What are the top 5 Rap Singles of All-Time?

[SilverSamurai]

Personal Favorites:
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
Nas - If I Ruled the World
DMX - Slippin
Jay Z - Dead Presidents
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up

Objectively:
Notorious BIG - Juicy
Wu-Tang Clan - CREAM
2Pac - Dear Mama
OutKast - Hey Ya
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?

 

[MoroccanBoy]

What is a single? Dead serious. What's the difference between a song and a single?

 

[mobbinfms]

IDK Juicy was pretty huge, though I don't even think it was the best single from Bad Boy that year or that album, let alone top 5 ever.

Juicy was a real big record in the Bay.

 

[King Ming]

Dear Mama the best single EVER!

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Coulda swore clef had a verse

nah

youre thinking about clef's adlibs.

IDK Juicy was pretty huge, though I don't even think it was the best single from Bad Boy that year or that album, let alone top 5 ever.

exactly.

craig mack had the biggest bad boy in '94.
RTD really took off in '95 off of big poppa & one more chance.

puff started this whole rhetoric of "juicy" being a goat single on "making the band" when he forced the band to memorize juicy & rapper's delight, telling them that they were the two most important songs in rap history.

i can see rapper's delight in that light of course, but nobody was calling juicy a goat single before that.

Objectively:
Notorious BIG - Juicy
Wu-Tang Clan - CREAM
2Pac - Dear Mama
OutKast - Hey Ya
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?

huh?

since when is "hey ya" a rap single??

What is a single? Dead serious. What's the difference between a song and a single?

a song that's sold separately from the album that its on.

usually the song that has a video and/or is on the radio.

 

[nairdas]

Baby Got Back
Rappers Delight
Back That Ass Up
Crossroads
California Love

Those 5 came to mind for some reason. Real talk Baby Got Back is probably number 1. Literally EVERYONE knows that song. I put back that was up on there because even til this day you put that on at a party or club and bytches will lose their fukking mind. Even girls that were probably 3 when it came go nuts.

 

[thatdude]

Nuthin but a G Thang
Shook ones pt 2
Rappers Delight
fukk the Police
Hard Knock Life

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

This is too hard. I know "Still D.R.E." would be on the list though.

 

[Dre Space Age]

The Official Top 100 biggest Hip-Hop Songs of all time


Some garbage at the top but oh well.

 

[raoulduke187]

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - The Message
2Pac - California Love
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
50 Cent - In Da Club
Migos - Versace

a lot of songs come to mind that were very impactful , I guess you either go by what rapper you prefer or judge them strictly by the numbers

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

If i think about singles that everybody liked/likes, these come to my mind:

2Pac - California Love
Coolio - Gangstas Paradise
Luniz - I Got 5 On It

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

AZ - Hey AZ
Camp Lo - Black Nostaljac (Sugar Cum On... Sugar Cum On)
JD - Turn It Out
Nas - If I Ruled The World
Tracy Lee - The Theme (It's Party Time)









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[Mike the Executioner]

Gin and Juice
Hypnotize
In da Club
Shook Ones
The Message

I don't know.

 

[JayGatsby]

these forced sticky threads ,shyts been popping up a lot lately

 

[MillionMills]

Crossroads
Gangstas Paradise
Hypnotize
Gin and Juice
Today Was a Good Day