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.

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

that whole record is p great, albeit a bit too long

express yrself is a bit tame, also dre doesn't smoke weed you know

yeah I have this weird cognitive dissonance regarding "express yourself", like if anybody else made it I'd be like dope but its NWA so I'm like wtf

I must live in a cave, because I recognize the name Juvenile but this thread was the first time I ever heard a track of his. SUE ME.

re: Juve

Yah that song (Ha) made no sense to me in high school, took me a few months to come around to it.

Back That Azz Up is still my favorite club track.

ok i lied next record has the best video ever regardless of genre

YOU"VE NEVER HEARD BACK THAT AZZ UP? xxp

xp If it's Kayne/Perry 'ET' I will be so mad...

(tie w/ #59-#56) Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad [6 votes, 186 points, 1999]

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

xp not that I know of. I'm off to the youtubes.

would genuinely not mind BOB being higher even tho I didnae vote for it

That's it, I'm gonna make you a Juvenile comp.

Okay, yeah...I've heard Back That Azz Up. oof. It's okay.

& Johnny has lived in the Delta his whole life!

(Only in clubs or bars, though, so I never knew whose song it was.)

HA video also ridic

I guess this means 100 Miles And Runnin isn't going to place.

I didn't know what to do with BOB - like, it's amazing but the rapping is totally incidental to its greatness, and I don't even think of it as a rap track so much as ... I don't know what really. I ended up putting it quite high in the end about #13 or so, it was the highest thing that I wasn't juggling as a potential #1.

rapping is not really incidental on BOB

(tie w/ #59 - #56) 57. Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul [6 votes, 186 points, 1987]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo84dWcl74k

yeah the rapping on bob is sooooooo important. don't think it could have worked with 2 different mcs

I know! It's full of it. It's full of other stuff too though, it kind of transcends genre for me so didn't sit easy for me in a genre poll.

lol yeah a guitar! it can't be in a hiphop poll!

ok that rakim vid is some bullshit here is the proper version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnNkaO1EMyQ

Is Kanye's line about hating paparazzi worse than the Nazis the worst lyric in the poll so far? Love the music on that song but his MCing is even slacker than I remember it.

Never heard Ha but it's great - weirder than I expected Juvenile to be.

xp I think it's fair to say that BOB seems to transcend genre, just like Get Ur Freak On.

Is Kanye's line about hating paparazzi worse than the Nazis the worst lyric in the poll so far? Love the music on that song but his MCing is even slacker than I remember it.

both polls

56. A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? [7 votes, 186 points, 1990]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDFS6cg1AI

yes!

You can!

video version is different to the og btw, which can be heard here with the pic of the rong album cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ubKHzujy8&feature=related

both are dope.

This was #10 on my ballot, highest of my votes to place so far.

Don't know why they cut the Lou Reed sample out of the single version (probz some backroom business), but that's what really makes the track.

I spent all weekend listening to People's... such a dope dope DOPE album

Used to know someone who would steal car stereos to order - we'd joke that his theme song should be 'Can I Nick It?'

yeah he wasn't exactly happy about it. although this is a dude who could have unhappy orgasms.

next up is a song i've not seen much said about it but i think is secretly goon crew canon iykwim?

55. O.C. – Time’s Up [6 votes, 188 points, 1994]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvfQXVo7lQo

can't find the equally great buckwild remix on youtube so far

My number 2.

Bare bones (dusty drum, simple bass line) beat with pure complex lyricism. So great.

wait the dream dropped songs yesterday? damn this poll i've now got to scout that huge thread to just find a link between the homo popist love in

Even the video is as stripped back as you can get.
http://youtu.be/EWFC2PEbwCk

Yeah, didn't vote for this, but I certainly like it being here.

54. Clipse - Grindin' [8 votes, 189 points, 2004]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOZ7HPu9yU

the dream trks are up on his webpage Sam.

I love the beat to "Grindin'". I don't even have the full track in my music library, just the instrumental.