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.

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.

never liked Bone Thugs myself

Yay, for "I Wish", one of the best one-hit-wonder hits of all time. It was my #26; I remember around the time it was a hit, I shaved my head bald for the first time, and some friends of mine I thought I looked like Skee-Lo, so they started calling me that. That tune is so solidly intertwined with a particular era in my life that I could just not have left it off my ballot, even if it wasn't as dope as it is.

bone thugz used to rule "the box" channel

Glad some Bone Thugs made it; I didn't vote for this one--it feels a bit played--but I voted for others

maybe a hoy hoy was mad at my blondie vote lol

lol i'm down w/ debbie and freddie

Or Murray Head

90. EPMD - You Gots To Chill [4 votes, 139 points, 1988]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGisre9xNU

This video is o_O and deserves some low level meme status

right?

vote to point ratio reflects the exceptional taste of four ilxors

bone thugs are dope, that song is def not close to my favorite

love seeing some epmd

whiney & j0rdan have dropped 14 messages in my inbox in the last 15 mins discussing this thread lol

love Sermon's little dance moves in the bkgd

are Whiney and Jordan both banned or something? why does Whiney get banned all the time?

S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier)

:)

re Bone: no love for Mo Murda/1st of the Month/Fo The Love Of $/Creepin on a Come Up/Notorious Thugs/Shoot Em Up?

"Tha Crossroads" was my #1, fuck anyone who thinks it isn't good! The reasons I put it on the top spot:

* Again, it was a big part of my youth.

* Combining sweet doo-wop vocals with gangsta rap was a brilliant idea, and this was the first time I (and millions of others) heard BTnH do it, so back then it felt like such a revelation.

* Despite the seemingly positive afterlife imagery in the video, the song is all about being afraid of death; the sentiment is expressed in such a straightforward and timeless way that it's almost impossible to ignore. "I miss my uncle Charles, he shouldn't be gone in front of his home..." - who of us couldn't empathize with that? I wasn't religious when the song came out and I'm still not, but the simple, insistent repetition of "and we pray and we pray and we pray" in it always pulls my heart strings: it tells so much about the uncertainties death brings to our lives and how we try to deal with it every day.

1st of the Month is the only one of those I recall off the top of my head... yeah I dunno they just never clicked with me. I dunno, it's funny - probably has something to do with young me being super-serious about my chosen allegiances in the aftermath of NWA (ie, Cube over everybody else), I let a bunch of stuff associated with Dre, Eazy, etc. just pass me by

xp

Bone is one of those that peaked w/ their first single imo, tho 1st of tha Month comes close

""Tha Crossroads" was my #1, fuck anyone who thinks it isn't good!"

I like it too, one of the first rap videos I really got hooked into. I just don't have the affection for it I used to, and other BTNH tracks have hurdled it over the years. Like, I still listen to Bone but haven't listened to that track in probably 8-10 years. Cant front on your reasoning tho.

"probably has something to do with young me being super-serious about my chosen allegiances in the aftermath of NWA "

haha yah, totally, when I was young and the east/west nonsense was going down, I would always say stuff like "the east sucks man" without any reasoning. I could never EVER get down with Mobb Deep cos they had beef w Pac. Soooo dumb.

Did you vote for No Vaseline Shakey or have you put all that beef behind you?

Bone Thugs have some stellar album cuts imo.

I like "Thug Love" more than "Tha Crossroads" but I don't expect anyone else to agree with me

89. Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean [5 votes, 140 points, 1993]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B5dOCSBBEI

Did you vote for No Vaseline Shakey or have you put all that beef behind you?

lol given how shitty Cube got and how much better Dre got (and how dead Eazy-E got lol) it's all water under the bridge at this point

if there were a poll of 100 All Time Greatest Dis Tracks tho, No Vaseline would be my #1

wait is jordan banned??????????????

yes to Jeru

come clean is dope as fuck but really you could pick anything off those first two records and it is legendary

Come Clean is another one that fell just outside my 50. So good.

yes to Jeru

yes

if there were a poll of 100 All Time Greatest Dis Tracks tho, No Vaseline would be my #1

YES

ummm bridge is over come on

voted for My Mind Spray, but I'll gladly take Come Clean

in fact my rap snaps ya sacroilliac!!

Got a freaky-freaky, freaky-freaky-freaky flow.

#21 on my list

88. De La Soul - Eye Know [5 votes, 142 points, 1989]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CaN4thI5w

And so begins the De La domination.

every time I see the title of that song, the first thing that comes to mind is always the Prince track off of Lovesexy

now now johnny de la only have another 86 songs in the coming 87.

87. Ludacris - Southern Hospitality [6 votes, 143 points, 2000]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QWQVm9J5DM

so far this is all pretty much the definition of "my shit"

Perry otm.

Anyone wanna have a stab at predictions?

Next record is so goon crew canon that if we had a rolling thread back then, it would have been named after it.

(tie w/ #85) 86. Smoothe da Hustler ft. Trigger tha Gambler - Broken Language [4 votes, 146 points, 1996]

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

First thing on the list I haven't heard/heard of before. LEARNING!

Shamefully this is the first time I've heard this. Wow. I approve.