10 Best Guest Verses In Rap History

Live at the Barbecue is a highlight track off Breaking Atoms, Main Source’s debut album. And though Main Source disbanded before they could even put out a second album, the album was considered an influential critical success. However, all things considered, the thing Main Source will be remembered for is featuring the world debut of Nas on Live at the Barbecue.

18 god damn years old. Everyone knows that Nas was a ripe 20 years of age when he released one of the greatest rap albums of all time Illmatic. But this verse happened two years before that! Nas belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of rappers and he made that clear from the beginning.

While Nas would later be known for his brilliant lyrical storytelling ability, this verse is pure bravado.

Poetry attacks, paragraphs punch hard
My brain is insane, I'm out to lunch, God
Science is dropped, my raps are toxic
My voicebox locks and excels like a rocket

Indeed