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.

yeah kanye's face being everywhere is...

lol a hoy hoy took the words out of my mouth

Kanye has always been terrible; his great songs are not due to his lyrical skills

62. Kanye West - Flashing Lights [7 votes, 183 points, 2007]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ila-hAUXR5U

ahhhhhhh

you bastards

There is hilarious, great & unique rapping all over his first two albums

Never got all the love for Flashing Lights

i will rep for Kanye's rapping on Late Registration especially but i will not say he was a "great mc"

this is the shit a hoy hoy has been chuckling about while we go about our day in ignorance

Flashing Lights love all about the track itself, for me at least. Probably counter to the spirit of a rap poll, but I voted for it anyway.

You guys are crazy -- he stopped being great when his success allowed him to become douchier and douchier -- his "complexities" became routine and grating -- still putting out dope albums cuz he's supremely talented, but

He noticeably dropped off as a rapper around 'graduation' which we all know is the birthplace of the grocery bag

i have hope that "gone" will place

Kanye rankings are some bullshit sorry guys

kanye was a dece mc once upon a time but 'great' smh. top ten ever producer tho.

like I could've accepted Jesus Walks or Workout Plan somewhere in the bottom 25 but fuck this beating out the Show and Run DMC and EPMD and what have you

61. De La Soul - The Magic Number [5 votes, 1 #1 vote, 184 points, 1989]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irL1M15DH8

ahhh. That's more like it.

a hoy hoy applying balm to our wounds

Shakey Mo otm

Pretty twee de la choices

My vote was for Saturday, which I guess isn't any less twee, but I love it.

Too low! My #1

Newsflash: De La are pretty twee

hate to tell you but de la's little known "suck my gat n***az" is prolly not gonna place

xp

Love all de la tho, don't get me wrong. Voted for ego trippin, which I'm sure will not place...flashing lights is the first song on the whole list I dislike

I also voted for Ego Trippin

Lol e3

Yah I voted Ego Trippin as well.

I can't remember, is Ego Trippin the one that's all quotes from other songs...?

Yup

I change my pitch up, smack my bitch up, I never did it.

60. Juvenile - Ha [6 votes, 185 points, 1999]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9VlmXKYgs

uh

Niiice

Find his flow hard to take over a whole album but in small doses, like this, it works.

DOPE

awesome, i was really hoping it had a decent placing

New to me, this one. Can't say I like it really.

wtf

Still have love for Juve, still buy his lp's even tho I know they are average. Reality Check is pretty great front to back tho. I love his voice.

Love how he avoids rhyming by tagging on "Ha" (Ha) or "Yah" (Back That Azz Up) at the end of every bar.

some sick part of me is hoping "crank that" shows up somewhere

rap confessions

i hated juve for years but i've been broken down and find him FUCKING AMAZING now

(tie w/ #59-#56) 59. NWA - Express Yourself [5 votes, 186 points, 1988]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY

Heard "back that azz up" on the radio this morning -- was hoping that would place, but this is a fine consolation -- such a weird song imo, like juvie pretty much talks during his verses then the track opens into this super catchy hook

such a weird song imo, like juvie pretty much talks during his verses then the track opens into this super catchy hook

yeah it's an odd one, the verses barely qualify as rapping/rhyming

lol at Express Yourself showing up

"Ha" is definitely one of the weirdest songs to become the mainstream breakthrough for an artist (or their whole label, for that matter)

what's wrong with "Express Yourself"? wish i'd voted for it