Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
Nuff' Respect - Big Daddy Kane
Still Not A Player - Big Pun
Breathe - Blu Cantrell
Big Pimpin' - Jay Z
Signs - Snoop
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay Z
Right Thurr - Chingy
Hits from the Bong - Cypress Hill
Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat) - Digable Planets
Forget About Dre - Doctor Dre (feat. Eminem)
Jamboree - Naughty by Nature
Push 'Em Up - Eddie Kane & DeVille
Guilty Conscience - Eminem (feat. Dre)
Gin'n'Juice - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Pretty Girl Bullshit - Mario Winans (feat. Lil'Kim)
Juice (Know the Ledge) - Eric. B & Rakim
Live It Up - John Legend
Gone - Kanye West
I'll Be There For You - Method Man (feat. Mary J. Blige)
Business - Eminem
You may notice that 2Pac isn't even mentioned - blasphemy! That is because he is so cool he gets his own section:
Hit'Em Up
All About U
Can U Get Away
Old School
Ambitionz az a Ridaz
Can't C Me
Heartz of Men
Keep Ya Head Up
Life Goes On
Me & my Girlfriend
Also, add in ANYTHING by Mary J. Blige and you'll be sorted. "Share My World" is by far the best album though - you will love every single song on that album.
4 comments:
Impressive list no doubt, I mean Hit Em’ up is one of the best songs of all time, fuck just rap. You can’t miss with lines like:
Youse a, beat biter, a Pac style taker
I'll tell you to ya face you aint shit but a faker
I was surprised not to see Picture Me Rollin and I Ain’t Mad Atcha. But Keep Ya Head Up and Life Goes on are my two favorites by far.
I was also surprised not to see any Nas, Mos Def, The Roots, or Talib Kwali on your list. Mos Def especially his album Black On Both Sides is a landmark hip-hop album. If you don’t know, please familiarize yo’ sef immediately!
Can there be a rap top ten without The Humprty Dance? I actually recorded that song at home on my computer as a prank. If you ask nicely I may just email it to you.
Hey BZ - the fact that you love HIT EM UP makes you even cooler than before. Some say it is way too hard but I LOVE it. Clever too. Picture Me Rollin and I Aint Mad Atcha are classics I agree - to be honest, wanted to just put down every song he has ever written.
The Roots were not missed out deliberately (whoops - they are classic) and Mos Def was not included because, again, like 2Pac I just couldn't decide. Love Nas......all rounder.......no real faves that I wanted to post......
I guess my list was more like the songs I could listen to again and again and again and never ever get sick of.
I have the Humpty Dance too - I missed that too didn't I? Thank goodness you read my post and still keep me on my toes.
BTW, what's your take on Biggie Smalls? Nearly put 'Notorious' on there and a couple of others but sometimes I think he was over rated?? Interested to hear what you think.
Very cool list, I am about to go download some of the these songs. I always want to second a rec for Talib Kweli -- Blackstar is one of my favorite albums of all time.
great list. I'm glad you listed stuff you actually would listen to daily and not just the same old stuff that everyone lists when trying to seem "with it". Like Outkast. Maybe it was an oversight but I found it very refreshing that your list lacked any mention of Outkast.
given the other choices on that list I'm surprised not to see Busta Rhymes.
and i don't want to get into a thing here because I know Mel packs heat and rolls 20 deep with her peeps in a squad of bulletproof jeeps, but Tupac couldn't hold a candle to B.I.G.
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