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1979–1999

Hip-Hop & Rap Hits

The crossover bangers.

When rap took over the Hot 100 — the radio smashes, the sample-flipped anthems, and the crossover hits that turned hip-hop into pop's biggest force.

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All 126 tracks

126 tracks
Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.)
Coolio
1995
I'll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans, 112)
Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
1997
Can't Nobody Hold Me Down (feat. Mase)
Puff Daddy
1997
Tha Crossroads
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
1996
Rump Shaker
Wreckx-n-Effect
1992
Informer
Snow
1992
This Is How We Do It
Montell Jordan
1995
C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)
Quad City DJ's
1996
Where My Girls At?
702
1999
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
Will Smith
1998
Been Around the World (feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Mase)
Puff Daddy & The Family
1998
Good Vibrations (feat. Loleatta Holloway)
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch & Loleatta Holloway
1991
Fantastic Voyage
Coolio
2008
Mo Money Mo Problems (feat. Puff Daddy & Mase)
The Notorious B.I.G.
1997
Loungin
LL COOL J
1995
Bills, Bills, Bills (Mixed)
Destiny's Child
1999
One More Chance / Stay With Me
The Notorious B.I.G.
1995
Ditty
Paperboy
1993
In My Bed
Dru Hill
1997
Let's Ride (feat. Silk "The Shocker" Friend & Master P)
Montell Jordan
1998
What's It Gonna Be (feat. Janet Jackson)
Busta Rhymes
1999
What It's Like
Everlast
1999
Wild Thing
Tone-Lōc
1989
Wild Wild West
Kool Moe Dee
1999
Da' Dip (Original)
Freak Nasty
1997
Keep on Truckin' (Pt. 1) [Mixed]
Eddie Kendricks
1973
Buffalo Stance
Neneh Cherry
1989

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▸ Did you know

  • The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 'Rapper's Delight' was the first rap single to reach the Top 40.
  • Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' was the best-selling single of 1995 in the U.S.