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

As a whole this is way better than the 00s list

do the 00s list

xp Oh yeah, basically meh on the two Puff Daddys, too, but (like Lauryn I guess) I understand why people might love them.

ranked (Guess where I stop liking songs? lol)

Sir Mix-A-Lot - "Baby Got Back"
Lauryn Hill - "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
Notorious BIG - "Hypnotize"
Kris Kross - "Jump"
PM Dawn - "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss"
2Pac - "How Do U Want It" / "California Love"
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise"
Will Smith - "Getting Jiggy With It"
Will Smith ft. Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee - "Wild Wild West"Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Tha Crossroads"
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - "Good Vibrations"
Snow - "Informer"
Vanilla Ice - "Ice, Ice Baby"
Notorious BIG ft Puff Daddy and Mase - "Mo Money Mo Problems"
Puff Daddy and Mase - "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"
Puff Daddy ft 112 and Faith Evans - "I'll Be Missing You"

do the 00s list

― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 4:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you do it, i wasted enough time today

Love Kool Moe Dee's original "Wild Wild West," and figure Will Smith covering it with Moe Dee's help can't be too bad, though I'm not sure when I've actually listened to it.

omg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_2000_%28U.S.%29

start here, jord

That 2000 list is a root canal.

i basically like every one of these songs!

what caused that late 90s paradigm shift when all of a sudden legitimate non-white, non-novelty rap songs could top Billboard all of a sudden?

'wild wild west' and it's not even close.

i think a better poll would be "best r&b song to top the billboard hot 100 in the 00s"

what caused that late 90s paradigm shift when all of a sudden legitimate non-white, non-novelty rap songs could top Billboard all of a sudden?

The anticipation of the election of a black president in 2008.

xp Yeah, duh, the Will Smith isn't technically a "cover," right? Just an interpolation, or update, or whatever. I knew that, fwiw. (Not sure what it is supposed to be. Just didn't leave as negative an impression as Marky Mark, because it never left an impression at all. Surprised it was a #1, tbh.)

Now wondering if maybe should have voted for "Tha Crossroads," which I appreciate in theory but was always tedious to get through when it was actually on.

get out of here

i think "wild wild west" went #1 half because will smith is will smith and half because of the movie tie in

o_O at The Crossroads being suggested

Puff Daddy ft 112 and Faith Evans - "I'll Be Missing You" (would rather imbibe the contents of a county fair portapotty in 120F heat via a funnel than listen to this)

Shasta bringin it for real

would totally travel back in time to murder Puffy right after Craig Mack's "Flavor in ya Ear" came out, thereby sparing the world his many abominations

it really is disgusting and stomach turning how in the late-90s/early-00s we had all these "going straight to THE WILD WILD WEST" or "Here come the MEN IN BLACK" or poor Destiny Child "CHARLIE how your ANGELS get down like that?" hit singles that are basically ads that hold up like shit two years later.

it's like if Survivor was all "ROCKY! ROCK ROCK ROCK! ROCK ROCK ROCKYYYYYYY!" or "Theme From A Summer Place" was like how Jasper sang it on the Simpsons

2Pac - How Do You Want It
Notorious BIG - Hypnotize
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Notorious BIG ft Puff Daddy and Mase - Mo Money Mo Problems
2Pac - California Love
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
Will Smith - Getting Jiggy With It
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Kris Kross - Jump
Will Smith ft. Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee - Wild Wild West
Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
PM Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Snow - Informer
Puff Daddy and Mase - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down

I stop liking songs here:
Puff Daddy ft. 112 and Faith Evans - "I'll Be Missing You"

btw in case you forgot to suggest ban me, I placed "ice ice baby" over lauryn hill and pm dawn

lol @ Whiney

What's the difference between an evanescent movie tie-in and a white Canadian shouting INFORMER AOSFJAS;FH;ASFROWEURSWHJ;AWFA; BOOM BOOM YEAH and Marky Mark wanting to see sweat comin' out yo poahs?

I think we can all agree the decade bookends mostly suck.

what caused that late 90s paradigm shift when all of a sudden legitimate non-white, non-novelty rap songs could top Billboard all of a sudden?

All players rise with the Bizkit tide.

also yeah, "i'll Be Missing You" was dogshit but fronting on Mase and Puff is embarrassing if you're not like a junior in high school

TS: Wild Wild West vs. Addams Groove vs. Do the Bartman vs. Nightmare on My Street

Winner: Batdance

Heard this "Informer"-jacking Bollywood hit in a store the other day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR46C0XoQm4

it really is disgusting and stomach turning how in the late-90s/early-00s we had all these "going straight to THE WILD WILD WEST" or "Here come the MEN IN BLACK" or poor Destiny Child "CHARLIE how your ANGELS get down like that?" hit singles that are basically ads that hold up like shit two years later.

um people had been doing this for decades before those songs came out; see for example the extended career of Kenny Loggins, or "St Elmo's Fire" or "Back in Time" from "Back To The Future" or etc etc etc

xxpost Vicki Vale...Vick-Vicki Vale

i came here to say that anybody who votes "tha crossroads" can line up for a throat punch but i didnt think it was an actual possibility so now shit got real o_O

and going to bat for Ma$e is incredibly embarrassing if you are 30+ because you're old enough to have heard someone who didn't sound like a retarded fart

I don't think "Back In Time" is all like "We're gonna go BACK IN TIME with MARTY MCFLY and my man DOC BROWN, I'm Huey Lewis and I drive a DELOREAN beep beep zoom zoom."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/9to5OddJobs.jpg

What a way to make a living.

ha, that's another good one

"I'm allllright... I'm playing GOLF with CHEVY CHASE and someone dookied in the pool Kenny Loggins"

I think you guys are missing the point that phrases like "working 9 to 5" and "Everybody get footloose" actually work on their own without the context of a movie

also yeah, "i'll Be Missing You" was dogshit but fronting on Mase and Puff is embarrassing if you're not like a junior in high school

obv otm -- puffy has been dope thru the years, tho obv he has his slip ups, as does anyone who's been in the game as long

whiney what the fuck are you going on about

who cares about that shit

xp Christ, calm down about "Crossroads," I said I didn't actually vote for it. (Did always like "1st Of Da Month" more, though. And Crucial Conflict's "Hay," if that counts.)

I think you guys are missing the point that phrases like "working 9 to 5" and "Everybody get footloose" actually work on their own without the context of a movie

― markers welby, S.B. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 8:37 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i have a bigger problem with rap videos from the video area fucking shit up by splicing in trailer scenes from whatever movie the song was on the soundtrack of

unlike, say... "Wild Wild West"

hahaha I was going to go there but J0rdan helped me see that this is basically crazy arguing with crazy

Whiney on some serious ahistorical revisionism silliness

will hate on Puffy and Mase forever, no fronting involved. worst shit ever, and a totally pernicious influence on hip hop in general

also: I heard "Informer" for the first time like, three todays ago (had obviously heard it before then but didn't know the name or artist, or the canadian provenance), and I really have no problem with it.

"three todays ago" v_v

Informer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ice Ice Baby

it ain't my fault

I sort of half heartedly defended “I’ll be missing you” upthread, and I would like to retract that. I actually just love that song

thread revived. oh how it was revived.

"i'll be missing you" isn't that bad at all idk why ppl act like it's one of the most abhorrent creations in all of history

death trax don't usually bring the lols but

confession: i knew "i'll be missing you" before i knew "every breath you take"

(whether it's an accurate take or not) it seemed extremely gauche for the guy who inserted himself into Biggie songs to then monetize Biggie's death. and then to do that while ripping off (there's sampling, and then there's ripping off) a very well-known hit, his seemingly only contribution being his limp, emotionless vocals...was a bridge to far for most.

It’s kind of sad with you around

it was a charity single whose substantial revenues (it was turning a profit after about 500k sold, and it went on to do >3 million) were funneled into a trust fund for biggie's children... and literally the majority of sean combs's hits during that era sampled-and/or-ripped-off other songs that had already been well known hits in their own right. i guess including the song on his own album was questionable

"all his other hit songs were shameless ripoffs too" doesn't help him here lol

Maybe instead he coulda sampled Player and done "BIGGIE COME BACK"

Puffy is the worst thing that ever happened to hip hop

http://www.youngmoneyhq.com/images/gudda-gudda-teases-new-song-off-guddaville-4-mixtape.jpg

Puffy is the worst thing that ever happened to hip hop

― Οὖτις, Monday, December 23, 2019 5:49 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he made last train to paris...

https://perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Dave-Chappelle-Michael-Jackson-2.gif

Yea that shit was dope

Also Press Play was cool

Any voter not selecting "Informer" is just kidding themselves.