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[gutshot]

http://feature.rollingstone.com/100-greatest-hip-hop-songs

The top 10:

10. Paid in Full - Eric B. and Rakim
9. Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
8. Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G.
7. Fight the Power - Public Enemy
6. Nuthin but a 'G' Thang - Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg
5. Mind Playing Tricks on Me - Geto Boys
4. Sucker M.C.'s - Run-DMC
3. Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force
2. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
1. The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

 

[Spring Drive]

No non-English songs?

 

[El Topo]

No non-English songs?

Lists from American sites/magazines, e.g. literature or music, are always (almost) completely focussed on English works. It's not practical (or necessarily reasonable) to make these lists global and it's better than to add some token entries.

 

[Mangoverboard]

None of those are Flashing Lights by Kanye West.

None of them are Regulate either

 

[Anth0ny]

more like most influential

Putting The Message/Rapper's Delight/Planet rock at the top is like putting Super Mario Bros at the top of a greatest games of all time list. It's a great song, but greatest track of all time? ehhhhh

 

[siddx]

Top 100 as far as impact and influence? Because this list certainly meets that criteria and is spot on. Top 100 as far actually quality would look quite different.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I would like some Jurassic 5.

What's Golden.

 

[Nokagi]

http://feature.rollingstone.com/100-greatest-hip-hop-songs

The top 10:

10. Paid in Full - Eric B. and Rakim
9. Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
8. Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G.
7. Fight the Power - Public Enemy
6. Nuthin but a 'G' Thang - Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg
5. Mind Playing Tricks on Me - Geto Boys
4. Sucker M.C.'s - Run-DMC
3. Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force
2. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
1. The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Glad to see this getting love. Such a great song.

 

[rrc1594]

I agree with most songs on the list. Shock Ones is top 10 tho

 

[Mangoverboard]

8 songs from the last 10 years. Only one from the last 5 I think.

Majority are 1980 to 1995 or so, more of a most influential list.

 

[Effect]

Very good list.

None of those are Flashing Lights by Kanye West.

None of them are Regulate either

Pretty sure you can classify Regulate as more R&B though instead of straight hip hop. At least that's the excuse that makes its exclusion make sense.

 

[NYHorn36]

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. is my #1.

 

[MarkMclovin]

No Kanye in the top 10.

Good.

 

[Outdoor Miner]

That... actually looks like a decent list. Wow.

 

[Cagey]

I'm surprised they got #1 right.

 

[The Artisan]

i haven't heard all the songs on that list. some of them are pretty great but my top 10 mighta been a lil different.

 

[Cidd]

Gangsta's Paradise should be in the top ten, that song is legendary.

 

[Browny]

I would like some Jurassic 5.

What's Golden.

I would suggest that Concrete Schoolyard was probably more influential, since it came out at a time where hip-hop had slightly stalled (certainly in the UK). I bought it on CD single.

But What's Golden is a great song no doubt - and I can't see much wrong with the top ten in the OP.

Edit: Where's No Diggity, dammit?

 

[MadraptorMan]

I guess it's an okay list but I can't agree with Planet Rock. That shit is straight up boring to me in this era.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I would suggest that Concrete Schoolyard was probably more influential, since it came out at a time where hip-hop had slightly stalled (certainly in the UK). I bought it on CD single.

But What's Golden is a great song no doubt - and I can't see much wrong with the top ten in the OP.

Edit: Where's No Diggity, dammit?

AND YOU CAN'T...TEACH...THAT!

 

[Junior Mint]

Needs more 2pac

 

[Mr. Giggles]

Not bad top 10.

I see juicy in there....nice

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

So correct me if I'm wrong but the most "recent" song in that top 10 is 23 years old.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Nice safe conservative list

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

I'm greatly enjoying the fact that they put this list on one page and I don't have to click 17 times to read everything.

 

[Brinbe]

Not bad at all. Definitely trending towards most influential considering the top 20 is skewed heavily towards the early days.

 

[Anoregon]

The best rap track of all time is Children's Story by Slick Rick.

 

[Effect]

I'm greatly enjoying the fact that they put this list on one page and I don't have to click 17 times to read everything.

I was surprised by this. I was expecting to have to click next but it kept scrolling.

 

[Cagey]

The best rap track of all time is Children's Story by Slick Rick.

No worse than top 2.

 

[Duxxy3]

Can't tell if I have good taste in hip-hop, or I'm just old.

 

[Strax]

Rolling Stone ranks the most influential 100 hip-hop tracks of all time that non-hiphop fans might have heard of

I'm greatly enjoying the fact that they put this list on one page and I don't have to click 17 times to read everything.

Agree

 

[hoos30]

This is the first one of these lists that I've seen where I could justify every pick they made.

Good job, good effort.

 

[SaviorX]

Wu Tang not having anything in the top 10 troubles me.

Because I truly think that if you are considering pure hip hop, Ice Cream by Wu Tang is the greatest song of all time

 

[megalowho]

Nice to see '93 'til Infinity on there, even if it's down towards the bottom - classic track.

Would liked to have seen Common's I Used To Love H.E.R. make it but can't fit em all in.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

I have no idea about hip hop and I know every song on that list. So yeah, I guess influence or popularity or both were rather important to set this list up.

 

[FreezeSSC]

Wow an actually decent list.

 

[Secret Character]

The whole list, top to bottom, is one of the most solid lists that Rolling Stone has put out.

I don't normally listen to hip-hop, but I know a good song when I hear it and many of these have been on at least one of my playlists at one time or another.

Super mad props for them adding The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel at #49. Revolutionary piece for not only hip-hop, but for electronic music as a whole.

 

[Toa TAK]

This is actually not a bad list.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

I can live with this list. Thank god there's no Kanye or Jay Z..

 

[hoos30]

Wu Tang not having anything in the top 10 troubles me.

Because I truly think that if you are considering pure hip hop, Ice Cream by Wu Tang is the greatest song of all time

C.R.E.A.M. is #11 and is certainly more influential than Ice Cream.

 

[skynidas]

I can live with this list. Thank god there's no Kanye or Jay Z..

but there is...

 

[Voysa Reezun]

None of those are Flashing Lights by Kanye West.

Nor should any of them be.

None of them are Regulate either

Maybe this, though. Maybe.

"Ante Up" making this list is amazing. I love "What You Know," and I'm still confused by its inclusion. "The Breaks" should have been top thirty at least. "In Da Club" on this list is uh, well, no list can be perfect. "Juicy" is the worst hip-hop song that everyone thinks is great, IMO, though I do like the "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/When I was dead broke man, I couldn't picture this" line because, come on, SNES and Genesis!

 

[Anth0ny]

the lack of regulate triggers me

also, the lack of Lose Yourself by Eminem, the GOAT, is unfortunate

 

[jrush64]

While a good list, it has some really questionable choices. BMF, really? But no Regulate. Eminem's My Name is... no just no.

 

[Tom Penny]

Good as an influential list but they didn't even use Biggie nor Eric B's best tracks. Juicy isn't even close to Biggie's best.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

but there is...

I mean in the Top 10. I missed to write this.

 

[Strax]

the lack of regulate triggers me

also, the lack of Lose Yourself by Eminem, the GOAT, is unfortunate

It is there...

 

[Cesare Borgia]

50 Cent higher than any Nas song. Nope.

No non-English songs?

There's no reason to have a non English rap song in the top 100 best rap songs.

 

[WaffleTaco]

I swear do any of yalls read the list? Also I probably think Heartless by Kanye as an influence should be on there, after all the biggest rapper alive today is here because of that song. Also they probably should of put a song from Kendrick on there.

 

[Parham]

In da Club does not deserve to be in the top 20.