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Best Rap Song from Each Decade? Post the best rap song of all time from each decade, 80s, 90s 2000s below Trolls be gone! | |
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Only one song from each decade! Thanks
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80's: The Message - Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five 90's: Keep Ya Head Up - 2Pac 00's: Ms. Jackson - Outkast |
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1980's: N.W.A. -- Straight Outta Compton 1990's: Public Enemy -- Fight The Power 2000's: Eminem -- Lose Yourself
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Children's Story - Slick Rick
C.R.E.A.M - Wu Tang
99 Problems - Jay Z
Just my favs -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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My favs
80s - The Message- Grand Master Flash
90s - Renee - The Lost Boys
00s - Who We Be - DMX
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These are my favorites:
Sugarhill Gang ~ Rapper's Delight Whodini ~ Five Minutes Of Funk Beastie Boys ~ Professor Booty Outkast & Erykah Badu ~ Humble Mumble 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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80s - "I'm Bad" - LL Cool J 90s - "California Love" - Pac 00s - "Big Pimpin" - Jigga
Are we talking outright commercial success? Or from the street-side? Or personal opinion? | |
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80's -- "Rebel Without A Pause," Public Enemy
90's -- A hard choice, but "T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)," Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
00's -- "All Caps," Madvillain Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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Personal opinion is fine Trolls be gone! | |
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"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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That's definitely the one I'd pick. 
"Fight the Power" is from 1989 ("a number, another summer"). It gets my vote for the '80s. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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It wasn't #1 on the Billboard Rap Charts until 1990.
But if you want me to use the Moonbean Rule (name after the orger that once said it goes by the year of the registered copyright), then THIS is my final answer.....
1980's: Public Enemy -- Fight The Power 1990's: 2pac/Dr.Dre/Roger -- California Love 2000's: Eminem -- Lose Yourself
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I feel you. It dominated much of both 1989 and 1990.
LOL. Incidentally, "Fight the Power" was Pazz & Jop's #1 single of '89. For those who don't know, Moonbeam was our resident Pazz & Jop Org compiler.
My final picks (although I may have to think about the 2000s more because I personally disqualified "Hey Ya," which would've been my pick):
1980s: Public Enemy - Fight the Power 1990s: Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) 2000s: Talib Kweli - Get By "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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80s - Fuck all Police (N.W.A) 90s - Getting jIgGy wiD It (The Fresh Prince) 00s - Hell's Winter (Cage)
But I also really like the classics.  I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. | |
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One of hip-hop's best songs of all time. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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1980's: KRS-One/Stop The Violence Movement - "Self Destruction".
1990's: The Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy" (I debated between this, and Black Star - "Definition", but "Juicy" takes the cake).
2000's: Nas - "One Mic" | |
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80s - Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two"
90s - Nas "It Ain't Hard To Tell"
00s - OutKast "Bombs Over Baghdad"
10s - Pusha T "Exoder 23:1"
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1970s: King Tim III - Fatback 1980s: Egypt, Egypt - Egyptian Lover 1990s: Pop The Pussy - 2 Live Crew 2000s: None 2010s: None . . .
[Edited 3/7/13 9:40am] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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You are strange. You like funky music. You don't mind derogatory lyrics. Yet you don't like funky, derogatory hip hop! | |
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Actually, Vainandy hated funky derogatory hip-hop with the tempo of 95 BPM or slower. He likes his hip-hop/rap tracks at a faster tempo. | |
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I like music at either a funk or disco tempo. I hear people all the time call shit hop funky. I don't consider a stripped down weak sounding beat at a Lawrence Welk tempo with some talking over it to be funky. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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You got it! Here's some jams for ya....
http://vain-andy76418.pod...6_25-08_00 . . . [Edited 3/7/13 12:22pm] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Oh hell yeah. And my favorite version of it is the 12 Inch that includes Sweet Pussy Pauline.
Andy is a four letter word. | |
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1990's: DR.DRE FEATURING SNOOP DOGG, "Nuthin' but a G Thang"
This is easily the best produced rap song ever made by a rapper. I think it shows the greatness and legendary processing of production of The Chronic album made by DRE, which is the same album who changed HIP HOP in 1990's. Though i'd like to mention Nas "Life's a Bitch" and Tupac's "Changes".
For the 2000's i really don't like the stuff with electropop shit and rappers going pop. Though Nas staysvery fresh and good, Jay-z "99 Problems" stay one of the best rap songs ever, but i think i'll go with Eminem's "Lose Yourself", i like "Stan" more with its story and stuff but "Lose Yourself" is the best rap songs made from 2000 to 2009 and maybe the best rap song lyrically of all time. | |
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Vainandy, I tried to find a few FUNKY tracks out of my many thousand hip hop tracks.
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This was my (very close) 2nd choice for the 80s. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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1980's : "Welcome To The Terrordome" - Public Enemy
1990's : "Down 2 Tha Last Roach" - Eazy E
Today that is... The 1990's had a shitload of badass rap songs, but because I'm "high like a moafakka" right now Eazy'll do...
Neversin. [Edited 3/8/13 0:47am] O(+>NIИ<+)O
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |
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Egyptian Lover-What a tune 2014-Year of the Parties | |
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1980s-Afrika bambaataa-Looking for the perfect beat
since VainAndy already took Egytian Lover 2014-Year of the Parties | |
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