What is are the saddest hiphop tracks of all time?

and on the same tip, the whole of the "labcab" LP is terribly sad in relation to "bizarre ride".

and the second second Goats album for sad in the other sense.

the tupac one is really sad, I think.

i propose....

aesop rock-"daylight"

Genius 'Cold World' perhaps...largely due to D'Angelo's soulful warblings

Speaking of which, try "Test Of My Faith" by Petey Pablo. Great song off a fantastic album, really stays with you.

And the Latyrx song "Balcony Beach" hits me kinda sad...not in a "thinking of my homies that I miss" kinda way, but more in a "damn, I just keep gettin' older" kinda way.

And, in all seriousness, TLC's "Waterfalls" could make me bust some octal leakage even before Left-Eye died. That's a pretty sad song.

So I'll add The Streets "Stay Positive".

Yo, pain builds my character
Deranged cancer cell begin to damage my shell
Tissues begin to swell
A human pin-cushion needles begin pushin'
through my, melanin color, blood begins gushin'
Hunger - pain is, fed through my veins
Tryin' to maintain body and brain under strain
Belly bein' drained from my nose through a catheter
To maintain my stamina, game is high caliber
Flashback my dossier file before the hospital
Lots'll pay a pile of cheddar to see me rock my style
Got lots of smiles from man woman and child
A Gravedigga here runnin' wild like the Nile
Ghetto, X-File, the horrorcore bringers
City morgue singers, new rap era beginners
Four years out of seven I remember tourin'
And this year I'm measurin' my urine

And, if anybody's ever heard an instrumental of "Thong Song", you'll realize it's in a minor key and the beat should have been utilized as a really intense dreary powerhouse that it was building up to be. But then "The Dragon" shoved his tiny wang in it's face and turned it into a fuckin' joke. That makes me sad, too. So I guess it's a sad song. :D

(for many reasons)

The Limitations of Hip-hop
Saddest/most moving hip-hop lyric?
all you dicks who always want sad hiphop

Oh, and excellent call on "Juicy".

Dance With The Devil (immortal technique) is sad but its sad in a VERY fucked up way.

Ontop of those two Id have to add

Immortal Technique - You Never Know.

Agreed!

this is not a love ballad but it is a slow song
(?) tell you 'bout this girl i know well this girl i used to know
her name's
makeba
makeba
sweet makeba
makeba
makeba
yo how you doin' baby it's been a long time
haven't seen you in a couple of years and the last i heard you lost
your mind
well how you been who you been with how's it been goin'
still into hip hop are you still flowin'
oh yeah that's cool
we should kick back maybe have a session
i remember you tellin' me you had to get away couldn't stay another
day
in the life of L.A. in the city
that's peace
yo where you been China Africa Greece
least you coulda dropped me a letter or a phone call
let me know you was all right
your friends and your family and they kept tellin' me
makeba disappeared in the night
now i know that you had big dreams makeba
but i had big dreams too
and all this time you were searchin' makeba
did any your dreams come true
i remember i used to be down for you and you was down for me
i had your back and you had my back makeba
i wanted you to be my g
makeba
yo you know i got another girl after that right
she kinda looked like you too a little bit
sweet makeba
yo why don't you just come to the crib you know
we could listen to some music talk about things
ooh i see you're not a young girl anymore and you're all grown up
and you been around the world
wanna see what life's gonna offer you it's your young world and it's
all for
you
you probably got a man in every country that wants you
like i wanted you but you didn't want that
remember how we used to make love makeba
'member how you loved it when i hit it from the back
makeba
i had love for you
i had wanted you
i had needed you
i remember comin' to your house seven in the morning
ready for school but we didn't even go
it was right back to my house where we kissed liked kids
and we jumped in the bed and you know
i loved makin' love to my makeba
she was like my queen of Sheba
i remember how we used to smoke chiba
oh you don't smoke no more well that's cool
well everybody gotta stop sometime
i remember one time when you hid my stash and saved my ass from the
one time
i remember some fools tried to jump me and you jumped up before
anybody did
we used to say if and when we get married we'll have kid after kid
after kid
after kid
after kid after kid after kid after kid after kid
damn that's a lot of kids
makeba
sweet makeba
i had love for you
i had wanted you
i had needed you
how i loved makin' love to my makeba
well remember how the whole crew used to hang tough
well everybody's doin' they thang and stuff
and everybody's still actin' like they know
and a few more people ain't w/us no mo'
oh me i'm just chillin'
makin' my music livin' and buildin'
tryin' to make a million out this little ol' dime and this nickel
and lickin' lickle shots for the prophets we forgot
but other than that i'm glad you back on deck
i expect to see you in the near future
if you wanna just sit and chat talk about the good old days
good old times what was in style what's goin' on now
cause it has been a while
makeba
honey girlfriend
left in a whirlwind put a brother in a tailspin
just twirlin'
had a few laughs and kicks
but me and my clique don't be trippin' no tricks
i still got a piece of me to give you
you still got a piece of you to give me
you listenin' but you don't hear me
we can pick up right where we left at but
i gotta be me and you gotta accept that
i just wanna be homies
cause i ain't got love like Monie
cause soon as you got close you got ghost
and you tried to leave Acey 'lone-y
so hook up w/me if you can cool
but you know i know what you get loose to
and if you play your cards right get your shit tight
then we might be down like we used to
makeba

Jay-Z's "Regrets" is always really sad to me.

The hands down winner is the Coup's "Underdogs".

I'm gonna make my own mix based on this. good idea.

-- Thea (theaboy...), August 19th, 2004.

And now it seems that we're used to this debris
We made our beds and now we hate where these beds be
Took nothing at all to part this red sea
I'm a shackled child, singing the good song of freedom
They've got no pride, they interupt our grieving
Teardrops dropping for the pain of the world
My best friend dies when she was just a young girl
Left me here to fend for myself
Now the pain never leaves, we just learn to cope
When the devil needs hanging we tie up the rope
And shout pull!
Let's put and end to this bull
Same thing, how many years before we practice what we preach
How many tears before we truly clinch the peace
Only to find that there is no honey on the moon
official goon, with an unofficial croon.

I'm all things to all men
All of the women, all the children
Just say when and I'll take you to my tardis
Who's the hardest? Who's the hardest?

Sixteen-bar cycles, heart-felt recitals
From the wacky blacky, man, the shoulda called me Michael
Look at the monster you made, look at the monster you paid
But you claim no responsibility
Cos it's each to himself in these times that we live
Does God have a sense of humour? Then the joke's on us
Cos we're chasing our tails for how long?
The tustle makes us how strong?
Vintage poor people's fun
If we could ease up on these booze and fags
Then just maybe life wouldn't seem so mad
Be a man my dad said, but what the hell he know?
He lost his dream, he lost his flow
And I don't want to be alone
I'm born king, so where's my throne?
I'm too intense, I'm too deep, I'm too nice for life
So what makes this place so nervous?

I'm all things to all men
All of the women, all the children
Just say when and I'll take you to my tardis
Who's the hardest? Who's the hardest?

Sad as fuck. Roots is a poet.

You can say that again and again and a...

I tried to pick out the strongest (to me) lines out of this..and I basically couldn't..Wouldnt be doing it any justice..

"Dreamy Days" could also be a part of this.. Specially the part where he goes "this is my money, this is my pain, these are my drugs, this is my brain..and its never gonna be the same"

He's a star..

On another tip, Dizzee Rascal's - "Jezebel" is quite a sad tune, lyricswise

Cannibal Ox is pretty meloncholy. Iron Galaxy, A B-boys Alpha etc.

I will also freely admit that the 1-2 of "She's Gone" and "Anythang" on Devin the Dude's To tha X-treme reduces me to a blubbering fool.

i 2d jay-z's "regrets." i'd also add "d'evils" to the list of sad HOVA songs.

this song puts me in a place few rock songs do........very sad-sounding.

Sorry, but that inane comparison just chucked my needle out the groove.

i copped this off govtnames a while ago; it is *really* heavy but not maudlin or excessively dark ... just full of pain being changed into something uplifting