Billboard Hot Rap Singles for the week ending Jan. 13, 1996

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Um, I narrowed it down to these:

Goodie Mob, "Cell Therapy"
Blahzay Blahzay, "Danger"
Tha Dogg Pound, "Let's Play House"
The Fugees, "Fu-Gee-La"
Raekwon, "Ice Cream"
The Pharcyde, "Runnin'"
Luniz, "I Got 5 on It"
Smoothe da Hustler, "Broken Language"
AZ, "Sugar Hill"
Genius/GZA, "Liquid Swords"
Redman & Method Man, "How High"
Smif-n-Wessun, "Wrexonize"
Junior M.A.F.I.A., "Player's Anthem"
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "1st of the Month"

voted for "Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz, and Benz" because i've heard it on the radio twice in the past few days and really enjoyed it

voted for 'broken language' but yeah loads of classic stuff here

geez chart rap used to be so diverse

lol @ DOC comeback record, that one was kidna a bummer

will no one vote for Skee-Lo?

inclined to take the Luniz over the Wu stuff here, honestly

last decent Pharcyde single too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4sW3jJuVDg&feature=related

^ Have to vote for this, but damn what a list! "East 1999", "I Got 5 on It", "Last Dayz", "Throw Your Set in the Air", "Cold World", "How High", "1st of the Month", these are all among my favourite rap tunes of the 90s.

I never understood people who prefer Smif-n-Wessun over Heltah Skeltah, Ruck & Rock simply have more personality, and they're funnier too.

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I never understood people who prefer Smif-n-Wessun over Heltah Skeltah, Ruck & Rock simply have more personality, and they're funnier too.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:58 (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhjOJWf1Qi8 is one of the ten greatest singles of all time?

i don't hate the beatles! i hate the record that had something and maxwells silver hammer and i want you on it. there is a difference.

but srs, i don't think the beatles ever made anything as good as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ThxWzkELk

paperback writer, day tripper, we can work it out and i feel fine maybe.

nah i'd take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQmfzGf9904 over any beatles song, who am i kidding?

I really want to shit in your cornflakes for dissing "I Want You"

i voted for "i got 5 on it"

Sam, have you heard the new version of "Last Dayz" Onyx did with Dead Prez? I think it's even better than the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKDQxDjv3o

Sticky Fingaz' last verse on that one is sick!

arbitrary top 10:

broken language
danger
cell therapy
player's anthem
cold world
one more chance
ice cream
Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka
how high
1st of da month

My arbitrary top 10:

32. Smoothe da Hustler, "Broken Language"
35. Genius/GZA, "Liquid Swords"
3. Goodie Mob, "Cell Therapy"
11. The Fugees, "Fu-Gee-La"
17. Raekwon, "Ice Cream"
10. The Click, "Hurricane"
42. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "1st of the Month"
47. Skee-Lo, "I Wish"
48. 2Pac, "Temptations"
4. Coolio, "Gangsta's Paradise"

I really want to shit in your cornflakes for dissing "I Want You"

― john, paul, george, gang (The Reverend), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 08:34 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

really? I don't hear anything in it other than the Beatles pissing about, knowing that because they are the impeachable off-their-tits beatles, they can do any old shit and get it praised. The Eddie Hazel cover version, sure, but the original?

also cheers tuo, never heard that before. lol at name dropping the anarchist cookbook. sticky fingaz really is one of the 5 most underrated mcs.

It's probably my favorite Beatles song.

i kinda love the ilx consensus about the brilliance of broken language, i first heard the song because of an ILM poll thread

BROKEN LANGUAGE POLL

I once got to play it for a roomful of ILX types who had never heard it. I recall Mackro Mackro literally falling on his side laughing at "The white girl gangbanger".

:D

ok dude, but of all kip rip hoos&guru days, shitting in ones cornflakes not cool

that was the poll! only five people voted, but everyone who did went out and etc etc etc

rip hoos

WHAT? (assuming he's not really dead)

Only five people heard it, but each of them formed a goon crew.

guru is IRL dead, hoos is only ILX dead.

Shamed to admit this morning was the first time I've ever heard that joint.

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confession: I've never liked "Runnin'"

me neither. i've never liked the pharcyde as much as ppl around me have.

i kind of wish i'd voted for 'i've got 5 on it' too, can't believe it only got 1 vote given i think almost every single person i know irl knows and could sing along to that song.

I don't understand not loving anything off the first two Pharcyde albums.

tpp- I think I'm just glad when rap polls get more than 3 votes. And considering the strength of the songs involved, great things are still gonna lack votes, its normal. I'm sure if lj was runnin' (run! run!) a singles poll, I've Got 5 On It would make the top 10 90s singles imo.

def at one point in my life i would have voted for 'ice cream' here (again 1 vote lol!)

i do like the pharcyde just not a big fan of 'runnin'. i dig 'bizarre ride ..' and it used to get fairly regular spin with me cos its the kind of rap record you can play for non-rap fans and they often like it.

the one thing here i've never ever ever managed to get into was gza. i've tried but it's just not my thing i guess. which is weird given i pretty much love the rest of the wu-tang canon

urgh and that skee lo song is so corny. 4 votes!?

'last dayz' is extremely dope

thinking of taking my own life. i might as well
'cept they might not sell weed in hell

i do like the pharcyde just not a big fan of 'runnin'. i dig 'bizarre ride ..'

― pollos da don (tpp), Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:41 AM Bookmark

same here... it just never seemed to have any spark to me