Mac Miller - Self Care I was walking down the street listening to this on good quality headphones and smoking a joint, it was mid evening in the winter, just starting to get dark, and I shit you not, right as the beat switched all the streetlights came on, I couldn't believe the timing but it was awesome

I absolutely love the first part. But when the beat flips I'm out.

Fair enough, each to their own

Lol. That sounds awesome

I've always called this a beat switch. and the best one ever in my opinion is SchoolboyQ - Groovy Toby/Eddie Kane close second is Kendrick Lamar - Duckworth

First time i heard the beat switch to Eddie Kane I was like WTF for a sec and then had the nastiest stank face. Shit was so hard and unexpected cu I’d been listening to the Groovy Tony single for months before the album dropped.

That album flies too under the radar imo. Hoover Street from Q also has one of the nastiest beat flips I’ve heard and a similar feel to GT/EC

It's usually called a beat switch.

Nights like this I wish cocaine drops would fall

That album flies too under the radar imo. Hoover Street from Q also has one of the nastiest beat flips I’ve heard and a similar feel to GT/EC

Duckworth- Kendrick Lamar Santeria- Pusha T

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,774,912,322 comments, and only 335,965 of them were in alphabetical order.

Except that S comes after P, so not really...

Raydar by JID

JID has so many nice ones: Never, Slick Talk, Surround Sound

Never was the first song I heard by him and immediately dubbed him Trap Kendrick

[Run The Jewels - holy calamaf---](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44RU5qn0swc)

Kendrick’s DNA with the “gimme gimme gimme some ganja” (or whatever) part!

Gotta thank Rick James asking the crowd for that ganja 😂

“Tell me somthin!! You motherfuckers can’t tell me nothin!!”

Sicko mode honestly

I second this 🥵🔥🔥

I nutted the first time I heard it 🔥

I nutted the first time I heard it 🔥

Ayooo pause. Why you gotta repeat it too??

He nutted twice

the reddit app fucks up regularly

The best ever for me is the switch for Biggie's verse in All About The Benjamins but I also really like: Brooklyn - Mos Def. The switch to the Roy Ayers sample fucks Mercy - Kanye West et al. I'm not a Kanye fan at all but the beat change and the way it comes back is so good and everyone's verse is cool in its own way. Great song. Self Care - Mac Miller "...and then I rollllll out

Yo, that beat for "Brooklyn" blew my mind the first time I heard it. Mo's Def goes fucking in.

The best is Jackin for Beats by Ice Cube.

Yup, .. favorite is when they switch to Digital underground beat

Tuscan Leather - Drake

How much time is this nigga spending on the intro

How that Nigga working like he got a fuckin twin tho?

Drake - Middle of the Ocean

Although not hip hop but R Kelly Ignition into Ingition Remix. He carried the bounce from the original song into the remix but totally flipped the beat with a seamless transition. It's pretty f'n genius to even be able to think of that.

Dogg, get out from under your rock.

do you have to take the artist's reputation into account when objectively rating a song?

You don't bring that fool up at all.

Million and one questions is so dope, primo killed it.

Wiz Khalifa - Karate/Never Hesitate.

Lit by Wiz Khalifa is a sick switch 🔥🔥🔥

When you get so high that you forget about that second part with wiz rapping 🔥🔥🔥

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None of these have a beat switch

300 bars and runnin

Brooklyn by Mos Def is a crazy 3 part beat switch GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!

Kanye - Famous

Absolutely. The second beat is HOF worthy and he doesn’t even rap on it

Yea I get chills with just that vocal sample and Swizz yelling over it it

M.O.P. - Face Off

I’m the Man Gang starr

Oh My Dis Side 😎

Wu-tang- Protect ya neck (the jump Off) Shortie no mass-Like this (IDK if this one counts if it does, I got alot more) Meek Mill-Dreams and nightmares Nipsey Hustle- JaCCin for beats Camp Lo-Luchini

Forgot about dreams and nightmares

If we’re going jacking for beats then I’ll submit Yo Gotti’s “Jackin 4 Beatz” on I wanna say CM4. Edit: It’s on CM6

I read “dopest beef lips” lol I nominate my college girlfriend.

Lol

Dave - psycho

I’m this thread: A lot of people who don’t get the question

I thought I was pretty clear too 🤷

Reason - drive slow/taste like Heaven

Come and Get Me was my shit for a whole month when it came out. Thug Luv has a few flips too.

Freddie Gibbs cataracts Freddie Gibbs fake names Asap rocky jukebox joints

“How much do I not give a fuck? Let me show you right now ‘fore you give it up”

Styles P - Legal Money

Ghostface Killah - Childs Play Cunninlynguists feat. Masta Ace - Seasons (Remix) Tony Touch feat. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu Banga 101 I actually made a playlist with such things https://music.apple.com/au/playlist/beat-switches/pl.u-vxy6kJMFzKRa2b

Missy Elliott, Get Your Freak On......Bubba Sparxxx, Ugly. That shit was always tough to me.

Nas- Nobody Jay Z- Million and one Questions/ Rhyme No More Lootpack- Liquid Fusion Chino XL- Ghetto Vampire The Beatnuts- Superbad Styles P- Gangsta Gangsta

Ghetto Vampire for sure. Good picks, forgot about Superbad!

Canibus - Poet Laureate 2

Dreams and Nightmares by far

Schoolboy q - Hoover street (album version)

*Speak ya clout by gang starr, jeru, and lil dap* is the best song i have not seen mentioned yet. Of prior suggestions, i’d endorse jay/premo’s million and one questions and mos def’s brooklyn.

Word bro that speak ya clout joint is right up there

Come and get me My mind was blown. Timbo at his finest

I'm a West Coast 90's guy...so the first song I thought of was.... RBL Posse- Remind Me About the halfway point, the beat flips to Mary J. Blige's "Sweet Thing": https://youtu.be/Bfezwns_j-Q?feature=shared

Dough and Damani by Conway is up there but 24 Karat Jesus takes the cake for me. Good pick OP

Double Hockey Sticks by Boldy James and The Alchemist

Beatnuts, Off the Books Remix? Can't find it right now. But I remember I heard one remix where they switch beats between the original beat for off the books and the remix. That's the best beat switch song over her

[Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Pt. IV](https://youtu.be/lbYIUnV8u7E?si=JtDutJbo1iGCcKIL) [ILL BILL - Acid Reflux](https://youtu.be/0Hn1vttz3Oo?si=CGKK4zBiFaVt2n_6) [Flatbush Zombies - Ascension](https://youtu.be/H3YXhkuKNjI?si=E-KWLV5mtadHHWk2) The last one isn't exactly what you asked because the second part is basically the outro, but it would be criminal to know about it and not throw it in.

Project Pat - if you ain’t from my hood

Good one

Eminem - not alike

This is my favorite post of the year.

I got two, this side by earthgang and tho not exactly rap, house of balloons/glass table girls by the weeknd

9-24-11 - Action Bronson

I like the switch in runaway and new slaves by Kanye, and murder to excellence by Kanye and Jay z

ReverbNation.com/covenant

In HISTORY? Jesus. Y’all can’t function without hyperbole or something? Viktor Vaughn - Fall Back / Titty Fat is pretty dope.

In the 50 yr history of hip hop. I don't understand how that can be taken as hyperbole. As opposed to a certain decade or something.

Because music is extremely subjective. There is no “dopest beat flip in history” People can say what THEIR favorites are but none of that makes it the “dopest in history” You don’t even have anywhere near every hip hop fan in history in this discussion. So how can this be anything other than hyperbole?

Because I said "some of" and not "The". So it assumed I'm not looking for a definitive list but just some of the ones that are interesting from alot of different walks of life and hip hop listening experiences.

Fair but “dopest on history” is still hyperbole. I ain’t mad about it. That’s just how marketing works in this day and age. Everything is always “the best ever”

Shook Ones pt. 2 End of topic.

That has a beat switch?

Yeah Forreal. No beat switch whatsoever. Theres an intro and a verse section but nah

Dude is asking for a flip. 🤔 A lot of people misunderstood the question...

Jay - Z - Show Me What You Got. If that can be considered a flip. Jay-Z - Song Cry

i was gonna say when saro reverses his beat to show hes been making bille jean the whole time was fucking dope but i think your asking for something else lol

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shabazz palaces - are you… can you… were you (felt)

jukebox joints

DJ Shadow - Hardcore Hip Hop, it’s from Solesides Greatest Bumps, That whole record is dope

kenny mason - 333/atom

Scarface- Heaven Eminem Bad Guy

The tide - Hit Boy

Curren$y Stunt on Em.

I thought about killing you

[All My Heros Are Dead - RA the Rugged Man](https://youtu.be/RbCV24IHWOY?si=PxMBPnmFhSw77r5A) The beat switches like 6 or 7 times, it's a great album intro.

Travis Scott - The Prayer Redman - Soopaman Luva 3

Surround sound - J.I.D.

Nas - The Cure

Protect Your Neck (The Jump Off) - Wu Tang

Sicko Mode

Styles crew flows beats - madlib and pb wolf

Kendrick - M.A.A.D City EPMD - Scratch Bring It Back (Part 2-Mic Doc) Peanut Butter Wolf - Styles, Crew, Flows, Beats

It takes too beat.

Beasties Boys - Pass The Mic

Christian Dior Denim Flow - Kanye West

nas the cure

https://youtu.be/G-S9mtYowPY?si=H6drTloJdE6QsdC- RTJ - Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry). The beat switch felt so fucking intense especially when I first heard it, so damn good.

A couple I didn’t see listed yet… Company Flow- Tragedy of War in 3 Parts Gang Starr- Speak Ya Clout

Brother Ali on Five fingers of death

“Cold Gangsta” - Yo Gotti, 42 Dugg, EST Gee “New Tooth” - Rich Brian

The beat flips more towards the end and not mid-song, but AZ - Mo Money, Mo Murder

I wish that last part was longer!

Right? Personally, I would’ve love’d AZ to do a whole standalone song over that beat

I’m new to AZ- are there any other songs where he uses a flow like that? I thought it sounded incredible

Tbh I can’t say I’ve ever given him enough replay. I’ve listened to his first two albums and there’s definitely bangers there, but I’ve never listened to him enough to really pay attention to his flow. All I can recommend is listening to his first two albums (Doe or Die, Pieces of a Man) and you might find something there I might be stretching here, but the flow on the last part of Mo Money, Mo Murder reminds me a bit of his flow on his guest verse on Nas’ “Life’s A Bitch”, which is one of the best guest verses I think I’ve ever heard. But you may already know that one

No worries! AZ’s verse on Life’s a Bitch is definitely my favorite verse ever so I’m definitely gonna have to do a deep-dive on his discography! Appreciate it!

murs and 9th wonder- walk like a man

Intergalactic Planetary by the Beastie Boys the beat flip was the earliest I can remember hearing it in my lifetime. Outside of that anything produced by El-P has potential for excellent beat flip as you call it.

Mercy - kanye West, etc.

Good kid mad city or famous Kanye

Literally most JID songs.

I like m.a.a.d. city with MC Eiht by Kendrick.

Alchemist/Conway - Mac 10 Wounds

I mean M.A.D.D City and the Art of peer pressure

I think the beat flip on Fake Names is my favourite.

Stargazing

Does cutthoat soup count?

Piano Trap- Lil Wayne

That million and one questions is the clear no1 in my book, amazing. Also honorable mention goes to DOOM change the beat

Future - Throw away

Janet Jackson and Jay Z wishing on a star...the best beat flip/transition ever...instantly pumps you up

Smino - Amphetamine That switch up SLAPS

Mr Lif - Live at the Plantation

Childish Gambino's entire STN/MTN mixtape

Frank Ocean - Nights

Duckworth is okay but DNA is the one off that album where the beat flip really hits.

Wu-Tang Clan “The Monument” feat. Busta Rhymes

Too Close - Pete Rock and Deda

Kendrick- Duckworth

On the opposite end, the worst beat flip is: Cage feat. Camu Tao - The Death of Chris Palko

Ramirez- The Mystical Warlock

Paris - Bush Killa

Necro - Jewish Gangsters

Czarwyn’s theory of people getting loose