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.

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?

that dido album had decent success in the US prior to "stan", singles were on the radio, my wife had a copy, it got rereleased after em sampled and it had a second life

if only there were somewhere on the internet where we could get information on this

Cheeky Records, to which Dido was signed, was sold to BMG records in 1999. This delayed the release of No Angel in the United Kingdom, but also allowed her to concentrate on promoting the album No Angel in the United States, including a slot on Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair tour. Through touring, both before and after the album was available, Dido's music began to receive more exposure. The first official single chosen by Dido and her label, "Here with Me", was used as the theme music for the television programme Roswell. Arguably it was this, as well as the airplay on MTV throughout Europe of the single's video, which brought her mass attention.

In 1998, the music producer for the film Sliding Doors picked her track "Thank You" for the soundtrack. No Angel was first released in 1999, and Dido toured extensively to promote the record.

Eminem helped introduce Dido to the US audience in 2000 when he sampled the first verse of "Thank You" in his UK number-one single "Stan", after seeking permission from Dido herself; she also appeared in the music video as Stan's long-suffering girlfriend.

Aw jeez I've got 'Thank You' on a loop in my head now (not even the bit in Stan either)

ha ha otm

He robs a pregnant lady at gun point and then has a shoot out with a cop?

pfft, Ice-T and Schooly D were shooting at cops ten years before, and You Can't Fade Me is at least 100x more :0 than genially bragging about robbing ppl

Kurtis Blow! Another classic. Well done ILM.

The Breaks! Yes!

liking the old school theme today

me too!

a hoy hoy plz make all the Youtube links go to Dido and Faithless songs from here on out

or to the Wanksta wikipedia page.

but then your never hear planet rock, miracles, lemme smang it and lazy sunday

spoiler tags

fyi deej and i called an emergency meeting last night and decided to argue about the 50 Cent singles chronology to make this thread more entertaining for flopson

lol

I can't wait for the reaction to "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" at #1.

44. Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check! [7 votes, 214 points, 1996]

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not too low

put your hands >>> woo ha