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.

Nice little run of songs I love, but wasn't quite sure were going to make it.

Me too on Late Nite Tip, still have major love for Stay Fly. xp

Went on a cruise for our honeymoon and we shared dinner time with this other young couple. He wore that EXACT skull shirt that Juicy is wearing in the video. I was like "that shirt is fly y y y y y y y y" and he was very surprised that I knew anything about it. I hit him over the head with some of my hip hop knowledge for like 20 minutes. We were homies on the cruise for the next 4 days.

That's messed up DJP. Opening old wounds.

I'm kinda tired of passing me by -- seems like a track lots and lots of djs play out these days -- but it was one of the first rap songs I memorized and I remember listening to it on the radio, and I def could never understand picking the mystikal/joe version above it because when that dropped I remember feeling like everyone had forgotten the original (much less true now obv)

(tie w/ #21) 20. Outkast - Ms. Jackson [8 points, 300 points, 2000]

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passin me by is my #1 fuck haters. one of the best love songs.

And yeah I understand too short not making it here but born to mack should have made the albums list. My personal fav has been get in where you fit in but that's less canonical.

So fresh so clean >>> ms jackson

ok ms jackson is too high

this list is turning out to be a little heavy on the Outkast, PE entries imho

19. Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck [9 votes, 2 first place votes, 303 points, 1992]

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re: Ms. Jackson the first time I heard a leak of that (sans songtitle) I thought he was "Artemis Jackson" was some new pseudonym Andre had made up for himself

xp

he was

my #1 and if you look on the shaolin directory* you'll see like a bazillion articles on why. it is the most perfect piece of music ever created.

*really should get back on this

I gotta admit PYN is a lot lower than I expected

wutang again??

ms jackson is amazing obv but there's like 7 better kast singles

this list is turning out to be a little heavy on the Outkast, PE entries imho

what a surprise from an ILM poll (ditto Wu-Tang)

MY CLAN INCREASE LIKE BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT

that's THE wu-tang song though aint it? what else do you all expect would place above it?

tical? daytona 500?

my number 1 too!

PYN my #11

"Cream" and "Triumph" duh

(tical = da rockwilder; derrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

PYN was def top 20, my highest ranked Wu track iirc

ms jackson is amazing obv but there's like 7 better kast singles

luckily all of them are placing on this poll lol

18. Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day (all versions) [11 votes, 308 points, 1993]

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GOAT couplet right here

be doin' artists in like cain did abel
now they money's gettin' stuck to the gum under the table

huzzah

I voted for the remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0XEcUmD4s

Totally forgot to vote Top Billin'. Glad to see it on here. Thanks voters!

Ms. Jackson hugely overrated.

Cube entries here are genuinely his best moments, with maybe the minor exception of Jackin' For Beats

"Cream" and "Triumph" duh

― some dude, Friday, June 10, 2011 12:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

"cream" not a full clan track and "triumph", eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vsLcNJdF9k

^^^I love how he's wearing a t-shirt with a giant picture of his own face on it

xxp yeah but he's predicting what's to come--like I listed two solo tracks that I thought might place...

17. Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick - La Di Da Di [12 votes, 2 first place votes, 316 points, 1985]

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NOOOOOO!!!!! TOO LOW

I fear for the top 10 now, seriously

I fear for the top 10 that ain't got a clue

Didn't care for La Di Da Di then, and haven't warmed to it in the meantime.

what's not to like

It's fine. Just never grabbed me or anything.

doesn't support slamming childs on the hard concrete

TOO LOW

16. Craig Mack - Flavor In Ya Ear (incl. the remix) [11 votes, 318 points, 1994]

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Now this I love.

la di da di is the first track to just be beatboxing, right?

yt for craig mack is the superior remix w/ biggie, ll, rampage and busta

pfffft

fuckin Puffy

also yeah johnny note i misspelt flava in the title