Fight Night: Music To Deliver Beat Downs To
Hip Hop anthems that boxers get ready to rumble to.
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I Be Feeling Like The Man When I Walk-Thru - One of the most anticipated fights in boxing history is going down on Saturday as Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are set to do battle. As the fight of the decade prepares to take place, check out a few entrance anthems that could get the crowd amped during the walk-thru and the fighters psyched to do damage. -Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA) (Photos from left: Mark Davis/Getty Images for Coachella, Al Bello/Getty Images, Nicky Loh/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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DMX - "Intro" - Iron Make has been known to make his entrance over tracks from revered MCs and the menacing "Intro" from DMX's debut It's Dark And Hell Is Hot was the backdrop for his return after the Holyfield debacle when he knocked out Francois Botha in 1999. (Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for Coachella)
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The LOX - "Wild Out" - The LOX's "Wild Out" can get any bout started, and with Manny and Floyd not known for brawling, one can only hope that the fight of the decade gets as amped as the song.(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for GQ)
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Lil Wayne Featuring Detail - "No Worries" - Weezy has kicked it with Floyd on several occasions and even joined him in the ring a few times after his victories so it wouldn't be a surprise for Money to be vibing out to "No Worries" as he plans to remain undefeated. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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M.O.P. - "Ante Up" - M.O.P. put fools on notice that they could get relived of their jewels real quick, and Manny may just feel this way about Floyd's crowns so "Ante Up" would be the perfect track to stroll into the ring to. (Photo: Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)
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Migos - "Fight Night" - To the winner goes the spoils and Migos' "Fight Night" might be the way to leave the ring if your hand is raised in victory as you and your entourage chant, "Hit it with the left, hit with the right/ I'ma knock the p***y out like fight night."(Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Power 105.1)
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Puff Daddy featuring Notorious B.I.G and Busta Rhymes - "Victory" - Money Mayweather must have been playing Puff's triumphant rant during his training camps throughout his undefeated career, but maybe it's time to enter the ring so his haters can hear, "You know that I'm two levels above you baby/ Hug me baby, I'mma make you love me baby."(Photos from left: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, Chris Walter/WireImage)
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DMX - "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" - DMX provides the perfect punch to stroll out to the ring to as he lets the apes out with his classic "Ruff Ryders' Anthem." Whether you're a dog fighting for a bone or gunning for the gold, the same message applies when X spits, "Is y'all n****s crazy? I'll bust you and be Swayze." (Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for Coachella)
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Onyx - "Slam" - Onyx hit us in the face with "Slam" in 1993 and could spar with any sports anthem, but it'd be right at home in Las Vegas with the pugilists. Manny could put fear in his opponents if he set off his ring entrance with Sonsee declaring, "You forgot, you’re not ready, your head could get ruptured/ Hit between the eyes, I plan to vandalize/ I supply the static, I run with the bad guys/ The villains, crooks, highlighters and the fighters." (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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Wu-Tang Clan - "Protect Ya Neck" - Wu-Tang Clan delivered the golden rule when inside the squared circle and this lyrical sword can get the crowd hype and you in the right frame of mind as you get ready to do battle. (Photo: WENN)
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Djay - "Whoop That Trick" - Terrence Howard brought the pain in Hustle & Flow and tore the club up with his rap skills on his antagonistic knockout hit. Walking into the ring with "Whoop That Trick" as your intro will put butterflies in your opponent's stomach when he hears, "I'mma make these sucka's recognize I ain't playing ho/ If you violate off the top, trick you gotta go."(Photo: Carlo Allegri/Getty Images)
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50 Cent Featuring Young Buck - "I'll Whip Ya Head Boy" - 50 and Buck's wig splitting ode from the soundtrack to Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is all the motivation you need to step through those ropes and deliver the beatdown of a lifetime. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
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Young Bloodz Featuring Lil Jon - "Damn!" - The Attic Crew members and Lil Jon set it off and shut down haters as they let it be known they didn't give a"Damn!" That's the same mentality you need on the way to the ring as you get psyched up to, "If you don't give a damn, we don't give a f**k/ Don't start no s**t, it won't be no s**t."(Photos from left: Scott Gries/Getty Images, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
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Three Six Mafia - "It's A Fight" - Those Memphis Boys got Rocky Balboa amped up as they gave the franchise a new anthem in 2006. DJ Paul delivered that walk thru energy with, "(It's on!) See I'm the king of the ring ring/ Ring the bell and I'm coming out swing swing/ Swinging lefts, swinging rights/ 'Til they ding ding." (Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)
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Lil Scrappy Featuring Lil Jon - "Head Bussa" - Scrap let you know out the gate he was splitting wigs with this knuck-game anthem. Making up his mind to "knock n****s out," this jam could get fists flying with, "And I don't give a f**k if you don't like me/ Straight knock yo' a** out into cap-tiv-ity." (Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
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Public Enemy - "Bring The Noise" - P.E. was #1 and supplied that revolutionary rage that would amp anyone up for victory. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Ludacris Featuring Pharrell Williams - "Southern Hospitality" - Luda warned you that he throws them bows, and "Southern Hospitality" is the perfect backdrop to come out to as you get ready to deliver that pumpkin head.(Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
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JT Money - "Hi-Lo" - JT Money was hitting them hi and lo with his fight club anthem back in 2001 that could get Vegas popping during the walk-thru. (Photo: Steve Marcus/Landov/Reuters)
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Eminem - "Lose Yourself" - Eminem had the eye of the tiger with this championship taking opus as he proved that on any given night a new champion could be declared. We can hear Michael Buffer saying, "Let's get ready to rumble," soon after the crowd hears, "No more games, I'ma change what you call rage/ Tear this motherf*****g roof off like two dogs caged." (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for MTV)
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Killer Mike featuring Three Six Mafia - "Get 'Em Shawty" - This warrior track by Killer Mike and Three Six Mafia will unleash the beast of anyone getting ready to rumble and it's best to have the paramedics at ringside because it'll surely deliver a knock-down/drag-out brawl. (Photos from left: Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella, Scott Gries/Getty Images)
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Master P Featuring Fiend, Mia X, Mystikal and Silkk The Shocker - "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" - Master P and the No Limit crew proved they were "Bout It, Bout It" with this stadium rocker and will have the adrenaline pumping on the road to victory. P's hit is a ring entrance winner just on the strength of the line, "And fools run up wrong, n***a I'm knocking out some teeth." (Photo: Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect)
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LL Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" - If LL's power punching hit is not on your brain when you enter the ring, then boxing isn't the profession for you. Then again maybe LL isn't that much of a good luck charm because he walked Sugar Shane Mosley to the ring in 2011 rapping his classic but Mosley ended up losing to Manny Pacquiao in a 12-round decision. (Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)
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Crime Mob Featuring Lil Scrappy - "Knuck If You Buck" - Scrappy and his ATL crew got it popping in 2004 with "Knuck If You Buck" and it'll still supply the heat for any knockout. You know you mean business when you come to the ring blaring, "Yeah, we knucking and bucking and ready to fight/ I betcha I'mma throw them things, so haters best to think twice."(Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/FilmMagic)
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Nas - "Ether" - We can see Manny now walking off into the sunset if he gives Floyd his first loss like Nasir delivered to King Hov. With a rematch clause surely in place if Floyd takes an L, Pac will be screaming this on the way to the ring, "You a fan, a phony, a fake, a p***y, a Stan/ I still whip your a**. You thirty-six in a karate class?"(Photo: Molly Riley/Getty Images)
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Trillville Featuring Lil Jon and Lil Scrappy - "Neva Eva" - Trillville and Scrappy held their own with this anointed head bussa and we can hear Money Mayweather taunting Pac-Man now saying, "He can neva be on his level" and threatening to, "Shatter your bones in your chest and make your motherf*****g heart burst." (Photo: Shannon McCollum / WENN)
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