Wrap It Up, B! A History of Hip-Hop's Longest Songs
By Felipe Delerme | Apr 21, 2010 | 6:32 am | Permalink
Lil Wayne, "10,000 Bars"
Released: 2008
Running Time: 31 minutes 26 seconds
According to Weezy's 2009 "VH1 Behind The Music" special, he recorded "10,000 Bars" as a way to cleanse himself of all the rhymes he had written down before he would stop writing altogether for The Carter. Though not actually 10,000 bars, the entire freestyle (broken into parts) can be found on found on DJ EFX's 2008 Before The Carter mixtape.
G-Roc April 22nd, 2010 at 03:39 PM
WOW! Super shocked to see Playa Fly made the list. Listening to that song makes me feel like I'm back in High School.
D April 22nd, 2010 at 05:39 PM
can't believe there's no Young Tripp on this list... dude did 1000 bars
unbiased April 22nd, 2010 at 07:01 PM
funny how the author is trying to clown ja rule when his verse was better than most of the rappers on this, and if you use the excuse that after all his bubble gum raps you can't believe any of the gangster shit he says then you're just a hypocrite when you hop all over rick ross's dick
OMG-OnMYGrind April 22nd, 2010 at 07:31 PM
Kanye's shit was on point though.
MK April 22nd, 2010 at 08:19 PM
unbiased is totally Ja Rule. This is what he does with his life now, sit on the Internet and hate on Rick Ross' success. What did DMX say about Ja Rule? "He ain't but a buck and some change, Stuart Little-lookin' motherfucker." What a fucking loser.
chip April 23rd, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Where is Wale's ADD pt. 2
Mr.HipHop April 23rd, 2010 at 03:41 PM
1,000 BARS !!!!! PL infinity baby!!!
JC April 23rd, 2010 at 09:07 PM
Now the only question is why did it take so long for this to get recognized?
Kell-El April 23rd, 2010 at 09:54 PM
Beat longest songs Triumph/C'est Demain Loin
Steve TATO April 24th, 2010 at 11:15 PM
How is it an infinite rhyme? It ended at 11:00 minutes for me. I'm sure it did for everyone else too...
dw April 25th, 2010 at 02:54 AM
its actually 5 200 bar verses which can be mixed between each other at any time.. the full 1000bars goes for 35-40mins. It's infinite because there are an infinite amount of ways you can remix the 5 layers together to make a new track.
Quanda April 26th, 2010 at 08:01 PM
WOW. You're very informed. Hell I was clueless. :)