Greatest Hip-Hop tracks of all time?

2-ShortDa5foot5

OKay... here we go!

I know this is gonna be difficult, as there's so many different styles, eras etc to be taken into account. I'd still like to see what everyone comes up with though.

Here are a few I'd put forward to start it off:

Mama said knock you out-- LL Cool J
Come Clean-- Jeru The Damaja
Keep ya Head up-- 2pac
Straight outta Compton-- N.W.A.
Rebel Without a Pause-- Public Enemy
Childrens Story-- Slick Rick
Unbelievable-- Biggie Smalls
The World is yours-- Nas
Tonight's Da night-- Redman
Let Me Ride-- Dr. Dre
Gin & Juice-- Snoop Doggy Dogg
Shook Ones Pt. II-- Mobb Deep
Don't believe the hype-- Public Enemy
F*ck the Police-- N.W.A.
Full Clip-- GangStarr
C.R.E.A.M.-- Wu- Tang Clan
Memory Lane-- Nas
Hood Took me under-- Compton's Most Wanted
It takes two-- Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
Boom-- Royce Da 5'9"
Worst comes to worst-- Dilated Peoples

I could go on all day!

Comments??

ghostface ste

I'll throw these few out aswell to get it rolling:

Elevators (me & you) - Outkast
In Between Us - Scarface & Nas
Brooklyn Zoo - Old Dirty
You Never Know - Immortal Technique
The Overly Dramatic Truth - El-P
Protect ya Neck - Wu Tang
Dead Presidents II - Jay-Z
Da Rocwilder - Meth and Red (Purely as a crazy party track!!)
Wrath of Kane - Big Daddy Kane


I'll think of more later, agree with lot of OPs tracks, full clip by gangstar is superb

Orizio

Rather Unique - AZ...

Yeah thats about it.

Pen1987

I'd have to disagree with the El-P suggestion! Even as an El-P fan! If I was to put in one El track it would be 'Stepfather Factory' or 'Deep space 9mm'

No Rakim yet!

Eric B is President - Eric B and Rakim
Let the rhythm hit em' - Eric B and Rakim
I aint no joke - Eric B and Rakim
Follow the Leader - Eric B and Rakim

and i'd throw in...

No Regrets - Aesop Rock
Early mornin' Tony - Felt
Ether - Nas

and finally!

Da' mystery of Chessboxin' - Wu-Tang Clan, cant believe this wasnt mentioned! The last verse has one of the greatest verses EVER "Homocide is illegal and death is the penalty? what justicfies the homcide, when he dies?!"

Jay Ru

the roots - what they do
the pharcyde - runnin, drop, passin me by
jay z - dead presidents
gangster - the ? remainz
special ed - i got it made
pete rock & cl smooth - t.r.o.y.
raekwon & ghostface - ice cream
wu tang clan - c.r.e.a.m.
a.t.c.q. - scenario, award tour, ooh my god
busta rhymes - woh haa
jurasic 5 - concrete school yard
big daddy kane - ain't no half steppin'
de la soul - stakes is high
junior mafia - players anthem
nine - whatchu want

Blisterman

I'd have to include some of the early tracks:

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

2-ShortDa5foot5

Blisterman wrote: »

I'd have to include some of the early tracks:

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

+1

I would put forward the above too as contenders, along with these old school gems:

You Gots to chill By EPMD
I know you got soul Eric B & Rakim
Eye know By De La Soul
Public Enemy No 1 By Public Enemy
Boyz In The Hood (Remix) By Eazy-E

Ay Cee

Nine - Whatcha Want
LOTUG - Chief Rocka
Rakim - Know the Ledge (Off the soundtrack to a 2Pac film, AMAZED it hasn't been mentioned )
NBN - Uptown Anthem (As Above)
EPMD - Head Banger
Boom - Royce
Hip Hop - Dead Prez
Young Black Teenagers - Tap The Bottle (Ye gotta love it!)

Just the immediate ones that spring to mind that haven't been mentioned.

evil_seed

Regulate

2-ShortDa5foot5

Pen1987 wrote: »

and finally!

Da' mystery of Chessboxin' - Wu-Tang Clan, cant believe this wasnt mentioned! The last verse has one of the greatest verses EVER "Homocide is illegal and death is the penalty? what justicfies the homcide, when he dies?!"

Have to say I prefer 7th Chamber: "Champion gear I rock, you get yo boots knocked..." Or Clan In Da Front: "The Wu is comin through, the outcome is critical, f*ckin with ma style is sorta like a miracle..."

Jay Ru

evil_seed wrote: »

Regulate

don't know if thats one of the greatest hip hop tunes of all time, don't get me wrong its a good tune but i.m.o. it ain't one of the greatest!

evil_seed

B.O.B & Rosa Parks too

Affable

Dre/Snoop=Nuthin but a g thing
Lil Ghetto Boy

Mobb Deep-Survival of the fittest
Shook ones pt2

Tupac

Cant C me
Holla at me
Pain.

Public enemy

He got game.

Boom_Bap

I started writing a list but it's just too difficult.
But one song that I always come back to is Aesop Rock - No Regrets.

Orizio

evil_seed wrote: »

B.O.B & Rosa Parks too

Honestly, you could answer this thread with OutKast alone. Crumblin' Erb comes to mind straight away.


****, which track off their first three albums wasn't incredible?

Boom_Bap

Art of StoryTelling Pt. II not incredible......it ridiculously incredble lol

Recovered

I listen to a lot of music so kinda hard to pick all time favorites but I'm gonna focus a bit on the old school here:

Audio Two - Top Billin
(sampled over and over and over, latest well known sampling would be in 50's I get money): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igAS5-276wU

Can't believe noone has mentioned Das EFX? They have some really dope beats:
They want EFX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U05LDDeWxkU
Real Hip Hop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZyFhERxkQc&feature=related
Mic Checka:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5HAA_IQfc&feature=related

Gangstarr - Mass Appeal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXyFZkU9bkQ

I'll stop there for now

Makaveli

Here's a few

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwonG3iGaI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnydK0phSqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbFVp6ifTOw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhKNqYKtiNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBrzEVJwYFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqYibS3m7UM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZLq6R-ZtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owQwvdcikg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pja3qv7FVPQ

Must stop now.

Recovered

Makaveli wrote: »

Here's a few

Haha, the first one won't play in the embedded window for some reason but while I was listening to the rest I thought of Black Sheep and was thinking "Engine Engine nr 9, on the NY transit line..." and it wasn't until after I listened to all the tracks and then managed to click through the first one to take me to youtube and saw it actually is Black Sheep .

Can only say I'm a fan of the first 2 in your list though, KRS one always rocks on!

AckwelFoley

too many t mention.. but i think this sums it up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhkIIDzT-Q

Roar

Recovered wrote: »

I listen to a lot of music so kinda hard to pick all time favorites but I'm gonna focus a bit on the old school here:

Audio Two - Top Billin
(sampled over and over and over, latest well known sampling would be in 50's I get money): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igAS5-276wU

Can't believe noone has mentioned Das EFX? They have some really dope beats:
They want EFX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U05LDDeWxkU
Real Hip Hop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZyFhERxkQc&feature=related
Mic Checka:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5HAA_IQfc&feature=related

Gangstarr - Mass Appeal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXyFZkU9bkQ

I'll stop there for now

+1

my favourite Gang Starr track

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=w9btiJLARwk

ghostface ste

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Art of StoryTelling Pt. II not incredible......it ridiculously incredble lol

+1

Song is crazy

2-ShortDa5foot5

This came on shuffle on me iPod this mornin comin to work and I had forgotten about it, add this to the list:

My Life-- Styles P & Pharoahe Monch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUpfTzHgGo

(Dunno how to embed...)

Boom_Bap

I just got this earlier

http://www.youtube.com/v/QLd_hzxkHdM&hl=en

Brings back memories, what a song. When i get home later i'm gonna dig out the album this is from and give it a whirl.

Makaveli

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

This came on shuffle on me iPod this mornin comin to work and I had forgotten about it, add this to the list:

My Life-- Styles P & Pharoahe Monch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUpfTzHgGo

(Dunno how to embed...)

[youtube.]numbers/letters after the v= in the youtube url[/youtube.]

Without the . in the tags.

So,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUpfTzHgGo

A handy trick to find out how people do stuff like that in their posts is to quote the post, that way you get to see the tags used.

shane86

gh, wtf do people embed youtube links?!!? It always plays alot slower than when you just watch it directly from youtube.

Makaveli, can you name the videos posted, in order? If I play one, decide I dont like it and go on to the next, the one I dont like is still loading, so it slows the whole lot down.

Only listened to the Big L one, never heard it before. Fookin quality.

Makaveli

You can click on the videos and it will open a new tab (in Firefox anyway, don't know about other browsers) and load the video in youtube instead.

Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
KRS-One - Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight)
Organized Konfusion - Stress
Main Source - Live At The BBQ
Big L - Put It On
Black Moon - How Many Emcee's
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario (Feat. Leaders of the New School)
Smif-N-Wessun - Wontime
Masta Ace - Take A Walk

Fresh Breath

I cant really many tracks out cause i know hip-hop has got some classics!

But some of the tracks that come to mind or more like the tracks that im listening to a lot lately would be:

J Dilla - Believe in god
J Dilla - Last donut of the night
J Dilla - People
Common - Misunderstood
Common - Testify
Talib Kweli - more or less
Gza - Animals


Hip Hop... One Love

2-ShortDa5foot5

Fresh Breath wrote: »

ICommon - Testify

+1

Also "Heaven & Hell" By Raekwon & Ghostface. Just started listening to the Cuban Linx album and this is easily one of the best tracks on it.

5ForKeeps

Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight
Warren G - Regulate
Dre & Snoop - Nuthin But G Thang and Gin and Juice
2Pac & Dre - Changes & California Love
Biggie - Juicy


From purely a beefin point of view Hit Em Up by 2Pac was class. Kanye West changed the type of Hip Hop we were normally used too, his frist album was a ground breaker. The Jigga man has to get a mention, off the top of head Dirt Off Your Shoulder, the beat on that record was unreal.

Fresh Breath

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

+1

Also "Heaven & Hell" By Raekwon & Ghostface. Just started listening to the Cuban Linx album and this is easily one of the best tracks on it.

Yea i went through a mad wu tang phase got me into hip hop properly but now ive jus gone onto the real soul hip hop like J Dilla... R.I.P the best hip hop producer of all time!!

speedboatchase

My favourite: Juicy - Biggie

Honourable Mentions

Shook Ones - Mobb Deep
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
California Love - Tupac
I Got 5 On It - Da Luniz
Jesus Walks - Kanye
Crossroads - Bone Thugs
Whats My Name - Snoop
One Mic - Nas

Neecod

Mos def - pretty much everything off black on both sides
Nas- Lifes a bitch
Killah Priest- B.I.B.L.E (on GZA album)
Raekwon- Verbal intercourse
Prodigy- Young veterans 2
Freeway- Baby don't do it
2pac-through my rearview
Ghostface- anything of Fishscale

Pharrell

Biggie – juicy
Biggie - 1970 something
Mos Def - close to the edge

Dudess

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five featuring Melle Mel - The Message
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television (The Drug of the Nation)
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
De La Soul - Stakes is High

Mazletov

Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day

Parsley

Spank Rock feat. Benny Blanco - B.O.O.T.A.Y
Spank Rock feat. Benny Blanco - Loose

The REAL Kirby

"They got stick up kids, corrupt cops and crack rocks....."

Stab*City

some of my favs..

ol skool:

schooly d - am i black enough for you
run d.m.c. - my addias
ice t - 6 in the morning
cypress hill - how i could just kill a man
dj quik - tonite
gangstarr - just to get a rep
NWA - **** the police
eric b & rakim - follow the leader
eric b & rakim - juice
comptons most wanted - growing up in the hood
da lench mob - gorillas in the mist
eazy e - boys in the hood
epmd - headbanger
epmd - crossover
epmd - cummin at cha
pete rock & cl smooth - mecca and the soul brother

i could keep going... and i will more ol skool to come and new skool

markesmith

We just wrote a review of 'Hey Ladies' on the thishereboogie.com blog, that'd be my favourite hip-hop song. </shameless plug>

Honourable mentions:
- "Looking for the Perfect Beat" by Afrikaa Bambaataa (sp.?)
- "N.Y. State of Mind" by Nas
- "Fight the Power" by P.E.
- "Shame on a Nigga" by Wu-Tang Clan
- "Nuthin But A G-Thang" by Dre (another review on our blog)
- "Gin & Juice" by Snoop

I also quite like "Jesus Walks", but I'll likely get shot down over that!
d

Boom_Bap

markesmith wrote: »

I also quite like "Jesus Walks", but I'll likely get shot down over that!
d

Put me in the firing line too....'Jesus Walks' is a Modern Day Classic along with 'Kanye's WorkOut Plan'. The suprising thing is that i'm not really a fan of Kanye!

TheMilkyPirate

Not much of biggie here so ill throw two in..

Notorious b.i.g - Everyday struggle

Notorious b.i.g - Machine gun funk

Boom_Bap

Biggie's best track is Who Shot Ya?

2-ShortDa5foot5

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Biggie's best track is Who Shot Ya?

Classic, but in my opinion his best is "Unbelievable"

bananamansgay

not my fav's of all time, i guess they seem to change, but these tracks are all quality...

iron galaxy - cannibal ox (from the finest hiphop album ever made - the cold vein)

swordsman - GZA (from another solid album, liquid swords)

conditioner - wu tang clan feat. snoop dog

ego trippin' - ultramagnetic mc's

recognition - demon boyz (only ever heard it on mr scruffs 'keep it solid steel' but its a monster)

thesoulfulldude

here it goes


Notorious B.I.G. feat Lil Kim - Another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vy0QfC2pIU


Slick Rick - Children's Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRC4ziQpb5I


Slick Rick ft Outkast - Street Talkin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMsy_UNaRCw



Digable Planets - Where Im From Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CadXFYWoHTI


The Prodigy Ft Kool Keith - Diesel Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnJkQp0HdfU



Fat Joe (feat. Grand Puba & Diamond D) - Watch The Sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnGqH0C3Yf4




:D:D:D:D:D:D



and this is killer
jonlajoie - Everyday Normal Guy 2

SmokyMo

Just a quick one to add --- AZ,Nas - Life's a Bitch and How you living.

Poccington

NaS Ft. AZ - Life's A Bitch
Wu Tang Clan - Triumph

Those 2 songs are there because they both contain 2 of the best opening verses I've ever heard, the flow is untouchable in both. AZ outshines NaS completely on Life's A Bitch, even though NaS drops a more than solid verse..... AZ just beasted. Then Deck just killed it on Triumph, as soon as I first heard "I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies / and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these / mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery" I was just like :eek:


KP - B.I.B.L.E(Off of GZA's Liquid Swords)
Common - The Light
Wu Tang - Protect Ya Neck
Raekwon Ft. NaS - Verbal Intercourse
Ghostface - All That I Got Is You
The Firm - Phone Tap

There's just so many to mention, I could go all day!

thesoulfulldude

im on youtube now checking out videos so im gonna edit this post a few times

love the game, really liked this song but i heard the live version, really flows
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJcFR1aUxHI


getting into common lately heard this track, old school feel to it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fm3xjzZM3PE

the GALL

jonlajoie - Everyday Normal Guy 2
that was amazin
cheers for that
surprized there's no mention of house of pain anywhere in this tread
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMAVTKnPjs

ItsNugget

Nas- NY State Of Mind
Juice Crew-The Symphony
Jedi Mind Tricks-Uncommon Valour
Fat Joe &Big Pun-Twinz