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

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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

j0rdan sgt's tartan shorts club ban (crüt), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

lol @ Whiney

better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

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?

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

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

markers welby, S.B. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

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

San Te, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Winner: Batdance

no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

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

jaymc, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

xxpost Vicki Vale...Vick-Vicki Vale

San Te, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

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

CHEESECAKE VOTING FRUIT HATING SCUM (jjjusten), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link

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."

markers welby, S.B. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

What a way to make a living.

jaymc, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

ha, that's another good one

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link

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

markers welby, S.B. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link

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, 3 August 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link

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

righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

whiney what the fuck are you going on about

righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

who cares about that shit

righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

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.)

xhuxk, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

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


unlike, say... "Wild Wild West"

stuff that's what it is (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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

righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link

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

better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

stuff that's what it is (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link

"three todays ago" v_v

stuff that's what it is (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link

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

better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link

well, yeah

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link

there should be a "baby got back" lyrics poll

righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link

You people are such dumbasses sometimes.

"Footloose" and "9 to 5" are popular american idioms that people were saying before there was a movie and continue to say after. The lyrics in the song are about dancing or working While rapping about Jim West or being a galaxy defender with a memory eraser pen are linked to particular actions that occur in movies. Dolly Parton isn't singing about what an asshole Dabney Coleman is, but Will Smith is talking about battling Loveless and shit

markers welby, S.B. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link

gotta vote for "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down," which is by far the weak link of the '97 Bad Boy hit parade. even as far as poppy "The Message" beatjacks go Ice Cube did a better one just 4 years earlier.

The chickbad from the ludicrous 'ludacris' song (some dude), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

I would just like to note that "Nightmare On My Street" was not actually an official tie-in with the Freddy Krueger enterprise, unlike Dokken's "Dream Warriors" and the Fat Boys "Are You Ready For Freddie?"

da croupier, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Ma$e's "Feel So Good" >>>>>> any Puff song from that period. Harlem World >>>> No Way Out.

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

stop while yr behind Whiney

better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

back in time lyrics -

Tell me, doctor
Where are we going this time?
Is this the fifties?
Or nineteen-ninety-nine?

just sayin, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

hahaha keep on talking about shit you are completely clueless on Whiney, it's pretty entertaining

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

The boys are in Atlanta
and the beer's in Texarkana

gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

eek always forget about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOiwhBbooo

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Harlem World >>>> No Way Out.

The wake for rap >>>>>> the death of rap

da croupier, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, i'm gonna give that one to "just sayin"

markers welby, S.B. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

What the fuck is going on in this thread.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

unlike Dokken's "Dream Warriors"

I saw this video a few nights ago (thank you VH1 classic midnight programming!) and it is AWESOME. Especially the part where he breaks through a wall and plays a guitar made out of bones. also some fight with Freddy ensues. in a purely non-promotional tie-in way.

better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Rock Around the Clock, yo

San Te, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

What the fuck is going on in this thread.

It's raining outside, and I just saw a pic of Kenny Loggins on Pooh Corner.

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link

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

gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link


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