Top 100 90s Hip-Hop Singles

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96(?). 2Pac - How Do U Want It

― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

ok just to tidy up the first 100 here are the 3 greatest singles of all time. then we can get back to the herbaliser singles.

98. The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy/Unbelievable

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

99. Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck/M.E.T.H.O.D. Man

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

100. Dr Dre - Nuthin But A 'G' Thang

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

oh no! 'mama said knock you out' is in there twice! oh no! we need a new no.100...

100. Main Source feat. Nas, Akinyele, and Joe Fatal - Live At The Barbecue

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

Number whatever - Brand Nubian - "Punks jump up (to get beat down)"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

Gang Starr - Jazz Thing
Unique 3 - Musical Melody
Trible Called Quest - Can I Kick It
Jungle Brothers - What You Waiting For
Jungle Brothers - Doin' Our Own Dang
(Best Mix uses Raw Silk's 'Do It To The Music' as backing track)
NWA - Express Yourself
(Does this count as a Dre track?)
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Summertime
(I know this has been remixed at verious times but the '91 original is still best)
King Bee - Back By Dope Demand
Skee-Lo - I Wish
Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!!

― jack large, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:40 (twenty years ago) link

"Express Yourself" was released as a single in 1989.

― Aaron M., Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:05 (twenty years ago) link

Dr Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringing
Gravediggaz - Unexplained
Gravediggaz - Nowhere to Hide
Redman - Time 4 Sum Akshun
Method Man/Redman - How High?
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

had 'Woo Hah' already, how about Camp Lo 'Luchini'? i HATE many of the tracks on this list you know...

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg "Ain't Nuthin But a G Thang"
The Roots' "What They Do"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:34 (twenty years ago) link

Digable Planets, "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
Ice Cube, "Today Was a Good Day"
Father MC, "I'll Do 4 U"
Candyman, "Knockin' Boots"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

Can't believe no one's mentioned Lords of the Underground's "Funky Child" or Black Moon's "Who Got Da Props."

― Rich, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

JAY Z 'IS THAT YR BITCH', 'BROOKLYN'S FINEST' FT. BIG, 'MONEY CASH HOES' FT. DMX, 'BIG PIMPIN'.

CASH MONEY LUV==========
BG 'BLING BLING'
JUVE 'HA' (HOT BOYS REMIX)
LIL WAYNE 'DA BLOCK IS HOT'

― sean g, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

Outkast "Elevators"!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

is at #16 and rightly so

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

D'oh! I am poxy fule.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

Whatever numbers.

Notorious B.I.G. - 'Mo' Money, Mo' Problems.'

Puff Daddy - 'I'll Be Missing You.'

Ma$e - 'Feel So Good.'

Nas ft. Lauryn Hill - 'If I Ruled the World.'

Da Brat - 'Funkdafied.'

Bone Thugs N' Harmony - 'Tha Crossroads.'

Master P - 'Burbons and Lacs.'

― d k (d k), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Puff Daddy - 'I'll Be Missing You.'

whaat?!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

Pharcyde 'Passin Me By' already

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

pharoah monche's "simon says."
skee-lo's "i wish."

...and i can't believe it took so long for someone to say "rebirth of slick (cool like dat)"!

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

This list is missing O.C. - "Time's Up"

Luniz - "I Got 5 On It"

AND frickin" "O.P.P." by Naughy by Nature?!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

Holy Crap...I also forgot U Can't Touch This by Hammer!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

nas-nas is like

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

And seriously, we've got "Throw Ya Gunz" but no "Slam"? WTF?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Also amazingly unmentioned so far = JUMP AROUND JUMP AROUND GET OUTCHA SEAT AND JUMP AROUND JUMP UP JUMP UP AND GET DOWN

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

House of Pain -- good one...

Also, I propose a new #1: My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me by the Geto Boys

Also not included:

Laflour Laflaur Eshkoshka by Heltah Skeltah/Boot Camp Click

Trigga Gots No Heart - Spice 1

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Silkk da Shocker feat. Mystikal - It Ain't My Fault
Xzibit - What You See is What You Get
Method Man - Bring the Pain
Nice & Smooth - Hip Hop Junkies
Gang Starr - Militia
Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy
Outkast - Rosa Parks
Jay-Z - Jigga What, Jigga Who

This list is going to be impossible to get into order anyway, so we might as well all just name stuff. There's too much that needs to be heard anyway.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

Arrested Development - Tennessee
Notorious BIG - Big Poppa
Snoop Dogg - What's My Name
These should all be top ten.

Tha Crossroads - Bone Thugs N Harmony
Pras - Ghetto Superstar
Jay-Z - Ain't No Nigga
EPMD - Crossover
Ice Cube - No Vaseline
Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers
Eve - What You Want
LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl
LL Cool J - Hey Lover
LL Cool J - Loungin (remix)

Does "Poison" by Bel Biv Devoe count for this list?

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

'Jump Around' was #29 nickalicious - are you okay?! ;)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

good call on 'Rosa Parks' btw Tom B

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

I was going to say "Come Clean" but it was WAAAAAAAY up at the top of the list.

Son of Bazerk - "Change The Style"
Ice Cube - "Wicked"
Tag Team - "Whoomp! (There It Is)"
95 South - "Dazzey Duks"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Electric Relaxation"
Queen Latifah - "Black Hand Side"
Cypress Hill - "Insane In The Brain"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

Lootpack--"Whenimondamic"
Dilated Peoples--"Work the Angles"
Ed OG--"I Got to Have It"
EPMD--"Gold Digger"
Eric B. and Rakim--"In the Ghetto"
Kool G Rap and Dj Polo--"Ill Street Blues"
Show and AG--"Fat Pockets"
Fu Schnickens--"La Schmoove"
Diamond D--"Best Kept Secret"
Common (Sense)--"I Used to Love H.E.R."
Luniz--"I Got 5 on It"
Keith Murray--"The Most Beautifulest Thing in the World"
Junior MAFIA--"Get Money"
Smoothe da Hustler--"Broken Language"
Alkaholiks--"DAAMN"
J-Live--"Braggin Writes"
GZA--"Shadowboxin"
INI--"Fakin' Jax" (pete rock production)
Redman--"Whateva Man"
Gang Starr--"Just to Get a Rep", "You Know My Steez"
Group Home--"Supa Star" (did everybody and their mother forget how fucking dope this song is?)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

Maestro Fresh-Wes - "Let Your Backbone Slide"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

smif n wessun - bucktown b/w let's get it on
artifacts - wrong side of da tracks b/w flexi wit da tech, whassup now muthafucka
camp lo - luchini b/w swing (holla stevem! - i like the b-side a bit better)
return of the crooklyn dodgers '95
pacewon - i declare war b/w step up
the nonce - bus stops b/w who falls apart?
key kool & rhettmatic - can you hear it b/w e=mc^5 (a-side a bit iffy)
mr. complex - visualize
e-rule - listen up
all city - ~~the actual~~ b/w priceless
group home - ~~dial-a-thug~~ b/w 12 o'clock brooklyn, breaker 1,9
mobb deep - temperature's rising b/w give up the goods (the tip rmx is my shit)

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

nice ans smooth, cant have a cake, Gangstar Dwyck??? was i the only one?

― set, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 05:47 (twenty years ago) link

wow i never saw this thread, it kinda sucks

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

Does that Nice and Smooth 'Hip Hop Junkies' track have lyrics going "Hail the return of the hip hop freaks" or am I thinking of something completely different?

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

2pac feat. Dre: California Love

― Jay K (Jay K), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

camp lo - sparkle
juvenil - bling bling
missy - she's a bitch
odb - brooklyn zoo
ghostface - daytona 500
9ine - wutcha want
safir - light sleeper
del tha funky homosapien - catch a bad one
mc solaar - nouveau western
method man - release yo'delf
de la soul - stakes is high
a tribe called quest - i left my wallet in el segundo
outkast - southernplaylistcadillacmusic
wu tang clan - c.r.e.a.m.
domino - ghetto jam
cypress hill - we aint goin out like that
krs-one - rapture's delight

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

cmon people...so many good things left our...
xzibit..paprazzi..what u see is what u get now
wu tang---- mystery of da chessboxin
nas --- ny state of mind
fab 5...heltah skeltah , ogc , smiff n wessun
EPMD???????
REDMAN HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT....
i could go for days but this was last updated in aug so imma leave it at this

― positive k NUMBER 1????????, Sunday, 28 September 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

No "Deep Cover"?? I mean, jeez, it';s only THE GREATEST THING THE GOOD DOCTOR HAS EVER DONE!!! Not to mention the fact that it was the debut of MY FAVORITE RAPPER OF ALL TIME, Mr. Snoop.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 28 September 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

onyx - last days
showbiz & ag - next level (nyte time mix)
oc - times up
biggie smalls - who shot ya
jnr mafia - players anthem
2 pac - temptations
cnn - iraq
bone thugz n harmony - crossroads (dj u-neek mo thugs remix)
nas - if i ruled the world (imagine that)
coolio ft lv - gangtas paradise

― lil sg, Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

Step into the am - 3rd Bass
Fakin the Funk - Main Source
Cold Rock a Party- MC Lyte
This or That - Black Sheep
Buddy- De La Soul

Your list helped me with mine.
Thanks

― shuttabug, Monday, 9 February 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

All of these rappers are terrible execpt gangstar, puplic enemy, De La, Del, S.O.M., KRS, and tribe F*** everyone else im sick of people thinking that a top hip hop song should consist of trashy lyrics and catchy beats some people need to wake up and relize that all of these so-called-rappers have no skill. It takes no talent to rap about guns, bitches, niggers and weed. And its funny how most, if not all of these rappers grew up in nice ass neighborhoods yet they claim that they're gangbangers and lived on the streets, rapping about how hard and rough there past life was man F*** that. Personally Atmosphere Overcast should be at the top. And screw anyone who supported these no talent "rappers" in making millions and dicking over true mc's such as sage,j-live and slug.

― knowledgementof truelyrics, Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

big pun dissed!

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 29 February 2004 07:09 (twenty years ago) link

Worthy picks not mentioned yet:

Rakim - "Juice - Know the Ledge" (!!)
Juggaknots - "Clear Blue Skies" (!!!)

Channel Live w/ KRS One - "Mad Izm"
Group Home - "The Realness"
Smif-n-Wessun - "Sound Bwoy Bureill"
Saukrates - "Father Time"
Mister Voodoo - "Hemlock" (or any other Natural Elements record, but I'm biased)
Heltah Skeltah - "Da Wiggy"
Public Enemy "Shut Em Down - Pete Rock Remix"
Jeru - "Can't Stop the Prophet" (original and Pete Rock remix)
Raekwon - "Glaciers of Ice"
Reflection Eternal ft. Mos Def & Mr. Man - "Fortified Live" (whatever happened to Shawn J Period?? I heard he became a born again christian and decided sampling was too sinful)
King Tee and the Alkaholiks - "I've Got it Bad Y'all" (Nobody but me will pick this but I don't care, BEST SONG EVER)

― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

rap is the greatest music ever

and that king tee song is great

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Leaders of the new school? Or was that the late 80's? Das Efx, Casual......

― doughland, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

Haha I think I'll lay off defending the corny indie-rap fuxx for awhile.

― djdee2005, Thursday, 1 April 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

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