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.

99 problems is dope the thing i just don't understand is why it became the black album stable over PSA

Can we have more of the results?

wait for americans to wake up.

Yah I mean I remember thinking this beat was easily the best on the record when it first leaked, before it was a single. I don't think that any more but I think we're def underrating it if u think poppin them things is better

― lebroner (D-40), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

"in da club" was never not a single though! it was a hit from like day one

i'm awake, hoy, post at least one and i'll argue about it with myself for a couple hours

50. T.I. - What You Know [8 votes, 195 points, 2006]

http://i52.tinypic.com/117cmld.jpg

damn i shouldve voted for that

seems about right

btw i approve of the new format

49. Three 6 Mafia ft. U.G.K. and Project Pat - Sippin' on Some Syrup [6 votes, 196 points, 2000]

http://i55.tinypic.com/15p672c.jpg

Hell yeah, top ten for me

So Stay Fly is still to come then?

I genuinely have no idea what's going to top this poll. Exciting, given that the albums list felt like a bit of a foregone conclusion.

I can't get Mike's Spotify playlist to load, or it seems to be emptying, but I've put my own up here. Almost everything is there, except De La Soul, weirdly.

not nyquil motherfucker. codine syrup
tigersmores 5 days ago

"what you know" #50 on my ballot too

ahhhh big ups on the images!!

'sippin on some syrup' was my #3 -- pimp's verse is the best ever

still in search of more beats that sound like that (and 'feelin on yo booty')

yeah these images are sweet btw tbh

it's a classic

thought that would have got more than 6 votes actually

That's wrong al, the full lp leaked before "in da club" was released as a single

(tie w/ #47)GZA ft. Ghostface Killah, RZA and Killah Priest - 4th Chamber [6 votes, 201 points, 1995]

http://i54.tinypic.com/ao9rvm.jpg

48. sorry

and now we arrive at the section of the poll where I reach for my TOO LOW

#4 on my ballot, GOAT wu track for me

ehh

It's good, but it's no "Duel of the Iron Mic" or "Cold World". The latter, I'd assume, is still to come...

It's better! Best track on the album imo along with shadowboxin

maybe I'm wrong but I think GZA's done here

find it hard to explain why i don't like that gza album. it feels so dense thematically but i don't really understand any of it?

that's part of the appeal of the early wu shit, impenetrable word salad

That's wrong al, the full lp leaked before "in da club" was released as a single

― lebroner (D-40), Thursday, June 9, 2011 9:37 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can anyone verify this? i don't remember that shit at all -- like as soon as "In Da Club" dropped in January it was on radio countdowns and then the album leaked not long before the Feb release

why is the sky blue? why is water wet?

i remember burning the leak of 'get rich...' and not taking it out of my car for weeks and weeks. classic album

Re. the Spotify list - yeah, there's some protracted non-synching weirdness, apols for that. My playlist is on the laptop, but it opens on the phone with 0 tracks. So, ta for duplicating.

(tie w/ #48) 47. Eminem ft. Dido - Stan [7 votes, 201 points, 2000]

http://i56.tinypic.com/2gv66bk.jpg

Did not expect that

turd

re gza album - prob my fav method verses are on that album tbh

stan actually a decent song but meh

Stan above 'just don't give a fuck' or 'kill you' or 'criminal'. Really?

I know egotism is an essential part of rap, but the biggest reason I never really cared about Eminem is that all his songs (or at least the singles I've heard) seem to be about him as a celebrity. And the woes and worries of a celebrity are basically the most boring lyrical subject matter in pop music: who the hell can identify to that, except other celebrities?

Aside from the continuation of the storyline in "Kim", the best thing about "Stan" is the production touches, from the scribbling pencil sounds to the screaming and thumping in the trunk. It's really amazing to me that this was a huge mainstream single.

"Kim" is a much better song, though; real horror movie vibes from that and the student-made video for it Youtube is kind of amazing.

xp: Tuomas, you should track down "Kim". I'm certain you will despise it.

Stan is great but I'd never think to vote for it. Em is like Kanye - he mnay have been classic once upon a time but having to put up with them in 2011 is enough to put me off ever going back to those records

^yeah, I voted for one song from both Kanye & Em, and I think in both cases it was the one that p much never had a chance to place...

but I gave a lot of points to the Em song

xp Voted Gold instead of 4th Chamber. No strategy, as per.

I voted for Stan because it's just a great piece of storytelling. The narrative side of rap isn't particularly well-represented on the poll so far. Plus it involves Eminem displaying empathy for someone other than himself, which is a small miracle. Placed it near the bottom of my list though, for the reasons a hoy hoy said. It's not like the song's got any weaker but Eminem's whole thing is so wearying now.

turd

― the-dream's car of the summer (tpp), Thursday, June 9, 2011 10:06 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Loving the images, good work guys, and thanks Matt DC for the Spotify playlist, will be listening as the countdown continues...

I gave Stan some points because it was a huge hit (which deserves recognition in itself) despite being pretty horrific (nice blend of sweetness and horror, or great storytelling you could say), and because it's great. I wish Dido had never made it big though, hearing it forever announced as by 'Eminem & Dido' from about six months afterwards was most annoying.

Dido way more tolerable than a lot of pop stars