My top 100 hiphop songs from 1987-1995. This is a personal selection, I know some of you will complain that some tracks aren't on my list. This is mainly Eastcost hiphop, with some exceptions.
Notable mentions not on my list: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Chubb Rock, Craig G, Diamond D Doug E. Fresh, Edo G, Heavy D, Jungle Brothers, Juste-Ice, Leaders Of The New School, MC Ren, Poor Righteous Teachers, Scarface, Shyheim, Tha Alkaholiks, The Roots.
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#100 King Just - Warrior's Drum
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Album: Mystics Of The God (1995)
Producer: RNS
"And there's a thousand M.C.'s, lined up against the wall
TIMBER, they all gonna fall"
NHL jerseys count: 3 (Boston, Pittsburgh & Anaheim)
Album: Mystics Of The God (1995)
Producer: RNS
"And there's a thousand M.C.'s, lined up against the wall
TIMBER, they all gonna fall"
NHL jerseys count: 3 (Boston, Pittsburgh & Anaheim)
#99 Nine - Any Emcees
Album: Nine Livez (1995)
Producers: Rob Lewis & Tony Stoute
"Gettin' paid completes the cypher
Bein' broke is like havin' no blunts, just a lighter"
"Any MC that disagree with me, wave your arms"
#98 Method Man & Redman - How High (Remix)
Album: How High (Vinyl Single) (1995)
Producer: Erick Sermon
"Excuse me as I kiss the sky,
Sing a song of six pence a pocket full a rye"
#97 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Album: Return To The 36 Chambers (The Dirty Version) (1995)
Producer: RZA
"Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay,
Gimme the mic so I can take it away
Off on a natural charge, bon voyage
Yeah, from the home of the Dodgers, Brooklyn squad"
#96 Lords Of The Underground - Tic Toc
Album: Keepers of the Funk (1994)
Producer: Marley Marl
"If you think you're the bomb, then I'm Hiroshima"
NHL jerseys count: 4 (Dallas)
Bonus: Sega Game Gear
#94 Mic Geronimo - The Natural
Album: The Natural (1995)
Producer: Mark Sparks
"I'm far from ordinary, I pitch a K like the arm of Satchel
Beware from the strength of the Natural"
#93 Jamal - Fades 'Em All (Pete Rock Remix)
Album: Fades Em All (Vinyl Single) (1995)
Producer: Pete Rock
"I'm the master of the ceremony Mally G
And it'll be a long day before you see another me"
#92 Guru - Lifesaver
Album: Jazzmatazz (Vol.2) (The New Reality)
Producer: Guru
"Free with the style, I flow like the Nile"
#91 Fat Joe - Success
Album: Jealous One's Envy (1995)
Producer: Domingo
"So maintain, and put the frontin' to a rest
Or today'll be the grand openin' of your chest"
#90 Jeru The Damaja - You Can't Stop The Prophet (Pete Rock Remix)
Album: You Can't Stop The Prophet (Vinyl Single) (1994)
Producer: Pete Rock
"One day I got struck by knowledge of self
They gave me super scientifical powers
Now I, run through the ghetto
Battling my arch nemesis Mr. Ignorance"
#89 The Notorious B.I.G. - Who Shot Ya
Album: Big Poppa (Vinyl Single) (1995)
Producer: Puff Daddy
"Who shot ya?
Seperate the weak from the ob-solete"
"I can hear sweat tricklin' down your cheek
Your heartbeat sounds like Sasquatch feet"
"Old school, new school need to learn though
I burn baby burn like Disco Inferno
Burn slow like blunts with yayo
Peel more skins than Idaho potato"
#88 The Beatnuts - No Equal
Album: Intoxicated Demons (EP) (1993)
Producer: The Beatnuts
"Cause I been rhymin' since way back when
Straight up and from the heart is how it's always been"
"But all that tiggedy-tiggedy tongue-twistin' shit don't impress me"
#87 Main Source - What You Need
Album: Fuck What You Think (1994)
Producer: K-Cut
"I'm moving motherfuckers like I got telekinesis"
#85 Grand Puba - 2000
Album: 2000 (1995)
Producer: Minnesota
"Bleep Bleep Bleep ... 2000!"
"Here comes the brotha from the future
Man, I got what suits ya
Fake mc's go away and let your label prostitute ya"
#84 Redman - Can't Wait
Album: Dare Iz A Darkside (1994)
Producer: Erick Sermon
"Etcetera, I roll my blunts with two textures,
Pick up 50 bags and then I smoke all the extras"
#83 Masta Ace Incorporated - Born To Roll
Album: SlaughtaHouse (1993)
Producer: Ase One
"Braniac, dumb-dumb, bust the scientifical
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal
Can ya find ya way through the lyrics that be cathcin' em
Throw another rhyme across the room they be fetchin' em"
#82 The Notorious B.I.G. - Party & Bullshit
Album: Who's The Man? (Soundtrack) (1993)
Producer: Easy Mo Bee
"Honeys want to chat
But all we wanna know is where the party at?
And can I bring my gat?"
#81 Organized Konfusion - Stress
Album: Stress (The Extinction Agenda) (1994)
Producer: Buckwild
"Why do you choose to mimic these wack MC's?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?"
#80 Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Remix) (Feat. The Notorious B.I.G., Rampage, LL Cool J & Busta Rhymes)
Album: Flava In Ya Ear (Vinyl Single) (1994)
Producer: Easy Mo Bee
"Disappear, vamoose, you're wack to me
Take them rhymes back to the factory
I see, the gimmicks, the wack lyrics
The shit is depressing, pathetic, please forget it
You're mad cause my style you're admirin',
Don't be mad... U.P.S. is hirin'"
#78 Brand Nubian - Word Is Bond
Album: Everything Is Everything (1994)
Producers: Lord Jamar & Sadat X
"Comin' back in '94 with the raw that's against the law"
#77 Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Album: Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994)
Producer: Organized Noize
"Time to drop these bows, like Dusty Rhodes"
#76 Goodie Mob - Dirty South (Feat. Big Boi & Cool Breeze)
Album: Soul Food (1995)
Producer: Organized Noize
The Dungeon Family at it's finest.
What happened to Cee-Lo!?
#75 Lords Of The Underground - Chief Rocka
Album: Here Come The Lords (1993)
Producer: K-Def
"To tell you the truth, when on the mic
I'll say anything that sounds good
Like jump and a grump and sound over some uhhh!?
The Cat in the Hat and the mouse ran up the stairs
«That doesn't make no sense!» C'mon who cares?
See even without the gift there's yours so don't be tryin' to knock me
I say what I want to say, as long it sounds funky
Some MC's wanted to buy me, so they try to take stands
But they don't understand, I'm the motherfuckin' man
I amaze and astound, rhythm up and down
Smack a group of them around, let them know who wears the crown
Who's the tip of the top, the cream of the crop, the best under the sun?
I'm the Lord Chief Rocka, number one, Mr. Funky, uhh"
#74 O.C. - Time's Up
Album: Word...Life (1994)
Producer: Buckwild
"What's in the future for the fusion in the changer?
Rappers are in danger who will use wits to be a remainder"
"I'm fed up with the bull, on this focus of weed and clips
and glocks gettin cocked, and wax not bein flipped"
"That's what I consider real, in this field of music
Instead of puttin brain cells to work they abuse it"
#72 Keith Murray - The Most Beautifullest Thing Is This World
Album: The Most Beautifullest Thing Is This World (1995)
Producer: Erick Sermon
"Born to get tripped on, word is bond
I'm kickin' rhymes 'til the A.M. vultures swarm"
NHL jerseys count: 5 (Detroit)
#71 MC Eiht - Streiht Up Menace
Album: Menace II Society (Soundtrack) (1995)
Producers: DJ Slip, MC Eiht & QDIII
"A fucked up childhood, is why the way I am
It's got me in the state where I don't give a damn
Somebody help me, but nah they don't hear me though
I guess I'll be another victim of the ghetto"
#70 Black Sheep - Without A Doubt
Album: Non-Fiction (1994)
Producer: Black Sheep
"Black Sheep, in your house, party people you remember
The two that served your whole crew like the bartender"
#69 Smif N' Wessun - Wrekonize (Remix)
Album: Wrekonize (Vinyl Single) (1995)
Producer: Steele
"Early to rise so wake, wake before day break
Meditating on the steps I take
I realize there's a lot at stake
So why enterprise while tryin' to stack papes
But I wrekonize that it aint' easy
So I organize with my P.N.C."
Waking up on the street > *
#68 Raekwon - Ice Cream (Feat. Ghostface Killah, Cappadonna & Method Man)
Album: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)
Producer: RZA
"Your whole shell baby's wicked like Nimrod
Caught me like a fresh-water scrod, or may I not be God"
NHL jerseys count: 6 (Montreal)
#67 Onyx - Last Dayz
Album: All We Got Iz Us (1995)
Producer: Fredro Starr
"I'm America's nightmare
Young, black and just don't give a fuck
I just want to get high and live it up
So fuck a 9 to 5"
#66 Gravediggaz - 1-800-Suicide
Album: 6 Feet Deep (1995)
Producer: Prince Paul
"Six fucking devils stepped up playing brave God
Had the fucking nerve to try and enter my graveyard
I'm the RZA-Recta, be my sacrifice
Commit suicide and I'll bring you back to life"
The album version is rawer than the video one.
#65 Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (Feat. L.V.)
Album: Dangerous Minds (Soundtrack) (1995)
Producer: Doug Rasheed
"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone"
"They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me,
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?
I guess they can't; I guess they won't
I guess they front; that's why I know my life is outta luck, fool!"
#64 Method Man - Release Yo' Delf
Album: Tical (1994)
Producer: RZA
"Remedies, cousin I be doin' on my enemies
Penalty, then I drink forties to they memories
Emotion, rushin' through your down street vicinity
Blunt smoke, in the air reveals my identity"
P.S. Fuck Vevo and all that censored bullshit.
#63 The Pharcyde - Drop
Album: Labcabincalifornia (1995)
Producer: Jay Dee
"They try to follow but they're shallow and hollow
I can see right through them like an empty 40 bottle, of O.E.
They have no key, or no clues, to the game at all
Now they washed up, hung out to dry
Standin' looking stupid, wonderin' why?
It was the fame, that they tried to get
Now they walkin' around talkin' about "represent"
And keep it real, but I got to appeal,
Cause they exisitin' in a fantasy when holdin' the steel"
#62 Channel Live - Mad Izm (Feat. KRS-One)
Album: Station Identification (1995)
Producer: KRS-One
"Channel one two, I'm smashin' the law
Channel three, I make a run to the store
Channel four, leave the store with the Phillie cause I...
Spark the izm, I'm off to Channel Live"
"My intellect will insult ya,
Finish off your dead mind like a vulture"
#61 Dr. Dre - Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin') (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
Album: The Chronic (1992)
Producer: Dr. Dre
Who won the battle: Eazy or Dre?
#60 Eazy-E - Real Muthaphuckkin' G's (Feat. B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta)
Album: It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa (1993)
Producers: Rhythum D & Eazy-E
"Tell me where the fuck you found an anorexic rapper"
"But Dre Day only meant Eazy's pay day"
#59 Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray
Album: 19 Naughty III (1993)
Producers: DJ Kay Gee & Eazy-E
"I did your partner cause she's hot as a baker
Cause I'm Naughty by Nature, not cause I hate cha"
#58 Group Home - Supastar
Album: Livin' Proof
Producer: DJ Premier
"Born in the ghetto, it's hard to survive
Some have achieved and many brothers tried"
"At night I used to scream and shout
Livin' in the ghetto tryin' to get the hell out"
#56 Outkast - Player's Ball
Outkast - players ball par trapux
Album: Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994)
Producer: Organized Noize
#55 Luniz - I Got 5 On It (Remix) (Feat. Dru Down, Shock G, Richie Rich, E-40 & Spice 1)
Album: I Got 5 On It (CD Single) (1995)
Producer: Tone Capone
Classic shit.
#54 Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Album: Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time & Space) (1993)
Producers: Butterfly, Shane Faber & Mike Mangini
"We be to rap what key be to lock
But I'm cool like dat"
#53 Cypress Hill - Ain't Goin' Out Like That
Cypress Hill "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" par cedric71
Album: Black Sunday (1993)
Producer: T-Ray
"Comin' out da slums, it's da hoodlums
I'm pullin' my gat out on all you bums
So bring it on when you wanna come fight this
Outlaw, I'll kick ya like Billy Ray Cypress Hill"
#52 Smif N' Wessun - Butcktown
Album: Dah Shinin' (1995)
Producer: Da Beatminerz
"Around here headz don't act their age
Ya might be another dead boy on the front page"
"BUCKTOWN! Home of the Originoo Gunn Clapperz!"
NHL jerseys count: 7 (Chicago)
#51 Lost Boyz - The Lifestyles Of The Rich & Shameless
Album: Legal Drug Money (1995)
Producer: Easy Mo Bee
"Lifestyles of the rich & shameless
Some die wit the name, some die nameless..."
#50 Gang Starr - Take It Personal
Album: Daily Operation (1992)
Producer: DJ Premier
"But I can see clearly now the rain is gone
The pain is gone but what you did was still wrong"
"Nevertheless, cleverness can't impress
Cause now you've been expose like a person undressed
And I can see through you, cause I'm the Guru
And what you gonna do when I start to step to you"
"So Premier drops beats, for me to say verses to
And if I sound doper then take it personal"
#49 Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin (Remix)
Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin par ADA_Distribution
Album: I Got Cha Opin (VLS) (1994)
Producer: Da Beatminerz
"Dig a deeper hole microphone control with soul
Look at my hot eye's tell me how could you be cold
I'm comin' to you from the underground, with a thunder sound
#1 question, yo how can I be down?"
NHL jerseys count: 9 (Montreal & Pittsburgh)
#48 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo
Album: Return To The 36 Chambers (The Dirty Version)
Producer: RZA
"I drop science like girls be droppin' babies"
"Energy buildin', takin' all types of medicines"
"Shame on you, when you step through to
The Ol' Dirty Bastard, Brooklyn Zoo!"
#47 A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour (Feat. Trugoy The Dove)
Album: Midnight Marauders (1993)
Producer: A Tribe Called Quest
"Alot of kids was bustin' rhymes but they had no taste
Some said Quest was Wack, but now is that the case?
I have a quest to have a mic in my hand
Without that, it's like Kryptonite and Superman"
#46 Das EFX - Real Hip Hop
Album: Hold It Down (1995)
Producer: DJ Premier
"Your wack man, I eat a rapper like I'm pacman
I biggedy bring it, straight form the cella
For reala, packin' more hits than Lou Piniella"
#45 Artifacts - Wrong Side Of Da Tracks
Album: Between A Rock & A Hard Place (1994)
Producer: T-Ray
"I'm out to bomb like Vietnam under the same name Tame One
The bad one, ink flow master bastard with the Magnum
I tags up quick, and then I steps to the exit
When it's time to get sessed(?) or flex on some fresh shit
Some wack crook stole my black book I know who took it
I know his whole tag because the fag writes his name crooked"
#44 Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn (Baseball Mix) (Buckshot, Special Ed & Masta Ace)
Album: Crooklyn (Soundtrack) (Vol.1) (1994)
Producer: A Tribe Called Quest
"I know you wanna enter but I can't let you in
My mind state's the maddest, I'm gone with the wind"
#43 Biz Markie - Vapors
Album: Goin' Off (1988)
Producer: Marley Marl
"Radio, TV, and even the press know the meanin' of V-A-P-O-R-S
The meanin' of this word without no doubt
Means nobody wants to be there when you're down and out
Once you're established and got alot of money
Everybody wanna be your buddy and honey"
#42 Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth - Funky Technician
Album: Funky Technician
Producer: Diamond D
"Now I'm the man with intellect, no one to disrespect
I kick a rhyme and make MC's wanna hit the deck
And give it up and use they rhymes as a sacrifice
Brothers try they best, they ain't even half as nice"
#41 Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
Album: Ain't A Damn Thing Changed (1991)
Producer: Nice & Smooth
"Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick"
Positive shit with a different vibe.
#40 EPMD - You Gots To Chill
Album: Strictly Business (1988)
Producer: Erick Sermon
"Relax your mind, let your conscience be free
and get down to the sounds of EPMD"
You gots to CHILL!
#39 Ice Cube - You Know How We Do It + Remix
Albums: Lethal Injection (1993) & Bootlegs & B-Sides (1995)
Producer: QDIII
Both versions are good imo.
#38 Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell
Album: Illmatic (1994)
Producer: Large Professor
"Hit the Earth like a comet, invasion
Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half-amazin"
"My poetry's deep, I never fell"
#37 De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Album: Stakes Is High (1995)
Producer: Jay Dee
"Man, every word I say should be a hip hop quotable..."
#36 Main Source - Lookin' At The Front Door
Album: Breaking Atoms (1991)
Producer: Large Professor
"Thinkin' if I were to evacuate
You'd probably be straighter than straight
And wouldn't have so much hate...
Cause you don't know the pain I feel"
#35 Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin'
Album: Long Live The Kane (1988)
Producer: Marley Marl
"So pick a B.C. date cause you're history"
#34 De La Soul - Buddy (Remix) (Feat. Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest & Queen Latifah)
Album: Buddy (VLS) (1989)
Producer: Prince Paul
Three of my favorite crews, it can't go wrong. True hip hop with a positive vibe.
#33 Method Man - Bring Da Pain
Album: Tical (1994)
Producer: RZA
"I came to bring the pain, hardcore from the brain"
#32 Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Album: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)
Producer: RZA
"Me and the RZA connect, blow a fuse, you lose
Half-ass crews get demolished and bruised"
#31 GZA - Liquid Swords
Album: Liquid Swords (1995)
Producer: RZA
Best intro!?
"I flow like the blood on a murder scene,
like a syringe on some wild out shit, to insert a fiend"
#30 Big L - Put It On
Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (1995)
Producer: Buckwild
"I got the wild style, always been a foul child
My guns go boom-boom, and yo' guns go pow-pow"
"And when it comes to gettin nookie I'm not a rookie
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopie"
#29 Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice
Album: Doggystyle (1993)
Producer: Dr. Dre
"With so much drama in the L-B-C
It's kinda hard bein' Snoop D-O-double-G
But I, somehow, some way
Keep comin' up with funky ass shit like every single day"
NHL jerseys count`: 10 (Pittsburgh)
#28 LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Album: Mama Said Knock You Out (1990)
Producer: Marley Marl
I'M GONNA KNOCK YOU OUT!
MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT!
#27 Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
Album: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
Producer: RZA
"I smoke on the mic like smoking Joe Frazier
The hell raiser, raising hell with the flavor
Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan
Swingin' through your town like your neighborhood Spiderman"
#26 Run-D.M.C. - Down With The King (Feat. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth)
Album: Down With The King (1993)
Producer: Pete Rock
Well... I'M DOWN WITH THE KING!!
#25 Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
Album: Hard To Earn (1994)
Producer: DJ Premier
"I represent set up shit like a tent boy
You're paranoid cause you're my son like Elroy
And you'd be happy as hell to get a record deal
Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal"
#24 Nas - N.Y. State Of Mind
Album: Illmatic (1994)
Producer: DJ Premier
"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind"
#23 KRS-One - Outta Here
Album: Return Of The Boom Bap (1993)
Producer: DJ Premier
"No doubt B.D.P. is old school, but we ain't goin' out!"
#22 Snoop Dogg - Who Am I (What's My Name)?
Album: Doggystyle (1993)
Producer: Dr. Dre
A complete song without making any sense at all, and it's still dope. Kudos!
#21 2 Pac - Dear Mama
Album: Me Against The World (1995)
Producer: Tony Pizarro
"And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama"
#20 Warren G - Regulate (Feat. Nate Dogg)
Album: Regulate... G Funk Era (1994)
Producer: Warren G
"I'm tweakin' into a whole new era
G-Funk, step to this, I dare ya
Funk, on a whole new level,
the rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble"
#19 Mobb Deep - Shook Ones (Pt.II)
Album: The Infamous (1995)
Producer: Havoc
"I'm only nineteen but my mind is old
And when the things get for real my warm heart turns cold"
"Now, take these words home and think it through
Or the next rhyme I write might be about you"
#18 Nas - The World Is Yours
Akbum: Illmatic (1994)
Producer: Pete Rock
"To hold the mic I'm throbbin', mechanical movement
Understandable smooth shit that murderers move wit
The thief's theme, play me at night, they won't act right
The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe"
#17 A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Album: Midnight Marauders (1993)
Producer: A Tribe Called Quest
"Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice
It has to do with lots of lovin' and it ain't nothin' nice"
#16 Slick Rick - Children's Story
Album: The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick (1988)
Producers: Jam Master Jay, Slick Rick & The Bomb Squad
"Once upon a time not long ago..."
#15 Special Ed - I Got It Made
Album: Youngest In Charge (1989)
Producer: Hitman
"I'm your idol, the highest title, numero uno
I'm not a puerto rican, but I'm speakin' so that you know
And understand I got the gift of speech
And it's a blessin', so listen to the lesson I preach"
#14 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
Album: Mecca & The Soul Brother (1992)
Producer: Pete Rock
True Pete Rock classic.
#13 Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.
Album: Naughty By Nature (1991)
Producer: Naughty By Nature
"O.P.P., how can I explain it
I'll take you frame by frame
O is for Other, P is for People, scratchin' temple
The last P... Well, that's not that simple"
#12 Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Album: Fear Of A Black Planet (1990)
Producer: The Bomb Squad
FIGHT. THE. POWER.
#11 N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Album: Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Producers: Dr. Dre & DJ Yella
"Here's a murder rap to keep yo dancin'
With a crime record like Charles Manson"
#10 Common - I Used To Love H.E.R.
Album: Resurrection (1994)
Producer: No I.D.
"I met this girl, when I was 10 years old
And what I loved most, she had so much soul
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me"
#9 Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Album: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
Producer: RZA
"But as the world turns I learned life is hell
Livin' in the world no different from a cell"
#8 Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge Is Over
Album: Criminal Minded (1987)
Producers: Ced Gee, DJ Scott La Rock, KRS-One & Partner Lee Smith
"Down with the sound called B.D.P.
If you want to join the crew well you must see me
Ya can't sound like Shan or the one Marley"
#7 MC Shan - The Bridge
Album: Down By Law (1987)
Producer: Marley Marl
"This is the place where stars are born,
The Bridge, the Bridge, the Bridge!"
Pure classic right here.
#6 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Ill Street Blues
Album: Live & Let Die (1992)
Producer: Trackmasters
"You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues"
#5 Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
Album: The Chronic (1992)
Producer: Dr. Dre
"C.O.M.P.T.O.N., and the city they call Long Beach
Puttin' the strength together
Like my homie D.O.C., no one can do it better"
#4 Souls Of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity
Album: 93 'Til Infinity (1993)
Producer: A-Plus
Hip hop in it's purest form: no hoes, no cars, no clubs, no bling...
"This is how we chill from '93 'til"
#3 Juice Crew - The Symphony (Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap & Big Daddy Kane)
Album: Marley Marl - In Control (Vol.1) (1988)
Producer: Marley Marl
Best posse cut!?
#2 Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
Album: Paid In Full (1987)
Producers: Eric B. & Rakim
"Thinkin' of a master plan, cuz ain’t nuthin' but sweat inside my hand
So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent
So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint
So I start my mission, leave my residence,
thinkin' how could I get some dead presidents"
#1 The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Album: Ready To Die (1994)
Producers: Puffy, Poke & Pete Rock
B.I.G. is the G.O.A.T.
And if you don't know, now you know.
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