Eazily I approach, the 100 GREATEST RAP (OR HIP HOP OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT) TRACKS OF THE GODS because I ain't no joke.

YES!!! Great tune!

Hey, I'm surprised at how many of these are right up there for me so far, and I'm only a casual hiphop fan and didn't vote.

Song is so self-deprecating.

Great video!

never seen that amazing baseheads video before. fatlip's the first one i voted for

Spike Jonze directed that video.

95. OutKast – Spottieottiedopalicious [4 votes, 1 #1 vote, 127 points, 1998]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXmqauitBkM

damn spottie and his country music :S

:D

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

all great stuff so far

Nice.

Best track ever and stuff.

That's not rap!;)

man I really miss ODB

My number 1 vote was just enough to place it.

"damn spottie and his country music :S"

"That's not rap!;)"

youz guyz.

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WHY is this song sexy to me? Is that wrong?!! #confused
mshooks04 2 days ago
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damn

damn

damn
SoundsLikeJesus 2 days ago
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@MrMixdin shit smoke and ride lol
CHEDDARBiGS 2 days ago in playlist What I like to listen to..
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This is the shit to bang when u ridin through the hood at 2am...it shows u got ur pimp on...
MrMixdin 2 days ago
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This what you smoke to
CHEDDARBiGS 3 days ago

hey spottie did you get my webmail? my gmail still ain't working

I think ODB was the first time when one of "my" artists died unexpectedly. Certainly I'd never been quite as shocked to hear about a musician's death before; suddenly I could understand how those Nirvana fan friends of mine had felt in 1994.

i couldn't decide whether to vote for SOD or ..Storytellin, so I went w/ an Atliens track & put Aquemini way up on my albums ballot.

aw it couldn't have been THAT surprising. I mean I was bummed about it and everything, but dude was not really taking care of himself

xp

yeah that was aaliyah for me.

Well yeah, it wasn't completely surprising, but it was still shocking.

(tie w/ #93) 94. T.I. - Rubberband Man [5 votes, 128 points, 2003]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDdzWZxDwc

"hey spottie did you get my webmail? my gmail still ain't working"

Yah got it and repied back, I can do top 75 or 50, your call. Just get me the list tonight and I'll whip something up.

I mean, it wasn't the same as some jazz musician I dig dying at 82.

This list is seriously great so far.

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Love you t.i you look so sweet;)
sushakyo 3 hours ago
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is t.i. in the crips or bloods?

aktannert 6 hours ago

i loooove rubber band man! voted what you know for some reason tho

who i'm is???

This list is seriously great so far.

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:43 PM (17 seconds ago)

^^^yes, wow

can't wait for the first great rmde pick

the first from my list btw

the clean lyrics are pretty lolzy

still riding around with that thing on patrol maan

(tie w/ #94). 93. Skee-Lo - I Wish [6 votes, 128 points, 1995]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyf0YwUJcqk

^_^

Glad this made it. Was in my 50-60 bracket. Lightweight but super-likeable.

its still fresh. spottie check yr mail son :D and don't give the game away plz.

Skee-Lo's a great one hit wonder, the hooke is awesome

hook

handclaps, scratching, whistling(?) as well as the actual beat. dope.

92. EPMD - Strictly Business [4 votes, 133 points, 1988]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO8PqbkRRYk

(video is mad ghetto but the og version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwFQUUIDK8&feature=related

Got it hoy hoy, on it.

that's pretty low for EPMD (unless they've got some other track that's going to place...?)

You Gots to Chill will place, right?

Ya never know Shakey - the 100 is full of surprises. For example, the next track is shitty as hell but its ilx canon so it had to make it.

Bring it

91. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads [5 votes, 1 #1 vote, 134 points, 1995]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sugq0zsAjdE

I feel like this list is gonna be too random to care about placement. Unless some complete nonsense cracks the top 25 or something.

That like my 20th favorite Bone Thugs track, but I get it.

"haha ftw u are inside my head"

Ha. Such a great tune.

"another execution" is a jam but the ironside sample in "murder rap" rules my world

mike otm abt "raw" and "talking all that jazz"

I can see bdk suffering from vote splitting but this one shoulda been low hanging fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmfyFm30OE

"Mind's Playing Tricks" is a great #1. Geto Boys (or at least that single) have really grown in stature over the years. If people on a message board in 1996 were constructing a top 100, you'd have been flamed stenuously for suggesting that MPT was better than "My Philosophy" "Ain't No Half Steppin'" or "Bring the Noise". They were a notch or two above ICP or whatever at that point. In fact, I remember just saying that Scarface was a great MC on rec.hip-hop and get tons of shit for it.

The rise of the South (and Texas) and the respect for Scarface's solo career, as well as the internet fetishism over Rap-a-Lot, have made Geto Boys acceptable.

Right on; "Mind Playing Tracks on Me" is one of the most--if not THE most--forlorn-sounding songs I've ever heard in my entire life...

like a lot of these, i prefer the song it samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SSHba-I6PA

Great sample, also used on this 2nd II None track which was on my nominations short list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBg7jJyNtzM

107. Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell 4 120

I guess this album has so many great songs that there was some forced vote-splitting, but if you had asked me prior to the results "Will 'It Aint Hard To Tell' make the top 100 rap tracks of the gods results?" I would have responded "Without question."

was just watching a bit of VH1's 100 greatest hip hop songs list and they ranked "Mind Playing Tricks" at #45, if you want any proof of how our list is better than theirs

Where did Lemme Smang It end up then?

at #17, between "Smang The Bells" and "Nothin But A G Smang"

Good work.

did someone already do a 'smang a gong (get it on)' dn

the floodgates opening for "rhymes with smang" display names would be worse than that month of a billion based god pun dns

And you can New Jack Smang from my nuts

P sure smang a gong has been done. Lemme Smang it was 28, 27...?

Camp Lo were fun Saturday night opening for Digable Planets at a free show in Brooklyn

Camp Lo downtown on a Saturday night? Things done changed.

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