Today’s rap is actually more about the beat and catchy chorus than rhymes, but there are still a few good rhymes out there, and this list proves it.
10.My Name Is – Eminem Eminem has had great words, but this one stuck in my head because I find it very funny. “I smoke a fat pound of grass, and fall on my ass faster than the fat bitch that sat down to fast.”
9.Welcome To Atlanta – Ludacris The whole first verse is great and this was a good part. The whole verse was good together, and there was not really a strong line. “Welcome to Atlanta, jack and hammers and vogues, back to the mackin’ and jackin’ the clothes, adolescents packin the fo’.”
8.We Takin’ Over –T.I. This line is very nice because it gives a shout out to all the places that have influenced rap the most in the past couple of years. Started in Atlanta then we spread out wit it, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, On to North Carolina, Philadelphia, Virginia, from down in Miami were it warm in the winter, on up to Minnesota where it storm in the winter, Jacksonville, Talahasee, Memphis, Tenn holla at me.
7.Classic (Nike Remix) – Rakim Rakim shows that he is still on top of his game with this verse about Air Force Ones. “Nas made you look before the heaters, I bet you Kan had ’em on when he walked with Jesus.”
6.Roses – Kanye West Kanye raps about AIDS and how people are not getting the proper treament they need if they do not have the money and is comparing these people to Magic Johnson who does, and also lives with the disease. “You know the best medicine go to people thats payed, if Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS, and all the broke muthaf*ckers passed away, your telling me if my grandma was in the N.B.A., right now she’d be OK?”
5.Hate It Or Love It (G-UNIT Remix) – Young Buck A great remix on how rappers who used to be underdogs, are now on top “You know I’m still nice with my cook game, look mayne it’s a hood thang, thats why I’m loved in Brooklyn.”
4.Ride 4 My Niggas -Lil Wayne This is a rare exception, it has a great beat, great chorus, and even better rapping about Lil Waynes life. “And I’m a G, ain’t gotta know the alphabet to C, I know my whole city is depending on me, and i forget alot of shit, but I cannot forget the streets.”
3.The Way I Am –Eminem A Song about the pressure of becoming a superstar, and Eminem telling everyone that he doesn’t care what they think. I sit back with this pack of zig-zags, and this bag of this weed, it gives me the sh*t needed to be the most meanest emcee on this earth. and since birth I’ve beencursed with this curse.”
2.One Mic – NAS NAS tells everyone that he doesn’t need anything but to rap, because that is what got him through all the tough times. “All I need is one mic, one beat, one stage, one n*gga frontin’ my face on the front page, only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib, one god to show me how to do things his son did.”
1. And finally, #1: Crank That – Soulja Boy “Soulja Boy up in this oooo, watch me crank it, watch me rooooolll!”
Wait.
I’m just kidding.
1. Stilletos – Lil Wayne Best verse I have ever heard in a song…period. “Challenge me, that’d be to my advantage, I’m outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged, standing outside up in the blizzard, and walking out hot-handed, serving nickel packs in Iraq, bet I will not panic.”
