al ship's top 50 southern rap singles of the 00s -- which is your favorite?

here's the post

http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2010/10/singles-of-00s-part-3-southern-rap.html

pretty heavily weighted to the earlier half of the decade

kinda inclined to vote Get Low tbh lol

Stay Fly

actually no - "What You Know"

i have to figure out which semi-contrarian pick to choose

pretty heavily weighted to the earlier half of the decade

Eh, it's 30/20. But only five songs from 2007-09.

actually i'm just gonna vote for "what's your fantasy?" -- still one of my favorite songs of all time & maybe the biggest track of my youth personally

this is fucking impossible

I actually would go with Scarface - "My Block" if Al wasn't a dummy and left it off, so I think I might go to proto-witch-haus classic "What You Know"

though, man, "Get Low"

crazy ass list can't even think of what to vote 4

c-murder maybe?

here's the Linkin Park song that bites "What You Know"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhgaTL1vWVQ

here's a quick top 20

1. ludacris - what's your fantasy?
2. baby ft. clipse - what happened to that boy?
3. t.i. - rubberband man
4. trick daddy ft. trina etc - shut up
5. bubba sparxxx - ugly
6. trick daddy - i'm a thug
7. three 6 mafia ft ugk & project pat - sippin on some syrup
8. big tymers - get your roll on
9. ludacris ft. mystikal & i-20 - move bitch
10. foxx ft. lil boosie & webbie - wipe me down (remix)
11. three 6 mafia ft. young buck & 8ball & mjg - stay fly
12. t.i. - what you know
13. david banner ft lil flip - like a pimp
14. lil wayne - go d.j.
15. nappy roots ft jazze pha - awnaw
16. young dro - shoulder lean
17. gucci mane ft plies - wasted
18. rich boy ft polow da don - throw some d's
19. birdman ft lil wayne - stuntin like my daddy
20. youngbloodz - damn

the thing i love about these lists from al aside from the great analysis & being reminded of amazing songs that slipped my consciousness over the years is that i don't have to even think about what to listen to this weekend. i've been handed a playlist.

B-O-O-S-I-E-B-A-D-A-Z-Z THATS ME!

over

I.Like.Loud.Pipes/Big.Rims/Mo.Ice

this is downright impossible. well, it isn't because i picked c murder but impossible.

i would love to do a goon torrent of compiling the 500 best southern rap singles of the 00s

where's missy u_u

i think missy showed up on the 'rap/r&b crossover' list

a goon version of oink

ham

leaving aside a few that i never heard, as well as the fact that THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, here's my top 20

1. b r right
2. what you know
3. what's your fantasy?*
4. shoulder lean
5. shake
6. stuntin' like my daddy
7. put on
8. stay fly
9. get low
10. southern hospitality
11. go dj
12. bouncin' back
13. wipe me down
14. sippin' on some syrup
15. raise up
16. throw some ds
17. ridin'
18. u don't know me
19. awnaw
20. move bitch

*i'll take the remix of "what's your fantasy?" over the original most days

lol whiney

i think the first verse of 'shoulder lean' might be my favorite single verse on any of these songs, to get nerdy about it

god damn, "b r right"

i've had positive conversations w/ my roommate, my old roommate & my brother about waka, so i might win

whoops wrong southern rap thread

it was weird to me to look back at trina's billboard numbers -- i think growing up in miami always made me think she was like a huge superstar, which maybe she was on a functional leveln (& maybe her album sales reflect that) but "da baddest bitch" & esp "pull over" & "told y'all" were huge songs when i was a kid so i was kind of shocked to see that they barely had chart numbers

I'M FUCKIN N*GGAS IN THE FACE THE GAME IS MINE

^^words to fucking live by

"What You Know" imo

voted stay fly, best song ever, really luv slow motion too tho

that trina monologue is definitely one of my favourite moments in, like, all music ever

FUCK A DIME
I'M A SILVER DOLLA
HOLLA

if it's being played in public, the "fuckin' niggas in the face" line is a guarantee of half the room whipping round to say "wtf did she just say what i think she did" - i used to play it when i edited my university magazine, much to the chagrin of the indie losers on music desk

44. Three 6 Mafia f/ UGK and Project Pat - "Sippin' On Some Syrup" (2000)
43. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - "Donk" (2008)

this is just rong

obv this list is dope & fun & all that but bcuz no one else is im gonna go in on what seem like the most disagreeable parts -- but yeah just to be clear i think its awesome that he did this & im looking forward to reading all the write ups

4. Petey Pablo - "Raise Up" (2001)

bizarrely overrated imo

feel similarly about 'whisper song'

great canonical top 3 tho

too tired to think of ~omissions~ but off top of head...no pitbull solo singles from his golden period w/lil jon, no crime mob, no "freek-a-leek"...plus a personal southern rap fav that no one else will ever rep for is rasheeda's "georgia peach", such a gorgeous beat

i usually try & take up issues w/ al's picks once the poll is over

the big one i disagreed w/ tho was picking "u don't know me" over "asap"

yeah that too. there are a few folks around here who get like that about 'bring em out'

but these are points that verge on the border between "quirks of taste" & "wtf is he thinking"

does "A Milli" count as "southern rap"

jesus christ, the 00s were amazing for this shit

i get like that about "bring em out" but at the same time i'd rather places were taken up by less famous artists/songs that might have been forgotten or overlooked, rather than being obligated to cover the many, many classic singles by megastars

Intl' Players Anthem I voted, but it coulda been any of 11 others

god how good is the "shut up" beat

went with wipe me down just over rubber band man and stay fly

Slow Motion is also awesome, as previously discussed

this will be a killer mix

"A Milli" and "Still Tippin" were, as I was making this, the 2 obvious choices that I was really stubborn about not including because I dno't really like 'em that much.

def woulda chosen "Danger" or "Shake Ya Ass" over Bouncin' Back as far as Mystikal is concerned, probably more the latter than the former.

where's missy u_u

― underrated SCAREosmith albums I have loved (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 8, 2010 4:49 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think missy showed up on the 'rap/r&b crossover' list

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 8, 2010 4:51 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my POSSIBLY CONTROVERSIAL policy when making this was to not think of Virginia as part of Southern hip hop, which is why Timbaland and Neptunes are only on here when working w/ rappers from the deep south -- so the forthcoming non-southern rap list will have stuff like "Get Ur Freak On" and "Grindin'"

David Banner's "Like a Pimp" almost got my vote too. what a beat, what delivery...

I actually would go with Scarface - "My Block" if Al wasn't a dummy and left it off, so I think I might go to proto-witch-haus classic "What You Know"

― underrated SCAREosmith albums I have loved (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 8, 2010 4:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbh i have just never been that into "My Block" -- obviously it's a good song and all but i mean wouldn't be anywhere near my top 5 songs off The Fix or anything

My Block is good but I'd say the single chosen for this list is better.

i agree that virginia isn't south...though i guess it *is* technically it never felt southern to me

the big one i disagreed w/ tho was picking "u don't know me" over "asap"

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 8, 2010 5:15 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are there people besides jordan and deej who feel really strongly about "ASAP" or think it's one of T.I.'s very best singles and/or better than "U Don't Know Me"? I've never really gotten that sense.

parts of VA are very southern culturally, in a more general sense, but as far as hip hop goes i kind of think of it as vaguely "mid-Atlantic region" along with D.C., Baltimore, Philly, etc.

pretty heavily weighted to the earlier half of the decade

Eh, it's 30/20. But only five songs from 2007-09.

― jaymc, Friday, October 8, 2010 4:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

28/22 actually

are there people besides jordan and deej who feel really strongly about "ASAP" or think it's one of T.I.'s very best singles and/or better than "U Don't Know Me"? I've never really gotten that sense.

― some dude, Friday, October 8, 2010 4:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i have? dunno what 2 tell you
fwiw padgett was in the ASAP mindmeld as well

or maybe not? i might've fucked that up, and tbh i trust jaymc more than i trust myself. (xpost)

hmm stay fly vs what you know vs put on

voting put on

yeah ethan too

i'm all tv'd up
with the plush leather guts steady grippin her butt

count me in on the ASAP love

yeah "asap" is great but this is a personal list, and it's hard to ague with the tip songs chosen

fuckin awesome list, ive got most on itunes but hopefully someone (ahem) will zip this shit so i can listen to the full list on commute

anyone care to agree with me that' u don't know me' > 'asap'? love that beat.

not a value judgement on anything else but i gotta be honest and say looking at that list the two i instantly wanna hear again and again right away are 'wipe me down' and 'who run it'. although 'guess who's back' is like, sacrosanct.

fuck it, it's 'wipe me down'. favourite is favourite.

'nolia clap' is super underrated btw.

oh and FUCK A LIL FLIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Le_mwe8fA

would prefer "poppin my collar" to "stay fly", but damn, this list is...thorough.

picking 'throw some d's', hon mentions to 'still tippin', purple ribbon all stars, 'wipe me down', 'get your roll on'

clicked #50 and was barely tempted to change

btw "bring em out" > "u don't know me" > "motivation" > "asap"

all are classics tho, best singles run from any ti album

southern hospitality vs. stay fly vs. rubber band man

but I went luda

"A Milli" and "Still Tippin" were, as I was making this, the 2 obvious choices that I was really stubborn about not including because I dno't really like 'em that much.

― some dude, Friday, October 8, 2010 5:39 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

waiting for still tippin... scrolling... scrolling... ;_;

prob #2 4 me

look who creepin look who crawlin ignorin "still tippin" in the list
its that sick slick long dick slim nigga al ship stickin yo chick

was thinking about voting holla at me; came out about the time i started paying attention to southern rap singles & contains one of the great pitbull verses of our time

i owe my future to
last name campbell, first name luther
the gun shine stayed, well that suit ya

rubber band man or southern hospitality, though i kinda want to vote for i'm a thug for reasons not entirely clear to me

this one's for north carolina! c'mon and raise up
take your shirt off, twist it 'round yo' hand

~spin it like a helicopter~

i agree w/ deej in not rating "raise up" that high

also i think "southern hospitality" is obv great, but i always rated "what's your fantasy" & "saturday" muuuuuuch higher

"i'm a thug" is seriously one of the best songs ever -- i wish i had the lyrics of the weird al parody of it that i wrote in 7th grade, subject matter will not be divulged

love trick so much

okay it was called "i'm a jew"

"just give me half a latke and some manischewitz and i'm like whatever, dawg" etc

u_u

damn i just realized "dro in da wind" is not on this list and FUCK THIS LIST

just sayin

i like "take it to da house" much better than "i'm a thug" and was sad not to see it in the list

TD is such a strong singles artist

TRICK DADDY singles poll

nann nigga
shut up
take it to da house
i'm a thug
dro in the wind

^^this stacks up with any consecutive five of the decade

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 14, 2008 8:18 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

might be the best five straight singles tbh

would have voted "nann nigga" in that

i'm voting 'i'm a thug'

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 14, 2008 8:19 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

still would've gone w/ this

i feel vindicated that my 2 Trick Daddy picks on the list were the ones that tied for first in that poll

"In Da Wind" is weird and so-so to me, some people act like it's such a big deal but i barely heard it when it was out, and i was glued to Rap City and my car radio that summer

btw "bring em out" > "u don't know me" > "motivation" > "asap"

all are classics tho, best singles run from any ti album

― love the way you loi (The Reverend), Friday, October 8, 2010 8:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so backwards!!

also not voting still tippin but including 'sittin sidewayz' is super contrarian wtf!!

the card shuffle noise on SS IS pretty classic, tho

Bubba.

love 'in da wind', was gonna bitch about its absence but that list is so loaded it would've been churlish. it was huge on atlanta radio at the time, strong agreement on td as ridiculously strong singles run for a while there. will still bitch about no 'salt shaker' but fucking whisper song being way up there.

so backwards!!

― trollin trollin trollin we aint slept in weeks (deej), Saturday, October 9, 2010 8:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

my approach w/ these kinds of lists is generally that it's better to trust my gut than second-guess popular opinion, even if that involved occasionally contraristanning for something like "Sittin' Sidewayz" (like, I don't really care about any of the rapping on that or "Still Tippin'," so I went with the one with the beat I like better).

i don't give care at all about what songs are left off your personal singles list, but it's so hard to believe you don't like the raps on still tippin. the slim thug verse is like the pinnacle of southern rap to me

slim thug is zzzz and looking up the lyrics there are like 2 memorable lines in this verse

more like 20! (every line)

you know what is the best and no-one is talking about it? NEVER SCARED.

(or did diplo ruin it for everyone?)

yeah, that is a+ crazytalk xp

Such a shame Bone Crusher never became a thing.

what did diplo do to "never scared"

also the "never scared" remix >>> original

but then it kinda wouldn't be a southern rap song so

embarrased i've never heard shoulder lean before - this is dope. have always meant to check out dro.

Named his first mixtape Never Scared and played it so much it became a hipster anthem iirc?

sam you should hear the young dro album -- total classic, some of the most dense wordplay of the decade

yea Best Thang Smoking is quite good.

Rubberband Banks is a tight single too

shiplo, with your love of big brassy marching band loops, where, if all, do you rate "tear it up" -- kinda surprised to not see it on this list come to think of it

hard poll
went with 'what you know'
cheating answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwshhnWhEk

"Southern Hospitality"

my friend's bands plays this hard rock style at practice. It's so fun to sing to.

band

Done the Spotify for it:

http://open.spotify.com/user/joshjoshjosh/playlist/0tcNq8BM2Nazc0tINJ4puQ

greatest playlist of all time tbh. 'Get Your Roll On' for me atm, mainly for "M. PERIOD. FRESH. COMMA. YOUR WIFE IS MY BABY MOMMA. GOD. DAMN. MOTHER. FUCKER. SHE'S A GOOOOOD DICK SUCKER". Most enjoyable lines in rap history IMO

otm

yeah mannie's rapping in "get ya roll on" is how i want all of rap to sound

straight to the point, funny, flossing

shiplo, with your love of big brassy marching band loops, where, if all, do you rate "tear it up" -- kinda surprised to not see it on this list come to think of it

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Saturday, October 9, 2010 3:22 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the Yung Wun joint? it's pretty good, I definitely enjoyed it at the time, might've considered it for the list if it'd had legs but it really just kinda came and went.

where is my zip of this >:(

i'll zip this & upload it later tonight

"Cadillac's on 22's" you herb

how many of these songs do you already own? i have about 27 of these on their parent albums or whatever.

i have all the parent CDs but C-Murder and "Nolia Clap", I think. But they're all in storage after my apt burned down u_u

i've got around that many on itunes i'd guess xp

<3 u jordan

i ended up downloading about 30 or so

oh yeah some of these ended up being clean versions which you'll just have to deal with

fail

after accidentally downloading a bunch of fake diplo remixes & a capellas, i'll just take what i can get

lol "wait did Who Run It originally have a Cure sample in it?"

[REPEAT CHORUS]

[Bone Crusher yelling]

DJ Paul and Juicy J, 8-ball and MJG,
and Young Buck we don't give a fuck
We must represent this Tennessee

why did nobody just give Ball & G a million dollars to record a whole album with Three 6 as soon as that song dropped

#confession

i like "still fly" better than "stay fly"

I like "lolli lolli" better than "stay fly"

note: I am kidding

i like "testin' my gangsta" better than "stay fly"

i like whatever the one with "she sucks my ding dong" better than "stay fly"

Spotify playlist, 44 out of 50 found:
http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/4XjNi2aJgQDpLGF6gglQTi

"Testin My Gangsta" is amazing, but only HCP joint i really felt conflicted about not including was "Chicken Head"

let it be known that i voted for the song "stay fly" in this southern rap singles poll

oh damn dude. chicken head = crucial.

was thinkin how fun it woul be to spin all 00s rap singles at my next gig, but like isnt that what dipdlo did to be all famouz

here's the part 1 of the zip

http://www.mediafire.com/?a0833t9bghk1chs

in no particular order, sorry

now theres a good reason not to do something fun xp

here are the joints in part 1 jic

http://i51.tinypic.com/5ckb2r.png

if you want i can come up w/ a running order that i think would flow aight

or maybe just organizing it chronologically would be fun

either would be dope -- i was just playing the playlist on shuffle

before i arrange these by release date, thought it would be cool to post the groupings

Trick Daddy f/ Trina, Co and Duece Poppito - "Shut Up" (2000)
Ludacris f/ Shawnna - "What's Your Fantasy?" (2000)
Outkast - "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" (2000)
C-Murder f/ Snoop Dogg and Magic - "Down For My N’s" (2000)
Three 6 Mafia - "Who Run It" (2000)
Three 6 Mafia f/ UGK and Project Pat - "Sippin' On Some Syrup" (2000)
Big Tymers - "Get Your Roll On" (2000)
8Ball & MJG f/ DJ Quik - "Buck Bounce" (2000)
Ludacris - "Southern Hospitality" (2000)

Petey Pablo - "Raise Up" (2001)
Lil Wayne f/ Birdman, Mickey and Mack 10 - "Shine" (2001)
Trick Daddy - "I'm A Thug" (2001)
Bubba Sparxxx - "Ugly" (2001)

Birdman f/ The Clipse - “What Happened To That Boy?” (2002)
Scarface f/ Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel - "Guess Who's Back" (2002)
Ludacris f/ Mystikal and I-20 - "Move Bitch" (2002)
Mystikal - "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" (2002)
Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz f/ Mystikal and Krayzie Bone - "I Don't Give A Fuck" (2002)
Nappy Roots f/ Jazze Pha - "Awnaw" (2002)

David Banner f/ Lil Flip - “Like A Pimp” (2003)
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz f/ The Ying Yang Twins - “Get Low” (2003)
Trina featuring Ludacris - “B R Right” (2003)
The YoungBloodZ featuring Lil Jon - “Damn!” (2003)
Bone Crusher f/ Killer Mike and T.I. - “Never Scared” (2003)

T.I. - "Rubber Band Man" (2004)
Lil Wayne f/ Mannie Fresh - "Go D.J." (2004)
Juvenile f/ Soulja Slim - "Slow Motion" (2004)
UTP f/ Wacko, Skip and Juvenile - "Nolia Clap (Remix)" (2004)
Cee-Lo f/ Timbaland - “I’ll Be Around” (2004)
Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz f/ Bo Hagon - "Get Crunk" (2004)

Three 6 Mafia f/ Young Buck and 8Ball & MJG - "Stay Fly" (2005)
Ying Yang Twins - "Wait (The Whisper Song)" (2005)
T.I. - "U Don't Know Me" (2005)
Boyz N Da Hood - "Dem Boyz" (2005)
Ying Yang Twins f/ Pitbull - "Shake" (2005)
Dem Franchize Boyz f/ Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat and Bow Wow - "I Think They Like Me (So So Def Remix)" (2005)
Paul Wall f/ Big Pokey - “Sittin’ Sidewayz” (2005)
Gucci Mane f/ Young Jeezy and Boo - "Icy" (2005)

Rich Boy f/ Polow Da Don - "Throw Some D's" (2006)
T.I. - "What You Know" (2006)
Chamillionaire f/ Krayzie Bone - "Ridin'" (2006)
Birdman and Lil Wayne - "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" (2006)
Purple Ribbon All-Stars f/ Big Boi, Killer Mike, C-Bone and Rock D - "Kryptonite (I'm On It)" (2006)
DJ Khaled f/ Paul Wall, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and Pitbull - "Holla At Me Baby" (2006)
Young Dro f/ T.I. - "Shoulder Lean" (2006)

UGK featuring Outkast - "Int'l Players Anthem" (2007)
Foxx f/ Lil Boosie and Webbie - "Wipe Me Down (Remix)" (2007)

Young Jeezy f/ Kanye West - "Put On" (2008)
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - "Donk" (2008)

Gucci Mane f/ Plies - "Wasted" (2009)

here's part 2 of the zip

http://www.mediafire.com/?xyyqozqlqyquomb

"Cadillac's on 22's" you herb

― Christopher Green Leafy Swagon Indiebro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who other than rock critics who posted to ilx cared about this song like that

like a pimp >>>>>>>>>>>>>

"like a pimp" would prob be my #2 or 3

all dates from wikipedia -- i estimated or used album release date on those where i couldn't find a specific single release date, maybe y'all can fill in the blanks

Trick Daddy f/ Trina, Co and Duece Poppito - "Shut Up" (02/2000?)
Three 6 Mafia - "Who Run It" (04/2000?)
Three 6 Mafia f/ UGK and Project Pat - "Sippin' On Some Syrup" (04/2000?)
Big Tymers - "Get Your Roll On" (05/2000?)
C-Murder f/ Snoop Dogg and Magic - "Down For My N’s" (09/2000?)
Outkast - "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" (09/06/2000)
Ludacris f/ Shawnna - "What's Your Fantasy?" (09/12/2000)
8Ball & MJG f/ DJ Quik - "Buck Bounce" (11/2000?)
Ludacris - "Southern Hospitality" (12/29/2000)
Trick Daddy - "I'm A Thug" (03/2001?)
Petey Pablo - "Raise Up" (05/22/2001)
Bubba Sparxxx - "Ugly" (09/2001?)
Lil Wayne f/ Birdman, Mickey and Mack 10 - "Shine" (12/2001?)
Mystikal - "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" (12/04/2001)
Nappy Roots f/ Jazze Pha - "Awnaw" (02/26/2002)
Ludacris f/ Mystikal and I-20 - "Move Bitch" (05/21/2002)
Scarface f/ Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel - "Guess Who's Back" (08/2002?)
Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz f/ Mystikal and Krayzie Bone - "I Don't Give A Fuck" (10/08/2002)
Birdman f/ The Clipse - “What Happened To That Boy?” (11/2002?)
Trina featuring Ludacris - “B R Right” (01/25/2003)
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz f/ The Ying Yang Twins - “Get Low” (02/19/2003)
The YoungBloodZ featuring Lil Jon - “Damn!” (03/2003?)
David Banner f/ Lil Flip - “Like A Pimp” (05/2003?)
Bone Crusher f/ Killer Mike and T.I. - “Never Scared” (06/2003?)
T.I. - "Rubber Band Man" (12/30/2003)
Cee-Lo f/ Timbaland - “I’ll Be Around” (03/2004?)
UTP f/ Wacko, Skip and Juvenile - "Nolia Clap (Remix)" (05/2004?)
Juvenile f/ Soulja Slim - "Slow Motion" (06/15/2004)
Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz f/ Bo Hagon - "Get Crunk" (11/2004?)
Lil Wayne f/ Mannie Fresh - "Go D.J." (12/05/2004)
T.I. - "U Don't Know Me" (01/11/2005)
Ying Yang Twins - "Wait (The Whisper Song)" (03/01/2005)
Boyz N Da Hood - "Dem Boyz" (06/2005?)
Ying Yang Twins f/ Pitbull - "Shake" (06/2005?)
Dem Franchize Boyz f/ Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat and Bow Wow - "I Think They Like Me (So So Def Remix)" (09/13/2005)
Gucci Mane f/ Young Jeezy and Boo - "Icy" (09/13/2005)
Paul Wall f/ Big Pokey - “Sittin’ Sidewayz” (09/20/2005)
Chamillionaire f/ Krayzie Bone - "Ridin'" (01/12/2006)
Three 6 Mafia f/ Young Buck and 8Ball & MJG - "Stay Fly" (02/07/2006)
T.I. - "What You Know" (02/28/2006)
Purple Ribbon All-Stars f/ Big Boi, Killer Mike, C-Bone and Rock D - "Kryptonite (I'm On It)" (03/2006?)
DJ Khaled f/ Paul Wall, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and Pitbull - "Holla At Me Baby" (03/28/2006)
Young Dro f/ T.I. - "Shoulder Lean" (07/04/2006)
Birdman and Lil Wayne - "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" (07/18/2006)
Rich Boy f/ Polow Da Don - "Throw Some D's" (08/15/2006)
Foxx f/ Lil Boosie and Webbie - "Wipe Me Down (Remix)" (01/2007)
UGK featuring Outkast - "Int'l Players Anthem" (06/2007)
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - "Donk" (05/04/2008)
Young Jeezy f/ Kanye West - "Put On" (06/03/2008)
Gucci Mane f/ Plies - "Wasted" (09/26/2009)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

J0rdan, yr zip will be nice on shuffle for a run 2night

i can't believe the fucking retarded piece of shit iphone 4G still doesn't group compilations in the artists list. Not every owner of a smart phone is a drooling teenage mongoloid who listens to everything as single.

i know gift horses but smh at j0rdan ripping half of these 128

lol at you thinking that any of these got ripped from actual CDs

lol @ u zipping up three protected MP3s u bought on iTunes that no one can play

shit, which ones

oh i know one is "like a pimp"

Raise Up, Like A Pimp and Wipe Me Down

^^that's like a little short story

here's "like a pimp" download link http://www.4shared.com/audio/9WNbmfTr/David_Banner_-_Like_A_Pimp_Ft_.htm

"wipe me down" http://www.4shared.com/audio/I1kxvfvr/Foxx_-_Wipe_Me_Down__Ft_Lil_Bo.htm

"raise up" http://www.4shared.com/audio/iDREwnbu/Petey_Pablo_-_Raise_Up__North_.htm

my bad y'all

fuck my finger slipped and I voted for what happened to that boy

would like to retroactively nix it and vote for donk instead

Raise Up, Like A Pimp and Wipe Me Down

― interk3llar overdrive (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^that's like a little short story

― interk3llar overdrive (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

You forgot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFs-vwu_o2w

"get buck" & "shorty wanna ride" >>> "let me in"

actually that reminds me of a poll i wanted to do

thanks so much for pulling all these together j0rd!

no prob

thx JS!

not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but does anyone know how to get rid of the [explicit] tags on some of these? never even seen that before

like, the red [EXPLICIT] thing that shows up in itunes? it's just an itunes preference, but you can't play those anyway

thx sarge ^_^

yup yup

lot of people's first time using iTunes in this thread, apparantly

you can just say 'goole' instead of 'lots of people', dick

nah, that was mostly meant to include j0rdan zippin up protected files

yeah my bad on not realizing that three out of fifty tracks that i took 45 mins to upload to the internet were bought from itunes 2 years ago

i think my zip of the 'crossover' trax was clean tho

ya & it done me good

itunes sucks y would anyone use it in this universe i dont know

i can promise you all i didn't "forget" any Young Buck solo singles

Raise Up, Like A Pimp and Wipe Me Down

― interk3llar overdrive (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^that's like a little short story

― interk3llar overdrive (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i didn't put "Raise Up" and "Get Low" next to each other on the list on purpose but once i realized it i was like "oh, lol"

are u gonna cop to forgetting anything?

so far nobody has mentioned a song that made me think "oh shit i loved that, i wish i'd remembered it in time to put it on the list"

http://www.crossroads-market.com/images/HTFCA342.JPG?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J1FSyFTWTU ?

nah

the omission i struggled with the most tbh was lil flip's "the way we ball" haha

i can promise you all i didn't "forget" any Young Buck solo singles

"get buck" would've made any "best of 00s" list of mine, such a banger, one of the best polow beats imo. i can serve whitney houston AND bobby brown!

thx 4 zips jordan. have most but genuinely downloading both just in case of better bitrate. too many of these aren't on uk itunes. talking of which, funny to remember the bad old days of DRM - a couple of the tracks in your r&b zip were like that too - i think all itunes purchases now are playable by anyone though.

what about crime mob's "knuck if you buck"/"stilettos (pumps)"/"rock yo hips"?

a personal 00s southern rap favourite that as far as i'm aware no one else ever reps for -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9B3aqpaxaw

"Knuck If You Buck" was one of those songs like "Stipp Tippin" or "A Milli" where I knew I'd get shit for excluding it but just don't like it enough -- to me "Get Crunk" is the definitive Lil Jay banger

"Get Buck" is serious failed banger status and if I was going to rank all the rappers on this list by, like, enjoyment of their music and respect for their talent and accomplishments, Young Buck would be below Plies and Paul Wall and above probably just a bunch of C-listers from the posse cuts

^^cuckoo

OK, what established solo artists is Young Buck better than on this list? gimme names.

you know, i think this adventure reveals a real problem in crowd-sourcing.

J0rd searched for the easiest, most accessible versions of this music and the internet provided him with pure garbage. I'm terrified and disgusted that the legacy of most vital music of the 00s is being preserved by a bunch of teenagers that think it's acceptable to listen to "I Don't Give A Fuck" in 96kbps.

fewer people have computers than you think. a lot of people who love this stuff have the CDs.

yeah, i mean, when i wanna listen to this stuff, i usually just rip a CD to my iphone. Experiments like this reminds me why i keep my CDs around.

pretty much every rap song I own is directly from a CD I own....

a lot of the most vital music of pre-00s decades was preserved by a tiny number of people with ltd-edition vinyl copies. and this music is still preserved on vinyl and cd (several of my mp3s were originally ripped from cd albums).

i agree that digital archival sucks (and isn't limited to any genre - in grime, a lot of the genre's classic white labels have been pretty much LOST), but just 10 years ago this stuff wouldn't be readily accessible at all - baby steps; i like to think that digital archival is a process.

xpost

I mean, I looooove picking up rap CDs, and still do it on the regular. Which is why 2010 mixtape culture kind of drives me nuts. In the back of my head I'm always thinking there's no way I'm gonna be successfully backing up my digital copy of Nicki Minaj's "Beam Me Up Scotty" for 20 or 30 years.

rockist posts v much in character

?? not to get all racey classy here but come on, this is hugely popular music consumed by populations that aren't very far forward on the digital curve or whatever, the cds are out there in the millions. the fact that j0rdan s4rge grabbed some shitty bitrate stuff off fileshare doesn't mean much, if you're worried about 'preservation'

I'm actually more of a 'I gotta have the physical copy' type person with metal albums, as that's really the genre I'm most passionate about, and I like having the real things. With rap it just so happens that used rap cds get extremely cheap over time so that I acquired most of them cheaply.

But the digital age has basically led to an interesting and annoying trend with metal cds -- underground albums that were prior to the turn of the century, only available in Europe starting getting stateside distribution, and genre availability was at its peak.

In recent years, due to the digital age, metal albums go out of print with alarming frequency, meaning getting proper copies is impossible unless you want to pay obscene prices. Even albums that aren't that old or were only just reissued a few years ago. Which unfortunately means d/ling sometimes truly is the only option, whether it be illegally, or legally through an iTunes-esque provider.

Like I'm not going to pay $25 for a copy of Mercyful Fate's "Don't Break the Oath" that two years ago I could have had for $15, thank you much.

theres nothing rockist about wanting high sound quality whiney!!

OK, what established solo artists is Young Buck better than on this list? gimme names.

― some dude, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:56 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought this was a list of 'songs' not 'artists'

and to answer your question, ying yang twins, paul wall, bonecrusher, chamillionaire, probably some others

?? not to get all racey classy here but come on, this is hugely popular music consumed by populations that aren't very far forward on the digital curve or whatever,

― goole, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:02 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh, you mean the mostly middle class white kids that have been hip-hops biggest buyers for appx 25 years?

sorry if that was extra snarky, I know you thought i was goin in on you earlier in this thread, my man goole

uh, you mean the mostly middle class white kids that have been hip-hops biggest buyers for appx 25 years?

― interk3llar overdrive (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:13 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can you source this stat? someone tried to do a piece on this recently & i cant for the life of me remember where -- they try to get to the root of demographic claims re: rap music's fanbase

can you source this stat?

no.

then fuk off

I mean, someone asked me about that recently and to me it makes perfect sense via

a) Hip-Hop is basically American pop music at this point and white people are like 80% of America.

b) Looking at the audience at practically every rap show I've ever been to ever

yeah but youre going to see like el-p

& i thought you were opposed to anecdotal examples anyway

I was one of like 4 white people at the last hiphop show I went to but it's atlanta

in chicago i went to see t.i. at the congress theater (5000 seat venue) and there were more than 4 white ppl, but still by far a minority. and the vast majority of them appeared to be 18-21 yrs old and from some outer ring suburbs. pretty sure i was the only white dude there who wasnt still rocking a visor lol

am i seriously getting shit for like not owning the bonecrusher album

when i zip up ship's next rap list dudes are getting emails, whiney excluded

I actually recently talked to someone in Chicago who goes to rap shows and they were telling me that the racial makeup of local depends on whatever neighborhood the show is in. And that kind of goes for New York too. Like a Knitting Factory or Summerstage Slick Rick show will have a totally different racial makeup than one that happens in the Bronx or Queens

But seriously, guys, it doesn't take an enormous leap of faith to imagineer some stats on the racial demographics of the six million people that bought "I Gotta Feelin" and the five million people that bought "Low"

anyway im not doubting that tons of white ppl buy gangsta rap -- thats obvious, tons of white ppl buy lots of diff rap -- but when i hear ppl confidently spout off this stat about how white ppl buy most rap music its like, well maybe just on pure numbers, but representative for our percentage of the population? is it really a huge gap or a small one? & which gangsta rap are we talking about? there are tons of diff kinds. and are we talking about cd sales, or concert tickets, or radio listeners?

in general, i find when Djing that a lot of latino dudes know more gangster rap than white ppl, unless it was a straight up pop track like 'big pimpin' or something. & im not talking about gangster dudes, just ave. bros from pilsen or whatever.

there are roughly 6 times as many white people in the U.S. as there are black people. and while black people are definitely more likely to listen to hip hop, whether casually or "seriously" or whatever, i don't think i'd be sticking my neck out too far to posit that black folks probably aren't more than 6 times more likely to listen to rap.

when i zip up ship's next rap list dudes are getting emails, whiney excluded

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:30 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if you want i can run the rough lists by you early if you want more time to put the zips together.

i hope whiney takes a break from posting to devote more time to ripping his rap cds to wav and transporting them to an offsite storage facility

making a spotify playlist of this if anyone wants in...unless of course someone has already done this. so far it has every song.

Spotify playlist, 44 out of 50 found:
http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/4XjNi2aJgQDpLGF6gglQTi

― Neil S, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

woops, that was behind the load comments thing i guess, thanks for that!

:)

putting the zips together isn't the issue from a time standpoint -- downloading 30 or so individual mp3s takes like 2 hours or so -- but I can't make any guarantees about the bitrates of loose mp3s that I get off "hotfile.com" -- I encourage whiney to rip his high quality mp3s and put em up for download if 128 kbps is eating at his soul -- if not ill do what I can

Also if you're listening to music on your iPhone I don't wanna hear complaints about bitrates

fwiw, j0rd my complaints are not about you, they're about the people who rip the ones you found

also, i rip shit at high bitrates when i listen on my phone, son

I would have had Hustler Musik on there but i guess it's not that well like among Lil' Wayne singles.

that's totally one of my favorite Wayne solo singles and just barely didn't make the cut

After initially thinking it completely impossible to choose, I listened to this playlist all day at work and determined the answer is, as it was in the beginning is now and forever shall be, Sippin on Some Sizzurp, amen.

hey j0rdan pro tip -- if a song is 3mb chances are its not in a high bitrate

also amazon mp3 sells unlocked mp3s for 99 cents each in VBR

hey j0rdan pro tip -- if a song is 3mb chances are its not in a high bitrate

i know this -- good luck finding free mp3s of rap songs from 2001 that are greater than 3 mb

if someone wants to paypal me $50 i'll buy all these mp3s from amazon in unlocked vbr format

http://www.gofundme.com/

gofundyourself

just wanted to pop in and say i kind of like "Hip Hop Police" more than "Ridin Dirty" peace out yall

me 2

i only like the intro to ridin dirty

that shouldve been the real beat

a few years back kitwana tried to source the thing abt rap buyers being white suburbanites and concluded it was a myth.

however this interesting wsj piece found a firm that researched it concluding that 60% of rap is bought by ppl self-identifying as white, with that group accounting for 78% of the population in the US.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111521814339424546,00.html

can you source this stat?

― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:16 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111521814339424546,00.html

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JEfe6AelcdQ/R37vGY0tBSI/AAAAAAAAAYE/oru4LgbUpGM/s320/_41186601_hooray-pa5.jpg

a much better top 10 imo

i showed this poll to my gf and she initially confused "stay fly" with big tymers' "still fly."

once we cleared that up she wanted to know why "still fly" wasn't on the list.

god i love "still fly"

yeah i meant to get back here and vote for "still fly" but wandered off and got distracted

i didn't know it! it's pretty good.

xp

i mean stay fly fuck rrrgghh i am tired

even tho i think it's a classic, i always found "southern hospitality" to be the most overrated of luda's singles

obviously anyone complaining abt being spoonfed a folder of southern rap with some tunes @ 128 is a massive dick.

lol sorry

im a total bitrate nazi so

although imo anyone in swag cru should have most of these already??? there are a scattered handful ill prob just find on my own

deej is a bitrate nazi? you spend all of your time listening to shitty youtubes!

9. C-Murder f/ Snoop Dogg and Magic - "Down For My N’s" (2000) 2

high fives other person!

stay fly >>>>>.. what you know

i guess there was a thread about this

i'm not a huge young buck fan really but i think his verse on "stay fly" is pretty dope

gotta keep one eye on the popo
close the window when i roll the endo
i know they mad cuz i'm rollin benzo
it's the purple, not pretendo

kinda a bit 'out there' by young buck's standards

OK the top 3 are great but I have never heard a better song than 'Bouncin' Back', which I voted for.

prob would go stay fly

UGK featuring Outkast - "Int'l Players Anthem" (2007) 3

Three smart ppl on ILM (one of them is myself, obv.) and that's about it, lol.

this is better than that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFuJASjQUNY

should have voted for awnaw, didn't see it

Cee-Lo f/ Timbaland - “I’ll Be Around” (2004)

can someone talk to me about this song? I downloaded the mix and it is fun and awesome, but this is one of the songs I hadn't heard before and i don't really get it. I am admittedly not an expert on southern hip hop (I know most of these songs but don't really have a deep knowledge of context/history/etc) so can people please discuss why they like this song or why it's special?

To me it's just a really fun, upbeat song from 2 guys who I totally thought were geniuses (less thrilled with their output since then but they're still obviously talented guys) who'd never worked together before, really finding some comfortable common ground between their respective sounds. It was a pretty minor hit at the time, though, I ranked it a bit higher here than conventional wisdom might dictate.

also, seriously, that Cee-Lo album is one of the best albums of the decade. Hands down better than anything Gnarls Barkley put out. RIYL the new Big Boi

I never totally warmed up to that album.

cool, thanks for indulging me. I think maybe I just don't like Cee-Lo that much since I wasn't big on "Fuck You" or any of the Gnarls Barkley songs but I should probably give him another shot.

Def download that album and report back. Was on my Pazz & Jop ballot and still gets lots of play from me. Def like the sweet middle ground between Goodie Mob and the full-on pop of Gnarls

is there gonna be a straightup r&b list?

i was never big on 'i'll be around' myself. it was the first timbo beat i remember thinking was kinda cliche. wasnt too into that cee lo album either

but i only listened to it like once

ok i just spent an hour fixing all of these in itunes.

i am looking for an emblematic photo to act as the album artwork. thoughts?

mr. some dude, what is ur opinion of tum tum's CAPRICE MUZIK in the context of this list

never was really into that song, never would've considered it. it's aight i guess!

is there gonna be a straightup r&b list?

― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Friday, October 15, 2010 12:02 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, that's next

yes!

why is lukas haas in the intl players anthem video

is there gonna be a straightup r&b list?

― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Friday, October 15, 2010 12:02 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, that's next

― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Saturday, October 16, 2010 5:06 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

:D :D :D

so enjoying these!

Def. prefer some dude's ranking to the vote outcome.

Some of that comes down to how the ILX machine has secretly ranked the zero votes tho.

yeah it's truly one of the great mysteries of ILX how the order gets determined for ties in a poll, doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it