If you're *really* stuck you can do a watered down retelling of "I Need Love". I speak of course, of "I Love You" by Vanilla Ice.
But you should definitely get "What's On Your Mind" by Eric B. and Rakim. By that I mean, you should go buy the CD, 'Don't Sweat the Technique'. If you don't have Eric B and Rakim in your collection, you can't call yourself a hip hop fan.
(Edit: Spelling is hard)
(edited by DJ Ran on 10.1.04 1348) You can't stop Pete "Gas". You'd be a fool to try.
Several songs off of Andre 3000's half of the last Outkast album.
Rob asks Dave and Ric if they want to go backstage to play Hungry Hungry Hippos and Flair and Batista immediately bail. Flair wants to be Green. Man, EVERYBODY wants to be green. Except the girl in the commercials. She wanted to be pink. That either means that the ad agency was sexist or that she was communist. Of course Hungry Hungry Hippos is a rather capitalist game isn’t it? No self respecting communist would play Hungry Hungry Hippos. Except Stalin. He LOVED Hungry Hungry Hippos. God, I’ve got no clue what the hell I’m rambling about anymore.-- Matt "Excalibur05" Hocking, Raw Satire writer extraordinaire
You know, I just can't call it the "WWE." I just can't. My body's rejecting it like a bad liver transplant.-- Bill Simmons, espn.com/page2
If you're feelin thugged out, Biggie's "Me and My Bitch" is a good one. For the less gangsta atmosphere, go with Jay-Z and Foxy Brown's "Sunshine" off of the In My Lifetime Volume 1 album.
"What you don't understand, you can make mean anything." -Palahniuk
Completely agree on Common...great hip hop songs...The Light has to be one of the best songs ever!
I would also include... Angie Stone-Wish I didn't miss you...more R&B than hip hop but awesome song. Love of my life (Ode to Hip Hop) - Erykah Badu Nuthin Matters - Lauryn Hill feat. D'Angelo I Gotta A Love - Pete Rock and CL Smooth Love Poems - Bilal (highly recommended) Keeping with the Common theme...All night long feat Erykah Badu And from Pharoah Monch...a song also called The Light from the Internal Affairs album