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[cyborg009]

SO much nostalgia right now.

edit: say it right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0

 

[Appleman]

Basically everything from Get Rich Or Die Tryin-era 50

 

[-MB-]

Missy Elliot - Get ur freak on.

 

[Bread]

The Game ft 50 Cent - Hate it or love it

best g-unit song

 

[stn]

Talib Kweli - The Blast

 

[HiResDes]

Deltron 3030 - All of it

Mainstream.

 

[collige]

Int'l Players Anthem. Best Andre 3000 verse of all time

 

[ArgyleReptile]

It was all about Outkast's Stankonia from what I can remember.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

That's normal. Same thing happened in the 90's with Ice Ice Baby, U Can't Touch This and Bust A Move, they got a lot of backslash and were regarded by many Hip Hop fans as a disgrace to the genre. Their quality as a hip hop song can be disputed even today, but they're among the most recognizable songs ever made in the genre (perhaps in music) and there's a cult following among them.

Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer are trash,but Young MC I thought was underrated as hell. Stone Cold Rhymin' is a classic.

 

[HiiiLife]

Souljerrrrrrrr.

 

[LionPride]

Damn! by the Youngbloodz

Anything Kanye


Make me Better by Fabolous and Ne-Yo


Closer by Ne-Yo

Anything Justin Timberlake

Ante Up

Run It

There's a lot of music from the 2000s, hard to name favorites really

 

[ViperVisor]

The only one I need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSQo7SEbCk

Sorta a cheat but it is really just the original version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFMVN17ni4

 

[TreasureHunterG]

How could I forgot:

Ludacris feat. Nate Dogg - Area Codes
Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

 

[Vire]

Don't mean to be a dick, but early 2000 hip hop made me think I hated rap.

God I have such horrible memories listening to Ja rule on the back on the school bus. Thank god the genre is in a much better place now imo.

 

[schick85]

Keyshia Cole - Let It Go ft. Missy Elliott, Lil' Kim
Nelly - Dilemma ft. Kelly Rowland
This thread is bringing back a lot of memories.

 

[ViperVisor]

Jaheim "Anything" (featuring Next)

 

[Fularu]

Tandem - La trilogie

 

[JeremyEtcetera]

The greatest thing about the 2000s rap and R&B was that when a good album was released, 95% of it had hits that could be radio-worthy or even #1 hits. Some were albums that told a story, some just had you movin' and groovin' for the entire thing. Look up most songs on any of these albums and you'll know what I mean. Producers like Kanye, Dr. Dre, Pharrell, P. Diddy and Timbaland were on fire back then.

 

[Chuckie]

Can't argue with a lot of these hits, especially anything that came from Dre, Timbaland, or Pharrell.

I love that collaboration with Keri Hilson; The Way I Are

 

[Apt101]

I have too many to choose from. 1998-ish to 2009 was one of the best eras for hip hop. Perhaps the strongest.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Clara ft Field Mob -So What

 

[Fiend]

How can you guys forget

Kelis - Milkshake

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

^Well Milkshake isn't hip-hop.

Nas - Ether - Stillmatic
Nas - What Goes Around - Stillmatic
Nas - I Know I Can - God's Son
Jay-Z - Girls, Girls, Girls, - Blueprint
Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean = Stankonia
Outkast - Ms. Jackson - Stankonia
Outkast - Prototype - Love Below
Ms. Jade - Dead Wrong - Girl Interrupted
Lil Kim - Came Back for You - La Bella Mafia
Trina - Pull Over - Da Baddest Bitch
Kanye West - All Falls Down - College Dropout
Kanye West - Spaceship - College Dropout
Lupe Fiasco - Superstar - The Cool

Pretty short list for me for ten years, but of course this was the decline of mainstream hip-hop.