Your five favorite rap songs?

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:25 pm

So I was sitting here listening to Skee-Lo's "I Wish", and it was followed by Big Daddy Kane's "Raw" and I started wondering what are the best rap songs out there? Is it old school? Gangsta Rap? East Coast? West Coast?

What do you like?

Ampere · Post by **Ampere** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:40 pm

It Takes Two, Rob Base
Just like me, Eminem
Lose yourself, Eminem
In the club, 50 cent

Fuck dude, I listen to all of maybe a few rap songs...ever that I like, and remembering what they are, who sung them...well that taxes my teensy little brain TOO MUCH OKAY!!!

Toryu · Post by **Toryu** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:49 pm

Just 5? Damn, that's gonna be tough.

My picks (in no particular order):

*Gang Starr feat. Jeru - Speak ya Clout
*Company Flow - Patriotism
*Eric B. and Rakim - Don't sweat the Technique
*Pharcyde - Hey you
*Prince Paul feat. Everlast - The Men in Blue

Toryu · Post by **Toryu** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:00 pm

Hmm, my picks are all old school. Guess that's because hardly any of the new stuff coming out is any good, with very few exceptions. I kinda like Kanye for one. Whenever I hear 50 Cent, I reach for my revolver, though, to misquote Herrmann Göring.

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:12 pm

Ludacris - Move Bitch
Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight (Such a classic and so fucking long.)
Eminem - My Dad's Gone Crazy
Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch
Something by Cypress Hill, but I'm not sure what

These are my favorites now. I don't know if they're my favorites of all time.

Brasky · Post by **Brasky** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:24 pm

Okay, I'm a product of the 80s and 90s and not a big rap fan, but here's my list:

I Work: Big Daddy Kane
Humpty Dance: Digital Underground
Girls: Beastie Boys
Rap Street Theme Song: Horatio Sands

And the best: Sabotage/Beastie Boys

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:43 pm

Oh, and by the way, Paul, I'm all about that Skee-Lo song.

sinsual · Post by **sinsual** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:15 pm

Ice-T 6 In The Morning

House of Pain Jump Around

Beastie Boys Paul Revere

And anything off Iceberg/Freedom of Speech---Just Watch What You Say by Ice-T

Johnny the Bull · Post by **Johnny the Bull** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:47 pm

Unless it features Punjabi MC I'm not interested. Having said that, his one song seems to get sampled a lot so -

Jay Z - Beware of the Boys (featuring Punjabi MC)
Eminem - Lose Yourself (featuring Punjabi MC)

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:54 pm

House of Pain - Back from the Dead
Tone Loc - Wild Thing
Maya Jupiter - Move
MC Frontalot - Crime Spree
Pharoahe Monche - Simon Says

Hmm. More old-school than I'd expected. There's plenty of recent rap I like, but these are the long-time favourites.

TLM · Post by **TLM** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:17 pm

My top five rap-songs? The ones I'm not listening to. I can't abide rap, as a rule.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:34 am

There are two rap songs, that although crap, can always be listened to. No, three actually. As such, I shall list them:

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Informer - Snow

Anyone that knows those songs can't help but listening to them in their entirety when they hear them. It's genetic or something.

So, I get two more.

Know How - Young MC
Everybody Rise - ICP

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:46 am

Add one more that everybody just listens to, whenever heard:

Baby Got Back - Sir-Mix-A-Lot

AtemHutlrt · Post by **AtemHutlrt** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:00 am

Some stuff I've been listening to lately:

Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Dr. Octagon - Earth People
Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit
1 Giant Leap - My Culture*
The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward

*Is this rap? I'm not sure, but Maxi Jazz is a great rapper, and this is from one of my favorite albums.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:43 am

Bishop wrote:Add one more that everybody just listens to, whenever heard:

Baby Got Back - Sir-Mix-A-Lot

Ooooh, good point. Lin's pretty on the ball with Rapper's Delight, too.

Bethyaga · Post by **Bethyaga** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:29 am

Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Break Ya Neck - Busta Rhymes
Hits From the Bong - Cypress Hill
Close Edge - Mos Def

Close runner ups:
The Mighty Stephen Hawking - M.C. Hawking
White & Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovic

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:05 pm

I think I am going to revise a little and say Pete Rock and CL Smooth's "T.R.O.Y." is my all time favorite hip hop song.

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:17 pm

Beastie boys - Intergalactic
Newcleus - Jam on it
Deichkind - Limit
Eminem - Mosh
Eve - Let me blow your mind

MissTeja · Post by **MissTeja** » Sun May 06, 2007 10:45 pm

I'm not so sure about songs, because I'm not that big into rap, but as for artists?

Das EFX, Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Lil Kim.

AtemHutlrt · Post by **AtemHutlrt** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:28 am

I recommend the album Mindstate by Pete Philly and Perquisite.

JohnnyRico · Post by **JohnnyRico** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:47 am

Rapper's Delight, Jump Around, and Baby Got Back are all musts.

Fort Minor (Feat. Sixx John) - There They Go from the We Major mixtape
Linkin Park - Bleed it Out

I have to say that I do like the way Shinoda works his craft. Something about the way he paints a picture, tells a story with every rhyme.

Sam · Post by **Sam** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:17 am

AtemHutlrt wrote:I recommend the album Mindstate by Pete Philly and Perquisite.

So so good. Live they were a little fabulous.

Vanilla Ice :: Ice ice baby
Coolio :: Gangsta Paradise
2Pac :: Changes
NERD :: Lapdance
De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig :: Watskeburt

Am so white.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:12 pm

I've always said Rap is secretly designed for a white audience.