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

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?)

what can I say Fiddy's monotone idiocy is painful for me to listen to. dumber than a do I even have to say it

gotta say it will be difficult for me to vote for anything other than "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)"

I mean, I don't like 50 that much either but dude never actively ruined children

hearing busfuls of inner city atlanta kids screaming "WATCH ME SUPERMAN THAT HOOOOOOO" as they pass by has led me to believe that soulja boy has only enriched our most valuable generation

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

― da croupier, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 4:48 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Chris Brown wrote that song, as well as "I Can Transform Ya," leading to my theory that Shia LaBeouf is his muse.

I dunno what's so terrible about Crank Dat

sorta funny how, in retrospect, Mims' mouthbreathing idiocy (much-discussed at the time, iirc, whether inna "this dude has finally killed hip-hop" or an ironic-hipster-appreciation stylee) appears as nothing more than SouljaBoyTellEm v0.9

I've always hated "Tha Crossroads" but I saw a stripper with a white lace shawl dance to it in a redneck bar and that sort of made it awesome.

And I've always ironically loved Informer and the triple-entendre album title "12 Inches of Snow"

If you are not the board's resident Bill Cosby sympathizer and you haven't been at largely black events where a DJ will put this on and all of the kids 10 and under get up and do the dance to the song, combined with dude doing shit like "Throw Some D's On It" and (the admittedly funny and only song of his I can stand) "Yah Trick Yah", you will probably not get the level of fundamental antipathy I have for pretty much everything Soulja Boy represents or how that's been embraced as something awesome and fun by black America.

like, there are people who say stupid shit who are obviously making entertainment for adults/young adults who have developed some level of critical thinking combined with life experience, whereas Soulja Boy is just flat-out telling little kids to be annoying ignorant little shits

fuck that, fuck him, hope he dies

Soulja Boy is just flat-out telling little kids to be annoying ignorant little shits

hell yeah rock n roll!!

I must be missing something. song seems pretty innocuous to me. It's not like Awww Skeet Skeet or Me So Horny or anything

read an interview w/ him, it'll be more clear

like seriously no joke, I hope someone kills him

messily

the way you're talkin I woulda thought he sent you charged you full price for a CD-R with reproduced artwork

so you don't like his aesthetic instincts then

readin some interviews now, don't see anything particularly egregious - he wants to be a huge star, the internet was a huge help, all his songs are gonna feature dances, he likes 50 Cent... so uhm waht?

soulja boy is an interesting musician

Love a lot of these but Wild Wild West, partly because of its shitty movie affiliations.

Can't be posted enough:

http://www.tg-films.info/films_w/pics/www1.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/04/soulja-boy-slavery

here you go, Shakey

this dude is either one of the dumbest human beings on Earth or one of the most self-centered, evil douchenozzles to ever walk the earth

"yah man thanks Hitler for what ya did to the Jews, lots of good WWII movies came out cuz of it!!!"

kinda lol but mostly sad.

otoh I can think of at least a dozen rappers who have said equally stupid things and don't inspire this level of vitriol so I figured it was something aesthetic, y'know, in the songs themselves

I always assumed that soulja boy quote was just a (very) poorly-thought-out joke... idunno.

most of these other rappers don't specifically pitch their songs at kids 10 and under, is my point

xp: that was his defense; doesn't actually change the fact that he was dumb enough to say it

wau @ soulja boy on slavery