Let the debate begin - VH1 crowns 'Fight the Power' as best hip-hop song

[JudynTX]

:hat From my old school.


NEW YORK - Let the debates begin: VH1 has compiled its list of the 100 greatest hip-hop songs, and Public Enemy's black power anthem "Fight the Power" tops the list.

The cable channel will count down its list in series of shows starting Monday. At No. 2 is the Sugar Hill Gang's groundbreaking song, "Rapper's Delight," followed by Dr. Dre's "Nuthin but a 'G' Thang" at No. 3. Run-D.M.C.'s "Walk This Way" with Aerosmith and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's "The Message" round out the top five.

Salt 'N Pepa was the only female act in the top 10, with their early hit "Push It." Two of rap's biggest names — Jay-Z and Eminem — didn't make the top 10, though they are in the top 20.

Other acts on the list include the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Biz Markie, Black Sheep and J.J. Fad.

The list comes as VH1 prepares to honor the pioneers in rap once again as part of its annual Hip-Hop Honors show, which this year celebrates Slick Rick, De La Soul, Cypress Hill, Naughty by Nature and Too Short. That show airs Oct. 6.

link (http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_en_mu/music_vh1_greatest_rap_songs)

[Banjo Boy]

No Fat Boys, No vote!



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[I. Hustle]

I want to get hhiiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhh

[mexicanjunior]

Public Enemy has better songs than that, 'Rapper's Delight' should have been #1...

[IronMexican]

Lol, not even top 20.

[monosylab1k]

Fight The Power is a decent pick.

Hail Mary would be my #1 if there was a way to erase the Outlawz from the song. That goes for a lot of Tupac songs really.

[tp2021]

This Number 1 is a joke in your town.

[samikeyp]

No Fat Boys, No vote!



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The guy in the black jacket...I didn't know Carlos Mencia was a rapper!

:lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

i can live with that. they did have better songs, but i'm glad it's public enemy. no whodini? epmd? krs1?

[monosylab1k]

i just checked the whole list, wow that list gets gayer and gayer as it goes. top 10 is reasonable but after that it gets sketchy quick.

[IronMexican]

Fight The Power is a decent pick.

Hail Mary would be my #1 if there was a way to erase the Outlawz from the song. That goes for a lot of Tupac songs really.

I could live with Hail Mary. They probably didn't want too many Pac songs in the top 10 or so, otherwise it would probably take up a 4th of the top 10 for me

[ashbeeigh]

I hate when they announce who is number 1 the week before they do the countdown shows. It ruins the suspense associated with watching the show the whole week. :madrun

Good choice though.

[lebomb]

Erick B and Rahkim.......... "I aint no joke" is still banging 20yrs later.

[ORION]

What about Gangsta NIP ? UGK ?

[I. Hustle]

pocket full of stones

[Spurminator]

Horrible.

01 Public Enemy / "Fight The Power"
02 Sugarhill Gang / "Rapper's Delight"
03 Dr. Dre / "Nuthin But A 'G' Thang"
04 Run-DMC ft/ Aerosmith/ "Walk This Way"
05 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five / "The Message"
06 N.W.A. / "Straight Outta Compton"
07 Notorious B.I.G. / "Juicy"
08 Snoop Doggy Dogg / "Gin and Juice"
09 Salt-N-Pepa / "Push It "
10 Kurtis Blow / "The Breaks"
11 Jay-Z / "Hard Knock Life"
12 L.L. Cool J / "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
13 Wu-Tang Clan / "C.R.E.A.M."
14 Tupac / "I Get Around "
15 Eminem / "Stan "
16 Missy Elliott / "Get Ur Freak On"
17 Sir Mix-A-Lot / "Baby Got Back"
18 50 Cent / "In Da Club"
19 Ice T / "Colors"
20 Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx / "Gold Digger"
21 Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force/ "Planet Rock"
22 Naughty By Nature / "OPP"
23 Outkast / "B.O.B."
24 Eric B and Rakim / "Paid in Full"
25 Fugees / "Killing Me Softly"
26 MC Hammer / "U Can't Touch This"
27 Beastie Boys / "Hold it Now, Hit it"
28 Ice Cube / "It Was A Good Day"
30 Digital Underground / "The Humpty Dance"
30 Tribe Called Quest / "Check the Rhime"
31 Kool Moe Dee / "How Ya Like Me Now"
32 Puff Daddy & The Family ft/ Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim
and The Lox/ "It's All About The Benjamins"
33 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / "Tha Crossroads"
34 Cypress Hill / "Insane In The Brain"
35 Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love / "Ladies First"
36 Nelly / "Hot In Herre"
37 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock / "It Takes Two"
38 Coolio / "Gangsta's Paradise"
39 Tone-Loc / "Wild Thing"
40 Run-DMC / "It's Like That"
41 Funky 4 + 1 / "That's the Joint"
42 Roxanne Shante / "Roxanne's Revenge"
43 Game, The ft. 50 Cent / "Hate It or Love It"
44 Method Man ft/ Mary J. Blige / "I'll Be There For You
/You're All I Need to Get By"
45 Geto Boys / "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"
46 De La Soul / "Me, Myself, And I"
47 Young MC / "Bust A Move"
48 Nas / "One Love"
49 Boogie Down Productions / "My Philosophy"
50 Lil' Wayne / "Tha Block Is Hot"
51 Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew / "The Show"
52 Foxy Brown ft. Jay-Z - "I'll Be"
53 Lox ft. DMX and Lil' Kim / "Money, Power, Respect"
54 MC Lyte / "Cha Cha Cha"
55 Terror Squad ft/ Fat Joe and Remy / "Lean Back"
56 Busta Rhymes / "Woo-Ha! Got You All In Check"
57 Big Daddy Kane / "I Get the Job Done"
58 Ludacris ft. Shawna/ "What's Your Fantasy"
59 Ol' Dirty Bastard / "Shimmy Shimmy Ya"
60 L.L. Cool J / "I Need Love"
61 Slick Rick / "Children's Story"
62 Digable Planets / "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
63 Kid 'n Play / "Rollin' With Kid N Play"
64 The Roots / "What they Do"
65 Spoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three / "Love Rap"
66 House Of Pain / "Jump Around"
67 Mase / "Feel So Good"
68 T.I. / "What You Know"
69 Common / "I Used to Love H.E.R."
70 3(rd) Bass / "Pop Goes the Weasel"
71 Whodini / "Freaks Come Out at Night"
72 J.J. Fad / "Supersonic"
73 Black Sheep / "The Choice Is Yours"
73 EPMD / "You Gots To Chill"
75 Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Cease/ "Crush on You"
76 Big Punisher ft. Joe/ "Still Not A Player"
77 Cold Crush Brothers / "Cold Crush Bros. at the Dixie"
78 Arrested Development / "Tennessee"
79 DMX / "Ruff Ryders' Anthem (Stop Drop)"
80 Three 6 Mafia ft. Paula Campbell/ "Hard Out Here For A Pimp"
81 PM Dawn / "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss"
82 Chubb Rock / "Treat 'Em Right"
83 2 Live Crew / "Me So Horny"
84 UTFO / "Roxanne Roxanne"
85 Black Star / "Definition"
86 Heavy D. and the Boyz / "Now That We Found Love"
87 Wyclef Jean ft. Refugee All Stars / "We Tryin' to Stay Alive"
88 Jungle Brothers / "What U Waitin' 4"
89 Cam'ron / "Oh Boy"
90 Pete Rock & CL Smooth / "They Reminisce Over You(T.R.O.Y)"
91 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone / "Ridin'"
92 Yo-Yo / "Can't Play with my Yo-Yo"
93 N.E.R.D. ft. Lee Harvey and Vida / "Lapdance"
94 Master P ft. Sikk, Fiend, Mia-x and Mystical / "Make 'EmSay Ugh"
95 L'Trimm / "Cars With The Boom"
96 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince / "Parents Just Don't Understand"
97 Eve / "Who's that Girl"
98 Warren G ft. Nate Dogg / "Regulate"
99 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft/ Ying Yang Twins / "Get Low"
100 Biz Markie / "Just A Friend"

[ORION]

pocket full of stones

Front ,Back and side to side .....
or Do or Die

[I Love Me Some Me]

I'm disturbed by the lack of Montell Jordan on this list.

[JudynTX]

i can live with that. they did have better songs, but i'm glad it's public enemy. no whodini? epmd? krs1?

Yes! :hat

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[tp2021]

Taking a quick glance...

11, 17, 18, 20, 23
No.

[monosylab1k]

"Regulate" is about 60 spots too low on the list, and "Hate It or Love It" is about 100 spots too high.

[lebomb]

Its almost like the list should be upside down??!! Alot more songs in the bottom 50 should replace those in the top 50. Its like they put alot of modern rap songs up there......and that is when rap/hip-hop fell off a bit.

[Jame Gumb]

The guy in the black jacket...I didn't know Carlos Mencia was a rapper!

:lol

So Carlos steals peoples looks not just their Jokes!

[ORION]

Boyz in the Hood ? Just Don't Bite It ?

[JudynTX]

Whatever happened to Cypress Hill? Are they still together?

Insane in your membrane!!!!!!!!!!!!

[monosylab1k]

:lmao @ Nelly being on the list. Might as well throw Vanilla Ice on there if we're gonna make the list that much of a joke.

[ORION]

:cuss
Whatever happened to Cypress Hill? Are they still together?

Insane in your membrane!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JudynTX]

:cuss

:lol What?

[Spurminator]

Given that "U Can't Touch This" is #25 I'm shocked that Vanilla Ice isn't on the list.

[DPG21920]

Hellrazor should of been on the list

[ashbeeigh]

:lmao @ Nelly being on the list. Might as well throw Vanilla Ice on there if we're gonna make the list that much of a joke.

It's Vh1 for goodness sakes.


And oh my goodness. You all seem to hate me for putting up the full list! :bang

[ORION]

:lol What?

Don't talk about Cypress Hill like that !

[JudynTX]

Don't talk about Cypress Hill like that !

Ok chief.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

:lmao @ Nelly being on the list. Might as well throw Vanilla Ice on there if we're gonna make the list that much of a joke.

I hadn't read the whole list yet... but this is a good time for the vomit smiley.

[ORION]

Ok chief.

don't talk about native americans either !:ihit

[Spurminator]

And oh my goodness. You all seem to hate me for putting up the full list! :bang

:wtf

[JudynTX]

don't talk about native americans either !:ihit

:blah

[ORION]

:blah

:frying:

[Frankie]

What about the monster mash?

[leemajors]

Erick B and Rahkim.......... "I aint no joke" is still banging 20yrs later.

paid in full is tippy top all around.

[PeterBurns]

Scenario by Tribe Called Quest.
Personally, I think Juicy or G' Thing should have been #1

[slayermin]

Tupac and Biggie would have won this hands down if they stayed friends.

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But my vote goes to this song.

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[Ginofan]

"Regulate" is about 60 spots too low on the list, and "Hate It or Love It" is about 100 spots too high.

Totally agree! Regulate is probably one of my top 5 all time favs. and they jack it at 98? Behind Nelly, MC Hammer, and Eve??? Come on his boy Nate Dogg has just suffered his second stroke, give them a break!

[Vinnie_Johnson]

I love PE glad to see them get some run.:toast

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

lol, nelly.

[Kriz-Maxima]

:lmao @ Nelly being on the list. Might as well throw Vanilla Ice on there if we're gonna make the list that much of a joke.


I had seen some bad ones but the moment I saw Nelly on it the list went to shit.

[resistanze]

Hard Knock Life? Gold Digger? In Da Club? Stan? In the top 20?

Kill them all.

[IronMexican]

This list needs Eazy.

Hail Mary
Real Muthaphukin G's
You're Nobody till somebody kills you(one of the few B.I.G songs I like)
C.R.E.A.M
The Message

My top 5

[MannyIsGod]

LOL VH1 the hip hop authority.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Horrible.

01 Public Enemy / "Fight The Power"
02 Sugarhill Gang / "Rapper's Delight"
03 Dr. Dre / "Nuthin But A 'G' Thang"
04 Run-DMC ft/ Aerosmith/ "Walk This Way"
05 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five / "The Message"
06 N.W.A. / "Straight Outta Compton"
07 Notorious B.I.G. / "Juicy"
08 Snoop Doggy Dogg / "Gin and Juice"
09 Salt-N-Pepa / "Push It "
10 Kurtis Blow / "The Breaks"
11 Jay-Z / "Hard Knock Life"
12 L.L. Cool J / "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
13 Wu-Tang Clan / "C.R.E.A.M."
14 Tupac / "I Get Around "
15 Eminem / "Stan "
16 Missy Elliott / "Get Ur Freak On"
17 Sir Mix-A-Lot / "Baby Got Back"
18 50 Cent / "In Da Club"
19 Ice T / "Colors"
20 Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx / "Gold Digger"
21 Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force/ "Planet Rock"
22 Naughty By Nature / "OPP"
23 Outkast / "B.O.B."
24 Eric B and Rakim / "Paid in Full"
25 Fugees / "Killing Me Softly"
26 MC Hammer / "U Can't Touch This"
27 Beastie Boys / "Hold it Now, Hit it"
28 Ice Cube / "It Was A Good Day"
30 Digital Underground / "The Humpty Dance"
30 Tribe Called Quest / "Check the Rhime"
31 Kool Moe Dee / "How Ya Like Me Now"
32 Puff Daddy & The Family ft/ Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim
and The Lox/ "It's All About The Benjamins"
33 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / "Tha Crossroads"
34 Cypress Hill / "Insane In The Brain"
35 Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love / "Ladies First"
36 Nelly / "Hot In Herre"
37 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock / "It Takes Two"
38 Coolio / "Gangsta's Paradise"
39 Tone-Loc / "Wild Thing"
40 Run-DMC / "It's Like That"
41 Funky 4 + 1 / "That's the Joint"
42 Roxanne Shante / "Roxanne's Revenge"
43 Game, The ft. 50 Cent / "Hate It or Love It"
44 Method Man ft/ Mary J. Blige / "I'll Be There For You
/You're All I Need to Get By"
45 Geto Boys / "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"
46 De La Soul / "Me, Myself, And I"
47 Young MC / "Bust A Move"
48 Nas / "One Love"
49 Boogie Down Productions / "My Philosophy"
50 Lil' Wayne / "Tha Block Is Hot"
51 Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew / "The Show"
52 Foxy Brown ft. Jay-Z - "I'll Be"
53 Lox ft. DMX and Lil' Kim / "Money, Power, Respect"
54 MC Lyte / "Cha Cha Cha"
55 Terror Squad ft/ Fat Joe and Remy / "Lean Back"
56 Busta Rhymes / "Woo-Ha! Got You All In Check"
57 Big Daddy Kane / "I Get the Job Done"
58 Ludacris ft. Shawna/ "What's Your Fantasy"
59 Ol' Dirty Bastard / "Shimmy Shimmy Ya"
60 L.L. Cool J / "I Need Love"
61 Slick Rick / "Children's Story"
62 Digable Planets / "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
63 Kid 'n Play / "Rollin' With Kid N Play"
64 The Roots / "What they Do"
65 Spoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three / "Love Rap"
66 House Of Pain / "Jump Around"
67 Mase / "Feel So Good"
68 T.I. / "What You Know"
69 Common / "I Used to Love H.E.R."
70 3(rd) Bass / "Pop Goes the Weasel"
71 Whodini / "Freaks Come Out at Night"
72 J.J. Fad / "Supersonic"
73 Black Sheep / "The Choice Is Yours"
73 EPMD / "You Gots To Chill"
75 Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Cease/ "Crush on You"
76 Big Punisher ft. Joe/ "Still Not A Player"
77 Cold Crush Brothers / "Cold Crush Bros. at the Dixie"
78 Arrested Development / "Tennessee"
79 DMX / "Ruff Ryders' Anthem (Stop Drop)"
80 Three 6 Mafia ft. Paula Campbell/ "Hard Out Here For A Pimp"
81 PM Dawn / "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss"
82 Chubb Rock / "Treat 'Em Right"
83 2 Live Crew / "Me So Horny"
84 UTFO / "Roxanne Roxanne"
85 Black Star / "Definition"
86 Heavy D. and the Boyz / "Now That We Found Love"
87 Wyclef Jean ft. Refugee All Stars / "We Tryin' to Stay Alive"
88 Jungle Brothers / "What U Waitin' 4"
89 Cam'ron / "Oh Boy"
90 Pete Rock & CL Smooth / "They Reminisce Over You(T.R.O.Y)"
91 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone / "Ridin'"
92 Yo-Yo / "Can't Play with my Yo-Yo"
93 N.E.R.D. ft. Lee Harvey and Vida / "Lapdance"
94 Master P ft. Sikk, Fiend, Mia-x and Mystical / "Make 'EmSay Ugh"
95 L'Trimm / "Cars With The Boom"
96 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince / "Parents Just Don't Understand"
97 Eve / "Who's that Girl"
98 Warren G ft. Nate Dogg / "Regulate"
99 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft/ Ying Yang Twins / "Get Low"
100 Biz Markie / "Just A Friend"

Since when did VH1 start believing they are the authority on hiphop? They don't even play hiphop videos. This list is absolute garbage, not a single Gangstarr song made the list.

[samikeyp]

3rd Bass? :lol

What, no Snow? Infor-mer!

:lmao :lmao

[baseline bum]

Given that "U Can't Touch This" is #25 I'm shocked that Vanilla Ice isn't on the list.

U Can't Touch This is one of the greatest hip-hop songs ever. Turn this Mother Out and Let's Get it Started were great MC Hammer songs too, before he sold the fuck out.


paid in full is tippy top all around.

The original or the remix from the Colors soundtrack?


3rd Bass? :lol

What, no Snow? Infor-mer!

:lmao :lmao

You don't know hip-hop. 3rd Bass was one of the best crews from the east coast in the late 80s - early 90s. Pop Goes the Weasel was far from their best song though. Words of Wisdom, Gas Face, Steppin' To The A.M., and MC Serge's solo Here it Comes are a few that come to mind. The Cactus Album was a classic.

[baseline bum]

Run-DMC ft/ Aerosmith/ "Walk This Way"

This is the most overrated song. I can think of 10 far better Run DMC songs:

Sucker MCs
Peter Piper
King of Rock
Run's House
It's Like That
Down With the King
You Be Illin'
My Addidas
Hard Times
Hollis Crew
Christmas in Hollis
Beats to the Rhyme
Jam Master Jay
It's Like That
8 Million Stories

EDIT: I guess that's more like 15 off the top of my head

[CuckingFunt]

LOL VH1 the hip hop authority.


Since when did VH1 start believing they are the authority on hiphop? They don't even play hiphop videos. This list is absolute garbage, not a single Gangstarr song made the list.

If it's anything like VH1's other televised lists, the station doesn't actually put them together or determine their order. All VH1 does is compile and tabulate the information that comes in from various other industry sources -- musicians, critics, writers, etc. Sometimes viewers, too.

Granted, the list is crap. In both ranking and content. But I don't know how much of the blame VH1 can actually take for that fact.

[T Park]

Can't touch this.

Seriously?!?

[leemajors]

3rd Bass? :lol

What, no Snow? Infor-mer!

:lmao :lmao

steppin to the am = on point

[baseline bum]

Seriously, this list is bullshit

Hard Knock Life? WTF? Jay-Z's greatest song is unquestionably D'evils to anyone who knows hip-hop

One Love by Nas? That's one of the two or three weakest tracks on Illmatic. Memory Lane, Halftime, Life's a Bitch, and so on were far superior. Also, how is any list not going to have Live at the BBQ from Main Source's Breaking Atoms album? Nas dropped what is probably the greatest verse ever put on wax to open that track.



Streets disciple, my rap's a trifle
I shoot 'em out my brain like a slug from a rifle
Stampede. I leave the microphone split.
Play Mr. Tuffy like I'm on some Pretty Tone shit.
Verbal assassin; my architect pleases.
When I was 12, I went to hell for snuffin' Jesus.
Nasty Nas is a rebel to America.
Police murderer, I'm causing hysteria.
My troops roll up with a strange force.
I was trapped in a cage and let out by the Main Source.
Swimmin' in women like a lifeguard.
Put on a bulletproof; nigga I strike hard.
Kidnap the President's wife without a plan,
And hanging niggas like the Ku Klux Klan.
I melt mics till the sound waves over.
Before stepping to me you rather step to Jehova.
Slamming MCs to the cement,
Cause verbally, I'm iller than an AIDS patient.
I move swift and uplift
Your mind shoot the gift when I riff in rhyme
Rappin sniper, speakin real words.
My thoughts react, like Steven Spielberg's.
Poetry attacks, paragraphs punch hard.
My brain is insane, I'm out to lunch God.
Science is dropped, my raps are toxic.
My voice box locks and excels like a rocket.


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[leemajors]

The original or the remix from the Colors soundtrack?.

i listen to that whole album all the way through a couple times a week still. (paid in full)

[baseline bum]

i listen to that whole album all the way through a couple times a week still. (paid in full)

Shit, I thought you meant the song. Paid in Full is an incredible album; especially the reissue with the Paid in Full Seven Minutes of Madness Remix as a bonus track.

I Ain't No Joke is to me the greatest rap ever put on wax. It's one of the hardest songs ever written.

[baseline bum]

Also, Fight the Power is a terrible pick for #1. It was a good song with a great video, but Rebel Without a Pause, Public Enemy #1, She Watches Channel Zero, 911 is a Joke, You're Gonna Get Yours, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Can't Truss It, Welcome to the Terrordome, and By the Time I Get to Arizona are all right there with Fight the Power among PE's best tracks.

[InRareForm]

LOL @ this shitty list.

Blackstar getting snubbed like a mofo.

[monosylab1k]

This list needs Eazy.

Hail Mary
Real Muthaphukin G's
You're Nobody till somebody kills you(one of the few B.I.G songs I like)
C.R.E.A.M
The Message

My top 5

heck yes

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[InRareForm]

Yes, Nas - The Message

FTW

[baseline bum]

heck yes

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Hail Mary is a great song, but my favorite 2Pac shit is from his first album, 2PacalypseNow.

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[leemajors]

shed so many tears

[baseline bum]

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Biggie's best cut

[dirk4mvp]

That's the best Three 6 Mafia song they could come up with? Some song in some shitty movie that may be the worst movie ever related to music? Fuck these guys who made this list.

Also, I thought Mobb Deep would be on there somewhere.

[leemajors]

mobb sleep?

[ShoogarBear]

Well, at least they got 2 Live Crew in there.

[dirk4mvp]

mobb sleep?


well, if the messiah of all rap knowledge and authority thinks they shouldn't be on there, by all means they should have kept them off.

[monosylab1k]

shed so many tears

heck yes
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[baseline bum]

Seriously, to bite a line from Casper, these picks are ricockulous



09 Salt-N-Pepa / "Push It "
11 Jay-Z / "Hard Knock Life"
16 Missy Elliott / "Get Ur Freak On"
17 Sir Mix-A-Lot / "Baby Got Back"
18 50 Cent / "In Da Club"
20 Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx / "Gold Digger"
25 Fugees / "Killing Me Softly"
32 Puff Daddy & The Family ft/ Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim and The Lox/ "It's All About The Benjamins"
33 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / "Tha Crossroads"
34 Cypress Hill / "Insane In The Brain"
36 Nelly / "Hot In Herre"
52 Foxy Brown ft. Jay-Z - "I'll Be"
60 L.L. Cool J / "I Need Love"
63 Kid 'n Play / "Rollin' With Kid N Play"
66 House Of Pain / "Jump Around"
67 Mase / "Feel So Good"
72 J.J. Fad / "Supersonic"
75 Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Cease/ "Crush on You"
76 Big Punisher ft. Joe/ "Still Not A Player"
79 DMX / "Ruff Ryders' Anthem (Stop Drop)"
80 Three 6 Mafia ft. Paula Campbell/ "Hard Out Here For A Pimp"
87 Wyclef Jean ft. Refugee All Stars / "We Tryin' to Stay Alive"
89 Cam'ron / "Oh Boy"
91 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone / "Ridin'"
92 Yo-Yo / "Can't Play with my Yo-Yo"
93 N.E.R.D. ft. Lee Harvey and Vida / "Lapdance"
94 Master P ft. Sikk, Fiend, Mia-x and Mystical / "Make 'EmSay Ugh"
95 L'Trimm / "Cars With The Boom"
97 Eve / "Who's that Girl"

[baseline bum]

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This kills every song on VH1's list.

[Obstructed_View]

Continuing VH1's long tradition of coming up with a "best of" list that intentionally sucks so people will argue about it for months afterward.

[InRareForm]

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Mobb Deep's Finest ^

[dirk4mvp]

^ That song should be in the top 20 at least.

[Trainwreck2100]

"Regulate" is about 60 spots too low on the list, and "Hate It or Love It" is about 100 spots too high.

Hate it or love it's beat is awesome, if you listen to it without the words its better than it with the words.

Whatever happened to Cypress Hill? Are they still together?

Insane in your membrane!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were on the Simpsons like 10 years ago

"Did anybody order the london symphony orchestra, possibly while high, Cypress Hill I'm looking at you"

[leemajors]

well, if the messiah of all rap knowledge and authority thinks they shouldn't be on there, by all means they should have kept them off.

you obviously don't get it.

[leemajors]

i am very disturbed, upon further reflection, by the only Outkast song mentioned being BOB. While a good song, they have at least 10, possibly 15 better ones. I'm really shocked they just didn't put that POS Miss Jackson on there instead, but that's another matter. Since they are pretty much the premier duo to come out in the last 15 YEARS, this is beyond comprehension.

[baseline bum]

i am very disturbed, upon further reflection, by the only Outkast song mentioned being BOB. While a good song, they have at least 10, possibly 15 better ones. I'm really shocked they just didn't put that POS Miss Jackson on there instead, but that's another matter. Since they are pretty much the premier duo to come out in the last 15 YEARS, this is beyond comprehension.

Ain't No Thang FTW

[monosylab1k]

i am very disturbed, upon further reflection, by the only Outkast song mentioned being BOB. While a good song, they have at least 10, possibly 15 better ones. I'm really shocked they just didn't put that POS Miss Jackson on there instead, but that's another matter. Since they are pretty much the premier duo to come out in the last 15 YEARS, this is beyond comprehension.

heck yes.

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And sorry but I'm down with Ms. Jackson
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[leemajors]

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[leemajors]

slick rick also doesn't appear till #61. He's the Ruler for a reason.

[leemajors]

hijack:

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goddamn old school stros jerseys are awesome

[baseline bum]

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Greatest Outkast song ever.

[leemajors]

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Greatest Outkast song ever.

what's your fave of their albums? I go with ATLiens, but between Aquemini and Southern it just depends on which i have listened to more recently...

[Spurminator]

They try to spread out the groups too much on these lists. It makes for better TV. You can't tell me that there aren't at least 25 Nas cuts better than "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo"

[leemajors]

They try to spread out the groups too much on these lists. It makes for better TV. You can't tell me that there aren't at least 25 Nas cuts better than "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo"

i haven't watched one in a while - are they near 5 songs an hour yet?

[slayermin]

Even though it has Puffy in it, this is my favorite Biggie song.

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This is my favorite Public Enemy song.

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[baseline bum]

what's your fave of their albums? I go with ATLiens, but between Aquemini and Southern it just depends on which i have listened to more recently...

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzick is by far my favorite Outkast album. It was by far Big Boi's best work, and it was their hardest and rawest album with the best display of lyrical skill.

[Spurminator]

i haven't watched one in a while - are they near 5 songs an hour yet?

I think the last one I watched was the 100 best metal bands. I believe Poison was #1. I took a two year break from television had to attend several anger management classes.

[Slydragon]

Some of my fav's.

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[leemajors]

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzick is by far my favorite Outkast album. It was by far Big Boi's best work, and it was their hardest and rawest album with the best display of lyrical skill.

they were just 18 or so, which is crazy.

[leemajors]

I think the last one I watched was the 100 best metal bands. I believe Poison was #1. I took a two year break from television had to attend several anger management classes.

a really dumb girl i used to work with at a restaurant referred to her classes as "angry management." she had really big boobs.

[CuckingFunt]

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[CuckingFunt]

they were just 18 or so, which is crazy.

I always forget how young they were when that was recorded, until I look at the CD cover. Dre looked like a little child.

[mavs>spurs2]

Pretty bogus list, tupac should round out most of the top 10 by himself

[baseline bum]

If I had to pick favorites from each artist:

Too Short: Dope Fiend Beat
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Scarface: A Minute to Pray, A Second To Die
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N.W.A.: Gangsta Gangsta
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Ice-T: (tie) Squeeze the Trigger - and - New Jack Hustler
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Ice Cube: The Product
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Eric B & Rakim: I Ain't No Joke
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[baseline bum]

Pretty bogus list, tupac should round out most of the top 10 by himself

Pac's a bit overrated, No way he's a more skilled rapper than Rakim or Ice-T.

[resistanze]

Hard Knock Life? WTF? Jay-Z's greatest song is unquestionably D'evils to anyone who knows hip-hop

This.

[baseline bum]

Not my #1 PE song (maybe in my top 5 though), but a great video nonetheless.

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[mavs>spurs2]

Pac's a bit overrated, No way he's a more skilled rapper than Rakim or Ice-T.

Maybe not the best lyracist hands down, but definately the best song maker. People liked pac because his songs had meaning and you could really feel what he was trying to say. Dear momma, changes, starin through my rearview, life goes on, letter to my unborn child, etc are all classics.

As far as true lyracists go, some people won't agree/don't like his style, but as far as lyrics go and putting together the most complex syllables eminem is probably the best ever. /hate on

[leemajors]

Maybe not the best lyracist hands down, but definately the best song maker. People liked pac because his songs had meaning and you could really feel what he was trying to say. Dear momma, changes, starin through my rearview, life goes on, letter to my unborn child, etc are all classics.

As far as true lyracists go, some people won't agree/don't like his style, but as far as lyrics go and putting together the most complex syllables eminem is probably the best ever. /hate on

except for that dude he wants to be, Rakim. And others.

[mavs>spurs2]

except for that dude he wants to be, Rakim. And others.

Except for pac and eminem share the 1 and 2 spots in all time record sales, despite both having relatively short careers. Eminems career kicked off in 99 with the Slim Shady lp and he retired in 04 with Encore. (which sucked terribly)
Tupac hit it big in 91 and was shot 5 years later. Pretty impressive to sell that many records while being in the limelight for such a short timespan.

[baseline bum]

Maybe not the best lyracist hands down, but definately the best song maker. People liked pac because his songs had meaning and you could really feel what he was trying to say. Dear momma, changes, starin through my rearview, life goes on, letter to my unborn child, etc are all classics.



After further thought, I'm going to back off my earlier statement of Pac being overrated.

Brenda's Got a Baby is probably the deepest song Pac ever wrote. It's got a pretty chilling ending when he finishes it off with the line "She's got a baby" after telling how Brenda's life fell apart.

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I can't get into all the Pac stuff put out after his death. I love 2Pac's work too much for me to accept anything that he didn't have control over. I know 7-Day Theory came out posthumously, but it was like 2 months after his death and was pretty clearly his work first and foremost.

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol salt n pepper only has 1 hit on that list is a load of bs, whatever happened to "lets talk about sex"?

bone thungs and harmony - crossroads should be ranked higher imo....that was the song that probably made them well known.

[mavs>spurs2]

After further thought, I'm going to back off my earlier statement of Pac being overrated.

Brenda's Got a Baby is probably the deepest song Pac ever wrote. It's got a pretty chilling ending when he finishes it off with the line "She's got a baby" after telling how Brenda's life fell apart.

I can't get into all the Pac stuff put out after his death. I love 2Pac's work too much for me to accept anything that he didn't have control over. I know 7-Day Theory came out posthumously, but it was like 2 months after his death and was pretty clearly his work first and foremost.

That song gives me chills, just didn't add it to my list off the top of my head for some reason, but I agree it's a very deep song.

I have a question, who was actually in charge of producing pac's works that came out after he died?

[leemajors]

That song gives me chills, just didn't add it to my list off the top of my head for some reason, but I agree it's a very deep song.

I have a question, who was actually in charge of producing pac's works that came out after he died?

i think his mom signed off on anything she could to make money off of it.

[mavs>spurs2]

Insane freestyle

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[baseline bum]

Insane freestyle

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Best freestyle ever
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[mavs>spurs2]

Pretty sweet

[baseline bum]

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:lol

I was about to post that exact song. I can't believe I missed the post.

[baseline bum]

A couple of other classics missing from the list:

Ghetto Bastard
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Uptown Anthem
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[leemajors]

i think tha liks need to be on that list somewhere too, can't pick just one song though:

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tash is ridiculously underrated

[baseline bum]

i think tha liks need to be on that list somewhere too, can't pick just one song though:

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I don't give a fuck who your cousin used to fuck
Cause I just wanna fuck
Damn I wanna fuck

Like a kung-fu flick
I stick you in the dick with a toothpick
Tell 'em Rick
"You hit 'em harder than a fucking brick"

:lol

Likwit is my favorite from the Liks

[baseline bum]

Not top 100, but I've always loved this song by Mix-a-Lot

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The beat they used on the remix for the video is much better than the one on the album too

[baseline bum]

LMAO! I forgot they edited out J-Ro's last verse on the radio edit of Make Room.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Jay Z at number 11 with hard knock life? Disgusting.

[resistanze]

LOL, didn't even see "Get Ur Freak On," idiots.

And if they put Big Pun, they could've chosen a fucking half-decent song from Capital Punishment.

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