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WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5 RAP SINGLES OF ALL FUCKIN' TIME??? We're not talking "artists" but actual jams!
Here I go....
1. White Lines - Grand Master Flash
A socially conscious rap song that you could dance to. I love that they address the stiffer prison sentences for rock cocaine versus powder.
2. It's Like That - Run DMC
Hypnotizing hard base line accentuated by what could be the first "sexy" voice in rap.
3. California Love
Mixing the electronic voice of Roger with Joe Crocker's Woman to Woman? The opening reference to Elliot Ness and the film "The Untouchables" is too damn clever.
4. Bling Bling - B.G. & Cash Money Millionaires
Weezy coining this term which made its way into mainstream language is enough to place it in the top 5. The lyrics are insane!!! It's a fantastic collaboration of the Cash Money Crew: Weezy, Baby, Lil Turk, Juvenile and B.G but I have to say that vocally, B.G runs this song!
5. The Rain/Supa Fly - Missie Elliot
This may seem a surprise for the #5 slot but consider that Missy was breaking the mold here. She did and excellent sample of Tina Turner and maintained a rap edge without compromising herself and exploiting her sexuality (the anti-Kim, anti-foxy, anti-saltnpepa). There aren't a lot of lyrics as we see in most rap songs; pretty much she's singing about being supa dupa fly through the whole damn song but it works! In the end we believe she is supa fly!
Org Disclaimer This list is subject to change as I grow older. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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I need love - LL Cool J
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whatta man-salt n pepa
hypnotize-notorious b.i.g.
lose yourself-eminem
the real slim shady-eminem
do wop, that thing-lauryn hill | |
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Five Minutes Of Funk ~ Whodini Rapper's Delight ~ Sugarhill Gang 30 Days ~ Run DMC Request Line ~ Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three The Breaks ~ Kurtis Blow You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Rappers Delight - Sugarhill Gang Friends - Whodini 5 Minutes of Funk - Whodini Black Coffee - Heavy D Gin and Juice - Snoop **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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Oh yeah honorable mention on my list. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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Gin & Juice Lose Yourself California Love Work It Up All Night
I gotta add:
Walk This Way
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Rock Box-Run-DMC And we all thought the rappers with bands went out with Grandmaster Flash well with this song Jam Master Jay and Rick Rubin breathed new life into the concept I'm Bad-LL Cool J For years I didn't know that the opening to this song was The Theme From S.W.A.T. slowed down...... I'm Still Number 1-BDP 20 years down the line you can start this 'cause we'll be the old school artists/And even in that time I'll say a rhyme a brand new style at the same time/Runnin around makin money havin fun 'cause even then I'm still number ONE!!!!! 6 N The Mornin-Ice T Schoolly D started the term of Gangsters Rapping with 1985's PSK and 2 years later Ice planted the west coast flag with the lines.... 6 in the mornin poilce at my door/Fresh Addidas sqeak across the bathroom floor...... Get At Me Dog-DMX P-Diddy's suits shined and his videos were glit till then the man known to some as X came back and brought you back that ol New York rap that got you jacked while ya hands still clap....
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I love Skee-Lo´s I Wish. "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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In no particular order:
"Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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My top 5 of all time would not consist of singles, but of albums and would be strictly old school for me.
The Last Poets - On the subway Ice T - Original gangster Beasty Boys - Licensed to ill
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I started to list "Fear of a Black Planet" "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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^ That one is great too, but PE are not my favorites | |
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Shit, it would take me hours of careful thought and analysis to really make my "Top 5".....so here's just 5 that instantly come to mind that I really, really dig.
Nasty Nas - "Halftime" (1992) - produced by The Large Professor Released two years prior to his genre-defining debut "Illmatic", this cut, originally on the soundtrack to the movie "Zebrahead", this jam still rocks the fucking house and might well still be the best jam on his debut, although given the overall quality of that entire album it's a tough fuckin' call.
Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Murder Was The Case (DeathAftaVisualizingEternity)" (1993) - produced by Dr.Dre & Daz Dillinger While everyone and their momma was jocking the (admittedly brilliant) "Gin & Juice", this is the joint that got the most spins for me and proved Snoop was more than just another smooth Cali cat with a dope flow. This brand of storytelling seems to be seriously lacking in modern hip-hop, but for me, it's cuts like this that define the "Golden Era" of hip-hop.
Wu-Tang Clan - "Protect Ya Neck" (1993) - produced by The RZA Simply put - there was posse cuts before "Protect Ya Neck", and then there was posse cuts after. The Wu took the artform to the next level. 8 of the 9 crew member spit on this one (where the fuck was Masta Killa that day?), and shit, it's hard to pick who killed the track the most. Even as I'm writing this I'm trying to figure out who to quote. But I'm gonna rock with the late, great, Ol' Dirty Bastard.
2Pac - "If I Die 2Nite" (1995) - produced by Easy Mo Bee My favorite 'Pac jams change on a daily basis. But 1995's "Me Against The World" album always stands out to me as perhaps his most important album (although "The 7 Day Theory" remains my personal favorite) because it's the middle ground between the early, socio-political Tupac, and the thug lord he became following his shooting, his jailtime, and his signing to Death Row Records in 1996. He was hard, thuggish, poetic, introspective, reflective, underground and commercial all at the same time. And perhaps most tellingly, the paranoia that manifested itself so strongly in the last year of his life became obvious at this point. Tell me who else could drop a jam like AND one like "Dear Mama" on the same album? You know what my favorite part of the song is? The alliteration he displays right at the beginning. Don't underestimate Pac's complex understanding and ability to play with the English language as a creative artform.
The Notorious BIG - "Gimme The Loot" (1994) - produced by Easy Mo Bee One of the best things about this psychotic ode to robbery is that the listener is never quite sure if the two characters in the song are supposed to be two different people, or simply a schizophrenic Biggie Smalls having a conversation with himself.... both sides are on the same page, but the higher pitched voice is perhaps the more evil side. Either way, the song is pure genius. Although most people think of "Juicy" and "Big Poppa" when this album comes to mind, it's this jam and "Machine Gun Funk" that make the album for me.
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Luchini
East 1999
Uzi (pinky ring)
Straight Out the Sewer
Dr Bombay
Those are the first that came to mind. I could probably choose a few different tracks but I don't usually care for singles in the first place
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Tupac - Changes
Bone Thugs N Harmony - If I Could Teach The World
Tupac - Shed So Many Tears
Slick Rick - Hey Young World
Jay Z - Already Home
I don't know if these were "singles" but they are my top 5 rap "songs" of all fucking time.
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WHAT!?! No Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice baby or MC Hammer -Here comes the hammer? B.O.N.E. -Thuggish Ruggish Bone, 2 live crew -pop that coochie, Notorious BIG -One more chance?
Me likie 2 Pac - and NAS picks
I can go on and on but I dont have a top 5 rap singles Um... let me warm up my vocals
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I don't really dig much rap made after around 1986, because there is too much profanity. They didn't need to curse in the early stuff, so I don't know why it is there now. Also early rap was funk and disco based, so I like the music better and the songs were fun for the most part. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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wow, how hard is THIS. (Dag this will probably change five minutes after i'm done, not sure if these are "JAMS" as much as they are either groundbreaking and/or just brilliant)
Rock Box - Run DMC (foreshadowed Rock/Rap fusion, much better than Walk This Way)
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy (i love me some PE!!) Still arguably the best example of sociopolitical commentary in hip hop and its ability to raise consciousness
Bad - LL Cool J - Stakes was high for L, on this album and he delivered with this one. Put it on at a party of old school head and watch cats recite it word for word
Perfect Beat - Afrika Bambaata - Wow, i'm trying to not be soooo old school but this is the perfect, dance, rap, electro hybrid.
Children's Story - Slick Rick - Classic Storytelling! Still has mad energy (no wonder the Peas sampled it)
*honorable mention (Protect Ya Neck - Wu Tang, Scenario ATCQ, etc. dag, dag)
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i'm not that much of an expert on rap to be able to judge if these songs should be considered 'real' rap. personally, i consider them such and thus my top five is:
01. gravediggaz - repentance day 02. mos def - ms fat booty 03. q-tip - vivrant thing 04. lion rock - straight at yer head 05. missy elliot - the rain
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Good thread!
Vivrant Thang - Q Tip Not Tonight Remix - Lil Kim, Angie Martinez, Da Brat, Left Eye Hypnotize - B.I.G. Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest Missy Elliot - Gossip Folks I'll leave it alone babe...just be me | |
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Honorable mentions:
Juvenile - I Like it Like That Mack 10 feat T Boz - Tight 2 Def Q Tip - Breathe and Stop Missy - Work It Outkast - Rosa Parks Foxy - I'll be I'll leave it alone babe...just be me | |
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1) California Love-2pac
2) mama said knock you out-L.L. Cool J.
3) Push It-Salt n' Pepa
4) Bust A Move-Young MC
5) Gangsta's Paradise-Coolio
these really aren't my top 5 of all time, but i like them a lot!
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Probably (but I'm sure I'm forgetting something here)... 1.Ain't Nuthin' But A G Thang-Dr Dre 2.It Was A Good Day-Ice Cube 3.Regulate-Warren G 4.Summertime-DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince 5.Black & Yellow-Wiz Khalifa (I'm just crazy about that song right now) | |
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In no particular order
Squeeze the Trigger Ice-T A rather underrated gem that I still like just as much as the day I first heard it. From one of my favorite albums of all time...I like the social commentary, the primitive beats and drum programming by Afrika Islam, the vocal delivery, the rage and anger, the way he gives a reflection of the zeitgeist of South Central LA in the late 80s, the Reagan era, violence, racism, there is a lot going on in this song and it covers probably a dozen interesting topics....I love this song! This deserves way more recognition. Too bad that people only see the caricature that Ice-T has become, not the great mind that shines from time to time.
Friends Whodini
Five Minutes of Funk Whodini
The Bridge Is Over Boogie Down Productions
Travelling Man Mos Def
I´m not really sure though....it is impossible to narrow it down to five. [Edited 1/21/11 21:54pm] " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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Yes!
I keep looking at other people's choices, thinking, "I forgot about that one!" "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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Fuck it...
6 N tha Mornin´ Ice-T
Pain Ice-T
The P is Free Boogie Down Productions
The R Eric B & Rakim
Left Me Lonely MC Shan " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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Beats and Rhymes UTFO I miss the times when the Full Force Family was all over the place...UTFO, Full Force, Lisa Lisa&Cult Jam....this song here is one of my favorites by UTFO
I love how Melle Mel brags in this oldschool classic. He´s always had a massive ego but I like that. The King Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five
Step Off Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five
Growing Up Whodini
I used to love H.E.R Common
[Edited 1/21/11 22:26pm] " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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