What do you think is the best opening verse of all time on a hip hop song?

[Blood~n~Bone]

Easy.... Canibus's verse on "Beast From The East" for me will go done in history as one of the illest!!!!

[Canibus]
Canibus brings the sickest drama //
Fierce enough to pierce the thickest armor //
I smack bitches for trying to suck dick through a condom //
Playing with the mic is something I won't do //
My only concern when I approach you, is to roast you //
I smoke you and whoever you standing close to //
And make every man in your crew deny that he knows you //
Defeating, niggas like Segal Steven, putting emcee's in //
Positions to prevent them from breathing //
I make you question any, and everything you've ever believed in //
By peeping your deepest secrets like psychic readings //
What's the matter with y'all, I splatter y'all //
Against the mother fucking wall with these raw lyrics I catapult //
None of y'all got the balls big enough to battle //
I go on and on, like Erykah Badu //
A hundred times nicer than the best there is //
Twice as arrogant as KRS is, who want to test this? //
Fuck y'all, you don't impress me and no one can test me //
An emcee so ill I got AIDS scared to catch me //
All that shit you popping will stop, when I put you in a headlock //
And apply pressure until I crush your mother-fucking noggin //
I grab mics and push niggas to the left //
So fast, their hearts end up on the right side of their chests //
My hypothesis, is that nobody can see this //
Lyrical genius, I got it sowed like a seamstress //
But if you want to battle, I'm down //
If you got nine lives, I'll take eight of them off your hands right now //
Step up, and get your neck cut, from ear to ear //
If you survive, then you can cover your scar with a beard //
I'm the illest from Queens to the New Jerusalem briddicks //
Anyone who ain't feeling my shidit, can suck my didick //
You need to quit it, if you ain't spitting //
More than fifty bars per minute, 'cause you ain't in lyrical fitness //
Kicking boring raps, with metaphors that's wack //
All of y'all mother fuckers need Nordic Track //
To get your weight up, fucking with Canibus, you get ate up //
Beat down and sprayed up, just for bringing my name up //
Been rocking longer than niggas twice my age //
Back in the days, before Bob Marley was rocking a fade //
Before Honest Abe signed the paper to free slaves //
Before Neanderthals was drawing on walls in caves //
I existed, in the Garden of Eden, getting lifted //
Sticking dick in Eve, before she was Adam's mistress //
Before Christ created Christmas, I been in lyrical fitness //
The Canibus is spitting, 'till he's spit less //
Fifty bars of total sickness, you won't forget this //
I'm putting every wack emcee alive on my shit list //
Verbally vicious, telekinetically gifted //
Took you a minute, to exhibit, that I'm sick with it //
Now you tell me who you think is damaging shit //
Going once, going twice, sold to that nigga named Canibus //
Me and Mr. Cheeks, A-Plus, and Funk Doctor //
Hopping out of the Hue helicopter to Suey-chop you //

[Lucc]

its gotta be nas on verbal intercourse

That shit was incredible!!! "Through the lights, cameras, and action glamour, glitter and gold/I unfold the scroll plant seeds 2 stampede the globe"

WOW! He is a fuccin beast 4 that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Picc dawg!

[Mixtape Fan]

2pac - if I die tonight
"pussy and paper is poetry, power and pistols
plottin on murderin motherfuckers b'fore they get you
puffin weed as I position myself to glock gs"

[Lucifuge]

eminem kill you

[Euro-Trash]

im giving it to you old school style
no album cover image
no intro, no shoutouts
nothin but straight lyrics

[greko]

I think I will go with Snoop and Nuthin But A G' Thang...

His flow on that one is 

[G3ne]

crooked i - getaway (freestyle)

--> yeah i know, not the best, but this is hot! 

[Fresco]

I think I will go with Snoop and Nuthin But A G' Thang...

His flow on that one is 

Yeah the 1-2-3 and to the 4 is classic

[ThatSICCNESS]

im giving it to you old school style
no album cover image gimmicks
no intro, no shoutouts
nothin but straight lyrics

But yea, X-Raided rips it.




Andre Nickatina
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Muthafucka so I heard you like to run your mouth
But eat this rhyme so you can taste what I'm a talk about
That sewer rat mack in black is back
Dre Dog in your dome lacin' caine wit' my dank sack
You get change for my respect silly muthafucka
Come closer and get served like a dirt clucker
Wit' a mind the find of Al Capone
But with the gift to manip like Jim Jones
But muthafucka I will clown and insult ya
And when you die, feed off you like a vulture
Cuz' in the streets there ain't no love so nigga fuck peace
I break your jaw and have you chokin' on your wisdom teeth
six-six two-twenty not a Tommy Tucker
You don't like me I ain't scared of you muthafucka
Cuz' I can get racist like the Ku-Klux-Klan
Call you Kunta Kintae then whup yo ass!
Game exposed on the whole damn institute
Muthafucka's get chewed like Juicy Fruit
Uhh, fools get smacked wit' the back of my hand
Nigga's get crushed like aluminum cans
Mr. Jim Jones and it just don't quite
Fillmore for life and I will fuck yo Bitch!      
--Muthafucka

[HG]

gotta co sign lucc and give it to the rebel ins

[arubiano83]

big pun - twinz

[PLANT]

Biggie has a shit load of crazy opening verses, but this one came to mind first

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns
As I crush so-called willies, thugs, and rapper-dons
Get in that ass, quick fast, like ramadan
Its that rap phenomenon Don-Dadda, fuck Poppa
You got ta, call me, Francis M.H. White
in tank-light totes, tote iron
Was told in shootouts, stay low, and keep firin
Keep extra clips for extra shit
Who's next to flip, on that cat with that grip on rap
The mo shady, "Tell em!", Frankie baby
Ain't no tellin where I may be
May see me in D.C. at Howard Homecomin
with my man Capone, dumbin, fuckin somethin
You should know my steelo
Went from ten G's for blow to thirty G's a show
to orgies with hoes I never seen befo'
so, Jesus, get off the Notorious
penis, before I squeeze and bust
If the beef between us, we can settle it
With the chrome and metal shit
I make it hot, like a kettle get
You're delicate, you better get, who sent ya?
You still pedal shit, I got more rides than Great Adventure
Biggie, "How are you gonna do it?"

From "KICK IN THE DOOR" - Life After Death

[PLANT]

this one is crazy too

Big L - "Flamboyant" first verse

Make sure my mic is loud and my production is tight
Better watch me round your girl if you ain't fucking her right
You damn playa haters never want to see me blow
Flamboyant Entertainment CEO
Yo the spotlight is mine, it ain't his no more
When Lee come home, niggas can't live no more
And ... I'm straight, keep a Harlem World mindstate
I never lounge where you find Jake
Suprise niggas like a blind date, L rhyme great
And I'm a increase the crime rate for old time's sake
Run with me and I'm a make you a star
When me and my crew hit the clubs, we go straight to the bar
Leave 'em empty, I cruise through Harlem in an M3
Never pay for parties, say my name and I'm in free
I'm on some 100-G car shit, superstar shit
Selling niggas that wet shit right out the jar shit
I'm dumb hot, I'll wreck you and your young flock
Keep the gun cock, represent one block
139 nigga, the Danger Zone
We quick to put a bullet in a stranger's dome
I'm known to kick a rough rhyme and rock much shine
Yo I'm out, I done took up enough time

[Johnny B]

I like how Pac kicked off Ambitions. That was dope. That Inspectah Deck one is no joke though. If I Die Tonight from MATW was dope as fuck too.

shit, I was gonna say both of those.

also, Kurupt on "Dogg Pound Gangstaz" from Dogg Food:
 
Now my rhymes, are as potent as pipe bombs
It takes time to concoct rhymes like mines
Like land mines, all set to explode
Microphones, all set to unload
So, watch the means, watch the zone
I made it different with a million dead MC microphones
And they all wanted back by their peeps
Sleep if you dare, cause death catch niggaz when they sleep
Beware of the consequences, it's senseless
to face a prosecuted life or death MC sentence
Travel through your inner thoughts
Just to vision how far I can get, explore to the inner core
and ain't stopped yet, continue the journey
Cause all that shit you kick just don't concern me
You can't U-turn me, back... to... reality... where niggaz pack straps
and they mentality react so violently to leave MC's breathin silently
with hollow point talons for the violence
Ain't no harmin me, ain't got no love for no hoes in harmony
It's easy to find MC's to execute
Chances of survival too small to compute
Recognize, like this was Samuel Sneed
I grip the microphone continue with my devilish deeds
Cause all I see, in my M-I-N-D
Is D-P-G, for L-I-F-E
And all I see, on the M-I-C
Is another mangled MC opposin me
Supposed to be, regulatin in this rap era
Made one error up against the microphone terror
It takes two to tangle
I told Daz don't worry like Keith Murray I'ma strangle
MC's, with the microphone cord
You don't faze, your thoughts been invaded and explored
I know the ins and the outs to you buddy
I know where you live, and how you make your money
I came to violate you, desicrate you, I create two
murderous scenes, can you relate to
a Dogg Pound Gangsta..

[BOX5 the best poster on this site yell]

good shit in here, decc got the most memorable, but my favorite is mc shan's i pioneered this,straight fiya,and chill rob g's let the words flow yell