The Greatest Rap Song

[Serious Juice Mayne]

Dear mama

 

[Listencloser]

Nas - I Gave You Power

 

[EmM HoLLa.]

T.R.O.Y. for me is the essential hiphop song

If I was going to sum up why I love this hiphop music and culture that song would explain it for me...

Lyrics, beats, storytelling, emotion:

Quoted for Emphasis..

 

[EmM HoLLa.]

Honorable Mention

Will Smith - Summer Time

Naughty By Nature - OPP

Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray

Notorious BIG - Juicy

Ice Cube - It was a good day

Slick Rick - Children's Story

Puff Daddy And The Family - Benjamins

Jay Z - Big Pimpin

Lil Wayne - A Millie

B.G. - Bling Bling

Juvenile - Ha

Drake - Best I ever had

Warren G - Regulators

Man there are way too many records.. Damn.. This is a difficult question to answer...

 

[BobOblah]

TROY, Changes, Memory Lane(or any illmatic track) are other songs posted I could cosign

 

[O.G.]

Sugar Hill- Rapper's Delight

That songs success introduced hip hop to the rest of the nation.

Rebel Without a Pause is my fave tho.

 

[Listencloser]

Honorable Mention

Will Smith - Summer Time

Naughty By Nature - OPP

Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray

Notorious BIG - Juicy

Ice Cube - It was a good day

Slick Rick - Children's Story

Puff Daddy And The Family - Benjamins

Jay Z - Big Pimpin

Lil Wayne - A Millie

B.G. - Bling Bling

Juvenile - Ha

Drake - Best I ever had

Warren G - Regulators

Man there are way too many records.. Damn.. This is a difficult question to answer...

the fuck?

 

[endboss]

For me Joe budden if i die tomorrow

 

[MARIO_DRO]

... IMO.. LIBERATION-OUTKAST

OR CROSSROADS-BONE THUGS

 

[EmM HoLLa.]

Honorable Mention

Will Smith - Summer Time

Naughty By Nature - OPP

Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray

Notorious BIG - Juicy

Ice Cube - It was a good day

Slick Rick - Children's Story

Puff Daddy And The Family - Benjamins

Jay Z - Big Pimpin

Lil Wayne - A Millie

B.G. - Bling Bling

Juvenile - Ha

Drake - Best I ever had

Warren G - Regulators

Man there are way too many records.. Damn.. This is a difficult question to answer...

the fuck?

It's one of the best records of this new era in hip hop.. That song will still be hot in 10 years..

 

[Qiv_Owan]

Dmx - Damien I - III

DMX - Angel

Eve - What Yall Want, Love is Blind

 

[Sgt HJ]

The greatest? Wow,, tough one... There is no way I can pick just one. The Message (GMFAFF), So Many Tears (Pac), Mind Playin Tricks on Me (Geto Boyz) and I Use To Love Her (Common Sense). These are the greatest IMO.

 

[blue_london]

Isn't song singular?

 

[sapp08_2001]

Pharcyde Passin Me By

 

[deakino]

The symphony

 

[Ibex]

I Don't Like to Dream About Gettin Paid - Tha Dogg Pound

 

[Stomp Johnson]

I gotta go with

The Roots - "Thought @ Work"

There's a crazy, looped break beat. There's some scratching on there and Black Thought is spittin hard as hell.

 

[mc317]

 

[reverend_al]

Tribe Called - Check the Rhyme

 

[HarlemThumzUp]

Public Enemy- Rebel Without A Pause.

(Beat and Messege unsurpassed) thats if i had to pick just one...

heard it this morning NIGGA when the scratchin kiccs in & chucc yells " TERMINATOR X!! " still dope to this day