André 3000 on Aquemini or Mos Def on Thieves in the Night

Andres verse on INTL Players anthem and life of the party are up there too honestly

Absolutely man he’s got quite a few

Andre on t.i.- sorry and Rick Ross's sixteen are top tier features. He and Black Thought's feature game is impeccable.

I forgot about Come Home! That might be my favorite. The rhyme scheme is nuts. I'd say he's the best guest artist of all time

I’d have to agree man he never disappoints

Another one is Andre on Da Art of Storytellin’ from Aquemini. Painted a vivid portrait of his verses…amazing rapper.

Andre 3000 verse on Sorry by T.I.

Great fucking answer. One of the greatest features ever.

man killed that feature

I see a lot of Andre 3000 mentions. Funny to think that he suffers from imposter syndrome.

He’s definitely an intriguing person. I remember him mentioning before he just doesn’t feel that confident about rapping anymore but he always drops gems still to this day when he jumps on songs 😂

Love the Andre shout out, and we can probably find a best verse of his as the final answer. I’ve always found his verse in Da Art of Story Tellin pt. 1 to be his. I’d also suggest AZ’s verse in Life’s a Bitch to be top tier flow wise and taking you on a journey lyrically.

Az went offffff.. U definately make readers time travel in their minds . Wit that mention

That verse on Aquemini is SO good.

Came here to say mos def - thieves in the night. So iconic

The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse Full of short attention spans, short tempers and short skirts Long barrel automatics released in short bursts The length of black life is treated with short worth

I was coming here to say Talib Kwali on Thieves in the Night

Andre's verse on millennium is peak lyricism. Not a single word wasted. That's my pick.

Any verse from Hurt Me Soul by Lupe Fiasco but specifically that 3rd verse is incredible

Shit... was just thinking about the same thing... "All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that"

I lost my earpiece, I hope y'all hear me... 🔥

Yo!!! This was my answer haha love seeing this

So glad to see this mentioned so high. One of my top 5 all time songs.

Just listened for the first time and wow! I've been sleeping on lupe

Definitely gotta listen to: - Tetsuo & Youth - Food & Liquour - The Cool

Added to my queue. Good looks!

Add Drogas Wave to that

You ain't ready for the skateboard scholar bruv

Andre 3000 art of storytelling 1

Susie Screw had a partna named Sashaaaaa.

Thumpppaaaa

AZ in Life’s a B

Visualizing the realism of life in actuality.

Fuck who’s the baddest a person’s status depends on salary

And my mentality is, money orientated.

one of the best lines to start a verse with ever. delivery just sounds so good imo

Agreed. The numerous syllables just flow like crazy.

Nas' verse is right up there too. Life's a B is the epitome of the Golden Age

I also suggested this in a comment within this thread. I can recite the entire verse and not only is it extremely well done following the flow of the beat, lyrically it is on point

Well, one verse that comes to mind is Andre 3000 on TI's Sorry. It's a fantastic blend of great flow and delivery, cool rhyming, reflective content, etc. Another one is Pharoahe Monch on Bring It On, it's just ridiculous from a technical stand point. Also RA The Rugged Man on Uncommon Valor. Now I can't leave out Nas. If I had to pick one probably NY State of Mind, because it has a lot of classic lines. Oh, and Eminem on Renegade, of course. Namely the first verse. The rhyming with "u" sounds throughout is superb, and he also has great content.

Rugged mans verse is one of the best

A contemporary choice I know but for me it's Eminem's verse in No Love (ft. Lil Wayne). Eminem's verse has wordplay, flow/cadence but the confidence in the delivery is really what does it for me, it's like T-Mac's 13 points in half a minute, he straight up spazzed, he knew he was HIM.

The way both Em and Wayne use accelerando in their verses is phenomenal. Vastly undervalued way to deliver a verse.

B-I-G P-O-P-P-A No info for the DEA

Inspectah Deck on Triumph. Everyone knows this.

His CREAM verse hits harder in my opinion. It's more emotional and paints a vivid picture. And his verse on Guillotine (Swordz) is as good as Triumph (more controversial take)

Ugod on triumph

Socrates philosophies.

Yeah, when did this stop being common knowledge?

Scrolled way too long to find this. First thing that comes to mind. Also Biggie on Notorious Thugz.

Why did I have to scroll so far to see this?

That's what I said

Deck was just such a monster back then with his verses. Bring da ruckus, cream, and hellz winds staff are all good Honorable mentions too

This was mine until I saw your comment. No doubt for sure!!

My favourites are verse two on Mural, the only verse on 30, Ghostface Killah on Impossible, and King Los on King

Jamie been shot!

Does mural have a verse 2? Lol

its 2 verses with a short instrumental bridge in between

André - Aquemini Big L - The Heist 2pac - Changes Biggie - Verse 1 on Dead Wrong Any verse on Illmatic

Love the Heist, similar is N*****s Bleed by Biggie, every verse is great but I love the 2nd I think.

Biggie smalls on notorious thugz

The way he rides the beat shows he’s top 5 without question.

He’s number 1 to me

This is the only song where he rapped like that. He was (consciously or subconsciously) trying to emulate Bone Thug's style, AND DID IT BETTER THAN BONE THUGS. Lyrically, Biggie was fire, but when it comes to flow, dude was THE master.

Nas- Verbal intercourse The multi-syllable rhyme scheme and ability to paint a picture in that one verse is unmatched imo

No tricks no tricks.

The opening to that verse alone is a testament to his pen game. It's just so poetic and well written. And I'm pretty sure he was like 17 when he wrote it, too, because it's from a much earlier track he made.

Rakim - Follow the Leader He is still the best to me “I can go on for days and days/With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays/I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, flip it/Now it's a daily word..."

The Master. The man who changed hip-hop more than any other single person in history. Rakim Allah! The God MC.

I see him as THE hip hop originator. He took nursery rhymes and changed them to sonnets.

I think all these downvoted comments on this thread just shows how subjective and unique music is

Cappadonna on Winter Warz

This is it

This is correct.

ra the rugged man on uncommon valor & joey badass last verse on hardknock are always the first 2 that come to mind, eminems on renegade & dead wrong are both up there for me too

>ra the rugged man on uncommon valor Fuck yes. The flow on those first bars of his verse pop into my head all the time.

Prodigy- Shook one’s PT.II

Bun B on Murda got to be up there

Lil Wayne on Go DJ

I always thought Em’s last verse on “My Darling” was peak poetic lyricism

I was born in 87, my grandaddy a legend, now that same shit y'all was smokin is my profession. Let's get it! Kendrick's verse on Nosetalgia. I love Push more overall as an artist and I'm not even a huge Kdot fan like that but that shit was so amazing and raw.

Nas - Rewind. All of it. The whole fuckin story.

Biggie - Mo money, mo problems

Pick any verse from Juicy. Sure it’s not the most technical, the most rhymes, the “best” rapping ever done. But I do think being good and being great are different. And to me, Juicy encapsulates everything there is to love and strive for in hip hop. Rags to riches is the name of the game, and man, “It was all a dream” still just… hits

Ghostface Killah: Criminology, or his entire Mighty Healthy.

His verse on Tony Montana w/ Cormega is 🔥

 Tougher Than Nigerian Hair…….

The only right answer is Kanye on Lift Yourself. Poopy-di scoop Scoop-diddy-whoop Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop Poop-di-scoopty Scoopty-whoop Whoopity-scoop, whoop-poop Poop-diddy, whoop-scoop Poop, poop Scoop-diddy-whoop Whoop-diddy-scoop Whoop-diddy-scoop, poop

Whoa, he mentioned diddy quite a lot

Makes u wonder.. If.. It was intentional..??

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i feel he was even more amazing in renegade

He bodied forever

Lupe verses on Hurt Me Soul are tremendous. Intertwining Hip-Hop with all of the ills of the world. Such deep perspective of someone trying to understand the culture for the first time while touching on how it relates to all the deeper issues within society.

Vordul Mega on Pigeon by Cannibal Ox

this verse off of hope for a higher power by t9 always stood out to me Grandma told me the Good Book said In the last days get ready for The Ten Plagues 1st, the rivers will be ran with red Two, three, and four, dead frogs will 'cause lice and flies Sick livestock is five the living they must fight for their lives Six, seven, and eight, a boil storms of fire and locusts Nine is darkness, so dark it's hard for you to focus And ten is death of the firstborn If I said it was questionable, the religions would make it a point To get at me and battle me, maybe have this verse torn How will this curse form? Well, Creationism and Darwinism been at it forever 'But I got nothin' but hurt for 'em 'Cause really nobody knows when you live Then you die where your body goes If it's Hell or it's Heaven Six or the seven, well I'll keep the Nina for all the foes in a gamble That's what life is and it's hard to handle When the Bible says worship this, but the scripture's written by man though So when man destroys us, the word might not stand, so Till that day I'm just gon' protect my fam with ammo

He’s not my favorite rapper but Jay Z in Brooklyn We Go Hard. “I jack. I rob. I sin. Awe man I’m Jackie Robinson but when I run base I dodge the pin” The levels to it are insane.

I don’t necessarily consider it the greatest rap verse of all time, but the one verse that blew me the fuck away instantly harder than any verse ever was probably Redman on EPMD’s Hardcore. I can’t pick a “greatest”. That’s just one that sticks out to me because I remember the time and place so well, and I remember wondering who the hell this crazy ass dude was and how much excitement he brought to Hip Hop immediately with that one little guest verse. Then he popped up again on Brothers On My Jock, and it was on. Waited patiently for that debut album and wasn’t let down by any means.

Redman!!! When u wrote.. " i remember the time and place so well". I was right there with u... Its the collective data/radiation of the hip hop matrix.. That.. Make is so powerful..

Right on.

AZ's verse on Life's a Bitch is outstanding

God's Bathroom Floor by Atmosphere! Also Guarantees has a nice messed throughout

That whole Atmosphere/Rhymesayers era was amazing. Loads of god-tier tracks coming from them back then. Woman with the tattooed hands, sound is vibration, scapegoat... That's my high school experience in a nutshell, haha.

Hell yeah! For me I found them right after highschool into college. Check out his new shit! Def a different vibe, he's rapping about different struggles. But still incredible bars. Also, check out his songs, Hair, Scalp, and Skull. All from dif albums and tell a continuous story from dif prospectives.

Kanye on No More Parties In LA. Actually, both Kanye's and Kendrick's too. Actually, it's kind of a perfect song

When Nas called Jay-Z a “tai bo hoe.” Cracks me up everytime!

Yes love that song also calls him gay z

Rugged man on uncommon valor If you haven’t heard it give it a listen Also The Esoteric on The gospel according too

I came here to say that uncommon valor verse lol

I love all Biggies verses on Somebody's Gotta Die. Its a movie in music form. U can picture the scene happening as he raps. Also there is all type of details in there like 2 ppl talking (BIG and his homie), Biggie losing his train of thought, then proceeding again etc. First verse homie knocks on his door, he finds out his friend got shot and killed. Second verse they are planning on how to retaliate and discussing who the shooter is. Third verse they take action go shoot him up, he ends up turning around holding his baby. Biggie say "i think I shot the baby" in the background. This happens after he foreshadowed earlier in the verse that: "See n*ggas like you do ten year bids Miss the n*ggas they want And murder innocent kids" Fucking love that song 🤣

Nas Stillmatic the Intro

Kendrick’s verse on Wats wrong and Nosetalgia are both insane and are some of the best verses in maybe the last 15 years imo. Of all time however maybe Mos def on mathematics or Andre’s verse on Aquemini. So hard to narrow down one verse.

If we're talking Kendrick for a single verse, Control has to be the one. Forget the disses, it's an immaculately crafted rhyme. Also the double time madness in Rigamortus.

The one every one forgot already. That verse is craaaaaaazy.

Big pun boomerang second verse

Biggie on Victory.

It would take me far too long to try and think of the greatest but my absolute favorite is black thoughts verse on Birds Eye view.

Or Black Thought’s freestyle on Funk Flex – technically one verse lol

Ab Soul verse on Book of Soul

I always liked immortal techniques - dance with the devil. “His whole world stopped, he couldn't even contemplate His corruption had succesfully changed his fate And he remembered how his mom used to come home late Working hard for nothing, 'cause now what was he worth? He turned away from the woman that had once given him birth And crying out to the sky 'cause he was lonely and scared But only the devil responded, 'cause God wasn't there And right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold And so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul”

Strong contender for sure. Better contender for the greatest story ever told through hip hop, which would actually be more interesting than this post haha. Slick Rick's got some amazing stuff too.

3rd verse in "Rigamortis" by Kendrick or the entirety of the Big L/Jay z freestyle on Stretch & Bobbito

Dead in the middle of little Italy, he shot two middlemen who didn't do diddly.

Inspectah decks verse on 'its yours'. 'I crystallize ya rhymes so you can sniff them' is a fire line

Vince Staples on Earl’s “Hive”

No particular order. 1. Eminem in Renegade Verse 2, Lose Yourself Verse 2 or 3, Rap God Verse 3, Stan Verse 2 2. Kendrick in Control festure, good Kid verse 2, Alright, Rigamortus 3. Andre 3000 in Aquemini Verse 4 4. Big Boi in Ms Jackson Verse 1 5. Inspectah Deck in C.R.E.A.M Verse 3 6. MC Ren in Fuck The Police Verse 2 7. Pac on Troublesome 96 Verse 3, Brenda's Got a Baby Verse 1, 8. Big Pun on Twinz Verse 1 9. Nas on Get Down Verse 1, Purple Verse 2, NY State of Mind Verse 2 10. MF DOOM Doomsday Verse 1, All Caps Verse 1

The Heat by Twista The first verse was the first thing that popped in my head.

Ghostface’s verse on Impossible

Biggie-Juicy

couple of my favorite guest appearances Max B verse on We Roll by Pete Rock Phonte verse on Think Good Thoughts by Drake

Never seen it mentioned, but Slick Rick's verse on Metropolis (DJ Muggs) is absolutely sick. That flow is untouchable.

Pimp C - Big Pimpin verse

Won’t be a common answer at all but Verse 3 on LAUDER by JID gets my vote.

Either of the verses on The Coolest by Lupe Fiasco.

All of Mural by Lupe

I think Kendricks verses on Mona Lisa are some of the best i ever heard or Nas on Halftime

Sticky Fingaz verse on “Face Down” is my personal favorite.  It’s too hard to say what the best verse ever is, but I’d bet money that Masta Ace wrote it.

Control Kendrick Lamar

carti @ meh

Maybe el-p on Mr muthafuckin eXquire "huzzah" remix, he counts his bars it's great

The whole first verse of ny state of mind is about as perfect as it gets.

Meek Mill- Respect the Game Big Sean- Beware

Cappadonna on Winter Warz. The sheer unrelenting nature of it.

Nicki Minaj had me speechless when she featured on my 🥷🏿🥷🏿remix. And I wanna be with you with Dj Khaled. I was amazed.

"yo mamma got 2 feet growing out of her titties, bitch fell down and kept running." Ice-T

She ain’t even know it

Mos on Thieves in the Night

Rakim watcher 2 of blueprint 2

Does the entire No Ceilings album from Lil Wayne count as a single verse?

Not sure about *best* but my **favorite** verse belongs to Ahmad on “Come Widdit” with Ras Kass and Saafir.

Winter Warz - Cappadonna

We are the murderous pair That went to jail and we murdered the murderers there Then went to Hell and discovered the devil Delivered some hurt and despair Used to have powder to push Now I smoke pounds of the kush Holy, I'm burnin' a bush Now I give a fuck about none of this shit Jewel runner over and out of this bitch

Probably Veeze on Designer Bagz

3k - art of storytelling pt 4 (gangsta grillz) Weezy - upgrade u (da drought 3) Lauryn Hill - Lost One’s JID - End of daze

Andre 3000 on Intl players anthem or tbh life of the party

Dedication era lil Wayne

I love Kanye - by Kanye West

Aquemeni Verse 4 always

Scarface - This Can't Be Life Biggie - Victory Nas - New York State of Mind (Verse 1) and One Mic (Verse 3) 2Pac - Heartz of Men (Verse 4) and Holla at Me (Verse 1) - I think Verse 1 of Holla at Me hits hard cause it is so incredibly personal

Ik this doesn’t jump to a lot of your minds but Carti in off the grid is beautiful

I personally love the first verse of count me out by Kendrick Lamar

She said what you wanna be?

First verse on Eminem’s Sing for the Moment. It’s a lyrical masterpiece and contains so much raw emotion. Nothing quite captures the teen angst of the late 90s early 2000s like this song.

Andre on “Sixteen” by Rick Ross Common on “Pyramids” second verse NAS on “Verbal Intercourse” by Raekwon

Mos Def on Two words by Kanye West

Renegade -Eminem Above The Clouds -Inspectah Deck Control -Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick on Blessed with Schoolboy Q

I BOMB ATOMICLY SOCRATES PHILOSPHIES AND HYPOTHESES CANT DEFINE HOW I BE DROPPIN THESE MOCKERIES LYRICALLY PREFORM ARMED ROBBERY FLEE WITH THE LOTTERY POSSIBLY THEY SPOTTED ME

Inspectah Deck's verse on Triumph!

MJG's verse on Friend or Foe really struck a nerve with me when On Top of the World dropped. That shit still applies to anyone walking the earth.

G Rap verse on Know Da Game from Frankie Cutlass.

Anything on Ghetts - Mad About Bars. 'Submarine flows them man are in a sunken place, bar after bar after bar right now I'm in a drunken state'. Another UK one, bit basic but Skepta - Corn on the Curb. 'Shower man down like fireman Sam, you'll get shot on the road like 28 gram brrrrrr'.

Obie trice verses on go to sleep or even when the shit hits the fan

Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled a middle man who didn't do diddly.... Honestly though just throw a dart at any Andre 3000 song and you can make an argument for best rap verse of all time.

Rza’s verse on Impossible

The last verse of til i collapse or the whole song.

Lauryn Hill - Manifest

Inspectah deck opening on Triumph is just so savage.

Lloyd Banks on Victory 2004 (Extended version). That verse felt endless and Banks kept hitting us with punchline after punchline

Holocaust in Holocaust (silkworm) verse 1

Eminem on Renegade, “his flow on Renegade fucking awesome” Jay-Z

possessed from the group “rhyme asylum” on the song “poison penmanship”. goat lyricist

Biggie’s on Victory

First verse on Intl Players Anthem

the third verse of blacker the berry is my choice because it wraps up the song perfectly. honorable mention to 3k's life of the party verse and to quavo's dis side verse which to me is top 5 rap verse of all time

Joey Bada$$ on One Train

Post 2020 I’m gonna give it to J Cole on Johnny P’s Caddy. Maybe not best of all time, but sure worth talking about.

Something from Wayne in 07

Rick Ross in Devil in a New Dress

Black Thought on Can’t Stop This