worst rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100 in the '90s

thread needs more DOKKEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvb_PjZFQ4U

What the fuck is going on in this thread.

Whiney said something dumb then tried to call everyone else dumb when called on it, so basically business as usual

Well, there's a truck-drivin' legend in the South today
A man called Bandit from Atlanta, Ga.
Every gearjammer knows his name
They swear he's got asphalt a-runnin'in his veins

If the house is a rockin', then it probably ain't Dokken

Little Richard "The Girl Can't Help It"

worst Kenny Loggins movie theme deserves its own thread, especially since he's got, like, 700 of them.

You know what's fucked up, that Rihanna's "Disturbia" isn't actually about Disturbia.

anybody remember that godawful "Ghostbusters" song Run DMC did on the Ghostbusters II soundtrack? not to slight the almighty Run but it was cringeworthy

Arthur he does what he pleases.
Followed his life, his masters toys.
And deep in his heart,
He's just, he's just a boy

I can't hear PM Dawn without immediately thinking of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKhYoeC-X-Q

^^^ awesome

also Bobby Brown "On Your Own" really Whiney watf are you talking about

TOO HOT TO HANDLE TOO COLD TO HOLD THEY'RE CALLED THE GHOSTBUSTERS AND THEY'RE IN CONTROL...

i mean be an awful big coincidence if there was a real life company called Ghostbusters that were dealing with slime on the outside of a building

TS: blatant movie tie-in pop cheese vs. shitty emo songs named after quotes from movies

lol why did I forget about Ray Parker Jr

yeah, just sayin pretty much put me in my place, you dont have to keep riding it

any chance to quote Bobby Brown, I take it, no questions asked

Partners in Kryme -- "T.U.R.T.L.E. Power" lololz

well that wasn't actually a hit AFAIK

nah it wasn't I'm more loling that it existed

"Ninja Rap"!

wow this is gonna spurn another thread

oh my god

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Power

god bless you, UK

ok how did this song make the top 20 back when I actually owned ninja turtles and I have no idea what it is

Released April 13, 1990 1990-04-13
Format CD single
Genre Rap
Length 7:67

omg dude. someone post it for him from Youtube....it's pretty hilariously cheesy, hell I think it was even at the time.

This got a lot of local play, cuz Partners in Cryme sounded like a good second-rate freestyle act.

like, I can even remember some anti-drug song ("ya gotta WALK STRAIGHT") the turtles touring troupe performed on Oprah or Sally Jessy Raphael or something and I can't remember this

AHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAH

oh my GOD, that was that cassette they sold through Pizza Hut!!!!

ahahahahha THEY WENT ON TOUR...alahahahahah WE'RE THE TURTLES, YOU CAN COUNT ON USSSSS

oh laughing uncontrollably remember that now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsTr0kGAqU

I have no words for this

okay so maybe we should be doing this on another thread

I will never have a better opportunity to post this, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eKwFp729I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S6mOBRi-Zk

holy shit holy shit holy shit

you know, for a song where every line ends with the word "straight," this is pretty gay

didn't eminem get his start as one of their back-up dancers like 2pac did with digital underground?

I remember being very bored by "Tha Crossroads."

hope you are referring to Britney Spears or Ralph Maccio movie

Ralph Macchio as bored teenage girl who takes road trip to learn Britney songs played by aging blues hero Dan Aykroyd.

With a cameo by Robert Johnson, playing a mysterious character named Cream.

"I'm Not a Girl (You're The Best Around)" by 98 Degrees.

"Who you gonna call?" and "Ghostbusters!" are popular american idioms that people were saying before there was a movie and continue to say after.

after some tough calls on borderline R&B/hip-hop tracks, here's the 2000s list for yr perusal:

Outkast - "Ms. Jackson"
Mary J. Blige - "Family Affair"
Ja Rule feat. Ashanti - "Always On Time"
Nelly - "Hot in Herre"
Eminem - "Lose Yourself"
50 Cent - "In Da Club"
50 Cent feat. Nate Dogg - "21 Questions"
Nelly, P.Diddy, and Murphy Lee - "Shake Ya Tailfeather"
Ludacris feat. Shawnna - "Stand Up"
Outkast - "Hey Ya"
Outkast feat. Sleepy Brown - "The Way You Move"
Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - "Slow Jamz"
Juvenile feat. Soulja Slim - "Slow Motion"
Terror Squad - "Lean Back"
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - "Drop It Like It's Hot"
50 Cent feat. Olivia - "Candy Shop"
Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx - "Gold Digger"
D4L - "Laffy Taffy"
Nelly feat. Paul Wall, Ali, & Gipp - "Grillz"
Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone - "Ridin'"
Ludacris feat. Pharrell - "Money Maker"
Akon feat. Snoop Dogg - "I Wanna Love You"
Mims - "This Is Why I'm Hot"
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
Kanye West - "Stronger"
Flo Rida feat. T-Pain - "Low"
Lil Wayne feat. Static Major - "Lollipop"
T.I. - "Whatever You Like"
T.I. feat. Rihanna - "Live Your Life"
Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent - "Crack A Bottle"
Flo Rida - "Right Round"
Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - "Empire State of Mind"

(not pictured: J-Lo remixes with Ja Rule, Crazytown's (c)rap-rock masterpiece "Butterfly", the collected works of the Black-Eyed Peas, anything Jamaican)

Flo Rida in a landslide.

I really don't think "Hey Ya!" counts as a rap song

I feel like "Right Round" shouldn't count as a "rap" song

xpost ^ yeah hey ya def isn't

of the ones I've heard, gotta be one of the Fiddy tracks. so terrible.

everything there is pretty great up until "money maker" then it kinda really goes to shit

i'd probably vote for "lose yourself"

altho Lose Yourself is pretty bad too

shakey you have weird opinions

ha

yeah "Hey Ya" was one of the questionable ones I kept on there, I guess cuz I was thinkin' about the pop-culture impact of "shake it like a polaroid picture" or w/e, but I'll take it off for the poll

(should we even do a poll?)