Top 100 First Lines in a Hip Hop Song

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1. "6 in the morning, police at my door. Fresh Adidas squeak across the bathroom floor."

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

2. "DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK....."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

3. "RELAX and take notes while I take tokes from the Marijuana smoke"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

4. "To all the killas and the hundred dollar billas"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

5. "I'm expressin' with my full capabilities/ And now I'm livin'
in correctional facilities "

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Once upon a time not long ago / When people wore pajamas and lived life slow

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Microphone check, one two what is this/ the five-foot assassin with the rough-neck business

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"As soon as the bass hits your dome, snoop dogg grabs the chrome"

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that was 8

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

9. "I'm back... are you pleased to see me?"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Dedicated to you Ben Stiller! You are my favorite muthafucka! I told you, didn't I?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

11. Yo I'm staying where we getting crazy love ...

― samuelbloch, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

12. ‘I used to cop a lot, but never copped no drop / Hold mics like ponytails: tight and bob a lot’

― Orange, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

13) It's that jet-black/ Flowwwwwww from da sout'-wess o' L.O.N.D.O.N.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

14) "America!! Hahaha! We love you! How many people are proud to be citizens of this beautiful country of ours? The stripes and the stars for the rights that men have died for to protect, the women and men who have broke their necks for the freedom of speech the United States government has sworn to uphold... or so we're told..."

Honorable mention: "Unh"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(For some reason I've noticed that most of the hip-hop songs that came to mind immediately don't have "first lines" per se but samples from movies or TV show dialogue, spoken intros, etc.)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

15. "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to be obvious but-
'YES! The Rhythm, the Rebel..' etc. Not really cos its a great first line, but for that 'YES!'

― Myron Kosloff, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

17) "Bring it on, motherfucker, bring it on!"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

18. "Poisonous paragraph smash your phonograph in half, it be the Inspektah Deck on the warpath"

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

19. "Who the fuck is this?
pagin' me at 5:46 in the mornin'"

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

20) "Oh baby! Mmm. This is dedicated to all the pretty girls, all the pretty girls... all the pretty girls in the world, and the ugly girls too, 'cause to me you're pretty anyway, baby!"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

21. "Back in the days when i was a teenager, before i had status and before i had a pager"

― colin mcelligatt, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

22. "my wife's tired of fucking me"

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

23) "Heiro y'all!/it's not a wrong thing/to be addicted to the microphone like a her-ahhhhn fiend..."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

24. "I grew up on crime's side, the New York Times side..."

― colin mcelligatt, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

25. "Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish, I only talk about jewels, do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?"

― colin mcelligatt, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

26. " AAAAAAAHH! I got the magic stick, i know if i can hit once, i can hit twice "

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

27. "HELL YEAH"

― bahtology, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

28. no rapper can rap quite like I can / I take a musclebound man, put his face in the sand

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

29. I used to be in love with a guy named Sam / I don't know why cause his head was like that of a clam

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(hey those two couplets
kind of rhyme when juxtaposed
never noticed that)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

30. "don't everybody like the smell of gasoline/well burn muthafucka burn American dream..."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

31. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh can't stand it"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"You know I - thug em, fuck em, love em, leave em.
Cause I don't fuckin need em.
Take em out the hood, keep em lookin good.
But I don't fuckin feed em."

― Jesper Andersson, Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I got so much trouble on my mind, refuse to lose
here's your ticket, here the drummer get wicked

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

34. I wanna rock right now!

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

1989 a number another Summer (get down), sound of the funky drummer, music hitting your heart cos i know you got soul (brothers and sisters)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm the king of rock, there ain't none higher
sucker MCs should call me sire

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

you are about to witness the strength of street knowledge...

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

38. "Bass! How low can you go?"

― Sam J. (samjeff), Sunday, 7 September 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

39 yo, VIP, let's kick it!

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 7 September 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

40. Hey kids, do you like violence? Do you wanna see me stick 9-inch nails through each one of my eyelids?

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 7 September 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

41. "I ... Fuck ... These ... Hoes"

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 7 September 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

42. "Damn it feels good to be a gangster"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 7 September 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

43. Workin' all week 9 to 5 for my money/ So when the weekend comes I go get live with the honey

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 7 September 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

44. Because mutiny on the bounty's what we're all about!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 September 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

45. Now I chill real ill when I start to chill

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 September 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

46. When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 September 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

47. One-Two-Three and to the Four/Snoop Doggie Dog and Dr. Dre are at the door.

(I can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet. Did I overlooked it?)

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Sunday, 7 September 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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I'm your idol, the highest title, numero uno
I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm Rob Base and I came to get down!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Who knew Paul Barman would change the game?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

I got a dichotomy / inside of me / like sodomy

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hot sex for your pleasure set it off
Liquid treasures floatin in the loft

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

KABOOM! Guess who's back in the room?
The nigga with the skills to talk a dyke out her womb

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Chubb is a loveable Guy, not a Teddy Riley group
It deeply bruises me, greaves me if you say I'm soup

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Burn, Hollywood, Burn! I smell a riot goin' on...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

that should tell you something...

m-hm. lotta PE too.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

PE indeed has the best first lines in the business

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I know I shouldn't do this, but i can't help it
I'm a fiend, lotion and magazines is what I'm left with

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Persistence, bitch, is everything

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Yo! Yo! What up yo? Time is running out"

The whole phrase totally owns. Rhyming "incarcerated scarfaces" with that spiral staircase tongue shredding shit. I love it so much.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Friday, 1 July 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yo, you got beef? Yo, you got beef?
I fuck your mother in her dumb teeth.

or perhaps

Bitches ain't shit but ho's and tricks
Lick on deez nutz and suck the dick

or maybe

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from goin' under.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 1 July 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever seen a show with fellas on the mic with/ One-minute rhymes that don't come out right?/They bite/ They never right/ That's not polite/ Am I lying?/ No, you're quite right!

― naus (Robert T), Friday, 1 July 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

LL Cool J- hard as hell/ Battle anybody I don't care who you tell

― naus (Robert T), Friday, 1 July 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

"The Big L be lightnin niggas like insense
Gettin men lynched to win tits
I'm killin infants for ten cents"

― - (smile), Friday, 1 July 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Almost all my favorites have been said already, but a lot of the ones mentioned here are just average opening lines to great songs, rather than a line that stands on its own as an outstanding first line, such as the following (all from memory, apologies for anything incorrect)...

"To all the ladies in the place with style and grace, allow me to lace these lyrical douches in your bushes"

"Here it is, a groove slightly transformed, just a bit of a break from the norm"

"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's none left"

"I didn't choose to rhyme, rhymin' chose me"

"Y'all know me, still same ol' g, but I been low key..."

"Niggas is mad, I get more butt than ashtrays"

"Stop, collaborate and listen"

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 1 July 2005 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

Finally out the motherfuckin CPT
off to other cities and shit,
no longer just an underground hit

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

people havin memory loss
they don't remember I'm the boss you're clau-strophobic when I close it

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost some of those are great opening lines too, billstevejim

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Yo, my rap style swing like Willie Mayes / My eyes purple haze"
The beat on this song is incredible and INS is always good for a great first verse.

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Friday, 1 July 2005 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

How my heart swells with joy at all the Deck love in this thread!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

his album-worthiness may be suspect(underrated more like), but yeah, greatest point man evah

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Scientific, my hand kissed it..."

"I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct, you know how we think..."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 July 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic / Vegas on acid, seen through Yves St Laurent glasses..."

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 1 July 2005 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

Regulators. We regulate any stealin' of his property, were damn good too...

― startak (startak), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I gotta back "lodi-dodi, we like to party"

― slice dilenger, Friday, 1 July 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Gd-DAMN! Another fucking payback with a twist/The motherfuckers shot but the punks missed"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 1 July 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Goddamn I'm glad y'all set it off,
used to be hard, now you're just wet n' soft"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 1 July 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Rollin dice can help you or hurt you; your virtue
is knowing when to quit 'cause you've hit your cash curfew"

― mike a, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Chumps be pullin' up in Caddies/Knowin' that car belongs to your daddy"

― mike a, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Shit! I can't believe this thread got this far and no one thought of this:

"Two years ago, a friend of mine,
asked me to say some MC rhymes"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm deep down in the back streets, in the heart of Medina / About to set off something more deep than a misdemeanor"

GZA - "Gold"

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Comin' up I was confused, my mommy kissin' a girl"

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

"The Big L be lightnin niggas like insense
Gettin men lynched to win tits
I'm killin infants for ten cents"

I think its "gettin' men lynched and when tensed"

― deej.., Friday, 1 July 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

tense, even. also "lighting niggas like incense".

― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Well yeah he means "tense" but i think he pronounces a 'd' at the end.

― deej.., Friday, 1 July 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Reunited! Double LP, we all excited
Struck a match to the underground, industry ignited

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

"world excited"? That's how I always heard it at least.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

could be, could be...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

You say one for the trouble, two for the time, come on y'all let's rock the...

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

I said a hip, hop, da hippy, da hippy to the hip-hip-hop an' you don't stop the rockin'

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

First patient, pull out the skull, remove the cancer, breakin his back, chisel necks for the answer

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 2 July 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

This I dedicate to the girl I hate
It’s a piece of my mind rhyme put on a plate
So yo, go ahead swinger, I’m putting up my middle finger

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 2 July 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Relax while I tax or you can just max
It really doesn't matter just stay the hell back
Poppin much junk now the time has arose n
I pick your card and your name has been chosen

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 2 July 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bass, snare drum in your eardrum
Musical outcome, lyrical tantrum
Energy enters me, power absorbed
Phonograph arts and crafts mic warlord

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 2 July 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Brothers are amused by others brother’s reps
But the thing they know best is where the gun is kept

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 2 July 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxxxxxxpost: "when tensed" is probably right now that I listen to it again. And I can't spell for shit.

― - (smile), Saturday, 2 July 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Give it away give it away give it away give it away now..

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Saturday, 2 July 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

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