst maar Eric Sermon op EMPD's Da Joint

"I make a million BUCKS, every six months, and ya'll..."


Hoe dat "Bucks" eruit komt precies als die meesterlijke beat begint, moeilijk om stil te blijven zitten.


Een andere vette is Bizzy Bone - Schizophrenic:

"Daddy's the crackhead
Mama's just lookin' for love"

Direct fucking veel energie brengt ie, vet nummer.

VACATE YOUR HOMES
I COME TO BREAK YOUR BONES

- Young Buck op de intro van Beg for Mercy.

weet niet of die al is langsgekomen hoor:

Joell Ortiz- Hip Hop

Yo do me a favor, accidently step on your white sun glasses
We don't wear those over here this is hip hop(that's right)
This is Carhart jackets, Timberland boots, unlaced
This is Champion hoodies, chicken wings and french fries
RIP pieces on the handball court, this is us still fightin' police brutality
This is hip hop

Well if 50 got shot nine times and ain't die,
ima shoot your ass fifty times with ninety nine nines.

Celph Titled op Time to Rock van AotP

nog een harde van Celph Titled:

'i'll run up on your block strip like an insane christopher columbus and start conquering shit

op Diablos

Be a witness, as I excersize my exorcism

'You wanna front, what?
Jump up and get bucked'

Hoezo wordt de toon meteen goed gezet. En ik hoef hopelijk niet te vertellen welk nummer dit is.

Nee hoor. Copy en Paste in google en je weet het.

They fuck you up your mom and dad/They may not mean it but they do

Waar zijn de komma's?

Opvoeding is een bitch. Kijk maar naar Maarten. D:

Mijn ouders hebben me gemaakt tot wie ik ben.

Del op Thank Youse:

"Its time for me, I never rhyme for free
At least pay attention and let your mind be free"

Puur op de klank, niet de inhoud, zijn deze ook echt heerlijk:

"Hot time, summer in the city!"

Method Man op Mr. Sandman

"Chewbacca
Duece-duece Papa now rocking your shoes proper"

Sean Price op Chewbacca van Random Axe

Dan heb je te veel films gekeken.

Heb het wat opgeschoond hier, genoeg flauwe humor, nu weer serieus aub.

Dat lijkt me de openingszin van Summer in the City van The Lovin' Spoonful. Het begin van Mr. Sandman eens beluisterd en daar hoor ik hem niet...

Van wat er nog niet genoemd is, enkele die mij gelijk te binnen schieten:
(trouwens co-sign voor de EPMD - Da Joint openingsregel en de vele andere klassieke lines die al genoemd zijn)

Chuck D (Public Enemy) - Bring The Noise
Bass! How low can you go?
Death row, what a brother knows
Once again back is the incredible
Rhyme animal

Rakim - Eric B. Is President
I came in the door, I said it before
I never let the mic magnetize me no more
But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme
I can't hold it back, I'm looking for the line
Taking off my coat, clearing my throat
My rhyme will be kicking it until I hit my last note

Rakim - I know you got soul
It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you
Without a strong rhyme to step to
Think of how many weak shows you slept through
Time's up, sorry I kept you
Thinking of this, you keep repeating you miss
The rhymes from the microphone soloist
And you sit by the radio, hand on the dial, soon
As you hear it, pump up the volume

Rakim - Paid in full
Thinking of a master plan
Cause ain't nothing but sweat inside my hand

KRS-One - My Philosophy
"So, you're a philosopher?"
"Yes, I think very deeply"
Let's begin, what, where, why or when
Will all be explained like instructions to a game
See I'm not insane, I'm kind of rational
When I be asking you, who is more dramatical?
This one or that one, the white one or the black one
Pick the punk, and I'll jump up to attack you
KRS-One is just the guy to lead a crew
Right up to your face and dis you!

Busta Rhymes (met A Tribe Called Quest) - Scenario
Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind
Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind
Powerful impact, BOOM! from the canon
Not bragging, try to read my mind just imagine
Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary
When digging into my library
Oh my gosh! oh my gosh!
Eating ayea toadstool like the one Peter Tosh-a (???)
Uh, uh uhh, all over the track man
Uh, pardon me, uh, as I come back

En, geen openingszin van zijn verse, maar Phife steelt ook de show hier:
I'm all that and then some, short dark and handsome
Bust a nut inside your eye, to show you where I come from

Al genoemd, maar toen alleen de eerste regel, hele verse is woord voor woord CLASSIC natuurlijk:
The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
It was all a dream
I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt N Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
Hanging pictures on my wall
Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl
I let my tape rock till my tape popped
Smoking weed and bamboo, sipping on private stock
Way back, when I had the red and black lumberjack
With the hat to match
Remember Rappin' Duke, duh-ha, duh-ha
You never thought that hip hop would take it this far
Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight
Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade
Born sinner, the opposite of a winner
Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner
Peace to Ron G, Brucey B, Kid Capri
Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky
I'm blowin' up like you thought I would
Call the crib, same number same hood
It's all good

The Notorious B.I.G. - Things Done Changed
Remember back in the days, when niggaz had waves
Gazelle shades, and corn braids
Pitchin pennies, honies had the high top jellies
Shootin skelly, motherfuckers was all friendly
Loungin at the barbeques, drinkin brews
with the neighborhood crews, hangin on the avenues
Turn your pagers, to nineteen ninety three
Niggaz is gettin smoked G, believe me

Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Thug related style attract millions
Fans, they understand my plan
Who's the kid up in the green Land?
Me and the RZA connect, blow a fuse, you lose
Half-ass crews get demolished and bruised

Ghostface - Wisdom Body
Check the banging sounds that I invent...

RZA (met GZA) - 4th Chamber
Aiyyo, camouflage chameleon, ninjas scaling your building
No time to grab the gun they already got your wife and children
A hit was sent, from the President, to rage your residence
Because you had secret evidence, and documents
on how they raped the continents, and it's the prominent
dominant Islamic, Asiatic black hebrew

Method Man (met GZA) - Shadowboxin
I breaks it down to the bone gristle
Ill speaking Scud missile heat seeking
Johnny Blazing, nightmares like Wes Craven
Niggaz gunning, my third eye seen it coming
Before it happen
You know about them fucking Staten
Kids they smashing
Everything huh, in any shape form or fashion

Big Boi (OutKast) - ATLiens
Well it's the M - I - crooked letter, ain't no one better
And when I'm on the microphone you best to wear your sweater
Cause I'm cooler than a polar bear's toe nails

Ghostface - Nutmeg
Scientific, my hand kissed it
Robotic let's think optimistic
You probably missed it, watch me dolly dick it
Scotty watty cop it to me, big microphone hippie
Hit Poughkeepsie crispy chicken verbs throw up a stone richie
Chop the O, sprinkle a little snow inside a Optimo
Swing the John McEnroe, rap rock 'n' roll
Tidy Bowl, gung-ho pro, Starsky with the gum sole
Hit the rump slow, parole kids, live Rapunzel

MF Doom (Viktor Vaughn) - Vaudeville Villain
V. Vaughn, the traveling Vaudeville Villain
Who don't give a flying fuck who ain't not feeling him

MF Doom (King Geedorah) - The Fine Print
Render unto Geedorah what is Geedorah's!

MF Doom (Madvillain) - Accordion
Livin' off borrowed time, the clock ticks faster

MF Doom (Madvillain) - Figaro
The rest is empty with no brain but the clever nerd
The best emcee with no chain ya ever heard

En na het zien van de Notorious B.I.G. drive through prank, voor altijd de openingsregels van de derde verse van Hypnotize:
I can fill ya wit real millionaire shit
Escargot, my car go, one sixty, swiftly
Wreck it buy a new one
Your crew run run run, your crew run run

Daar is het uiteraard van afgeleid (op iets van twee woordjes na hetzelfde, geloof ik). Maar het is het begin van de verse van Method Man, niet die van het nummer zelf.

En niet te vergeten:

One, two, three and to the fo'
Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the do'
Ready to make an entrance, so back on up
(cause you know we're bout to rip shit up)
Gimme the microphone first, so I can bust like a bubble
Compton and Long Beach together, now you know you in trouble
Ain't nuttin but a G thang, baaaaabay!
Two loc'ed out niggaz so we're craaaaazay!
Death Row is the label that paaaaays me!
Unfadeable, so please don't try to fade this

(Dr. Dre - Nuthing but a g thang)