Best Hip Hop Songs

The best hip hop songs are enduring, with lyrics that stick in people’s brains in the same place that stores the words the opening of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. While the hip-hop movement may have had humble beginnings as a fad in New York back in the 1980s, it has grown into a huge culture that embraces the beat, rhythms, and especially lyrics that the unique artists of the genre create for their fans. From long-lasting superstars like Grandmaster Flash to more modern love-to-hate sort of celebrity singers like Eminem, the best hip hop songs are sometimes entwined with the rap genre to give them staying power.

With an emphasis on repetitive rhyming “spoken word” type lyrics (which are sometimes very creative in making words rhyme that normally do not), the best hip hop songs boom from the speakers of clubs, out of the rolled-down windows of cars at stoplights, or a muffled blasting out backwards from music player headphones in listener’s ears. Even if you don’t follow the newest, hottest singers, the best hip hop songs are hard to miss, with multi-channel tabloids like TMZ following their artists almost everywhere with cameras. Their songs, treated as anthems-of-the-week for a new and increasingly fickle young audience, need the support that tabloid coverage of their lavish lifestyles can give.

The fans deem the best hip hop songs to be the ones that discuss, over and over, the wealth and power that the artist enjoys – either real or fictional in nature. Crowds roar with approval at concerts when the singer begins talking about his garage of rare cars and harem of women over the pounding bass beat. While these songs may lack some of the style of their predecessors, it certainly seems that these are the best hip hop songs out there, even if you are only judging by album sales.