top 5 rap-rock songs

Hip-hop incorporating rock:
DJ Z-Trip, "Rockstar" (and "Rockstar II")
BDP, "Dope Beat" (AC/DC!)
RUN-D.M.C., "Rock Box" (and Chris Rock's "Champagne" by extension, heh)
Beastie Boys, "Looking Down the Barrel Of A Gun"
Public Enemy feat. Anthrax, "Bring the Noise"

Rock incorporating hip-hop:
The Clash, "The Magnificent Seven" (even if said rapping is pretty cheesy - but it beats "Rapture")
Beck, "Loser"
The Beta Band, "Won"
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood" (which is probably "rock" in a very loose sense anyways, being produced by Dan the Automator and sounding more like reggae than anything)
Blondie, "Rapture" (which works better as a disco song anyways)

But there are black performers who can't rap (ahem, Puffy?), but they are still considered rappers. Just because you are bad at something doesn't mean that you can't be classified as doing it (God that's an awful sentence). I mean, Greg Ostertag's a terrible basketball player, but he is a professional basketball player nonetheless.

And why the fuck hasn't anyone mentioned Linkin Park? I mean, they have a designated screamer and a designated rapper. How much more rap-rock can you get?

Well it could be, but I'm talking about rock bands incorporating hip-hop, technically (and vice-versa, ask "why isn't 'Dope Beat' rock?").

definitely none of this NU-metal shit in recent memory. i feel like it lacks any of the real power it should have to be worthy.

m.

Can't we just call the whole rap/rock fusion thing a bad idea, and forget all about it?

how does Campag Velocet's 'To Lose La Trek' fit in? terrible 'rapping' but strangely brilliant at the same time - i feel no shame in loving it - its probably not 'rock' enough tho - only jangly Clashy guitars in more of a skunk-rock style

Otherwise my fave is the Kutmaster Kurt remix of Linkin Park's "In The End".

There's probably someone else on there too, but I forget.

2) Mike Ladd - 5000 Miles

3) RatM - Take the Power Back

4) Saul Williams - 1987 or Om Nia Merican

5) RatM - that one really hip-hop sounding one off Evil Empire

$$ x-ecutioners f linkin park - its goin down

$$ korn - freak on a leash

$$ ratm - i like all their songs

$$ swizz beatz f metallica and ja rule - the FUCKING RAP METAL APOCALYPSE!!

i remember the helmet/house of pain collab on the flip to this being pretty ace too...

sxxxx

Anyway, as for rap/rock songs...

Mr. Bungle "Squeeze Me Macaroni"
Candiria "Without Water", "Voices from the Lexicon"
Green Theory "Emotions", "Smear", "Loopy"
G-Love and Special Sauce "My Baby's Got Sauce", "Time For Livin'", etc
Fun Lovin' Criminals - every song they ever did
311 - I prefer the Grassroots album, but just about anything
Red Hot Chili Peppers - anything pre-Californication
Rage Against the Machine - every frickin' song they ever did
Infectious Grooves/Suicidal Tendencies - same as RATM
24-7 Spyz - ditto
Black Jack Johnson Project - all of 'em except the Hendrix cover

...not to mention the experimental stuff done by folks like Buckethead, Extrakd, DJ Shadow, etc.

...also not to mentiona the hip-hop BANDS with live instrumentation, such as...

Spearhead
The Roots (who I saw cover a Nirvana song recently)
Black Eyed Peas
Public Enemy (that's right, they play with a full band these days)
Cypress Hill

So much for proving rap/rock doesn't exist, retard. :D

That band (Black Jack Johnson Band) is straight-up amazing. Not just because it is made up of Mos Def (Blackstar), Bernie Worrell (ex-PFunk and Talking Heads keyboardist), Dr. Know (ex-Bad Brains guitarist), Doug Wimbish (ex-Living Colour bassist), and Will Calhoun (ex-Living Colour drummer)...but they've got a great chemistry between 'em, and write amazing songs.

I'm kinda mad, though, cause they STILL haven't released their album yet. I'll have to make do for now with the videotape I've got of the time they played on Reverb on HBO.

Doesn't necessarily make it all good, though. ;-) Then again keep in mind I come from the point of view that if the members of RATM had never met in the first place, the world would be a much better place to live in.

Haven't heard it, therefore cannot say.

"The Clash, "The Magnificent Seven" (even if said rapping is pretty cheesy - but it beats "Rapture")": Nate u r bonkahs

Time Zone - World Destruction

Faith No More - Epic

Faith No More - We Care A Lot

Beastie Boys - Sabotage

RUN-DMC -Aerosmith - Walk This Way

That is all.

"Up the Junction" eats those songs for breakfast and pisses them all on top of the old Frank Sinatra albums that my grandma listens to.

All together now: "1-2 1-2, BOOM she-she BOOM she-she BOOM she BOOM. I beg for some forgiveness / But beggin's not my business. / And so it's my assumption / I'm really up the junction." Awwwwwww yeah... A stone classic no less.

Edan.

The Roots - Seed 2.0

Does it count?