Does Biggie have the best Opening Bars for a Rapper???

[THE MACHINE]

In the commission, you ask for permission to hit 'em
He don't like me? Hit him while wifey with him
You heard of us, the murderous, most shady
Been on the low lately, the Feds hate me


We got the shyt mapped tight, brass knuckles and flashlights
The heaters in the two-seater, with two midas
Senoritas, kiss the ring when you meet us

-Victory

But let's not forget DMX...dude had you ready to mask up 3 bars in, he didn't have as many but they were

 

[Theo Penn]

"Waking up to the early morning gunfire, another day another scar to acquire" - Take it in Blood

"Run for you life, or you can get the heat whatever, we can die together" - Right back at you

"My empire strikes with the strength of poisonous snakes" - Apostle's Warning (Not really the intro to the first verse [He had the second verse], but still...)

I could go on. Prodigy should be in the discussion for sure.

You didn't even quote P's best joints right. Prodigy definitely wins this for me.

It's a war goin on outside no man is safe from/
You can run but you can't hide forever/
From these, streets that we done took/
You walkin with ya head down scared to look /
Ya shook, cause ain't no such thing as halfway crooks

> Survival of the Fittest

I got you stuck off the realness, we be the Infamous/
You heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers

>Shook Ones Pt 2

Ay yo Queens get the Money long time no cash/
I'm caught up in the hustle where the guns go blast/
this fool retaliated so I had to think fast/
pull out my heat first, he pulled out his heat last/
Now who the fukk you think is livin' to this day?

>Give up the Goods

I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines/
I'm the Quiet Storm nikka who fight rhyme/
P yeah you heard of him but, I ain't concerned with them/
nikka I pop more guns than you holdin them

>Quiet Storm

Ay yo, its hell on earth down here the pavement scorching/
Its molten rock when the Mobb walks in/
shyt get hot like a ill pot of grits spilled on you/
Spit fire with nines but never squealed on you

>Where Ya Heart At

You's a notebook crook, with loose leaf beef/
A backseat criminal that pass the heat/
To somebody that blast the heat/
Man, it sound bad on the pad, what happened in the street?

>Thun and Kicko - Cormega


Ayo, I break bread, ribs, hundred dollar bills
Peel on Ducatis and other four wheels

>Keep it Thoro - Prodigy

Open my wings to a new day spread my lungs/
Get laced, jump in the whip, stash the guns/
Twist the key, shifted to D then flee/
Before anything, get the daily dose of choke

>Can't Complain

This nicca really knows how to start a song.

 

[Death6six6]

Actually, NO!!!


fukk PIGGIE for the record.

"THATS WHY I fukkED YOUR bytch U FAT MOTHER fukkER"

"I AIN'T A KILLER BUT DON'T PUSH ME......."
"They Say p*ssy and Paper is Poetry Power and Pistols
Plottin on Murderin Motherfukkers 'fore They Get You"

"Allow me to introduce first {*gunshot fires*} Makaveli the Don
Hysterical, spiritual lyrics like the holy Qu'Ran"

 

[CHITLING flavored CEREAL]

Jigga got some shyt too.


*While I'm watchin every nikka watchin me closely
my shyt is butter for the bread they wanna toast me


*a lot of speculation
on the monies I've made, honeys I've slayed
How is he for real? Is that nikka really paid?

*I spit that other shyt
That's the nice motherfukker shyt

*Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless
But if you shoot me, then you're famous -- what's a n*gga to do?

*From standin on the corners boppin
to drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen


*Yo.. career crook, nobody rap Brooklyn like me
Jigga-Man, Volume 3, I'm back lookin like me


*How the fukk you gon' talk about MC's on our heel?
When we just cop them things homie the chromey wheels
Both arms are chunky the sleeves on chill
Any given times a hundred G's in your grill
Don't talk to me 'bout MC's got skills
"He's alright, but he's not real"

i love jay but half of jigga manz best opening bars belong to biggie smalls

 

[GollyImGully]

best part about bigs opening bars is you u can recite the whole song after word for word off memory just off the opening

"Hah..sicker than ya average, poppa twist cabbage off instinct...."

"I put hoes in Ny onto DKNY...."

"nikkas in my faction dont like asking questions, strictly gun testing....."

"Im flaming gats, aiming at, these fukking maniacs, put my name in raps....."

"I been had skills, crystal spill, hide bills in brazil...."

 

[johnny.utah]

 

[Theo Penn]

best part about bigs opening bars is you u can recite the whole song after word for word off memory just off the opening

"Hah..sicker than ya average, poppa twist cabbage off instinct...."

"I put hoes in Ny onto DKNY...."

"nikkas in my faction dont like asking questions, strictly gun testing....."

"Im flaming gats, aiming at, these fukking maniacs, put my name in raps....."

"I been had skills, crystal spill, hide bills in brazil...."

I feel you, but aren't we talkin about opening bars?

Some of these bars don't start the song off.

Prodigy is the master of that.

 

[HollywoodP]

Crazy how not one person here mentioned the best rapper alive.

“‘I woke up to a tune on the radio, check it/An old church hymn behind a breakbeat record.’ I pride myself on my come lines. What I mean by come lines is how you start a record. Like I take my come lines very serious. Listen to every beginning of every song I've ever made and listen to those first words. Those first words set the tone every time.

“Like, ‘Now the funeral is over and all the tears have dried up’ [from ‘No Tears’] That’s a come line for your[..]. It sets the tone of those records. You already know what’s about to happen, just by the come line. Like, ‘Oh !!!’ Yeah, come lines, they’re so important.”

-Scarface

"Life goes on in the streets of my hood when you die
but some cry, and gets by, while others choose to wonder why"

"At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn
Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned
Four walls just staring at a nikka..."

"I thank the Lord, for every morning, he allows me to rise
And though the sun is shining, there's a cloud in the sky"

"Got this love formin' in my life–from this dame
And indeed took the form of life–it's a shame"

"I don't give a fukk about the chatter in the background
nikkaz get beat when they step this is Ak's town"

"A new day, brings a new problem to a brother
And all I gots ta say is thank God for my mother"

"It's been a long time comin
But now I'm back up in this bytch to hit these nikkas with this gangsta shyt
I keep the strong rhymes runnin
My shyt don't switch, I'm 10 years in it, and ain't changed one bit"

 

[Rohiggidy]

biggie

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Am I tripping no one mentions the opening to Flava in Ya Ear

"nikkas is mad I get more butt, than ash-trays
fukk a fair one I get mines the fast way, ski mask way"

 

[Rapmastermind]

"I kick flows for ya, Kick down doors for ya, Even left all my motherf@cking hoes for ya
N!ggas think Frankie pu$$y whipped, N!gga picture that,With a Kodak"


R.I.P. B.I.G.

 

[Rapmastermind]

"Big Poppa throw n!ggas off of cliffs smokin spliffs disappear with my B!tch in the Mitsubishi Eclipse, read my lips, I'll Kill You, Blood a Spill Too, Did I say Thank You"

 

[Free White & 21]

Biggie definitely got the crown for opening lines, so props on this thread









































But i'm mad at how you fukked up some of those classic lines

 

[NYC Rebel]

You didn't even quote P's best joints right. Prodigy definitely wins this for me.

It's a war goin on outside no man is safe from/
You can run but you can't hide forever/
From these, streets that we done took/
You walkin with ya head down scared to look /
Ya shook, cause ain't no such thing as halfway crooks

> Survival of the Fittest

I got you stuck off the realness, we be the Infamous/
You heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers

>Shook Ones Pt 2

Ay yo Queens get the Money long time no cash/
I'm caught up in the hustle where the guns go blast/
this fool retaliated so I had to think fast/
pull out my heat first, he pulled out his heat last/
Now who the fukk you think is livin' to this day?

>Give up the Goods

I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines/
I'm the Quiet Storm nikka who fight rhyme/
P yeah you heard of him but, I ain't concerned with them/
nikka I pop more guns than you holdin them

>Quiet Storm

Ay yo, its hell on earth down here the pavement scorching/
Its molten rock when the Mobb walks in/
shyt get hot like a ill pot of grits spilled on you/
Spit fire with nines but never squealed on you

>Where Ya Heart At

You's a notebook crook, with loose leaf beef/
A backseat criminal that pass the heat/
To somebody that blast the heat/
Man, it sound bad on the pad, what happened in the street?

>Thun and Kicko - Cormega


Ayo, I break bread, ribs, hundred dollar bills
Peel on Ducatis and other four wheels

>Keep it Thoro - Prodigy

Open my wings to a new day spread my lungs/
Get laced, jump in the whip, stash the guns/
Twist the key, shifted to D then flee/
Before anything, get the daily dose of choke

>Can't Complain

This nicca really knows how to start a song.

"Vision a canvas, I paint a picture
Similar to Ernie Barnes niqqa
But mines is more ghetto, more guns
More drugs, mostly thugs
All of my duns, they baby moms, daughters and sons....."

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Yes Big's word play was something special and unique which is why he's a Legend. Even though he dropped out he always had high marks in school before he got into the streets. I'm not shocked by the command of the English Language he had. Here are some opening bars by other rappers that I love:


Eminem - "I'm cancerous, if you diss you wouldn't want to answer this even if you responded with a battle rap you wrote for Canibus"

Canibus - "I'm a let the world know the truth, you don't want me to shine, you studied my rhyme then laid your vocals after mine, that's a B!tch move"


NaS - "Broken Glass in the Hallway, blood stain floors, Neighbors look at every bag you bring through your doors"


Tupac - "I'm not a killer but don't push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting Pu$$y"


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


Pun - "My crew puff lye, anyone test the Pun must die Just give me one try -- 'Now you know you done fukked up right?' Hah, you ain't got no wins in my casa Que te pasa, you ain't even in my clasa"


Jakakiss - "You already know what it's about, when I run in the house, put the gun up in your mouth and take the money out the couch"


Lil Kim - "Hot Damn Hoe here we go again, light as rock b!tch, hard as a cock B!tch"


Jay Z - "Motherfukkers wanna act loco, hit em wit, numerous shots with the fo'-fo' fakkits wanna talk to po-po's, smoke em like cocoa fukk rap, coke by the boatload"


Prodigy - "right back to the fact that here take that, right back at you were goin at to already ran through
wasn't hard to capture, what is it that your goin after the fourty-fifth will make your clothes damper"


KanYe - "If my manager insults me again, I will be assulting him, after I F@ck the manager up then I'm going to shorten the register up."

Puffy - "The sun don't shine forever but as long as we here we might as well shine together, better now than never, business before pleasure. P Diddy and the fam who you know do it better"

Uh yeah u were doing OK until u posted those last two. Puff daddy?