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.

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]

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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

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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

I agree, but in general Rollo > Dido

if there were no em on this list or, like, "my name is" in the bottom 50 I'd be fine but I kinda expect him to be all over the top 50 so w/e

yeah now we're getting an idea where the LOL is coming from

the next track isn't on youtube but i presume you all own a copy anyway and if you don't fuck you

Dido might be alright I don't know, she's barely reachedmy consciousness except via Stan - I just took huge exception to once seeing a Daily Mail feature about her succeeding against the odds in the working-class-dominated music business.

stan is dope

Wasn't Dido's song a hit before it was sampled on Stan? I certainly remember hearing it before the Eminem version came out.

46. The Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint [7 votes, 203 points, 1981]

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Now we're talking!

only in Scandinavia Tuomas xxp

Yay! My #12, highest of mine to place so far other than 'World Is Yours'.

xp iirc Dido made it big in the US before the UK, so I certainly had the impression of her getting big off the back of Stan (against all the odds, etc.)

raising my hopes that Positive K might show up after all

The dido song was not even released before stan iirc

I'm pretty sure my memory is right re in da club; I know for certain I hadn't heard it anywhere prior to the leak. Wanksta was the lead single

Dido song was out two years before Stan though not a single (or indeed widely heard) till afterwards.

The Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint...

...has never been improved upon.

"Wanksta" was a single off the 8 Mile soundtrack, only on GRODT as a bonus track; "In Da Club" was the lead single that preceded the album

sorry Tuomas, for some reason I thought Dido was Norwegian or something...? I wasn't trying to be snarky @ you

my experience in the States was that nobody I knew had heard of Dido until Stan iirc; in fact I don't think even after the breakthrough that Thank You was her first Stateside single; wasn't it second or third? Was White Flag first?

i'd like to speak for most of us when i say WHO THE FUCK CARES

hahaha

oh that was towards 50 cent discussion.

em heard a demo, sampled it. she got signed from it. thank you was the third single from her first album. white flag was the first single from her second album. i don't even like her and i can remember this shit - i wonder what was pushed out for that to stay there.

8 mile soundtrack came out months after grodt. Wasn't the wanksta video out ahead of grodt?

I believe so (irt Wanksta)

Actually, IIRC Thank You was used as a theme in some tv series that became really popular in here, and that's why it was well known before Stan.

8 Mile was the year before GRoDT.

"Dear Dido, I know you probably hear this everyday but I'm your biggest fan. I even got the underground shit that you did on the Sliding Doors soundtrack. Anyways, I hope you get this, hit me back,
just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan. This is a hoy hoy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_discography

Aw jeez I've got 'Thank You' on a loop in my head now (not even the bit in Stan either) - really not what I was hoping for from this poll tbh.

oh my bad i don't remember it properly sorry i have shamed you ilx

"stan" is a really great song in its own right and the fact that he attempted and pulled of a song like that (thematically, in terms of point of view, etc) at the time he was becoming enormous is really remarkable imo - who else has made a move like that since? plus that thing is like 7 minutes long and it was all over the radio!

45. Kurtis Blow - The Breaks [8 votes, 212 points, 1980]

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More funky four plus one chat, less of these guys please. Did you know the Funky Four Jazzy Jeff isn't *that* Jazzy Jeff?