most quoted/sampled rap verse ever

what is it?

i was thinking biggie's "notorious thugs" verse, but i'm not sure if that's right

maybe the first verse of "it takes two"

"rapper's delight" or gtfo

^

top billin is up there

i know you got soul 1st verse

jeez j0rdan hip hop was actually around for awhile before 1996

Children's story is up there.

lol. oops: do you really think more than paid in full? really?

All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention

I mean, if you're really talking "ever."

yeah i've def heard that verse sampled/ref'd more than paid in full's

well, at least more seperate parts of it

the correct answer is La Di Da Di

or Rapper's Delight

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

Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise no more
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car

Chorus:
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh]
[4th: say what?]
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady livin' in a bag
Eating out of garbage pails, used to be a fag-hag
Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
The Zircon Princess seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got social security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own

[2nd Chorus]

My brother's doing bad on my mother's TV
She says: "You watch it too much, it's just not healthy!"
"All My Children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
I can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacrophiliac
A mid-ranged migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane

My son said: "Daddy I don't wonna go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk!", he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I'll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar
Hear them say: "You want some more livin' on a seesaw?"

[4th Chorus]

A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you're playin', where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,
Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
You say: "I'm cool, I'm no fool!"
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you've done did
Got sent up for a eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
Being used and abused to serve like hell
Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under

Yo Mell, you see that girl there?
Yo, that sounded like Cowboy man
Cool
Yo, what's up Money?
Yo, where's Cooly an Raheim?
They is downstairs coooling out
So what's up for tonight y'all?
We could go down to Phoenix
We could go check out "Junebug" man
Hey yo, you know that girl Betty?
Yeah man
Come on, come all man
Not like it
That's what I heard man
What's this happening, what's this?
What's goin' on?
Freeze
Don't nobody move or nothin'
Y'all know what this is (What's happend?)
Get 'em up, get 'em up (What?)
Oh man, we're (Right in there) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
What is that, a gang?
No
Shut up
I don't wanna hear your mouth
Shut up
Officer, officer, what is the problem?
You the problem
Hey, you ain't gotta push me man
Get in the car, get in the car
Get in the god...
I said, "Get in the car"
Why is he?

lol. oops: do you really think more than paid in full? really?

'been a long time/shouldn't have left ya' is used in shit-tonnes of stuff so i'd say oops was right

the correct answer is La Di Da Di

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:59 AM (3 minutes ago)

thought baout this but it is the "chorus" that gets pinched most, right?

Gin & Juice

instead of focusing on which ONE song it could be let's just make this list as large and comprehensive as possible before you have to click through 50 pages of ads on the Complex site to see it

the correct answer is La Di Da Di

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, July 17, 2010 2:59 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just a few I immediately recognize as standards:

Okay party people in the house...
This is something you never witnessed before...
Yes, it's the incredible Doug E. Fresh...
With his partner, the grand wizard MC, Ricky D
D, and that's me in the place to be.
We goin' to do it for '85, kick it live, allright?
Cuz you know, you're all sick of all these crap rappers
biting their rhymes because of they're back steppers.
But when it comes to me and my man Doug Fresh here,
there is no competition 'cause we are the best, yeah.
But as impress, which we approve
and yeah, we realize that we are on the move,
so listen closely so y'all don't miss
as we go a little something like this, HIT IT!

La-di-da-di...
La-di-da-di...
La-di, da-di!
Yo peep this

La-di-da-di, we like to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody
We're, just some men that's on the mic
And when we rock upon the mic we rock the mic RIGHT
For all of y'all, keep y'all in health
Just to see you smile and enjoy yourself
Cause it's cool when you cause a cozy conditioning
Which we create, cause that's our mission
So listen close, to what we say
Because this type of shit happens everyday
I woke up around ten o'clock in the morning
I gave myself a stretch up, a morning yawn and
Went to the bathroom to wash up
Put some soap on my face and my hand upon a cup, said
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the top choice of them all
there was a rumble tumble, five minutes it lasted
the mirror said, "You are you conceited bastard!"
Well that true, that why we never had no beef
Then I washed off the soap and brushed the gold teeth
Used oil of olay cause my skin gets pail
and then I grabbed the file for my finger nails
I'm true to the style on my behalf
I put the bubbles in the tub so I could take a bubble bath
Clean, dry, was my, body and hair
I threw on my brand new Gucci underwear
For all the girls I might take home
I got the Johnson's Baby Powder and the Polo Cologne
Fresh dress, like a million bucks,
put on the Bally shoes and the fly green socks.
Stepped out the house stopped short, oh no
Went back in I forgot my Kangol
Then I dilly, DALLY, I ran through the ALLEY
I bumped into this homegirl named SALLY from the VALLEY
This was a girl playing hard to get
So I said "What's wrong?" cause she looked upset
She said uh, "It's all because of you
I'm feeling sad and blue
You went away
and now my life is filled with rainy days
I love you so
How much you'll never know
Cause you took your love away from me"
Now what was I to do
She was crying over me and she was feeling blue
I said, "Don't cry, dry, your eyes
Here comes your mother with those two little guys"
Her mean mother steps and says to me "Hi!"
Hit Sally in the face and deckedvi her in the eye
punched her in the belly, and stepped on her feet
Slammed the child on the hard concrete
The bitch was strong, the kids was gone
Something was wrong I said what was going on?
I tried to break it up I said, stop it, leave her
She said, "If I can't have you she can't either"
She grabbed me closely by my socks
So I broke the hell out like I had the chicken pox
But uh, she gave chase, she caught up quick
She put a finger in the face of MC Rick, SHE said
"Why don't you give me A PLAN?
SO we can go cruising in my old jag
And if you give me that OK
I'll give you all my love today
Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see
Somehow your words just hypnotize me
And I just love your jazzy ways
So MC Rick my love is here to stay"
And on and on and on she kept on
The bitch been around before my mother's born
I said, "Cheer up!" I gave her a kiss
I said, "You can't have me I'm too young for you miss"
She said, "No you're not," then she starts crying
I says, "I'm nineteen", she says, "Stop lying!"
I said, "I am -- go ask my mother
And with your wrinkled pussy, I can't be your lover!"
To the heart tick tock you don't stop
To the heart tick tock you don't quit, hit it!

...don't ever forget, Doug E. Fresh, and MC Ricky D...

The Show been quoted just as much, non?

didn't this thread already happen in like 2004? anyways run's verse in "sucker mcs" is definitely up there

Two years ago, a friend of mine
Asked me to say some MC rhymes
So I said this rhyme I'm about to say
The rhyme was Def a-then it went this way
Took a test to become an MC
And Orange Krush became amazed at me
So Larry put me inside, his Cad-illac
The chaffeur drove off and we never came back
Dave cut the record down to the bone
And now they got me rockin on the microphone
And then we talkin autograph, and here's the laugh
Champagne caviar, and bubble bath
But see ahh, ah that's the life, ah that I lead
And you sucker MC's is who I please
So take that and move back catch a heart attack
Because there's nothin in the world, that Run'll ever lack
I cold chill at a party in a b-boy stance
And rock on the mic and make the girls wanna dance
Fly like a Dove, that come from up above
I'm rockin on the mic and you can call me Run-Love

I got a big long Caddy not like a Seville
And written right on the side it reads 'Dressed to Kill'
So if you see me cruisin girls just a-move or step aside
There ain't enough room to fit you all in my ride
it's on a, ah first come, first serve basis
Coolin out girl, take you to the def places
One of a kind and for your people's delight
And for you sucker MC, you just ain't right
Because you're bitin all your life, you're cheatin on your wife
You're walkin round town like a hoodlum with a knife
You're hangin on the ave, chillin with the crew
And everybody know what you've been through

Ah with the one two three, three to two one
My man Larry Larr, my name DJ Run
We do it in the place with the highs and the bass
I'm rockin to the rhythm won't you watch it on my face
Go Uptown and come down to the ground
You sucker MC's, you bad face clown
You five dollar boy and I'm a million dollar man
Youse a sucker MC, and you're my fan
You try to bite lines, but rhymes are mine
Youse a sucker MC in a pair of Calvin Klein
Comin from the wackest, part of town
Tryin to rap up but you can't get down
You don't even know your english, your verb or noun
You're just a sucker MC you sad face clown
So D.M.C. and if you're ready
The people rockin steady
You're drivin big cars get your gas from Getti

you guys realize that a verse != whole song right

1st verse on shook ones pt 2

Ok well then I pump for 'one of the verses from the message'.

Dunno how Jordan came on the idea of Notorious Thugs. Its not even close to being the most quoted song on that disc of that album (it has 10 crack commandments!!!!!), let alone that album, or biggie's career...

start of Spoonin' Rap by Spoonie Gee has
"You say one for the trouble, two for the time, come on y'all, let's rock the ..."
and later on
"Yes yes y'all, freak freak y'all, and don't stop" etc etc

also NY State Of Mind and The Bridge Is Over should be mentioned in thread.

How many mc's must get dissed
before somebody says, "Don't fuck with Kris!"
this is just one style, out of many
Like a piggy bank, this is one penny
My brother's name is Kenny - that's, Kenny Parker
My other brother I.C.U. is much darker
Boogie Down Productions is made up of teachers
the lecture is conducted from the mic into the speaker
Who gets weaker? The king or the teacher
It's not about a salary it's all about reality
Teachers teach and do the world good
kings just rule and most are never understood
If you were to rule or govern a certain industry
All inside this room right now would be in misery
No one would get along nor sing a song
'cause everyone'd be singing for the king, am I wrong?!
So yo, what's up, it's me again
Scott La Rock, KRS, BDP again
many people had the nerve to think we would end the trend
We're criminal minded, an album which is only ten
Funky, funky, funky, funky, funky hit records
no more than four minutes and some seconds
the competition checks and checks and keeps checkin'
they buy the album, take it home, and start sweatin'
why? well it's simple, to them it's kind of vital
to take KRS-One's title
to them I'm like an idol, some type of entity
in everybody's rhyme they wanna mention me?
or rather mention us, me or Scott La Rock
but they can get bust get robbed, get dropped
I don't play around nor do I f*** around
and you can tell by the bodies that are left around
when some clown jumps up to get beat down
broken down to his very last compound
see how it sounds? a little unrational
a lot of mc's like to use the word DRAMATICAL!
Fresh for '88, you suckas...

Dunno how Jordan came on the idea of Notorious Thugs. Its not even close to being the most quoted song on that disc of that album (it has 10 crack commandments!!!!!), let alone that album, or biggie's career...

― one man meme-denier (a hoy hoy), Saturday, July 17, 2010 6:36 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

by quoted i didn't mean by random ppl -- i meant, by other rappers in other rap songs -- there's like 5 lines in "notorious thugs" alone that have showed up wholesale in other rap songs

but idk

well more than 5

my philosophy is a good call

I know Jordan and I still stand by my point. 10 fucking crack fucking commandments.

I think "La Di Da Di" was the right call. Here's some of the tracks that sampled it:

# Color Me Badd's I Wanna Sex You Up
# Ini Kamoze's Here Comes the Hotstepper
# Black Eyed Peas's Don't Lie
# DJ Honda's On the Mic
# Run-DMC's Run's House
# DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's As We Go
# Beastie Boys's Hold It Now, Hit It
# The Notorious B.I.G.'s Hypnotize
# LL Cool J's Stand by Your Man
# DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's Ain't No Place Like Home
# Maestro Fresh Wes's Let Your Backbone Slide
# Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu War Chant
# 2Pac feat. Outlawz's Lost Souls
# Ludacris feat. Mary J. Blige's Runaway Love
# De La Soul's My Brother's a Basehead
# C.P.O.'s Somethin' Like Dis
# D12's Quitter
# Masters of Ceremony's Sexy
# Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew's D.E.F. = Doug E. Fresh
# Cash Money & Marvelous's Find an Ugly Woman
# Cash Money & Marvelous's Is It Real
# 2 Live Crew's Coolin'
# Slick Rick's The Ruler's Back
# Super Nature's The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh)
# Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew's All the Way to Heaven
# Vengaboys's We Like to Party!
# Del Tha Funkee Homosapien's If You Must
# Lords of the Underground's Tic Toc
# Gang Starr's B.Y.S.
# De La Soul's Kicked Out the House
# Will Smith feat. DJ Jazzy Jeff, Biz Markie and Slick Rick's So Fresh
# Slick Rick's Behind Bars
# Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat. The Notorious B.I.G.'s Player's Anthem
# Das EFX's Jussummen
# EPMD's Richter Scale
# Slick Rick's Hey Young World
N.W.A's Gangsta Gangsta
# King Tee's Bass
# Masta Ace's Jeep Ass N****
# K-Solo's Spellbound
# Cash Money & Marvelous's Play It Kool
# 6treG's Fresh
# Big Bub's I Like Your Style
# Knucklehedz's Hed Rush
# De La Soul's Ego Trippin' (Part Two)
# Ice Cube's Look Who's Burnin'
# De La Soul's Bitties in the BK Lounge
# MC Ren's Same Old S***
# Cash Money & Marvelous's The Mighty Hard Rocker
# Dan the Automator's Music to Be Murdered By
# DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's Somethin' Like Dis
# Redhead Kingpin and the FBI's We Rock the Mic Right
# De La Soul's Supa Emcees
# Bow Wow feat. Jermaine Dupri's Rock the Mic
# Joe Budden's No Competition
# Eze T, Mic Fresh, DJ Devastator and Jazzy Jeff's Jazzy Reggae
# Biz Markie's Young Girl Bluez
# EPMD's Funky Piano
# Lover II's Terminator
# Success - N - Effect's Crusin
# King Bee's Party People in the House (Pump the Mix)
# Cash Money & Marvelous's Ugly People Be Quiet
# Rodney O and Joe Cooley's This Is for the Homies
# Curren$y's Reagan Era
# Redman's Bobyahed2dis
# DJ Cam's Bronx Theme
# DJ Kool's The Music Ain't Loud E-Nuf
# DJ Scratch and G-O-D's The Party Is Jumpin
# Young Black Teenagers's Tap the Bottle
# T.D.S. Mob's T.D.S. Scratch Reaction
# Redman's A Day of Sooperman Lover
# The Two's The Real Grandmaster
# Mary J. Blige's No One Else
# The Simpsons feat. DJ Jazzy Jeff's Deep, Deep Trouble
# Slick Rick's I Shouldn't Have Done It
# Mr. Lee's Get Busy
# Kenji Ozawa and Scha Dara Parr's Konya Wa Boogie Back
# Conspirituality feat. Ndidi Cascade's 4 All Y'all
# Mos Def's Perfect Timing
# Freddie Foxxx's Keep Doin' It Like This
# Das EFX's If Only
# Latino Party's Latino Party
# Lord Finesse's Check the Method
# The New York Terrorist's Short Fuse
# O.G.s's Tic Tac
# Erick Sermon's Do It Up
# Snoop Dogg's Real Talk (R.I.P. Tookie)
# Sublime's April 29, 1992
# Mos Def feat. Slick Rick's Auditorium
# Robbie Williams's Rock DJ
# The Dreamteam's Strange Illusions
# B.B. Bell's Party People
# Thirstin Howl III's The Polo Rican
# MC Lyte's I Go On
# DJ Isaac's Who Likes to Party
# Cixx and The Vinyl Junk's Dizzy
# P.D.F. Crew's Do It
# DJ Adrien's No Competition
# Twin Hype's For Those Who Like to Groove
# 25% of the Dreamteam feat. Buzz Fuzz's Millenium
# LL Cool J's Get Down
# L.L Brothers's L.L Brothers No Theme
# DJ Galaga and Da Cloot's What Do You Say to the DJ
# 2Pac's Grab the Mic (Starin' Through My Rear View 2)
# De La Soul's Not Over Till the Fat Lady Plays the Demo
# Black Sheep's Let's Get Cozy
# Black Sheep's To Whom It May Concern
# Athalyba E a Firma's Política
# The Prophet (DJ)'s I Can't Stand It
# Eniquity's Jam House Rock
# Hot 8 Brass Band's It's Real (Palov & Mishkin Remix)
# T-Spoon's Tom's Party
# DJ SIM's No More S***
# Jazmine Sullivan's Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles)
# MC Duke and DJ Leader 1's I'm Riffin (1990 Remix)
# Slick Rick's Children's Story (Knock 'Em Out the Box Mix)

how does that list not have snoop's fucking la di da di cover version?

cause it's a list of samples and a cover's not a sample?

ok mista common sense

1st verse of "How Many Emcees" (which samples "My Philosopy" for the chorus)

How is this anything other than Paid In Full?

because some of us aren't British prob

and also because it's "Rapper's Delight" or "La Di Da Di"

Don't get how Paid In Full gets quoted more than I KNow You Got Soul or Eric B Is President or Microphone Fiend. The beat is a sample as it is?

one of my favorites isn't even from rap but the old "what we're gonna do now is go back....WAY BACK" from jimmy castor bunch....ah man. kool aid smiles.

Rapper's Delight gets a lot of mileage out of being ground zero for hip hop as pop music - the first really big rap single - of course people are gonna be citing/quoting it all the time. But La Di Da Di, by virtue of being a basically a capella track that lends itself to easy sampling *in addition* to being a totally groundbreaking piece of work, probably comes out ahead. Snippets of it pop up everywhere, it's such a simple thing to drop in.

that list President Keyes posted isn't even close to complete, for example