VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs

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It’s funny; when I was growing up, VH1 was the channel that was for the older people. You were to most likely find some music from Michael McDonald or Hall & Oates instead of Biggie or Snoop Dogg. But look at them now: Passing out awards for Hip-Hop Honors (And making BET look like shit), doing documentaries about NWA and Left Eye (And making BET look like shit), and now counting down the 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. Don’t get it twisted though, I still don’t see VH1 as an authority on Hip-Hop; it’s just that I’m a sucker for this kind of shit (I Love The 80’s/90’s/2000′s, and of course one of my favorite shows Best Week Ever). Even though I’m still gonna watch the countdown all week, I’m sure you all heard that Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” had captured the #1 spot (And if not you heard now). While I’m don’t agree with the choice it does have me curious on the list as a whole. Well, here it the full VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs list. What would you’re choice be for the #1 Greatest Hip-Hop Song of all time?

1 Public Enemy / “Fight The Power”
2 Sugarhill Gang / “Rapper’s Delight”
3 Dr. Dre / “Nuthin But A ‘G’ Thang”
4 Run-DMC ft/ Aerosmith/ “Walk This Way”
5 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five / “The Message”
6 N.W.A. / “Straight Outta Compton”
7 Notorious B.I.G. / “Juicy”
8 Snoop Doggy Dogg / “Gin and Juice”
9 Salt-N-Pepa / “Push It ”
10 Kurtis Blow / “The Breaks”
11 Jay-Z / “Hard Knock Life”
12 L.L. Cool J / “I Can’t Live Without My Radio”
13 Wu-Tang Clan / “C.R.E.A.M.”
14 Tupac / “I Get Around ”
15 Eminem / “Stan ”
16 Missy Elliott / “Get Ur Freak On”
17 Sir Mix-A-Lot / “Baby Got Back”
18 50 Cent / “In Da Club”
19 Ice T / “Colors”
20 Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx / “Gold Digger”
21 Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force/ “Planet Rock”
22 Naughty By Nature / “OPP”
23 Outkast / “B.O.B.”
24 Eric B and Rakim / “Paid in Full”
25 Fugees / “Killing Me Softly”
26 MC Hammer / “U Can’t Touch This”
27 Beastie Boys / “Hold it Now, Hit it”
28 Ice Cube / “It Was A Good Day”
30 Digital Underground / “The Humpty Dance”
30 Tribe Called Quest / “Check the Rhime”
31 Kool Moe Dee / “How Ya Like Me Now”
32 Puff Daddy & The Family ft/ Notorious B.I.G., Lil’ Kim
and The Lox/ “It’s All About The Benjamins”
33 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / “Tha Crossroads”
34 Cypress Hill / “Insane In The Brain”
35 Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love / “Ladies First”
36 Nelly / “Hot In Herre”
37 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock / “It Takes Two”
38 Coolio / “Gangsta’s Paradise”
39 Tone-Loc / “Wild Thing”
40 Run-DMC / “It’s Like That”
41 Funky 4 + 1 / “That’s the Joint”
42 Roxanne Shante / “Roxanne’s Revenge”
43 Game, The ft. 50 Cent / “Hate It or Love It”
44 Method Man ft/ Mary J. Blige / “I’ll Be There For You
/You’re All I Need to Get By”
45 Geto Boys / “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”
46 De La Soul / “Me, Myself, And I”
47 Young MC / “Bust A Move”
48 Nas / “One Love”
49 Boogie Down Productions / “My Philosophy”
50 Lil’ Wayne / “Tha Block Is Hot”
51 Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew / “The Show”
52 Foxy Brown ft. Jay-Z – “I’ll Be”
53 Lox ft. DMX and Lil’ Kim / “Money, Power, Respect”
54 MC Lyte / “Cha Cha Cha”
55 Terror Squad ft/ Fat Joe and Remy / “Lean Back”
56 Busta Rhymes / “Woo-Ha! Got You All In Check”
57 Big Daddy Kane / “I Get the Job Done”
58 Ludacris ft. Shawna/ “What’s Your Fantasy”
59 Ol’ Dirty Bastard / “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”
60 L.L. Cool J / “I Need Love”
61 Slick Rick / “Children’s Story”
62 Digable Planets / “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”
63 Kid ‘n Play / “Rollin’ With Kid N Play”
64 The Roots / “What they Do”
65 Spoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three / “Love Rap”
66 House Of Pain / “Jump Around”
67 Mase / “Feel So Good”
68 T.I. / “What You Know”
69 Common / “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
70 3(rd) Bass / “Pop Goes the Weasel”
71 Whodini / “Freaks Come Out at Night”
72 J.J. Fad / “Supersonic”
73 Black Sheep / “The Choice Is Yours”
73 EPMD / “You Gots To Chill”
75 Lil’ Kim ft. Lil’ Cease/ “Crush on You”
76 Big Punisher ft. Joe/ “Still Not A Player”
77 Cold Crush Brothers / “Cold Crush Bros. at the Dixie”
78 Arrested Development / “Tennessee”
79 DMX / “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem (Stop Drop)”
80 Three 6 Mafia ft. Paula Campbell/ “Hard Out Here For A
Pimp”
81 PM Dawn / “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss”
82 Chubb Rock / “Treat ‘Em Right”
83 2 Live Crew / “Me So Horny”
84 UTFO / “Roxanne Roxanne”
85 Black Star / “Definition”
86 Heavy D. and the Boyz / “Now That We Found Love”
87 Wyclef Jean ft. Refugee All Stars / “We Tryin’ to Stay
Alive”
88 Jungle Brothers / “What U Waitin’ 4”
89 Cam’ron / “Oh Boy”
90 Pete Rock & CL Smooth / “They Reminisce Over You(T.R.O.Y)”
91 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone / “Ridin'”
92 Yo-Yo / “Can’t Play with my Yo-Yo”
93 N.E.R.D. ft. Lee Harvey and Vida / “Lapdance”
94 Master P ft. Sikk, Fiend, Mia-x and Mystical / “Make ‘Em
Say Ugh”
95 L’Trimm / “Cars With The Boom”
96 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince / “Parents Just Don’t
Understand”
97 Eve / “Who’s that Girl”
98 Warren G ft. Nate Dogg / “Regulate”
99 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft/ Ying Yang Twins / “Get
Low”
100 Biz Markie / “Just A Friend”

Founder
  1. What look at 16-20… then look at T.R.O.Y. at 90 something.
    Can you say bullshit?
    Since when is “In Da Club” or “Get Your Freak On” classic? NEver!
    50 Cent being on this list is a travesty, no fuck it this list itself is a travesty.

  2. This list is some total BULLSHIT! So when has Nelly made a song better than Slick Rick?
    “I’ll Be” isn’t even the best song Jay and Foxy has together.
    “Baby Got Back?”

    If the guys are up to it, we are going to have to do a list! Anybody with me?

  3. And while you guys are making the grestest songs list maybe you could make the one hundred greatest moments in hip hop that I have been buggin about forever.

  4. Yeah this list is shitty forreal, I’m not agreeing with this list at all. The person at VH1 that made this list don’t know much about hip hop, and probably never went through nothing. This list sucks big time, I agree with Jerm how in the hell Nelly be over Slick Rick?? Yeah lets make another list.

  5. YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME. WHERES RAKIM (Only once), NWA, 2PAC (only like number 20). Whats with the number 1? And why is “Get Low” on there. GOtta be kidding me. The songs not that great. This list sucks.

  6. @ King Jerm

    Def. I’m totally with you.

    @ H20

    Lapdance is a respectable song, but not good enough to make the top 100 so called “greatest songs”

  7. i laughed at the fact that the only Wayne song that made the list was “Block Is Hot” and i absolutly hate that song. if u gonna put Wayne put one of his better songs.
    Also where are classics such as “Dear Mama” and “Jesus Walks” and… “Crank Dat” hahahahahahahaha total joke lol… but yea not feelin this list

  8. Common – I used to lover H.E.R is 69?!! , while 50 – In da Club is 18…..that automatically disvalidates this list LOL

  9. WTF!!!???! I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I caught this on VH1 Monday after watching “I Wanna Work For Diddy”. This “100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs” list by VH1 is a complete joke and think whoever compiled this list should be smacked with a brick in their face! When I saw Lil’ Jon & The East Side Boyz’s “Get Low” at #99 I was done with it. Are you serious!??!! Lil’ Jon should be nowhere near a list for the greatest Hip-Hop songs of all-time and neither should some of the other artists and songs on this list.

    I can’t understand how list like this, MTV’s “The Hottest MCs”, and Vibe’s “Best Rapper Alive Tournament” are made and accepted (let alone printed or aired). Shit like this is a shame and just shows how out of tune and out of touch these TV networks and magazines are with real Hip Hop and how they confuse it too easily with this mainstream/commercial bullshit. The only respect VH1 gets from me is from them airing the Hip Hop Honors (BET fuckin’ sucks!!! and doesn’t deserve the views it gets).

    I totally agree with you King Jerm, we definitely need to create our own nappyafro edition of the “100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of All-Time”. Lol, yeah Frank White I remember you asking that on the first post I did for my Rewind Review column back in April. That would be another good list to put together, but I think that one would take more time and thought to compile. It might be a little more difficult than this list but it can be done.

  10. Why isn’t any old Too $hort joints up there? He made some good shit in the 80s and definitely the 90’s.. Spice 1 made some good shit back then. Notorious BIG had more songs!!!! Redman!!!!! Method Man!! Juvenile had some good joints! Mystikal! Scarface!!! The great 2Pac had more great songs! How did Lil Jon get up there? I’m from the south, and I rep it but that song isn’t great in no fucking way. Why is it not more Nas joints? What about Main Source?? They are missing a lot of shit. I mean they need to redo their list because this list sucks dick.

  11. For those that think that the TV networks are out of touch of real hip-hop. Your wrong. I used to work for a major TV network (not going to name names) but it consists of 3 letters. These companies know what real hip-hop is…. many of my partners had extensive vinyl collections and Golden-Age discographies.
    It’s not that the TV networks don’t understand it’s that they know what sells, and what doesn’t.
    They know that the 1 million people in America interested in 80’s/90’s hip-hop aren’t going to all tune in… and they know that if they make a diverse list (probably the kindest word I can find for this list), they will attract viewers of all sorts to watch the Hip Hop Honors…
    Everything is calculated and well-thought out people. Trust me!

  12. @ P-Body…Spice 1 didn’t make one of the top 100 songs in Hip-Hop history. But I see what you’re saying.

    @ Guy Fawkes…I wonder which one is that! Three letters. You had me going for a second. Funny guy…I like this dude!

    @ Everyone else

    Send in your choices for the top 100 songs of all time

    to [email protected]

  13. “It’s not VH1′S fault they let their fans vote online and it is not that bad of a list. GOD BLESS”

    I’d laugh at you for this, but just calling you a fucking moron would do more justice.

  14. That list is shit. To be honest. I wanna see a Top 100 that THIS SITE puts out.
    But no way Nelly beats out half the people from 100-40.

  15. i watched most of the show and while alot i haventy heard i was dissapointed that T.R.O.y didnt make it higher i luv it maine. but i came out of the show with sum new favorites maine, my favorites on this list is as follows set adrift on memory bliss, i used to love her, childrens story, shimmy shimmy ya, woo ha, whats your fantasy, and what you know just to name a few.. i already loved what you know andf i just heard whats your fantasy…the whole thing for the first time but in my opinion sum of the best songs ever ever made were on d-Blocks so you wanna be a superhero mixtape,

    king jerm man review dat shit..its the hottest lox shit you heard in ya life.

  16. Only one 2Pac song, and its ‘I Get Around’? Where’s ‘Changes’? Where’s ‘I Ain’t Mad at Cha’? Brenda’s Got a Baby?

    There’s plenty of others that should’ve made this list. Dead Presidents maybe? Hell, even Gimme Some More.

    Vh1, that’s some ol’ bullshit.

  17. where is bizzy bones-thugs cry this is legend song and also thugish ruggish bone luuuv maaan pleaze bone thugs come in tbilisi xzibit coolio and jim jones were already i met dj big baby adn x but bizzy bone is greatset he is my life

  18. What the f***k this list is total bullshit no rapper dead or alive can match 2pac. Where r the greats common 6th sence, Krs one, kwali, dead pres, nas, last emp,masta ace…

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