The Best Hip-Hop Album Intro

[Royal]

It seems that so often the first song of an album goes overlooked. either they are too boring to listen to every time you put the cd in or they're just not as interesting as the rest of the album, but every once in a while there'll be an intro that makes you say "DAAAAMMMNNN!!!" and gets you hype to listen to the rest of the album. Which one(s) do this for you?

My choices are:

Clipse-Lord Willin' Intro
Ludacris-Southern Fried Intro(Chicken & Beer)
Nas-Stillmatic Intro

What about ya'll?



-Roy

 

[DJ Hoppa]

Non-Prophets - hope intro
Pharcyde - love that jazzy intro, puts me right in the mood
DJ Hoppa - Intro (A classic!)

 

[Dave]

Gotta be first track on low end theory.
When that bass line kicks in and tip starts rhyming... Unbeatable

More a whole song than an intro but still the best start to any album.

 

[blak flame]

mc eiht - we come strapped - niggaz that kill intro
nas - stillmatic - intro
dj quik - rythamalism - intro

 

[Chedda]

the illmatic intro, the genesis, or whatever. that sample is friggin crazy. i love that shit.

 

[MarkN]

Nas-Stillmatic Intro

Say no more, i love that into just the first second the beat kicks in with that sample ! DAAAAMMMNNNN !

 

[MIKELABZ]

I Gotta Go With Illmatic..."you Running Around With This Shit....." With The Train In The Background....classic.

 

[dj ShorTbuS]

the intro to the High and Mighty's 'Home Field Advantage'. Dope ass beat and Mighty Mi's Tearing up th cuts.

 

[Carpe Diem]

Illmatic Intro (Genesis) is CRAZY!!!
Jedi Mind Tricks always come with some nice sinister intros!!!

 

[Bosta]

goodie mob - soul food intro - thats my shit

 

[DJ Excellence]

Nas-Illmatic
Gangstaar-Hard to Earn

both dark and menacing

 

[Ominous]

Big up to Blak Flame for that MC Eiht pick. I used to listen to that to get hyped up for basketball games.

But I am gonna have to go with Philsiarri with that Gangstarr Hard To Earn.

Honorable Mention would have to be Black Sheep - I Thought I was Hard intro...

 

[berserk]

the intro to the High and Mighty's 'Home Field Advantage'. Dope ass beat and Mighty Mi's Tearing up th cuts.

Nas-Stillmatic Intro

Jay-Z - The Ruler's Back

Big L - Bigger Picture (Intro)

 

[Carpe Diem]

The Sample on Cuban Linx is nice too!!!

 

[juzblazwun]

mc eiht - we come strapped - niggaz that kill intro
nas - stillmatic - intro
dj quik - rythamalism - intro

I gotta go with blak flame and to add to the list Dr.Dre - Chronic.

 

[brooklynstyle]

number 1 of all time for me is the intro of the Dynasty - Jay Z.

 

[Jig Dagod]

DMX - It's Dark And Hell Is Hot

"That's my mans and them"

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