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

By that, I mean lolni.

aw u guys the pm dawn song is great :'(

yeah i voted "i'll be missing you." didn't like "wild wild west" either

ok, is that PM Dawn song the one that sampled/interpolated "True" by Spandau Ballet, or a different one?

PM Dawn included better songs than "Set Adrift" on that first album, but Spandau Ballet never did; the song exists so that PM Dawn could sample it.

k, i was just curious as that's the only PM Dawn I know

Much better, but it's R&B:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Df9nKO_6_U

i love that song too -- not as much, but it's good. some of those lyrics, though...

i actually liked several songs from pm dawn's first 2 albums

were they anything sonically similar to Arrested Development or another case of hotdogs

No "actually" necessary. The second one is great.

I thought they were much better than Arrested Development.

wild wild west.

They're like Arrested Development in that they took flowers and coats of many colors seriously.

at least arrested development had one good song

"i'll be missin you" is obv a Bad Song but i liked it when it came out, probably because i had never heard the police song before that. i was also like, nine

otm

Best P.M. Dawn of all, one of my favorite songs of the past 20 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30RX1yi2V9c

Never even knew there was a video--it was a hit in Britian, but not North America. This version is somewhat different than what's on their first album.

pm dawn has inoj on their top friends on myspace, lol. 90s graveyard.

90s graveyard on a 00s graveyard, even.

inoj >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pm dawn

I think what I dislike m8st about Missing You is that I didn't like the Police anyway and yet somehow Puffy sampling it made it worse. I had made a conscious decision at that point in my life to get into more hip-hop and Missing You helped derail that by getting played on the radio every hour.

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"Missing You" is an obv cash grab & of questionable taste, but it's Puffy.. tbh I kind of admire the brazenness of the whole affair.

The worst song of these is clearly "Informer," which no amount of lol90s nostalgia can reconcile - it has aged very, very badly. Still, it isn't really a rap song, is it? Morelike Canadian dancehall.

I vote for Marky Mark.

who's talking shit about PM Dawn?!?

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haaaaa

lol someone voting for Lauren Hill wtf

3 people voted for bone thugs?

fuck this board sometimes

fuck this board 3 times iirc

Will Smith - "Getting Jiggy With It" 5
Puff Daddy and Mase - "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" 5
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Tha Crossroads" 3

ban anyone who voted these

yup

otm those people need to gtfo

danced to "jiggy" at the bar last night ^___^

i voted for "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and explained why upthread -- seriously, defend that song

the rapping is good
the beat is a classic
puffy's record was basically the late 90s mixtape-as-album & this makes sense w/in the album concept

mase, will you stop smokin lala?

puff, why try imma thug imma die high

luv the use of "rock with you" drumrolls :D

if you're really defending this song on the grounds that "the beat is a classic" then you're basically saying every freestyle over a classic beat is a great song in its own right

i mean maybe you're just tired of kneejerk Puffy hating but tell me it's not the worst Bad Boy track on this list

worse than "i'll be missing you?!!?! wtf

Lauryn Hill - "Doo Wop (That Thing)" 1
Notorious BIG ft Puff Daddy and Mase - "Mo Money Mo Problems" 1

fuck these trolls w/ an axe

i actually think "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" is a pretty lousy track—such a lazy beatjack and admittedly-nimble-yet-lethargic-sounding raps. But its miles from being the worst songs on this list

like he and mase kind of sucked all the life out of that beat

i will say its an odd choice for a single. but it works w/in the album for me so w/e

it def works on the album

it def worked as a single too, on the radio between like "da dip" and "return of the mack"

I remember being very bored by "Tha Crossroads."

― clemenza, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hope you are referring to Britney Spears or Ralph Maccio movie

― San Te, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ralph Macchio as bored teenage girl who takes road trip to learn Britney songs played by aging blues hero Dan Aykroyd.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

With a cameo by Robert Johnson, playing a mysterious character named Cream.

― clemenza, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"I'm Not a Girl (You're The Best Around)" by 98 Degrees.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me: people should respect different musical opinions!

also me: i know this is a 7 year old poll but whoever voted for Lauryn Hill deserves to be excommunicated from this board

lol otm

"Baby Got Back" wouldn't be a consideration for me if voting in the 90s, but lord, in 2019, this song grates like a motherfucker.

Some of it is what "wite people at karaoke night" did to it, which is obv unfair, but it doesn't feel like a song that was meant to be banged (bung?) forever, whereas most of my favs on this list still sound good to me