Songs Of All-time | Top 1000 Greatest Hip-hop Rap

The ultimate de-escalation of machismo. Pac showed vulnerability over a lush sample of The Impressions. It humanized the thug.

The modern epic. Three beats, no chorus, maximum chaos. It proved that the streaming era could produce structural genius. Top 1000 GREATEST Hip-Hop Rap Songs of All-Time

Released on a whim, recorded live in the studio, it introduced the world to the syntax of Rap. That three-note bassline by Chic (Nile Rodgers) took a Bronx block party and put it on Top 40 radio globally. The ultimate de-escalation of machismo

Definitive. Unforgiving. Unparalleled.