Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All-Time

Submitted by joannajewsom on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 18:03
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  1. "Protect Ya Neck" (1993)- Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
  2. "Follow the Leader" (1988)- Eric B. & Rakim- Follow the Leader
  3. "The Message" (1982)- Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5- The Message
  4. "Poet Laureate II" (2003)- Canibus- Rip the Jacker
  5. "Changeling" (1996)- DJ Shadow- Endtroducing
  6. "Just a Friendly Game of Baseball" (1991)- Main Source- Breaking Atoms
  7. "Ain't It Good to You" (1988)- Ultramagnetic MC's- Critical Beatdown
  8. "Beauty" (2005)- Edan- Beauty & the Beat
  9. "Last Good Sleep" (1997)- Company Flow- Funcrusher Plus
  10. "Blue Flowers" (1996)- Dr. Octagon- Dr. Octagonecologyst
  11. "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" (1988)- Big Daddy Kane- Long Live the Kane
  12. "Pigeon" (2001)- Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
  13. "Virus" (2000)- Deltron 3030- Deltron 3030
  14. "All You Can Do Is Laugh- Part 1" (2001)- cLOUDDEAD- cLOUDDEAD
  15. "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" (1988)- Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
  16. "As the Rhyme Goes On" (1987)- Eric B. & Rakim- Paid in Full
  17. "It Was a Good Day" (1992)- Ice Cube- The Predator
  18. "Stepping Into Tomorrow" (2003)- Madlib- Shades of Blue (Blue Note Records)
  19. "Raspberry Fields" (2001)- Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
  20. "Vibrate" (2003)- Outkast - The Love Below
  21. "4th Chamber" (1995)- GZA feat. Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest, RZA- Liquid Swords
  22. "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" (1988)- De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising
  23. "The Sounds of Science" (1989)- Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
  24. "One Day"- RJD2- Since We Last Spoke
  25. "The Scarecrow Speaks" (1999)- Deep Puddle Dynamics- The Taste of Rain...Why Kneels?
  26. "Hey!" (1999)- MF DOOM- Operation: Doomsday
  27. "B.I.B.L.E." (1995)- Killah Priest- Liquid Swords
  28. "Stress" (1994)- Organized Konfusion- Stress: The Extinction Agenda
  29. "Knowledge God" (1995)- Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
  30. "Dance with the Devil" (2004)- Immortal Technique- Revolutionary, Vol. 1
  31. "Stroke of Death" (2000)- Ghostface Killah feat. Solomon Childs and RZA- Supreme Clientele
  32. "Lickupon" (2003)- Viktor Vaughn- Vaudeville Villain
  33. "Dwyck" (1994)- Gang Starr feat. Nice & Smooth- Hard to Earn
  34. "Capital Punishment" (1998)- Big Punisher- Capital Punishment
  35. "Damage" (1995)- Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. GZA- Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
  36. "Marshall Mathers" (2000)- Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP
  37. "It's Like That(My Big Brother)" (1996)- Redman feat. K-Solo- Muddy Waters
  38. "Sing It, Shitface (2002)- Edan- Primitive Plus
  39. "The Nang, the Front, the Bush, and the Shit" (2002)- El-P- Fantastic Damage
  40. "The Ruler's Back" (1988)- Slick Rick- The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Marquee06/19/2009

A few suggestions, the first being the most glaring omission.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - TROY
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Black Star - Thieves in the Night
Eric B. & Rakim - Lyrics of Fury
Binary Star - Reality Check
DJ Shadow - Blood on the Motorway
OutKast - Aquemia
Tricky - Hell is Round the Corner
Blackalcious - Make you Feel That Way
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Masta Ace - Born to Roll

Otherwise you have some of my favorites (The Message, Blue Flowers, BIBLE, Hey!, Stress, It Was A Good Day, The Sounds of Science, etc). Good stuff.