10 Of The Best Album Intros And Interludes

Sometimes the best parts of songs aren't the songs at all.

Outkast - “Where Are My Panties?,” The Love Below (2003) - An all around hilarious take on the “morning after,” where you can listen to a gal look for her panties and André 3000 giving himself a pep talk to stay “ice cold!” It’s even more hilarious when it jumps right into André’s “Prototype.”(Photo: Arista records)
Fugees - “How Many Mics?”, The Score (1996) - An intro that would introduce the world at large to an incredibly skillful group where in one track manages to reference Frederick Douglass, Tommy Mottola, Stanley Kubrick, Nation of Islam, and more while outstandingly flexing intellectual muscle at a time when hip hop was shedding blood and losing constituents.  Honorable mention goes to the "Chinese Restaurant Skit," where a restaurant owner is getting trolled by patrons asking for no onions in their rice, as the owner becomes infuriated and attacks Kung-Fu style, but not before shouting "But like Burger King, have it your way!"(Photo: Ruffhouse Records, Columbia Records)
N.W.A - “Straight Outta Compton,” Straight Outta Compton (1988) - The title track to the group’s debut album doubly served as an introduction of N.W.A to the world. It also set the tone for a group that would get the conversation started on music censorship in the U.S. a couple of years later. The title alone has proven to live on by itself, as it became the title to one of the biggest films of 2015 based on the group’s ascent to super stardom.(Photo: Ruthless/Priority Records)

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Fugees - “How Many Mics?”, The Score (1996) - An intro that would introduce the world at large to an incredibly skillful group where in one track manages to reference Frederick Douglass, Tommy Mottola, Stanley Kubrick, Nation of Islam, and more while outstandingly flexing intellectual muscle at a time when hip hop was shedding blood and losing constituents.  Honorable mention goes to the "Chinese Restaurant Skit," where a restaurant owner is getting trolled by patrons asking for no onions in their rice, as the owner becomes infuriated and attacks Kung-Fu style, but not before shouting "But like Burger King, have it your way!"(Photo: Ruffhouse Records, Columbia Records)

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