Ever since De La Soul’s seminal ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ which takes the form of a gameshow, Rap artists have been filling up album slots with Skits comprising of shit-talking, phone conversations or in the case of Biggie getting his jollies off. The skit usually breaks up the flow of the album and involves numerous in-jokes which the laymen listener has no idea what is going on. Thanks to the death of the Walkmen, most rap fans will just skip right past the skits and on to the actual songs. However in some cases, the Skits are humorous or really add something to the album or the next track, so here are my selections of the best Rap Skits ever.
Dangerdoom (MF Doom + Dangermouse)
The rap/talking from 3.25 till the end, It is Meatwad rapping in a voice that wouldn’t sound out of place in The Rescuers, and it always gets a cheap laugh.
Kanye West- Skin #2
All of Kanye West’s skits are pretty good and I especially like Chris Rock’s bit on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy but the memorable one has to be Skit #2 on Late Registration. With the chanting of ‘We Broke, broke broke phi broke, We Ain’t Got it’ being as catchy as anything else on the album.
Dr Dre- Deeeez Nuuuuts
This is just the intro to a song on The Chronic that features Warren G on the phone punking a girl with the immature and brilliant punchline of Deeeezzz Nuuuuts! It is childishly brilliant and makes me laugh the same now as when I heard The Chronic.
Mobb Deep- Infamous Prelude
This one isn’t a good skit really, but is one of the first to straight talk at people and the only one I know of to start beef, which it did with Redman and Keith Murray. Prodigy speaks a lot of garbage but does say the immortal line at the end of ‘I might have to get on some ol’ high school shit and start punchin’ niggaz in they face just for livin’, which is pretty amazing.”
Ludacris- Greatest Hits sung by White People
Before Luda was grooming Bieber and doing shitey guest-slots, he was one of the best dirty south rappers, he was also hilarious. This skit on his album Word Of Mouf has Mike Johnson proclaiming an album called Ludacris’s Greatest Hits, Sung by White People! It is pretty funny, and is one of the things I remember most about the album other than downloading it from Lime-Wire years ago.
Wu Tang Clan- Torture
This skit involves members of the clan trying to outdo each other with stories of how they would torture people, you know the laughter heard in the background is genuine, I especially like Method Man’s sound effects and then it evolves into a classic Wu Tang Track.
Eminem- Public Service Annoucements
This was brilliant at the time with all of the controversy surrounding Eminem and his lyrics and the Parental Advisory stickers that had to put on them, he took the piss out of it all, and created what is definitely one of the most memorable skits of my generation.
Biggie- Fuck Me ft Lil Kim,
I mentioned this in the intro about Biggie skits, one of them has him getting a blowjob which is supposedly real and I really hope Biggie really was giving it to Lil Kim in this one too. Kim is dissing Notorious repeatedly which climaxes just before Biggie does when she says ‘You Chronic Smoking, Oreo Cookie Eating, Pickle Juice drinking, Chicken gristle eating, biscuit fucking fucking, mother fucker!’
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