ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

srsly you people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXbWll6AUa4

Paper Planes is the second worst song on Kala (rip timbo's talent), I don't get the love. I mean its aiight and all but this high?

Listening to that TI track again and its like the most magnificent steamroller ever.

(ha i just noticed i didn't vote for still tippin and now i'm disgusted with myself.)

07. HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR "Blind" / "Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)" (2008) [576.5 points, 25 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6sLFDUPWg

The Frankie Knuckles remix had more votes, so I featured that video here. I didn't keep track of the true numbers breakdown between the two versions, but it was probably about 70%-30% in the remix's favor.

i voted for "still tippin". it's so much better than "paper planes" or "atlas" or or or...

king had better make the albums list

i prefer Still Tippin to What You Know. WYK was so overplayed on the radio around here i can't even hear it anymore.

Blind, yessssss!

the production on "promise" is obv beyond unbelievable -- not sure how someone even conceived that track in a brain... just jaw dropping

surprised that "all my friends" wasn't in the top 5 -- certainly people have cooled on it a bit... in terms of its place in the general canon -- i'm one of those ppl

also surprised and kinda sad not to see "what you know" in the top 5

Franki Knuckles remix ftw

ech, blind is seriously one of the least good songs on that whole album

so rong

re a hoy how: not sure how/why i denied still tippin, but paper planes really does deserve to come in this high

hey "biology" is really cool -- never heard any girls aloud before -- really economical in a way that seems distinctly like british girl pop

paul wall looks so young and not fat in that video :( whatever happened? (did he ever make anything worth hearing after his first album/drive slow? i stopped caring about swisha house stuff after being stupid enough to listen to the mike jones second album once.)

"sittin sidewayz" is pretty great

his verse on still tippin is so fun "peoples feelings get hurt when they find out what i'm worth"

still tippin was my #1 -- every verse is a classic even mike jones

Blind was my attempted vote for #1. What a track.

Never heard GA described as "economical" before, they're about as kitchen sink as pop gets.

ha yeah <3 dude giving out his phone number. Wonder if he still has the same # and whether anyone still calls, just say hi mike jones

Paul Wall is about to release his FOURTH major label album -- afaict he hasn't done anything of any worth since "Sittin' Sidewayz"

except i guess the hook for "Holla At Me"

ha oh wait its not on still tippin he gives his number out, is it? lol me.

Paul Wall is about to release his FOURTH major label album -- afaict he hasn't done anything of any worth since "Sittin' Sidewayz"

― some dude, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:07 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

will liveblog this at some point in the future for that rap records liveblog thread

Paul Wall appears as fictional rapper Grillionaire in the movie I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, released on September 25, 2009. He, along with screenwriters Nils Parker and Tucker Max, co-wrote tracks for the movie.

06. THREE 6 MAFIA ft. YOUNG BUCK AND 8BALL & MJG "Stay Fly" (2005) [667.5 points, 25 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBjzAdpZzf0

i loved the "still tippin" remix with nicole wray too. "it's a man's world/but it wouldn't be nothin without me and my girls"

wow!!!!

(xp) Actually prefer the original Blind to the Frankie Knuckles. Both classics though.

...and i love "stay fly-y-y-y-y-y" too!

staaaaaaaaaay flllllllllllllllly-y-y-y-y-y-y iy!

Was there a funner song in the past 5 years?

really kind of exciting that "Stay Fly" beat out so many seemingly more likely songs for highest Proper Rap Hit on the list

we still haven't seen "Paper Planes" *ducks*

totally agree w/jord re: "blind"

it's kind of amazing to me that people like Antony warbling that much

"Paper Planes" and "Umbrella" etc. are what I was willfully excluding from Proper Rap Hit standing

haha I know, I was just being annoying

I'm listening to "Stay Fly" now, it's nice enough, but I'm not sure why it placed so high? Pretty standard beat and standard lyrics, it's all done very well, but I'm not hearing anything really special in it...

ban tuomas

can't stand antony's voice.. even excepting that, the appeal of "blind" is a mystery to me

Er, instead of banning me, maybe you can explain why this is better than the other rap tunes on this list? I'm seriously interested to know.

ban tuomas

― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:22 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

smoke all night, sleep all day
that's gon be the american way

judging southern rap songs on your first listen via a youtube is kinda fucking lame, imo

also the "mary jaaaane" verse

Ok, the "fly-y-y-y" bit is catchy, but the I've always found the sort of ratatatat synth hi-hat tick like used in this tune kinda irritating, and by 2005 it was way overdone already.

omg we're @ the top 5

OMG I KNOW RIGHT!?1