And I mean fucking LOVE. When these songs come on, White People look at each other and say "Awwww yeah" or "Hell yeah" and are compelled to sing along. Sometimes there’s also a corresponding stupid dance move.
Having studied White People for 27 years, my authority on the topic is absolute; this list is damn near bullet proof.
The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love
10. Positive K – I Got A Man
White People’s most beloved rap duet.
White Girls in particular love this song because it gives them a chance to playfully reject a male suitor’s advances on the dance floor before blowing him at the end of the night. It’s empowering.
9. Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
Humpty Hump was rap music’s greatest alter ego and actually a good MC but all White People know (and love) him for is "I like my oatmeal lumpy," and "Burger King bathroom."
Fucking White People.
8. Biz Markie – Just A Friend
Oh my god do White People love this song. Particularly frat boys. Why? I don’t know.
Unlike most of his peers on this list, the Biz is a guy long deep in the hip hop scene with lots of cred, yet to White People he’ll only ever be that fat funny-looking black guy with the wig who sings bad.
7. Young MC – Bust A Move
I believe there is a law that requires this song be played at every Rock n’ Bowl.
Like that the police shut down the bowling alley if it doesn’t comply.
6. Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock – It Takes Two
Knowing the words up to "I get stupid, I mean outrageous" is standard and unremarkable.
Knowing everything up through the hook means you’ll be frenching at 80s Night.
5. Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
Before he was shooting porn and marrying/divorcing Pepa (a near miss on this list herself), Treach was teaching White People the world over how to wave their arms from side to side above their heads while singing nursery rhymes.
Hip Hop Hooray is not only a great way to melodically celebrate life, it’s something to buy airbrushed on a T-shirt when you’re at the beach for a week on your summer vacation to show that you’re down.
4. Tag Team – Whoomp (There It Is)
Man, what was the fucking story about this song and the other one that came out at exactly the same time by, I believe, 95 South called "Whoot There It Is?" Somebody fucked somebody else over big time there.
The weird thing about this song – ubiquitous and beloved by Wisconsin grandmothers that it is – is that its lyrics contain the words "motherfucking," "nigga," "shit," and references to smoking dank. Crazy!
I remember watching The Box video network (where I learned everything I know about Black People) and seeing Tag Team’s follow-ups to this one: "Whoomp (Si Lo Es)" and "Addam’s Family Whoomp." I’m not kidding.
3. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
This one song on the list that White People pretend to only like ironically. Don’t be fooled: deep down White People still think Ice is 110% gangsta.
I remember back in the day "battling" another sixth grader at the ice skating rink in who could rap the first verse of this song the fastest. The kid was Asian, so I won.
2. House of Pain – Jump Around
White People will never be completely comfortable with Black Music so anytime they’re given the opportunity to like a song by one of their own race they go fucking overboard (see this record and all five thousand Eminem songs).
If you’ve ever seen Black People comedy, you’ll be familiar with the notion that White People have no rhythm and can’t dance. This is true. That’s why they will embrace with both honky arms any song that makes it OK for them to not actually dance during it or that tells them exactly what to do and when to do it.
If you go to a club and this fucking song comes on all the White People will literally jump around. I fucking promise you.
1. Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back
Go to a karaoke bar – get the song list – check the rap section – if there’s only one song, this is the song – every fucking time, this is the song.
This, like a number of the other rap songs White People love, features prominently sexual themes addressed in a humorous fashion. I think it’s White People’s inherent prudish squareness that makes them get all giddy about "naughty" rapper songs.
Honorable Mention
In no particular alphabetical order:
- 2 Live Crew: Me So Horny – Too dirty for Old White People (a significant percentage of All White People) to make the list. But man, how times have changed – remember the reaction to this shit when it came out? Florida was ready to lynch Uncle Luke. Today he’s Jeb Bush’s golfing buddy.
- 50 Cent: In Da Club – Fiddy!
- Arrested Development: People Everyday – "Tennessee" has the more famous name but it’s not the one that fifteen years later is still being played every night in every club in Ecuador (and probably other backwards countries too). Ditto Madonna’s "Like A Prayer," but that’s a different list.
- Beastie Boys: Girls/Brass Monkey/(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) – White People collectively love all three of these songs but not individually enough to crack the top ten.
- Black Sheep – The Choice Is Yours (This Or That): Not quite famous enough to make the list, but man is it ever fun to say "You can get with this / or you can get with that" a hundred times in three minutes.
- Juvenile: Back That Azz Up – As you can see, it’s basically impossible for White People to truly love your rap song if it’s less than a decade old. Still, Juvenile got close with this one which features a verse from a significantly Lil’-er Wayne.
- Lil’ Jon and the Eastside Boyz: Get Low – HHH v2 with the arm movements plus what other song lets you yell about jizz to total strangers?
- Nelly: Hot in Herre – Again with the whites getting titillated by suggestive lyrics. Nelly is the white Justin Timberlake.
- Notorious B.I.G.: Big Poppa – You know, ’cause White People can be 350-pound black gangsta romeos too (actually by definition they cannot).
- Puff Daddy: It’s All About The Benjamins – Diddy!
- Salt n’ Pepa: Push It – This and "Let’s Talk About Sex" ruled the roller rinks back in the day but neither could get these gals into the Top 10. Still, much respect to the pair (or triumvirate if you count Spinderella’s stinking ass) for being the women that got the closest.
- Tone Loc: Wild Thing – Wild Thing or Funky Cold Medina? Wild gets the nod since the only words 99% of people know to Funky Cold Medina are "Funky Cold Medina."
- Tupac Shakur: California Love – Had to have a 2Pac song on this list. I think White People love Pac because he makes them feel like they’ve lost a friend to gang violence.
- Will Smith: Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It – Ironically, just not jiggy enough to make the list (and yes I know Nas wrote it).
- Wreckx-N-Effect: Rump Shaker – Remember the girl playing the saxophone on the beach in this video? Man, the White People were right about this one …
OK, that’s my list. Let me know me yours, what I left off, and where I fucked up.
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dude, i’m white.
of your list, only ‘baby got back’ is a song i’m even kinda into.
i think you need to check your idiot filter.
Your list is true… to an extent… i’m white and would fall more into the category of hip hop afficianodo than into the category of “wedding going white guy” who only knows rap through sit-coms, pop radio stations, or terrible bar jukeboxes….
also the last post before mine reaffirms your list, not discounts it
You are spot on. I’ve been djing for years, and this is like the white people’s hip hop playlist.
Word. I DJed kareoke for a while an not one night, not ONE was there not a group of drunk white guys stumbling through Baby Got Back.
This IS a white person’s hip-hop playlist.
Yeah man, I’m white and I get where you’re coming from on a few of these…But this really should be categorized as "Songs that douchebags (who are often white) love." And come on – even douchebags don’t like "Whoomp there it is."
Truth be told, 10-7 are pretty on the money, as well as your top 2. But those other five simply tells me that you are hangin’ with some LAME ass white people.
Being a 30 year old white guy from the suburbs, most of my fellow honkies prefer to go nuts over: all tracks from The Chronic, selected Tribe Called Quest songs, and Ice Cube after he stopped scaring us.
Change the word “douchebags” to “corporate advertising whores”, and you will be more on spot, I think. Many of these tunes have been commercialized in one way or another by somebody simultaneously making a buck off popular black culture while sterilizing it enough to make it palatable for stuffy white audiences. I will say though that I DO enjoy most of the tunes on the list and am what most folks would consider “painfully white”.
It’s an incredibly accurate list. One omission though: Kriss Kross – Jump Around.
The Kris Kross track was just called "Jump" and I haven’t heard it since 6th grade.
How lame am I? I have most of these tracks in a playlist I call "Novelty Hip Hop". I’d add Bel Biv Devoe’s "Poison" to the list (Never trust a big butt and a smile).
In defense of House of Pain, you have to realize that they were an Irish group, first and foremost, and their following (to this day) in Boston and other Irish-American communities is still huge. You can’t go to a St Pat’s day Parade without getting slammed by that song. Attributing this song to people who can’t dance is like saying that anyone that likes the Dropkick Murphys is just a punk-fan wannabe.
If anyone can find it, there’s a great mashup of the "Humpty Dance" and NIN’s "Down In It" out there.
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Missing many newer rap songs about absolutely nothing such as the now classic "This Is Why I’m Hot" by Mims and "Crank Dat" By Soulja Boy. If it makes no sense whatsoever and only serves to annoy, white people will LOVE IT!!!!!!
Jonathan Coulton’s got the ultimate White Man’s cover of "Baby Got Back"
Ben Fold’s has got the ultimate White Man’s cover of "Bitches Ain’t Shit"
The Gourds have got the ultimate White Man’s cover of "Gin and Juice"
All three are genius. All three make me say "Hell Yeah."
I must officially go on record in agreement with Steve that a Dr. Dre song, specifically Dre Day should’ve made the list. Dre was a pioneer in Rap for White People by making us all comfortable with using the word "nigga" liberally. And, in so doing, he pushed forward the cause of racial understanding more than any civil rights leader in the preceding 25 years.
WHOA, I must officially go on record (almost 2 years later) in disagreement with Keith that Dre made it okay for anyone to say the word nigga, except himself because he wrote the shit. His intention surely was not for white people, who thought they were cool, to start calling each other or anyone else nigga. If you think that a white person would have gotten away with saying “what up nigga” in the middle of the LBC back when Dre was blowin up, you’ve got to be insane. This word is so prevailant in today’s rap songs that the teenagers of this generation are becoming more tolerant of hearing their peers say it. “My nigga” used to be a term of empowerment, if you will–Tupac coined the acronym N.I.G.G.A. (never ignorant getting goals accomplished)…now little punks are runnin around calling each other nigga because they think it is gangsta. What is unfortunate is that not enough people are educated about the history of the word nigger and the pain that African Americans endured during slavery; read Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi… By the way, if you came to Chicago and said nigga you’d get your head blown off. Just trying to save anyone’s ass who was misinformed.
Natalie, please do STFU! Reading your condescending post turned my stomach. You clearly are part of the whole racism problem! I’m black and found your entire post drivel from start to finish! White middle class woman tries to lecture on the black community and history of the racial slur. Pu-lease!
George, I don’t care if you are purple. I am black, and I thought Natalie’s post was well-informed. How is her post condescending? I wish someone would come up to me and call me the ‘N’ word, I would bust a cap in their a–.
Just because rappers say the ‘N’ word in music videos doesn’t make it ok to use.
White people really love "Gin and Juice" too. These are the kind of songs they play for white people at baseball games. I think your list is pretty accurate. I once hear the most racist white guy I know sing along to "The Humpty Dance" in it’s entirety.
I just picture this guy sitting at home like "I am listening to cuban linx and illmatic and the clipse and oh my god am I real and hardcore"
for sheer ironical purposes hipster crackers seem to love them some NWA, specifically Straight Outta Compton.
Spot on, but how did you compile this list?
Well- I’ve DJ’d on the West and East Coast, and have 8 out of 10 of these on vinyl. Here is my take-
#10- How many white people know this song? Not as many as you think. But they all know short dick man.
#9 – Awesome song, and yes Humpty Hump had more great stuff than just this classic.
#8- Biz Markie – I get your analysis, and can’t greatly disagree, but like other things by him as well.
#7 – I have never been to a Rock N Bowl. So I can’t comment other than to say, you won’t see me spinning this unless some hottie is promising me something.
#6 – A great dance song to get the crowd moving, and I know most songs on the whole record. "Joy and Pain" is it’s equal. No deep thoughts from these guys, but that wasn’t what the record was for.
#5 – This song was dull then and it’s dull now. Just a filler in a mix when you are trying to decide what other old-skool track to mix in. U down with OPP?
#4 – Like 6 don’t take this one seriously. It is just to get the crowds moving, and that is the depth of its popularity.
#3 – Only idiots (White or Black People) ever thought he was gangsta.
#2 – This again is only a so so song that will SOMETIMES get the crowd moving. And is (in my mind) about equal with Kriss- Kross Jump – didja "miss the bus" ?
#1 – You are right on- this one got played out. I like Posse’s on Broadway and you don’t wan’t to see the reactions if I play "Boom! I f#cked your Boyfriend by MC Luscious.
As to honorable mentions- I love the 2 Live Crew stuff.
To that I will say "Hell Yeah!"
@ Eurok – I used to bartend at the Wonderland in Columbia Heights so your sets might have even helped create this list! (though I don’t think that’s true since I don’t remember you playing this stuff)
@ Dave – Dre (G thang) and Tribe (probably Scenario?) were considered but ultimately didn’t make it nor did they as best fit the tenor(?) of the list
@ Sven – Damn it! I woke up this morning and went to add Kriss Kross to the Honorable Mention (the line was to be: Can’t have two "Jump" songs on the list, hence totally krossed out) but you fucking got to this first
@ Wisconsin – BVD is great but an R&B track – but you are completely right: White People love it – I also don’t understand your reference in paragraph two – perhaps I don’t know White People as well as I thought
@ Steve! – Yes, admittedly this list does trend towards songs with a decade+ of heritage but hey, don’t blame me, blame the White People – one such in that vein is the "Party Like A Rock Star" from which it is impossible to escape out here in Los Angeles – they even have radio-specific versions of the hook that the group (whoever they are) recorded like they would an station ID after coming in for an interview – it’s, how do you say, not good?
@ Toby – I remember there was a group called, shit, Dynamite *Something* (Hack?) that did a cover of the Easy E ‘Boyz in the Hood’ complete with a video of them going around dressed in sweaters being thugs on golf courses and shit – it was actually funny
@ Keith – yes, a Dre song probably deserved to be on the Honorable Mention list (half was with California Love) but just like politicians I had to think about whether each song would resonate with Joe SixPack and NASCAR Dad and ultimately passed (though that song is a great one and features a completely out of place white person wearing a straight-brimmed baseball cap and maybe talking on a cell phone, head bobbing along trying to not look awkward as the Black People enjoy their party)
@ Brian – Yes, I judged Gin and Juice to be the highest scoring Snoop Dogg song, but ultimately left it off because, shit, I was finishing that thing at five 5 AM
@ Aaron – actually you’re not far off except that a) I wasn’t at home listening to them, I was at the coffee shop around that corner that offers free wireless and b) I wasn’t listening to those albums, I was listening to a custom mash-up I made with Illmatic’s instrumentals and the verses from Linx DRESSED UP like Pusha T – I would put of me doing that but gangstas don’t do that shit (they put up videos on YouTube and I haven’t yet figured out all the functions on my MacBook Pro)
@your moms – yes – see above Dynamite Whatever mention
@hexxed – didn’t you read? 27 (and actually closer to 28) years of studying White People!
When are people going to realize that White people love rap period. When rap albums are in the top 10 or 20 albums/songs of the country, guess who’s buying it?! Has no one ever seen any of the dozens of episodes of My Super Sweet 16 where some mayonnaise sandwich eating brat girl has daddy hire (x) rapper to appear at her event and they have to hop around a ballroom full of white people waving their hands in the air like they just do not care. I would give up the game if I saw that. This whole black white, rap/crap, rap vs. rock, blah bullshit is played out. It’s not a fad, its here to stay and as with any other musical genre, some like it, some don’t. For every Nickleback there is an Akon and for every Radiohead there is a Kanye West. Get over it. Oh and as a white person, I will be the first to say, white people suck, and ruin almost everything good.
they got that list down really–cept "whoomp"…that song was kinda poppy.
i thought at first that this was mainly a list of stuff that was beloved by the hip hop community as well but ended up very pop. if not, cos you coulda added "I got the Power" (another rip off track — Snap stole that from a dude named Chill Rob G" and "Make you Sweat" by C&C Music Factory and nearly anything by hammer (whom we know of as M.C. Hammer).
We had to make the Pete Rock Remix of "Jump Around" to keep it to ourselves. I’ll still play that at a party and it still gets props from the hip hops from being pete rock, and non hip hoppers ‘cos they know the words.
its not hip hop but it got played at lotsa hip hop joints and white people love it, but black people do too:
doin’ the butt
the cool outsiders also dug
911 is a joke…or anything flavor flav did–he was the "safe" one from Public Enemy.
j.
This gringo’s top 11 favorite rap songs:
"Fuck the Police" by Public Enemy – not sure why I like this version better than any of the 5000 others. Well, PE was my first favorite hiphop group, so I guess that’s it. I just love their sound.
11) "Get Up" by dead prez and the Coup – and yes, I actually am down for the revolution, bitches.
10) "Respiration" by Black Star with Common – a classic that holds up, featuring the only really great verse Common has ever delivered in his whole overrated career.
9) Pick a track from Enter the Wu-Tang, or Fishscale, or any of several RZA-produced albums from the mid-90s. My favorite Wu changes by the day, so you decide.
7) "Going Hard" by Talib Kweli – he actually seems to be improving with age, but this is still my favorite single track.
6) "Me and Jesus the Pimp in a ‘79 Granada Last Night" by the Coup – my-momma-was-a-ho-with-a-heart-of-gold songs go back at least to the Funkadelic classic "Cosmic Slop" but this is the best.
5) Pick a Biggie song. "Hypnotize?" I love the bass on that track, bu it’s hard to say. Best. Flow. Ever.
4) Pick a 2pac song, probably from the earlier albums, and definitely not "California." Not for any lame psychological wannabe reason like you seem to think, but because his combination of lyrical depth and still keeps him at the top of the MC ranks.
3) "Real Black Girl" by dead prez – tomorrow it might be a different prez track, but today it’s this one, for the beat mostly.
2) "Mathematics" by Mos Def – Black on Both Sides >> Black Star. Mos has been slippin lately, and we need him to get his head back in the game. When he’s on, he’s among the best there’s ever been, and this is my favorite single track of his.
1) "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy.
Recent stuff – well, I love the sound of Clipse, but I’m so fucking bored with lyrics about cocaine business that I just can’t take it seriously. I rarely put anything new on my favorites list for at least 5 years to make sure it has staying power, prez and the Coup being exceptions. Fishscale is working its way up, and yes I know that contradicts what I just said about cocaine business lyrics. What can I say, other than Wu > Clipse and RZA > Neptunes…?
Guilty Pleasures – well, yeah, Baby Got Back. But fuck it, that’s not guilty. That track is heatrock to this day…and I really do like big butts, so fuck anyone that hates on Mix-a-Lot or me liking this song.
@ Deano – yes, White People love rap in general but they just really love certain rap in the specific – and I don’t really understand your analogy – maybe it’s a white thing?
@jon – Whoomp was a pop hit but technically a rap song – Baja Men: Who Let Dogs Out was under serious consideration until I realized it officially was NOT a rap song (but man oh man do White People love it) – those are some other good suggestions – and somehow Hammer got lost in an earlier draft – my thought was that 2 Legit was the song that actually gets the club going but that U Can’t Touch This would still be the winner – 69 Boyz: Tootsie Roll and Akinyele: Put It In Your Mouth would be two other too dirty ones to make the list – probably would make the frat boy top ten list but I really don’t know much about frat boys
When are you going to publish the list:
"The Top 10 Rock Songs Black People Love?"
I hate the division of races by posts like this one today. People are people, okay?
One key omission: Who let the dogs out?
Damn, as soon as I posted that I remembered Fishscale is mixed production with J Dilla, MF Doom, Pete Rock etc…my bad…
I don’t know if it was just a Philly thing or not — but even the nerdy white girls at my high school prom knew the words (and by "the words," I mean "the hook") to Cool C. & Steady B’s "The Glamorous Life".
And when poor Cool C. got sent to prison some cruel individuals even changed the chorus to:
♪♪ ooooh, ooooh, you got it.
Twenty-five to life ♪♪
Free Cool C.
Tupac Shakur: California Love – Had to have a 2Pac song on this list. I think White People love Pac because he makes them feel like they’ve lost a friend to gang violence.
So spot on that I want to kick myself. That is exactly, exactly true.
As for "Baby Got Back" — as a white woman I hear and sing it so much, I’d forgotten it was a "rap" song.
My analogy wasn’t that obscure… In any musical Genre there are talentless hacks that can produce catchy hits like Akon and Nickleback, and there are artists who produce deeper richer songs that become hits… Maybe this is more to your stylings, for every Rascal Flats there is a Soulja Boy, for every Johnny Cash there is a Biggie Smalls. And for every Pitchfork and Stereogum trying to seem cooler than everyone in the rock world by tearing down those that came before, there are those in the rap world who clearly do the same.
as a 30 yr old white female i have to put my 2 cents in here…as all of these songs get the whities going i have to add that i loved the So So Def Bass All Stars cd, I occasionally listen to all above mentioned songs still plus a few not mentioned…I love to listen to Tupac, doug e. fresh, the fat boys (the disorderlies was a funny ass movie), whodini, kurtis blow, paris, mc eight, spice1…yes imagine that a 30 year old white chick who listens to that! i aint gonna lie and tell you i didnt like every single one of those songs when they came out and i still do! i actually went to see vanilla ice 2 thursdays ago at a club in downtown pittsburgh
Oh, and if we are adding to the list… No Rappers Delight? Adam Sandler had an old lady sing it for crying out loud.
Ludacris: shake ya ass
The Humpty Dance/Nine Inch Nails Down in it URL to the mp3 http://www.djjohn.net/mashup.htm
See if you can pick out where all the white kids stop singing in this Black Sheep song…
Engine, Engine, Number Nine,
On the New York transit line,
If my train goes off the track,
Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up!
Back on the scene…sumthin, sumthin, sumthin…
**all white people stop singing at this point.
someone forgot the fresh prince theme song.
As I read through your list and your (mostly) racist comments, I had a vision come into my head of the last Superman flick where Lex Luthor says WRONG
Shall we do a black people rock list??
Are you serious cuz?? really? It’s like you put the old wanna be rap pop b#llshit called music on a list and slapped a label on it.
I accidentally came across this thread and became very pisses off. I don’t really like any of those songs except 2 of them #2 and 8.
Number 2 because of what Mwisconsin saying the whole Irish following – parent bashing it into my head. (almost hate it because of that)
Number 8 because that song just goes and Biz Markie is The Clown Prince of "Hip-Hop". NOT RAP!!!!
What else: Digital Underground Humpty Dance I’ve never heard of that song before, but Freak of the industry or peaches and creme those go hard
Maybe this is just "Regular white people"
But white people that I know (not many) listen to Mac Dre T.I.P (Thiz In Peace) and other bay area rappers like Mac Mall, C-Bo, Cellski, E-40 (sell out) but he’s from my block so I gatta show love, B- Legit, Brotha Lynch, Droop-E, EASki, Keak, Messy Marv, Yukmouth, Andre Nickatina …. and on and on
Come to hunters point and I’ll show you "F#cking white people"
your list is basically songs that were big hits that happened to be rap songs. you can categorize half as novelty songs. its no big insight to realize that mainstream people, which to you is corny white people, react accordingly when they hear a song that was a big hit and is familiar. mainstream people love enter sandman, that horrible disturbed song, and a couple of others that youll always here at sporting events, but i wouldnt put together a dumb list of 10 metal songs corny mainstream white people love.
Nicely played! I work at a mainstream club doing an 80’s night, and this looks like a healthy sampling of my nightly playlist for "big songs".
Though it may not TECHNICALLY be rap, I think there was one omission from this list that at least deserves "honorable mention" status: Snow – Informer!
"mental wimp Ludacris: shake ya ass"
That would be Mystikal!!
WHOA!!
MC Serch: is that MC Serch as in 3rd Bass "Steppin’ To The A.M."?? Could that really be you? Much respect.
I have to disagree with your statement above…at the time most of these songs were popular, rap wasn’t as mainstream nor as present in the Top 40 as it is today. To call these records "novelty" cheapens both the artist and the artform istelf.
Yes, "Humpty Dance" was a humorous record, but still a rap song by every considerable definition.
"It Takes Two" is a hip hop classic, and in no way a novelty track.
"Baby Got Back" is essentially PG-rated 2 Live Crew. Funny? Sure, but still a bona fide song.
"but i wouldnt put together a dumb list of 10 metal songs corny mainstream white people love"
that wouldn’t be nearly as interesting or controversial.
j(watching Afro-Punk).
What? No Snoop? Sorry, this list is incomplete.
As the Cracked site put well:
Q: "What is the deal with hot chicks and Justin Timberlake?"
A: "Well, I like R&B, but I’m afraid of black people."
@ gringomatic – those are all good songs but that list is what deano is talking about
@ deano – I don’t know what you’re talking about
@ meech – will have to look that up – it does real very much like a philly thing
@ juli – thanks – there are a few lines that I really liked in this piece and that was one of them – glad somebody else dug it too
@ rappers delight people – yes, that is another one that should have at least made honorable mention – I’ll create a poll
@ boz – DING! (exactly right)
@ david smith – none of my comments are mostly racist – they are either not racist at all or completely racist – I haven’t seen that superman scene but it sounds good – the Nicholas Cage one?
@ what about black people and rock list people – I don’t know anything about rock
@ arianna – your irrational anger makes me think you’re a white person, but your never having heard of The Humpty Dance lets me know that you are not – and you’re from the Bay Area – what the fuck?
@ mark – informer, yes – going on the poll (it will be a poll I add to as other good suggestions come in)
So Brian, you’ve NEVER heard Guns N Roses "Welcome to the Jungle" What about anything by Lenny Kravits?
I have of course heard those songs, I am just nowhere near the authority on that topic that I am on White People and rap music.
also coincidentally the same list would accurately describe "songs my friends and i really enjoyed in 8th grade"
This is more like the Top 10 rap songs that you’d like if you only listened to what the radio and MTV played.
I guessed most of the songs that were actually on that list!
Give me 10 hits that just the brothas listen to that became big hits and made those guys a lot of money. Sounds like a little jealousy to me. Ask the guys who did them if they are glad whitey liked them. If this had been a list about brothas that like country or Rock there would be peps on here talking about it being racist.
From the top 40:
Quad City DJs — C’mon N Ride It (The Train),
and the Tootsie Roll song.
From ‘college radio’:
MC 900 Foot Jesus with DJ Zero
(I love his ‘Killer Inside’)
YouTube – Schaffer the Darklord – "The Rappist"
needs a mention. More Weird Al than Adam Horovitz.
I am white as white gets, and I love these songs (although Dre Day needed to be on here, as it’s the only song I know from start to finish). So I say: good list, man.
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nicely done Brian, very fun list! As a DJ, (and a white one mind you) I appreciate the hell out of this, couple more for ya my friend…
LL – Momma Said Knock You Out (Aww Hell Naw, Ya Boi!),
JAY Z – Give It To Me (No You D’nt!)
THE PHARCYDE – Passin’ Me By (Oh Schnaps!,Dats My Jam!)
well done Brian,
spinello
If you lived in Canada, you heard "Informer" more than any other song on this list. I’m still not sure what he’s saying but I think I memorized it phonetically without even meaning to, just because I heard it twenty times a day. Man I hate that song.
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@ djtbs1 – thanks for the point-by-point analysis and for peer-review/validating my work
@ the people suggesting a top ten corny metal songs list – I can’t imagine how difficult that list would be to create – even just starting with the monster ballads CDs it would be like Sophie’s Choice
@ coruscation – ride the train is of course good but now we’re getting into top 50 territory – really, that would probably be the list to make (or even just top 25) – with top 10 there are too many omissions, and of course like in the NCAA Tournament someone will be the last left out, but one could really do a lot of consensus building by doubling or tripling – some day that will be the legacy of sonofcatsandbeer.com
@ spinello – same shit as above but even better, definitely top 25 – LL might be the winner there but Pharcyde for me is the one that resonates – like the above comment about Black Sheep, White People Passing Me By goes "Now in my younger days I used to sla-la-la …"
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Racist Fucks, What Don’t you like a good rockin band like bad brains or …….? think of some , there out there! We are not all that white! I was thinking a sorta orangie light brownie kinda thing. ( check it with its PMS color. I,m not talking about the RAG, I’t the color code thing usedin graphic design
Yep…spot f’n on dude!
Too funny…!
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racist.
Wow, racism as entertainment. That takes me back even further than some of those tracks.
Wow! I’m half British and half Indian, and I thought I had very uncool ‘white’ tastes in hip/hop, but evidently not, as none of my faves are on the list!
Do white people not love De La, then? Or am I just too old?
And Young MC rocks, but it’s gotta be Know How.
And when I DJ, the biggest dancefloor-ward movement is always for Push It by Salt’n'Pepa – though my fave for DJing is Sugarhill Gang as it gives me time to go to the loo
cypress hill? pe? de la?
[& who hears rakim, gang starr, nas, common ...]
guess, once again i dont understand the list at all, but great fun anyhow
Of course, if you’re white aond like any rap song that’s NOT on this list, you’re immediately labeled a Wigger.
The entire rap industry is funded by white people by a wide margin. If you want a list of cool hardcore cutting edge rap, ask those white people. Most other people including blacks don’t know squat about good rap.
It would be better to call this list "lame mainstream "rap" songs beloved by all at weddings and lame parties attended by people of all colors."
One of the best articles I have read on the web for years. Well done.
I am English, white, 36 and live in London. You cannot go in to any super cool retro-chic, 80’s bar in the East of London without hearing Young MC (the only rapper mums and dads of middle class families would let their kids listen to). House of Pain is played at EVERY SINGLE WEDDING I have ever been to, and everyone (except me) jumps like an idiot to it.
Thank you for this real life exposé
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This is more like a list of rap music loved by people who don’t like rap music. To attribute it to white people is basically racism dressed up as ironic humour. Pathetic.
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It always makes me sick when black people think that it is okay to insult white people. whites can’t point out things that are exclusive to blacks even when it’s true! I guess the reason for that is that we really don’t let this type of thing bother us, we have to much else to worry about like getting an education, raising our kids, not killing each other and going to work everyday.
OK, looks like the site is back
I may be old school but No Face “Fake hair” & “Wake your daughter up “definitely kick it. Vanilla Ice? fugeddaboudit.
Sweet List … personally I’d add L.L. Cool J “mamma said….” Always a hit!!! and DMX “Party UP” even Carmen Electra said that song is the shizzzy . Keepin it real for the whities. peace
I wouldn’t be offended if someone made a list of white “rock” songs that Black people love. I couldn’t think of the songs on the list though. I think that this is a list of songs mostly made by African Americans that crossed over and were accepted by the mainstream. What’s racist about that? Indicating someone’s ethnicity doesn’t necessarily make something racist. The comment above was meant to be racist by presenting an assumption that Black people don’t do the things mentioned. Its ironic that someone comes around complaining about racism and decides to say something racist in response. In my opinion, when people do that they are just pissed that they can’t be openly racist all the time and show their hatred 24/7 without repercussions. Also, since when are Black people allowed to insult White people without someone White criticizing them for it? Just because you don’t hear about it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
Here’s a good definition of racism for those of you who think you know what it is:
” Prejudice or discrimination based on an individual’s race; can be expressed individually or through institutional policies or practices. racism is a system of oppression — a nexus of racist beliefs, whether explicit, tacit or unconscious; practices; organizations and institutions that combine to discriminate against and marginalize a class of people who share a common racial designation, based on that designation.”
I’m white.
My favourite rap song is Rapper’s Delight.
No question.
But where is it?
Didn’t make the cut?
Didn’t get considered?
Also, in general I don’t care for rap music, but this list is true to form, as I do enjoy all these songs. I hadn’t realized until today that this is because I’m white.
“there was no bad luck in the world but white people”
Brian, your list is awesome and your post hilarious. All these cracker fools getting their panties in a bundle complaining that it’s racist have obviously never experienced real racism. It’s a funny list, people! With videos! If you don’t like it, go back to your gated suburban home and count your money, but spare us all the mock indignation. Racism is alive and well in the US, but white people are not on the short end of it. Stop spoiling this post and move to Jena.
Now, back to the task at hand: I nominate for inclusion on the honorable mention list the original rap song for white people – “Walk this Way” by Run DMC and Aerosmith – the first rap single to break the top 10 on the Billboard charts.
quad city DJ’s “C’mon ride that train” As a white guy, I love that one…
@ JMJ – thanks for coming out of death to post that comment – and the strangest thing about all these angry comments? I AM WHITE.
fucking white people …
“It’s true, it’s true…we’re so lame.”…
“See white guys, they drive like this.” You ready for another list demonstrating who unhip you are? If so, here’s the 10 Rap Songs White People Love: 10. Positive K – I Got A Man 9. Digital Underground -……
HI-TOWN DJs – Ding a Ling
I’m as white as they come, from the Ralph Lauren Polo to the Sperry top-siders. But as far as I’m concerned (at least when I’m drunk), I’m qualified to share the rap throne with the best of em. And this list is dated… the majority of what’s on it shouldn’t be.
“My rhymes drop unexpectedly like bird shit.”
well yes, k money, that’s the point (and noted in the article or maybe the comments – I don’t know): it takes a long time, often a decade plus, for White People to love a rap song – yes there are some songs out there now that white people love, but for White People (all of them – from Nebraska to Kansas, soccer moms to soccer dads) to love a song, well it takes time
@ Frank – holy shit – No Face? One of the first rap albums I ever had – so incredible and then lost – then, a decade or so later (I am a white person, after all) I got it again off half.com – so so so so so so bad – Spanish Fly taught me how to make love
I dont know but I have never seen a person of any color who couldnt sing the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Im white and every single person I know, including me, can sing every word from start to finish.
I think “Slam! Duh Duh Duh” by Onyx should at least get honorable mention. Also, I can tell you why frat guys love that Biz Markie song: it’s because frat guys fuck sorority girls, and sorority girls conversely fuck a lot of frat guys… a sor. girl has her choice any night of the week of which guy in which frat she wants to “hang out with”, so she tells the other guys that she’s hanging out with one of her “friends” from another house. See, it’s easy.
Another song you missed: “Still Fly” by the Big Tymers.
Amongst white people who smoke weed: “Hits From the Bong” by Cypress Hill
Oh yeah – I can’t believe you dj’d at Wonderland, that place is nice… if it had more elbow room. Met some quality baby girls there.
fucking black people
I didn’t read every single comment, but what about
Good Vibrations by Marky Mark
and
Everybody Dance Now – by CC music factory
I don’t know if they count as “rap” fully though.
“Push It” should be on your list instead of “I Got a Man” – let the ladies represent!
if the white people i know were listening to this shit (let alone dancing to it), i’d find some new ‘homees’.
and it’s ok, you can just call them wiggers. i do.
What about Subterannean Homesick Blues?
Dylan was the greatest rapper ever.
THE TOP 10 ROCK SONGS BLACK PEOPLE LOVE, A POST WRITTEN BY A BLACK PERSON:
1. “Smoke On The Water” by Deep Purple – every black person secretly knows, headbangs and plays air guitar to the opening riffs of this one, as soon as white people aren’t watching. “Got to admit, yo that opening part is DEF. Ya got to admit. Give it up.”
2. “Schoolboy Crush” by Average White Band – we like it so much we sampled it for rap about 2,887,745 times in about six thousand raps. “Yo yo yo, naw, them white boys in this one tore this one up. Got to admit.” “Word.”
3. “Play That Funky Music” by Wild Cherry – see # 2
4. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” by Def Leppard – fill a room with black folks, start this video on the TV, and by the end of the second bar of that guitar intro every black person has turned around watching the screen. If whites are in the room, we will smirk, nod, then resume talking and drinking with you. If no whites are in the room, one wannabe-hardcore-looking black guy will move in to switch the TV off, saying, “What y’all watching this crazy— white s–t for?” Other black folk in the room will move in and block him from the TV. “Whoa whoa whoa. Calm down. No.” Pause. “I like this.” Guaranteed. Black folk, admit you have been in a room where this happened.
5. “I Don’t Want Your Love” or “Notorious” by Duran Duran. In fact, anything recorded by Duran Duran before the Liberty album. Duran Duran is the only white group ALL black people mysteriously like. Go ask your favorite black person today.
6. “I Don’t Want To Fall In Love” by Jane Childs. All black women consider Jane Childs the most authentically black-sounding white woman who has ever sung a note in public. Jane tore up that song. Give it up y’all.
However, the white female rock song ALL black women secretly sing along to with no brothers or white folk sitting around watching, is…
7. “(Damn) I Wish I Was Your Lover” by Sophie B. Hawkins – all of us like this song and sing along with it. We have all been there, and this white woman nailed it respectably.
Another white female rock song black people (especially black women) like is:
8. “Tell It To My Heart” or anything else by Taylor Dayne – admit it, sistas: we have all whispered to each other that Ms. Dayne looks or must be part-black, because otherwise “there is no way on earth she could sing that well if she wasn’t at least part black”… right?
9. Anything by Sinatra. Now I know Frank Sinatra doesn’t qualify to many fools as a rock star, but according to the teenage girls of the 1940’s he was, and every black man in the recording industry wishes he were Frank and will give instant big props to Ol’ Blue Eyes. Black people are kind of like Italians. We ALL worship Frank Sinatra. We also wish Frank had been black because he was that cool.
And finally:
10. Anything by Steely Dan, or the solo Donald Fagen. All black people like Steely Dan. Any black folk who claims he doesn’t hasn’t heard them yet.
Want to get black folks in a comfortable mood at a party with the lights all low, and get them nice and friendly with the white people also at the party, throw on some Steely Dan and see how the colors mingle and black folk start waxing rhapsodic on how many white musicians are quite gifted. Once again: all black people like and will listen to Steely Dan. The Doobie Brothers come close on this black respect meter, but nobody touches the Dan.
However, bear in mind that most people know rock music was created by black people, so this top 10 comparison might be actually kind of moot.
Did I miss any?
Signed, a black woman named
11. Oh yeah and all black folks love KC & The Sunshine Band. We will not switch that off if it comes on the radio. We listen to it. Period. But we generally the rest of the album more than we do the singles. “I’m Your Boogieman” is one of those. Peace. Signed, Yvette
@ yvette – you are awesome – thanks so much for the contribution – I will read it more carefully when I’m not cracked out – and I remember during the all-day outages yesterday wanting to post that while I know almost nothing about rock music it is my understanding that rock was created by Black People – thanks for doing it (better) for me – holla
Whoops – one more – my sister just chimed in with “Led Zeppelin, all black people have at least a little respect for Led Zeppelin songs.” I agree, she is right. OK, that’s all from me.
@ Brain
Yes, I’m white. Now that I know your white brain I don’t know if that is worse or better because you say “fucking white people”
@ Jam Master Jay
Being raised in the bay area from (Richmond, Vallejo and now S.F. Mission to Hunters Point) I’ve seen a lot of racism And these people are not getting “their panties in a bunch” they think the list is hilarious. Which is how most whities act. Don’t get me wrong I love being white and I wouldn’t change it for the world, but most white people coward down. That’s how I saw this page and it made me extremely mad.
@ drew82
“Hits From the Bong” by Cypress Hill — Very good song
@ LG “lame mainstream “rap”
Have to agree with you, but these are more “pop” song.
Most white people (my family who are racist)secretly love “pop” songs because they are catchy and thats what they are made for. To get in you head and make you want to sing them.
Well,
Yvette’s post should probably be the final word on this, but I couldn’t resist.
Your post was both ridiculously on point and clearly in jest. I don’t “get” anyone who was trying to make a serious discussion on race in America out of it.
You also made clear like four times you are white. Subtlety is lost on the masses.
As a black hip-hop aficionado (oops, half-white, sorry Moms), I definitely back this list and most of the rock list (I ended up liking Aerosmith from the Run DMC affiliation, plus Bon Jovi and GNR from the days where we were ALL listening to that shit and hip-hop) … I’m sure I listen to some better rock than that, but nothing I can think of at the moment.
I said to myself if Jump Around and Baby Got Back aren’t on this list, it’s worthless. And turns out they are 2 and 1. Says it all.
Forget the message board racists, this post resonated. Top-notch.
Pre-MP3 dayz, white people accounted for over 90% of all record/cd sales in the US, So it goes to figure that the industryy would push stupid songs so rap could become more mainstream and tap into all that $$$!
@ brian (not me) – rapper’s delight, forgotten but should have been honorable mention – added to the poll (when that was up ever so briefly) and did some damage
@ mc serch – I’m sorry I didn’t put any of your songs
@ andy b – thank you for your effusive praise – you are completely right about how I am completely right
@ bobbydigital – you are exactly right about EVERYONE (even the Not White People) knowing all the words to the Fresh Prince theme – still, I don’t know about putting it here – it wouldn’t even feel right on the honorable mention, although even more so than the other HM, it fits the heading since it’s like I want to mention it but not really count it – I guess I feel the same way about CB4 songs – it wouldn’t have crossed my mind to list ‘fake’ songs even though they are, of course, real songs
@ drew82 – yours are good ones as well for a top 25 list – big tymers is one of those few not old songs that White People love, but it’s more like Frat Boy White People and not all White People – still, good – ditto Onyx (though at the expense of Old White People) – and Cypress Hill made the excluded list for the poll, but obviously the choice is Insane in the Brain – and yes it’s crazy that I worked at Wonderland, but I was a bartender not a DJ
@ Dr Jeff – C&C Music Factory, considered, but I wasn’t sure if it was rap – like Baha Men and I didn’t want to download and listen to the whole song to know (b/c I knew it wouldn’t make the list anyway)
@ regular clicker – what about JJ Fad: Supersonic? Remember at the roller rink? And the swimming pool?
@ robbie – Dylan can’t make this list – not big enough – I don’t think he even made The Band
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I haven’t read all the comments so someone may have mentioned it, but what about Maestro Fresh Wes? “Let Your Backbone Slide”…
Back in high school all the white kids loved this one.
Wow, looks like someone needs to learn the difference between people liking rap songs and people liking novelty songs. Any fool of any race would realize that Baby Got Back, Humpty Dance, and Just a Friend (at least!) are the latter, not the former.
Ok, I guess this has basically been covered, but here goes anyway:
Here’s the thing about this list: you have about half really good classic rap songs that anybody with any semblance of taste loves, and then about half pop/novelty rap songs that only dumbasses (of any race) love.
The problem with the first half is that you make me feel guilty for liking good rap songs just because other lame white people do too.
And the problem with the second half is that you’re blaming something on whiteness that is really caused by lameness and conformity. It just so happens that statistically those things will most often be observed in white people.
I realize that, as a recent commenter pointed out, the post is done in jest, but I still have problems with the underlying presumption behind the joke. For the joke to be funny, one must assume that most white people don’t really like rap, and only like certain catchy songs that don’t challenge their comfort zone very much. And while that was probably true at a certain point in time (especially back when many of these songs were coming out), I don’t think it’s really true anymore except for a certain class of douchey whites with whom I prefer not to be associated.
Also, in terms of the composition of the list itself, I’ve got to agree with the others who disagree with the exclusion of Snoop and Dre (the songs that I would include from them fall into the category of great songs that I refuse to feel guilty for liking just because I’m white).
Finally, another candidate, albeit probably too obscure for the kind of white people that you’re talking about: anything by Too $hort.
It’s a humor website – we write jokes about stuff
He’s got jokes and jokes and jokes and jokes and jokes and jokes… for days. lol
Although maybe not in the top ten, I feel that De La Soul’s “Me Myself and I” had White following for awhile.
@ John – that is doubtlessly De La’s Whitest hit
I’m stunned that no one has mentioned “Mo Money, Mo Problems” by Biggie/Diddy. Every white person I know would rank that in their top ten. I’m also partial to Bring Tha Noize by PE.
WTF?
NO GANGSTA’S PARADISE? WHITE ENGLISH KIDS WORSHIP THAT SONG.
Where’s “Juicy” by Biggie? I’ve had the words to that memorized since I was like 12.
for real…no PAPERBOY – DITY anywhere round? Come on folks, thought we wur better than that.
No SCARFACE and the GHETTO BOYS – MY MIND IS PLAYING TRICKS ON ME?!
what the shit folks?!?! lets get it together already!!!
Stop talking about race you idiots.
I’m white and I love all these songs. It’s so true!
@ JT – those are conflicting sentiments – I’m tempted to say even opposite ones – such a reaction to my silly little list – I shudder to think how you’d feel about the content of the outrageous popular
MexicanLatino comic Brian Hernandez …killer list – I really, really don’t like rap in general – it’s a very rare rap or hip-hop song that I’m willing to sit through, nonetheless listen to intentionally – but I know every song on this list, and can attest that as a child of the 80s in Redneck, NY, so does every other white person I know.
Oh, and as for the dude who said white people can’t pick on black people in comedy – sure they can, as long as they do it right. There are more rules involved if you don’t want public outcry, but it’s there. I’d go find some examples and post some links, but I’m too lazy….
Oh, and that link to Brian Hernandez? I’ve heard that exact same thing basically word-for-word on Mind of Mencia. Given his track record, it’s probably Mencia who stole it, but whatevah’.
Peace. Word. Holla. Please insert whatever other urban vernacular that might make me sound more hip.
My guilty pleasure as a white guy is Ludacris. His rhymes always make me laugh. But personally, I’m down with almost anything by Kool Keith. I’m also a fan of the first Boogie Down Productions album (Criminal Minded), DJ Shadow’s Entroducing, Tribe Called Quest’s second effort, Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique (seriously – give it a listen). Of course, Public Enemy’s second and third albums, along with Ice Cube’s Predator, ICE-T’s 2nd and third LPs.
On other days, I listen to Jedi Mind Tricks, Non-Phixion, Dizzie Rascal (awesome), and yes, Biz Markie but his old school shit (Nobody Beats the Biz, Albee Square Mall, etc). And Eminem sucks balls. I’m going to send Necro over to his house.
Come on people…there is a difference between rap and hip hop. Don’t try to make white people look bad when you gys apparently don’t know the difference. Hald of the Honorable Mentions do not belong on the list.
Dude, I’m white too and I think that Dave is in denial, or he is just way too cool for this list. Or he’s black.
you forgot summertime- DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
What exactly is the purpose of this list? To showcase how “un-hip” white people are, list a group of “un-hip” rappers or a combination of both? People (any color) are going to like what they like and artists are going to produce songs that they want (or what their label want). What is this obsession with “being hip” or “having cred”? Record companies are want to put out albums that are going to get every suburban honky to come to Walmart in droves. It’s not like the people that buy this stuff are spening your money or using your ears to listen to it. And you DJs are on the clock. There is your cred and your payckeck, you can’t always have them both at the same time.
It’s things like this list that takes America a step backwards in our struggle for diversity and acceptance.
@ ithurtswhenipee – "What exactly is the purpose of this list?" … "It’s things like this list that takes America a step backwards in our struggle for diversity and acceptance."
You nailed it – the purpose of this list is precisely that: to turn back the progress of the civil rights movement in the United States – it is being secretly underwritten by the Wallonian record industry to undermine both American race relations AND our mass market music sales and delivery infrastructure. Why? Duh, because Wallonians are a bunch of racist anti-capitalistic assholes.
I’m white and I like them all! Thanks becuase I now I have baby got back stuck in my head! Damn you!!!!
rap sucks…i’m gonna make a website about how black people like fried chicken…it will be just as gay and stupid as this pseudo-racist piece of shit.
Can’t say I love all of those on the list. But I laughed out loud with “It Takes Two”. I love that song, I’m white and I DO only know the words up to the first chorus!
Come up with a top ten list of “white songs” that black people like. Like songs from the movie “Grease” and shit. That will be interesting.
this list is fucking great, number one is so on point it ain’t even funny. When I ever I see white people singing Baby Got Back I know its time to leave. That shit is fucked.
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omg man, that comment about not knowing how to dance is loaded, because people moving to hip hop and rap music aren’t dancing.
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@ lame white boy – who’s carlos mencia?
Us white folk appreciate musical intervals when done properly. Whether it’s an instrument or vocals, they’re the key to making a song worth listening to and ultimately selling albums. MOST of the songs on this list do them very well, almost all rap songs have no friggin’ idea what they are.
umm.. No Will Smith?
K7 – Come Baby Come
It’s the “Shout” of the modern day White Boy wedding/bar mitzvah type of reception…
Not too racist. And when did “Hey Ya” become a rap song? Where the fuck is Beastie Boys “Sabotage”? In any event, I’ll take hip hop over rap any day of the week.
its leaders of the new school that sing “scenario” a tribe called quest is featured on the song.
Where the eff is Outkast’s Bombs Over Baghdad? That is by far and wide like the best rap song ever.
My DJ friend just played 8/10 of the top 10 as well as almost half the honorable mentions just last night. It happened to be the craziest night I’ve ever seen there.
@ rubberwall – that’s funny – but where is ‘there’?
I came up with the idea for this list a couple of weekends ago at a club called the Three of Clubs here in Los Angeles – a couple of these songs came on and I asked the bartender for a pen, grabbed a napkin, and wrote down some of the other ones – then I crossed them off as they were played
I should make a checklist suitable for printing so people can play along at home
This list makes me angry because it leaves me with no control of my taste in music. Being a “White Person”, I was predisposed to like these songs! Curses!
i know these lists are in good fun…..but explain to me again how its ok to make racist lists like this if you are black.
i’m gonna make a list about the "best books that black people secretly love to read"…oh wait…nevermind.
people wont get mad at that right?/??
@ b – wait, you don’t think black black people read?
What the fuck?
You gotta include gin and juice as the number one after hearing this rendition.
myspace link
BTW, I’m white and know 90% of the lyrics to all of the songs mentioned. However, I would imagine that’s just because most of them were hits.
Ooops, didn’t read all the posts. Sorry Toby. Anyway, at least the link is there so people can check it out. That version rocks.
I’m white and this post should be re-named.
THE ULTIMATE PARTY PLAYLIST.
All of these songs are off the hook, or chain, or hizzle.
As a white person, I think this list is accurate and I am very impressed by the well spoken author.
I will discuss this list with my black friend later so that we can bridge our cultural divide more.
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This list is crap. Well for my generation anyways maybe for all the early thirtys people its not. I am white 21 and hate every song on this list.
@ nathan – you have to look beyond yourself – you are but one white person – this is the list of rap songs beloved by White People – that means you, your parents, your grandparents, minister, and milkman – do you see?
Are you a nigger? (this is not a racist comment, trust me)
radical list brohim but at 30 you will be disgusted you bothered with this typical honky list-making nonsense
anyways all the hott wiggaz around my way roll out to these 5 that you forgot because you madd un-thoro
Luniz – I Got 5 on it
KRS-One – Sound of Da Police
Dead Prez – Hip Hop
Skee-Lo – I Wish
Gangstarr – Do What You Can Kid
i got more but lets face it i smashed it and made y’all look stupid…fairy flyin
I think the main thing to realize is that IN THE CLUB SCENE, these are the songs that drive the crowd wild. As much denial that people may have individually, it’s undeniable that the scene will still rock out. For those non-believers, I dare you to experience it just once, and you’ll know what we mean.
jay z-give it to me
I would love to see that 10 rocks songs that black people like list. I wonder if it even exists? Hilarious thought though.
Also, no PE? Fight the Power? Probably too black. Maybe Bring the Noise then.
@ turkey – your wish is granted – read The Top 10 Rock Songs Black People Love in the comments section of this very page!
My bad, saw the top ten rock songs blacks like. Duran Duran is the bomb!
Seriously man, I’m white and I only like 2 songs up there. Also, not all white people are the same. Its like saying all black people like fat asses, its racism.
Will you stop scratchin’ and tell me why no one’s mentioned Neneh Cherry’s Buffalo Stance?
Sorry, but whoever wrote this is either 1) an idiot, 2) under 21, or 3) both. If he’s none of these, he needs to check his idiot-o-meter.
I can’t believe you left Paperboy ‘Ditty’ off the list. White people have been going crazy for that song since ‘92 and still don’t know the lyrics.
@ matt – the accumulated wisdom of your life’s experiences has failed your utterly
@ mike – you’re not the first to question the omission of Ditty and in fact developing this article I asked a Black Person what songs should go on this list and Ditty was the one she suggested that I didn’t know – in a desire for transparency, reproduced here is the relevant myspace/email exchange:
catsandbeer.com – breaking down the fourth wall – I’ll add Ditty to the poll
i agree with whoever said this should be called to 10 rap song douchebags like. i am white and i listen to atmosphere, aesop rock, sage francis, k’naan, common, and tons of other rappers. this list is pretty much all based on stereotypes. thanks for adding to the ignorance.
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Unbelievable. Some of you really have no sense of humor. At all.
Don’t blame yourselves, you’re likely the result of "no child left behind" and therefor can’t be expected to understand, well, anything.
It seems to me that too many people out there in "I know the freaking deal about music" forget that personal preference is just that. If you listeners don’t know musicians certanly should. For you angry mofo’s out there that can only get girls with the low self esteem, try this make a list your own frekin self. label it what ever you want and give it to whatever friend you have that you think respects your thoughts on anything as the sh%$#@T. then be prepared to hang yourself.
IT IS SIMPLY ONE MANS LIST>
If that does not cure you of self indignation, go to VHI. com and see what those skinny fruit salad Merlot drinking BASTARDS call sexy bodies.
IT IS JUST SOME ONES LIST.
CHILL
Nate Dog and Warrren G – Regulators
Dude im white and all those songs sucks so there goes your study.
impossible!
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Before I read this article, I thought all of those songs were the same one, just different parts. WEIRD
I’m as white as can be, and I LOVE the blues. I’ve been going to blues concerts in San Francisco and Sacramento for 30 years, and am always being asked by black people why they are so outnumbered by whites. I have no idea. I love jazz and soul, Motown, rock, classical, Cuban, and pop, but the blues just do it for me. As for rap, I like Busta Rhymes, P Diddy, Eninem, Tone Loc. And I love rasta – Irea, mon! And gospel like the Gospel Hummingbirds and mass choirs. I’d forgotten the Isley Brothers, along with Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Taylor, Chakka Khan. My girlfriend used to say I must be black, I say it’s the influence of growing up in East Oakland when I was a kid. Doesn’t matter where or how, I feel blessed to enjoy so much music.
Oh yeah, have you heard the British Ukekele Orchistra’s version of ‘Hey Ya"? Brilliant!
I read somewhere that most peoples’ favorite music is from their teenage years, like our preferences got set then. Thank God I got stuck with Motown then, and not Joni Mitchell or CSNY, though I still enjoy them.
I’m seeing an episode of "Celebrity Rap Superstar" for the first time ever and the show’s theme song is "Hip Hop Hooray" so fuck all ya’ll
what happened to the days when rap was fun as opposed to violent and depressing.
Sigh.
I think one of the Fat Boys died
Perhaps it is a local phenominon, but Colt 45 is really popular at my 99.9% white high school.
Wow you are so racist, but yet again I couldn’t believe a black person wrote this on THE WEB.
Been in the Karaoke/DJ/MC Biz for years. Your top ten is dead on. Theres nothing more entertaining than to see a bunch of White people acting like they are Hip Hop stars. I keep telling my DJ’s Hip Hop ain’t going to save the world, but what do I know? Not much is happening in Rock, so I guess us Honkies are so desperate, we will jump on any band wagon. even one that glorifies violence to women, murder, and drug use. I get paid either way..
Hmmmmm im white and ..
heard of none of them execpt
Tag Team – Whoomp (There It Is)
Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back
House of Pain – Jump Around
and they suck
so i think your "white" studies need more work
p! a friendly face at comment number two!
and, you are right, this cracked me up. and I know you know which parties I am thinking of that I’m sure we both had to suffer through. ;>
n.
Nice work fella. Seems us white folk dont like rap any since the 90’s ended!
Forget the politics mate I thought your list and comments were hilarious.
But you missed Ice Cube It was a good day. Class tune.
Oh and anyone knows Vanilla Ice was gangsta, he fought ninja turtles didnt he? oh hang on a minute that might be wrong……
I’m relatively certain that most of the good songs on the list are liked by everyone, not just white people. When I worked in a nightclub that had a 90% black clientele and black DJ, who lived in Harlem and DJ’d all over NYC, he’d play Jump Around and the mostly black crowd would be all over it. And everyone who’s white that says they don’t like that song either 1)dislikes hip-hop in general, 2) is lieing, or 3) is at least mildly retarded.
Can’t refute how accurate the list is though, and the author never states that ONLY white people like those songs, just that white people all seem to like them. So stop getting your pantied in a bunch because you think someones saying that you’re white so you’re lame. Because chances are, you are lame, not because you’re white, just because you care so much about someone intimating that you’re lame. Get some self esteem. And I’m not writing this because I actually care one way or the other, I’m writing this because I have an idiotic compulsion to always insert my 2 cents.
LL & Ice-T. Not on the list.
Ok I’m white and I can’t stand any type of music that is basically only about the vocalist/lyrics and/or dancing. So I can’t agree with this list in the least bit and pretty much all of my white friends can’t take it either so I’d imagine they’d agree with me.
Thanks for keeping racism alive.
If you don’t think your contribution to humanity here is indeed racist, you are wrong.
die in a fire.
I’m white, I’m no wigga.
I listen to NWA more than that stuff
exception to rule?
WTF is up with using "white people"? If this was a top ten list of what "black" people liked there would be at least 500 lawsuits already…..maybe I should sue because I’m white and don’t apperciate being called "white" like black people don’t like the be called "black".
Black folks have no problem being called Black, Black sun
I’m white
first your list is for really old whites (40 and more), I just don’t know these rappers. Then, I’m not sure it’s really true, maybe in The US, but I’m an eauropean and here we don’t listen to this, no more.
Black people move their body well, that’s sure…
You could do the same list for "the top ten rock songs black people love" it could be the same
…
I wish you a nice time…
I’m white and I’ve only heard of 3 songs on the list, and I don’t like those ones. I listened to the others out of curiosity, and I didn’t like those ones either. Stop stereotyping white people, and stop being such a racist!!
I’m white, and I hate every single one of those with a passion. Then again, I hate all rap with a passion, even while drunk. Shitty music.
Of course, that probably means I’m racist, since rap is a race, and since that means I can’t appreciate other forms of music that originate from blacks and that happen not to suck miserably, right?
At least some time ago, while still bad to me, rap used to be about having fun rather than promoting violence, materialism, sexism and pretty much being a stupid asshole.
Most of those weren’t from the latter, so they could represent some of the rap I dislike a little less…
@ Tim – I am a racist WHITE Person – not a racist Black Person (which of course it is impossible to be)
@ Keith – you are correct that I am correct – thank you for perpetuating the conditions that make this list accurate
@ xpd259 – I think you are mistaken – you are probably not white – was your grandmother Cherokee?
@ gino – I’ve added Good Day to the list per your excellent suggestion (although it would have to be the ULTIMATE beloved White People rap song to make come up on top getting a 2,300 vote late start)
@ andrew – please see the comment for xpd259 – you are likely not white (or at least pure white, although for me, one drop of white blood = white)
@ tex – you’re exactly correct – I’ve already received 500 lawsuits (actually, 501) for The Top 10 Rock Songs Black People Love – as for the "white people," thing, it’s actually "White People" – capitalized – it’s a brand – I guess I should actually do "White People®"
@ yami – are you being ironical? We DID do that list – see above link
@ kei – like the Young Gunners, I "Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop" (being racist) – and in a funny coincidence, that song is likely a seventh-tier rap song White People love
I’m very much white, i listen to megadeth, metallica, iron maiden, and tons of other bands like that. It’s more about instruments than anything else.
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kinda goes hand in hand
If I’m actually able to post this here it’s a pretty funny parody of Baby got Back, by some religious guy.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm.....id=6167967
What about Next-Too Close??? idk if that would necessarily be considered rap but that is the jammmm!!!!!!
Fuck everyone! Black people only like taunting white people into being racist. The real racists are black people. They have been backed into a corner and the only thing they know how to do is fight with what they have learned. If you really want a perspective on racism then study biology. Why do you think there are so many species of bird or fish or ants? Racism will never die!
im 21, i live in detroit, and im white. i can sing all of funky cold medina’s lyrics, i like it better than wild thing. most of those songs are on my ipod (and on regular playlists of mine) plus these songs…
eazy e – "gimme that nut" (my favorite rap song ever)
afro man – "cuz i got high" and "she wont let me fuck"
d4l – shake dat laffy taffy
eminem – every song (since he’s our boy)
gorillaz – "feel good inc" and "clint eastwood"
snoop – "drop it like its hot"
and i’ll definitely give a huge vote to "party like a rockstar" since every white girl thinks it’s their jam.
also every white high school kid is obsessed with "crank dat" right now
I’m quite sad to say that, being a white girl, I love these songs – each and every one. And yes, when these songs come on at weddings, I stop and run to my nearest girlfriend so we can shake our butts on the dance floor. There, I said it, I pretend I got back!
Oooo Snap, I have some of these gawdy titles in my collection. OBTW I also have all the titles that colored’s listen to in Rock music lol. I have to upgrade my collection lol.
OBTW Why not do a list of colored films that us white people like?
YOUR A STUPID FUCKING IDIOT!
two other notable mentions I didn’t see are anything by Coolio especially "Gangsters Paradise" and "slip and slide"(?title)
i’m white and actually really offended by the comments… are they really that neccessary? i mean…stereotyping much?
Um, I have to admit I like almost all music, from some classical, to metal from free style to country.
Not every song in each but you get the picture.
I HATE this type of music, sorry if I offended anyone.
To, me there is not one ounce of talent in any of this.
Its like the dark ages of music to me LOL, not one thing came out of it thats meaningfull.
I know some of you are ready to bust a cap in me, but lighten up fresh prince, its only an opinion….
How could you forget Masta Ace, "Born to Roll"? Not even an honorable mention??
Warren G "This DJ"
Slick Rick "Lodi Dodi" , "Children’s Story"
Mista Grimm "Indo Smoke"
You forgot one that people will be like "Oh yeah!" If you hear it you’ll likely remember all the words and not know how…. N2Deep– Back to tha Hotel.
Back to the Hotel
dude, what the fuck, im white, i like jump around, all the rest i fuckin hate, you racist fuckin nigger, go die, im gonna hang your family in my backyard, porch monkey, heres a list for you:
Top 2 things i hate about you:
your racist
you probably listen to these songs yourself
go die
asshole
Fresh Prince – Parents just don’t understand
How could you sleep on that one?
Anyway, Kieth, since when did using the word "nigga" increase racial equality?
Kieth – " Dre was a pioneer in Rap for White People by making us all comfortable with using the word "nigga" liberally. And, in so doing, he pushed forward the cause of racial understanding more than any civil rights leader in the preceding 25 years." (I hope you were being facetious)
Mispronouncing the word doesn’t change its meaning, anymore than aks is different than ask. Next thing you know, hanging nooses around town just gets us all comfortable with lynchings and promotes racial equality. Especially if you spell it nusez.
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PuppetMattster October 25th, 2007 6:51 pm
Warren G "This DJ"
Slick Rick "Lodi Dodi" , "Children’s Story"
Mista Grimm "Indo Smoke"
Okay, you got me…
Wait, I’m sorry, where’s the intro to Fresh Prince?
No way this list can be complete with out the Fresh Prince.
"Now this is a story…"
The person who wrote this artical is nothing more than a racist bastard, white people cant dance?! ok firstly I know alot of white people who can dance and secondly its sterotyping. This is like saying black people all they do is lisen to rap and eat fryed chicken. This we all know isnt true so please don’t sterotype an entire race because you feel its true, take two seconds from being in your NWA club to realise that your views are old school and highly outdated. Prick.
I think this list was fuckng stupid, all of these songs are like 20 years old. I’m white and I haven’t heard any of this shit since early 90’s. I think the black guy who wrote this article is racist against white people. It’s you fucking guys that start racism, and then when white people retaliate you are the victim, GET A FUCKING LIFE ALREADY or a job!!!!
wow – people are fucking insane – must be a white thing
I dunno whata white people ya speakin of mang, these songs all suck no matta what color you are.
So many people here think that the white author of this is black that it freaks me out.
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all you niggers should die
I like your website; I will share this with friends
Man, what a stereotypical racist view you have about white people.
What’s your favorite band, Kill Whitey?
Funny there’s nothing with Nate Dogg.
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This is so funny! You can like these songs no matter what "color" you are. Seems like some people who were forced to read it got insulted. If it doesn’t apply to you, then move on….but if you can’t afford therapy I guess the internet would be the place to get your feelings out! Take your meds!
Amen, Better Living Through Chemistry. Calm down, folks, you’ll live longer.
This white guy’s top ten rap songs:
Outkast – B.O.B.
Ludacris – Get Back
House of Pain – Jump Around (They’re white?!)
NWA – Express Yourself
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise
Kanye West – Stronger (Thanks Daft Punk)
MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
Kris Kross – Jump Around (Blame my childhood)
Chuck Berry – Johnny Be Good (I kid, I kid)
Just for reference, I HATE Eminem. He’s way too whiney and I’ve hated him since day one.
Also, aren’t all the songs in this list waaaay out of date?
I am white and though i do agree with every song you picked to insinuate that i dont know that Biz Markie is/was a pioneer of hip hop did piss me off a bit other then that great list
doo’…. i love rap, probably more than you -but- your generalizing son. i will set you front!
45 king
steady B
kmd
biz markie (pickin’ boogers)
skinny boyz
nice and smooth
ultra magnetic MC’s
jeru the damamja
rakim (eric B sucked penis)
epmd
i could go on but i’m bored…. you should investigate tenor saw, and you’ll see where fu-shnickens got dere sh$t!
ok so weve boiled down to this shit typical white rap,so what do you think every white kid grew up in pinedale indiana,im sick of that shit, many white people like me grew up with mic geranamo,rotten rascalz,boot camp,jayz,smif n wesson ect… and why is it that you fuckin black people complain about stereotypes and all you do is stereotype.i grew up in flatbush,brooklyn.and i dont give a shit what color you were you had to bump the hot shit.that white boy shit didnt cut it in my neigborhood a white kid would put a bullet in your head no questions asked. so before you stereotype think about were sterotypes got you. i thought we killed this shit in the ninties,notice no more kkk no skinheads.just people who want this shit over with.so all you black folk
this goes out to you.martin luther said he had a dream of equility.and to end Segregation. but aint it funny who’s Segregating now black collages,black entertainment television,who’s the hipocrate now!!!!!!!
Yo man how could you forget hard knock life by Jay-Z
I remember seeing him performing it at the some awards show and the white people just lost it
Racist
I’m feeling your sarcastic tone. this is a really interested concept you should elaborate on:
‘Hip Hop Hooray is not only a great way to melodically celebrate life, it’s something to buy airbrushed on a T-shirt when you’re at the beach for a week on your summer vacation to show that you’re down.’
the idea of how hip hop has crossed in to white culture and the mix of that happening is definitely noteworthy.
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Hunh… As a white person I must have missed the boat somewhere along the way. I don’t even know half of these songs and the other half I’m pretty apathetic about. I will admit to having sung along to Vanilla Ice before, but that’s less in an “I love this song” way than a “Hey… I remember being 14.” way.
I was going to write “you forgot… !” but what this list really showed me is that there are a whole lot of rap songs I like. Surprising.
well all i gotta say is this is fucking retarded and in my opinion racist to white people for one reason.. these rap songs are SO BAD i dont know one fucking person who actually listens to this fucking shit. Fuck you whoever made this stupid ass website you retard
going back to October 24th … (sorry for the delay)
@ andrew – then it must be more surprising to you than most that you love these 10(+) songs
@ hannah – you are right (that Next – Too Close is the jam) – I remember when that came out in 1998, driving around and enjoying it, then actually listening to the lyrics – Jesus – funniest to me was that there were probably thousands of couples formed that year for whom Too Close was "their song" – romantic!
@ z – you make an impressive number of salient points – "If you really want a perspective on racism then study biology. Why do you think there are so many species of bird or fish or ants? Racism will never die!" – would you be interested in writing a guest column for this site?
@ nate – "eminem – every song" – well played – also, yes, apparently this crank dat thing is out of control – goes to show you why we still can’t operate (exclusively) on Billboard’s HitMaker® formula
@ tina – yes. yes. and yes.
@ mad mark – the list? anything with Denzel
@ amy – interesting
@ gz nutz – are you talking about Take it to da house by Trick Daddy and the Slip-n-Slide All-Stars?
@ chez – wait, you’re white AND easily offended by loosely race-related? WHAT????
@ puppetmaster – born to roll is great, but this list isn’t "The Top 10 Good Rap Songs Wannabe Down White People Love"
@ greg – I don’t know Back to the Hotel – mus(n’t) be a white thing
@ paul – Dad, why don’t you be a man and post under you real screen name? I (still) hate you.
@ keith – can you please answer Mark’s query? I’m concerned he’s been sitting by his computer for a week expectantly awaiting an answer (to this important question)
@ rusty – what job should I get (please keep in mind that the WGA just began its writers strike) – also, are you indicating that if I get a job I DON’T also have to get a life?
@ drmclovin – exactly – it’s weird
@ tyrone – wow
@ keno – haha
@ mel – Is Kill Whitey any good? If I want to give them a listen, which album should I try first?
@ randominsano – as noted previously (I believe), science tells us it takes a MINIMUM ten years for The White People to truly love any rap song
@ sam – I’m sorry, Sam – maybe you’re one of the good White People
@ davey-d – your list is too old school for me to even process – no wonder you have such a great website
@ jay – I would like to extend the offer I made above to someone to write a guest column for this site to you – you clearly have many important things to say – that you are without a forum to express such thoughts is a greater injustice than slavery
@ eEbs – the White People do love that song – really, they just love Annie – the still under-exploited secret formula for making a rap song White People love? Show tunes – any and all
I gotta vote for Ice Cube – Good Day and Paperboy Ditty. Me and every white person I know loves these 90s hits.
I’m a white male and this list made me laugh in the “this is so true” kind of way. Ironically I at the very least SOMEWHAT like songs 10-6 but dislike 1-5 (though, in my experience, white people do like the entire list). I was disappointed that Positive K was voted the song that shouldn’t have made the list. I think that song is good to this day.
Boy…white people are SO LAME! Look at this list of songs that they like! Black people only like the BEST rap songs.
Yup…black people like lame songs too. FAR more lame than many on this list. So seriously black people…don’t be trying to call white people lame when your race goesd nuts on the dance floor whenever “This is Why I’m Hot”, or worse yet…”Chicken Noodle Soup” comes on. Those are by FAR more lame than any song on this list.
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Comment:
Boy…white people are SO LAME! Look at this list of songs that they like!
Black people only like the BEST rap songs.
Yup…black people like lame songs too. FAR more lame than many on this list.
So seriously black people…don’t be trying to call white people lame when your
race goesd nuts on the dance floor whenever “This is Why I’m Hot”, or worse
yet…”Chicken Noodle Soup” comes on. Those are by FAR more lame than any song
on this list.
Can’t forget about the Hand Clap… WTF?
How about Stutter Rap by Morris Minor and the Majors? Parody of Beastie Boys and managed to take the piss out of a minority…surely this is classic rap at its finest?
i really hate these songs. I’m sorry but you fail
what about milkshake
LL “Goin’ Back to Cali”
Jay-Z “99 Problems”
any and all Run-DMC esp. “King of Rock”
Kurtis Blow “Basketball”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Laid Back “White Horse”
Snoop “Gin & Juice”
UTFO “Roxanne Roxanne”
Whodini “Freaks Come Out At Night”
all on my iPod, from an ’80’s metalhead
dear gsamx,
i am unimpressed. that’s like a rap-head telling you that they like metallica, u2 and pantera. booooooooooorrrrrriiiiiiing
love
davey-d
Yo we thank yo webste is wack as crack yo dawg get sum reel music on this piece hommie ya dig?
Next on the list: Top Ten Arabic Songs That Americans of Any Race Love. Any suggestions?
At least one thing is clear–we are all united by sarcasm and the fear of being excluded and, yes, music.
One suggestion, only …
If you hate the songs on the list, add your own.
What about something from TLC, does that count?
Wow.. so yeah I just came upon this list thanks to Google. And I must say.. some of you are fucking dumbasses. Especially the douchebag who automatically assumes that a white person thinking this is racist lives in suburbia and has lots of money. Heyyy guess what? White people can be broke too, buddy! I know I sure as fuck am. This list should be name rap songs that old corny white men sing at parties.. or something along those lines. I’m obviously white, and NO one I know likes any of that shit, except for comedy purposes. It really bothers me when black people say shit about whites being racist, or not knowing about “real” racism. I’ve had plenty of black people say racist shit to me, for no good reason.. I guess just because these few people were too ignorant and had to pull the “poor me, I’m black” card. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m talking about a certain few. Bottom line: this shit is ignorant and a bit racist, and no white kid I know would listen to this shit.
Kate – welcome to the site – glad you liked the list
Google is being very good to us – this list is currently the fourth result (out of 9.5+ million) for the search ‘rap songs‘ (without quotes) and the 11th (out of 354 million results!) for ‘white people‘ (ditto)
god fucking bless you, google
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I feel violated. How could a black man know all this? He must be dating a white chick.
I don’t really think “metal songs that black people like” is the opposite of “rap songs white people like.” It’s got to be “country songs that black people” like. I can’t stand country music, but it’s more mainstream in white culture than metal.
For Tupac, gotta had, “How Do You Want It?”, with K-Ci and Jo-Jo.
suckafreesfc
All you people who keep referring to this person as a nigger, a black man who needs to get a job and a life, and feel wronged because this “black” dude is getting away with insulting white people must remember that the guy who made the list is actually white. Anyway racism is always going to be a part of life, but throwing out ignorant comments doesn’t make you any better. to Kate I was sent here from google too.
Haha we whiteys deserve that. And it’s true. Why are we such prudes? And why do white people who wanna be black always think they need to be thugs?… or do they?
Crank Dat – Soulja boy listen to it you’ll get addicted to the dance
LOL
I would have thought this was the white folks favourite
http://canadyreport.blogspot.c.....hitey.html
LMAO! That list is so true!
I do think that Push It should have made top 10 though. For white 30-somethings like me that was one of the first rap songs we were introduced to.
For all those people offended by the list get over it! You’re just pissed off because the list is true!!
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you guys have to help me… i can’t remember a song that i knew in the 90’s. it was big with us and all i ever remember calling it is the “homey” song. the video had the singer pouring beer out on the street… i don’t know, it’s lost in a fog of beer, Tangueray and pot.
help!
Tony November 28th, 2007 5:33 pm
you guys have to help me… i can’t remember a song that i knew in the 90’s. it was big with us and all i ever remember calling it is the “homey” song. the video had the singer pouring beer out on the street… i don’t know, it’s lost in a fog of beer, Tangueray and pot.
help!
That would be “Gangsta Lean” by P DRS.
Gangsta Lean – so great – saw the video dozens of times on “The Box” network – my friend Chris has a standing order from me that, upon my demise, that song is to be performed, by the (living) members of D.R.S. at my funeral, as a forty is poured out on my coffin
I believe this order has been in place for at least a decade
you guys rock!
you pretty much did it perfectly. nothing like an accurate blog post to bring back the frequent and necessary dose of white-person-who-loves-hip-hop-self-loathing.
thank you
i like the list. very true. if white people where rats that list is the pide piper. you can’t categorize this as racist. maybe stereotypical but not raciest. No one said white people are bad or less of a person because they like this list. they just like the list. kinda how people say black people like fried chicken and watermelon. Not racist. Stereotypical yes. take it for wut it is fuck fags
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I hate rap music. Can’t spell CRAP without RAP. White people listing to that crap are a disgrace and embarrassing. Why would you want to listen to music that says nigger this and nigger that?
ha, im white and totally get where your coming from as i do kinda like a few of them tracks .. white people can be quite sad … but i bet black pepole are just as geeky there just over shadowed by the all the gangta wannabe’s out there who are atually probally the geeky ones dressed up in rocawear and call each other nigga just beacause they think they should .. im white, i love hip hop, especially pac and yes i do feel i have lost a freind to gang war fare boo hoo .. ok no i dont .. i just like to listen to hit em up and envision its me rappin it on mtv lol a white person would look so gay doin that especially as im not only white but female and britsh .. no no no ma niggazzz
i think it’s funny how most of the songs listed here are sung by black people…i’m white and i love all of these songs!! they are fun to dance to and sing to!!
I might be from Detroit but I am white. I only saw a few decent songs on there… Dayton Family, TI, Young Jeezy, and others like them are what I listen to. I still listen to alternative and hard rock too so I’m not a wigger. So once again like I said 1/2 of that crap is…. well, crap.
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I understand you want controversial material to gain feedback, but this is simply awful. What white people are you talking about? I hate every song you put on your list. EVERY SONG! Of course I am white, and yes, you are full of shit! Do your research instead of filling the internet with racist humor only you and short sighted friends can understand. Where is “The World is Yours” or “Keep Your Head Up” or “Moment of Truth?” What a waste of time, and a terrible effort to cement your thoughts in ours!
wow, is it 1994 already?
someone get this man an arsenio spot!
listen you ghetto Brian boy,
if you don’t like white people then take your racist muthaphukin black ass back to the ghetto and don’t ever come out of there. I am as white as they come and I can tell you I like only 2 of these songs. But more importantly, what are you trying to say here: black music for black people and white music for whites? Isn’t that just the same as me saying Africa for blacks and North America and Europe for whites? But I won’t ever say that and you know why – cuz I know dissing, dumb bitches like you are only a minority among black people. Meanwhile, I’ve got plenty of black friends who’ve got my back 100% when I bitch-slap racist, dumb, hating muthaphuka’s like you. Your ignorance is unbearable, but the worst part is, it seems like you are so hopelessly stupid and racially blinded that there is no lesson one can teach you. So, just stay wherever you are and die ignorant, hateful, and poor as a church rat.
the only rap that is on my list and i am white would be public enemey and NWA rap at its finest
You got a good list going there. But what you don’t get is those songs help rap secure its place in the world of music. Dis it all you want about us white folks listening to it but we buy records, and without that many of those that came after them would have never had a chance! Oh and on a side note Europeans love rap, especially in Germany where you will find Snoop Dogg often selling out to sold out crowds of mainly white folks. So I say Go white boy go white boy go!!!
Well these are popular songs for popular people regardless of color who enjoy popular top 40 songs,
- Company Flow Funcrusher Plus Lp
thats hiphop
wish i knew what elp was saying half the time but cool nonetheless
-Songs are supposed to be odes to technology, sounds, and poetry which arent anywhere. but im sure these are club songs, most people are drunk or relieving stress from work, so i guess in a club they dont care, which is cool, but when the circus stops, and you get in your car, its jazz, its electronica with soul, its real hip hop like commons ressurection lp. or de la. these songs are songs for people to relate to , although positive K was cool, and i could never find that lp.
5000
He’s white. Really.
Rite well im quite disturbed at the image that i have in my head of all the white people that enjoy these songs, im white and from northern ireland and i love rap music, but these songs mentioned r liked by people that dont really like rap music at all, i wud class most of these songs as diluted rap music, i like a few of the songs listed but even then i would not put them on the list, there are many many songs that cud have put up there but im not gona say cus the list is already made and whats the point basically? and i dont really like House of Pain if your wondering lol
Whitey out Lmao
Admit it, you love white people. That is why you OBSESS over making lists about us. We are on your mind constantly huh? You’re just mad because you’re burnt to a crips and ugly (as if I needed to include the ugly. I think that is a given). You WISH you were white dont you? I know you do.
now that i think about it-you are white arent you? you are a fucking disgrace to white people everywhere. youre just mad (read #10 song) that no girls (especially pretty white girls) like your UGLY racist ass. and who would? If I were you, I would kill myself.
heres another eductation tip for ya: who lives in ghettos? black people. thats b/c they fuck up everything and turn everything to shit.
i dont know if you’re serious or you think this is funny but be careful of who you cross. the only thing you have “authority” on is how to suck big dick you faggot.
Where’s Eminem, man ?
I think who every made this blog site needs to update what they are talking about because where i’m from and yeah i’m white /(three six and ugk ) are the talk around my town……………………………m-town
BAY AREA
I thought this list was freakin’ hilarious! This guy is damn funny! Also to George Miller – I think you are a first class asshole. Not only black people live in ghettos, fuck face, poor people live there & I happen to be one of them & am WHITE, so shut the fuck up! And you shouldn’t be slinging the word racist around since you just said black people are burnt to a crisp & ugly, you ignorant piece of shit!
You studied white people for 27 years.. i actually believe you. damn bro you got lost in the time!
people don’t be listening this crap no more damn
As of today, it’s 28 years
ROFL @ the comments.. N.W.A’s Fuck the Police is probably the funniest track I hear white boys singing and listening to. From groups of drunk white guys walking down the street and yelling it out, to the “cool” white guys blasting it out of their shit car stereos and acting all gangsta-tough at traffic lights. In all fairness though, maybe the ‘cool guys’ don’t actually know what the track is about, as their terrible car stereos only seem to output distorted bass frequencies, rarely capable of reproducing the human voice.
Some of the Sh*ttiest rap songs I’ve ever heard.
Figures why crackers love ‘em so.
You r an idiot
Obviously you party with the same people (I mean whiteys)who drink natty lite ice! That list is weak and you must know it. Whoop there it is? Arsenio Hall anyone? Are the “dogz” out yet Def Comedy Jam/Comic View? I seen many black chicks myspace profiles havin ‘it takes two’ on there and crap like that. So stuff like that, young mc, etc. is “universally” lame. Once again, you were hangin with the wrong “crackers” buddy. Maybe one day you’ll venture to a lounge where a white dude with an idea of what real music and real hip-hop is, spins…it ain’t happened yet, I know. Damn, 28 years? You better hurry before it passes you by. Think I’ll go listen to some really good “rap” music, like Lil’ Wayne and “Fiddy” so I can remember how “hot” my game and my rims and my money is. And hell yeah, I got it by my side, just in case I gotta pop off after poppin some Crissy, my nicca!!!
lol, you’re getting mad traffic, well done
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yeah..this list is for lame ass early 30’s old white men….as for me, 19 white girl, this list sucks ASSS….although the number one song you got right, my dad was so proud when he learned all those words… *shaking head in shame*
Somehow somebody linked off this page to my top 10 white rapper list. Either way, thanks. I can use all the readers I can get.
Either way, the list was dead on. I think people missed the following points though:
-You’re white
-This list wasn’t making fun of white people or black people. Merely stating that when these songs come on, white people know all the words to them.
I haven’t seen white people this upset since they cancelled M*A*S*H (c) Chris Rock
Your black friend,
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Most of the list is correct …except I’d say SLIM SHADY is missing. He basically made it cool for white people to say… PLEASE STAND UP and attempt to wrap.
oh yeah..forgot Beastie Boys .. for all those hard core fans.
This is just a list of all the rap songs that had an impact on the pop charts in the early ’90s. The entire country had these songs shoved down its 75% “white” throat.
At the last *3* consecutive White People weddings I’ve been to with live bands, the band played “Hey Ya.” Its exclusion from this list is little short of a travesty.
J.M. – after multiple requests, I added Hey Ya as an option to the “Which White People-beloved rap song MOST deserved a top 10 ranking?” poll, and as you can see it is doing very well. HOWEVER, would that I could, I’d strike it as an option since it is not, in any way I can tell, actually a rap song. Yes it’s recorded by a great rapper, and yes White People LOVE it, but it is not in any way a rap song, and I feel foolish to have listed it
This was just big music in the 90’s, i think everyone listened to these songs. But it is getting ridiculous how often i have to hear some of this garbage. Uptown anthem is def the best naughty song though, and just a friend is an awesome song. and let vanilla ice know that his song is under pressure, and Same song is better than humpty dance, all these songs need thrown out, remembered but not repeated
Man this list is good, pretty accurate. I just wish the author’s comments were more funny and less racial.
So I’ve calmed down a little after breezing through this post & reading it again completely. However, I agree with other comments that these songs were mainly stuffed down everyone’s throats as “big hits” so they are merely well known among white people vs. actually “loved”. Every white person I know that really likes rap/hip-hop doesn’t really like these songs either. Make sure you catch “top 10 rock songs black people love” – also true for many of the same reasons…
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This list is hilarious! I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet, but I think “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme” should be an honorable mention. I don’t know one white person under 30 that doesn’t know that whole song.
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i find this list very racist. it’s funny black people think they know white people so well when they really DONT! ya’ll need to find something else better to do then sitting around making fun of white people! fuckin losers!
I grew up in Maine, a state that’s 2% minority–but even that is misleading because the biggest segment of that is Native Americans who aren’t spread evenly throughout the state. Having been born in 1975, I was pretty much in the heart of white country when we were discovering rap. My remembrances:
Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” and Newcleus’ “Jam On It” were the two songs that got any play prior to the big breakthrough.
The big breakthrough was Run DMC’s Raising Hell, particularly “It’s Tricky”, “My Adidas”, and “You Be Illin’”, and the Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill, mainly “Fight for Your Right”, “Paul Revere”, and “Girls”.
That was followed by Public Enemy–who everyone claimed to like even though they only knew “Fight the Power” and the chorus to “911 is a Joke”–and NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton”, with the title track being the big player.
A Tribe Called Quest was big, but the most popular track was and is “I left My Wallet in El Segundo”. De La Soul’s “Me, Myself, and I” was huge, as was Arrested Development’s “Tennessee” and “Mr Wendell”.
Next up was Dre with “Deep Cover” and the entire Chronic album, followed on by Snoop’s Doggystyle, and then rap was mainstream.
Digital Underground’s “Humpty Dance” was huge. White people here this come on and immediately say “Did you know that Tupac was in this band?” before they start singing along. They feel the cred they amass from knowing this fact offsets the cred they lose from singing the song.
I can’t believe you missed Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” and the one featuring Dido. White people love those. And Shaggy’s “Boombastic”.
A lot of the tracks you list are “songs that were really popular for a brief period”, like “Whoomp (There it Is)”, “Slam”, “Hip Hop Hurray”, and even “You can’t Touch This”.
I distinguish those from a “Jump Around”, “Baby Got Back”, or “Ice, Ice Baby” which were huge for a brief period but are still popular today–when they come on, every white person first says “oh this is lame” (again, to amass offsetting cred) and then sings every word of the song while smiling a huge smile.
i love white people
I don’t know if its just an NYC thing but i dare you to find a white person that was in High School in NYC in the 90’s that don’t know every single god damn word to a tribe called quest’s “the scenario”. I was at a bar a few weeks past and the whole night the jukebox was playing your typical cracker songs like billy joel, and shit. i put on “the scenario” and the place went nuts.
Things White People Like: Apparently, Not Me…
Should be things rich white liberal people like, but worth perusing. I may have to turn in my honky card, because while I see this stuff all around me I’m not a big fan of anything on here except architecture……
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I’m supposed to like these songs because my skin is white?
Hey, let’s be real here y’all. You could also say (save Ice Ice Baby) that these are just songs that people love. When was the last time you were in a black club and people didn’t throw up their hands PLENTY of black folk loved these songs and black people made almost all these songs. Asians and hispanics dug em too. I mean who didn’t love OPP? Many of the songs named are just feel good pop tunes from the early 90’s when everybody liked Hip Hop. They’re Hip Hop artists that could still make a party jam that wasn’t slammin women and all about how rich the rappers supposedly are…if you listen to the tone, even Kanye’s Gold Digger makes me feel more at ease as a woman than the Yin Yang Twins bullsh%*. I mean, don’t get me started.
So black people don’t like The Humpty Dance? What’s wrong with them? and Just A Friend and HHH and It Takes Two. The rest is shit and I was told about some of these tunes I was put on to by a black person and have heard no other white people talk about. Get the fuck other yourselfs. Just call your next version of this list “Songs That Were Popular And We Wanna Bitch About”.
Where I come from, England, rap shows have only ever been a majority of white people, mainly due to there not being such a large amount of black people living here. And hereis where LL came over to get booed doing I Need Love and where people get booed for playing wack tracks in general (for example, i remember being at a krs show about 2 years ago when 279 was warming up the crowd and had the gall to play tupac after biggie. fuck that shit, biggie was a genius, pac was butters, we demand some quality control) and to dupe a whole race into a shit taste in music is just stupid racism. you’d think black people would know running simple divides down the race barrier can lead to bigger ones but oh well.
white people are the majority audience for both commercial and indie hiphop these days. you could argue that leads to bad quality (making what the masses think they want is a lot different to what you think people need to hear) and this would be make a great piece of journalism. but instead you go for cheap laughs. well, black people bought jump around too (pete rock even remixed it, and you wanna say it was just for the one race). but go for it, make your tracy jordan cliche jokes instead of just treating it as what it is, different cultures not different race .
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Nice, I love reading racist, stupid ish like this. The writer on this is an idiot. The title of this should not be “white people,” it should be “douches that don’t listen to hip hop.” Seriously, any person who actually listens to hip hop, white or not, wouldn’t put any of these songs in their list. Any white person that knows hip hop, and guess what there’s plenty of us or did you just think black people were keeping the genre in business, laughs at these songs.
What’s funny is, like or not, there’s plenty of “white people” that know way more about real hip hop and rap than the black people that think this list is true. I’m one of them.
You forgot Fat Joe – Lean Back
spectacular. quite possibly the greatest bog post in the history of teh internets.
i don’t have the energy to wade through the stupidity in the rest of the comments section, so if someone else has already mentioned Ini Kamoze – Here Come the Hotstepper, apologies. But just look at the video! Julia Roberts(!) appears within the first 11 seconds. Tim Robbins, Lyle Lovett, and is that fucking Jean=Paul Gaultier?!
Never mind my comment about Fat Joe. You got the list perfectly right, according to your criteria: “and I mean fucking LOVE”. Great job – this was really funny and generated a lot of discussion.
this list is amazing and so dead on!! i was out last night and several songs from your list came on and the whole place went nuts. and yes, it was mostly white girls in their late 20’s (like me) who RAN to the dancefloor and started bustin out rapping.
i would take “whomp there it is” off the list though (that song blows). in addition to onyx, black sheep, and wrex n effex already mentioned, i’d add:
LL Cool Jay “around the way girl”
candyman “knockin boots”
K7 “come baby come”
salt n peppa “push it” (it should be in the top 10)
Tribe “scenario” (ditto)
2 Live Crew “me so horny”
Fresh Prince “parents just don’t understand”
Snoop “gin n juice”
Biggie “juicy”
BBD “Poison”
thanks for putting a smile on my face and bringing me back to 6th grade. i’m sorry for all the racist comments you’ve been getting and for all of the white people who have no sense of humor and can’t take a joke. it’s funny how most of the people who get pissed and incorrectly assume you’re black, end up revealing such racist comments themselves. LIGHTEN UP, PEOPLE!
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You left off “Juicy” By the Notorious BIG. Trust me white people sing this song like they grew up in the projects themselves.
I think the list is great! Although “I Got a Man”? I didn’t know they knew this song…
You definitely missed MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This” and “Shoop” by Salt & Pepa. Ellen knows all the lyrics to “Shoop”, for God’s sakes.
Now on to read the top 10 rock songs Blacks love…
Keep the good work. Fuckin’ A!
Oh and you were sooo wrong to leave off “Gettin’ Jiggy With It”…anything by the Fresh Prince/Will Smith gets an automatic white-love stamp of approval.
You forgot the Pharcyde!
As a white person, I loved how they shizzled my manizzle
with tracks like “passin me by”, “otha fish” and “yo mama”
This was popular throughout White America.
Do better research please.
Hmmm…maybe it’s just me, but I expected to see at least on Fujees song on the list.
Also, i am a fan of “Passing Me By” by Pharcyde. That song may be too obscure for most white people…although I am by no means a white hip-hop fan/wanabee. I just have a few songs that I like.
This may only apply to white CANADIANS…but Maestro Fresh Wes’ “Let your backbone slide” would be in my top 5.
And Kriss Kross for sure!
Oh yeah, also: LL Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out
Trust me, I’m White and we secretly work out to this song in our basements with our oversized hoodies on.
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you forgot MC hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit.
complete with inane hand gesture.
Fun at white people’s expense…
Seeing as we’re having fun at white people’s expense, here’s a couple more pretty entertaining websites; entertaining because they play on stereotypes – and funnily enough, stereotypes tend to have a fair amount on truth to them: Stuff White People….
1- I know what you want by Busta rhymes
2- Still DRE by Dr Dre ft snoop doog
3- Sorry Ms Jackson by Outcast
4- Lose your self by eminem
5- gangstas paradise by coolio
6- In Da Club by 50 Cent
7- Me against the Wolrd by 2pac
8- Dont Lie by Black eyed peas
9- Bonnie and Clyde by Jay Z ft beyonce
10- Iam real by jarule ft jlo
11- remember the name by fort minor
Top Ten Things White People Hate:
10. Lists about white people.
9. History.
8. Having their cover blown and finding out their “street cred” is actually main stream music.
7. White people making light of racial issues.
6. White people in power (they are responsible for race issues, not everyday white people.)
5. Irony.
4. Reading long lists and comments to see if something has already been said.
3. Black people making light of racial issues.
2. Embracing their own culture.
1. Themselves.
I hope this list can be of some use to those that won’t read it all the way through. BTW your list is damn near the top ten most requested songs at the retro club I dj, but Positive K would have to be replaced with “Shoop”.
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haha… i am white, and i actually dont like any of those songs… all i listen to is Big L, Rakim, all that type of shit… but i aint offended like some of these assholes, i think it’s funny because it’s true, most white people love those songs
nice job
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Ooohhh how could Eminem miss the cut?? They like every single by that dude…
“I don’t know if its just an NYC thing but i dare you to find a white person that was in High School in NYC in the 90’s that don’t know every single god damn word to a tribe called quest’s “the scenario”.”
I don’t think I’ve met anyone who was under the age of 25 in New York in 1992 who doesn’t know the lyrics to that song. Spike Lee was in the video, so that verifies that it’s a song that both white and black people can dig. (Spike Lee didn’t make it on the list yet?)
Hey I’m white and early thirties but I don’t like any of these songs, mainly because I don’t like rap or hip hop at all. But the piece is funny and so are some of the comments. I really don’t get people who respond to something so obviously light-hearted and good-natured with ‘die in a fire’ type comments. If you don’t get the joke or don’t like the humour, fine, but why the vitriol? If you think you’re above it then go away and leave it alone; by posting nasty stuff you’re just showing a) it’s above you, and b) you’re stupid.
Perhaps as a follow-up, something akin to 10 country songs that all blue-staters secretly love. For example, when I hear “Friends in Low Places,” I seriously forget that I lack a pickup truck and a neighborhood honkytonk.
white people like wu tang the most. see the entry about mos def and you’ll understand if you don’t already.
LL Cool J “Mama Said Knock You Out” has to be a contender for this list. So does MC Hammer “2 Legit 2 Quit”
No Dre, no Snoop, no Biggie, no Eminem? Perhaps your list pertains to white people in Wisconsin, but white people go batshit crazy when “Forgot About Dre”, “Big Poppa”, or “Gin ‘n’ Juice.” As a white guy, I’m not offended by being stereotyped, but I am disappointed at how awful and unfunny this list is. There isn’t a funny comment in here. Funny CONCEPT, yes, but atrocious delivery.
Further, you really don’t know why white people like “Just a Friend”? Are you kidding? There is no chorus in the world that allows people to shout off-key as loud as they want and not sound worse than the actual song…and I say that with all due respect to the Biz because the Biz never sleeps.
Way to perpetuate the struggle, so-called “Brian”.
Now let me get back to my list of “Classic Rock Songs Black People Love”.
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Steely Dan. Totally. I don’t care what race you are, you gotta love a song about Tequila, blow, and a 19yr-old girl.
you are a stupid piece of shit. i can name off 1000 songs where black people look left to right, say “lets get this shit poppin” or something of the sort, then go “dance” like they keep gettin shot over and over.
josh – write that list up and post it on the Internet and you too will have strangers curse you
“White People’s inherent prudish squareness”
If you made the same kind of comment about black people you’d be called racist. Be glad that the white people you talk about are so forgiving!
Ok, this list is true. Play any of these songs at a liberal college party and EVERYONE knows them. These songs are up there with Journey. Brian, major props for the list. Looking forward to a “top 10 country songs Black people love.” And for all the hating raceist fucks out there, Get a Fucking Clue. Some of you sound like Slave Owning wannabes, the Civil War is over, South lost… Get the fuck over it, America is better off. Music is suppposed to bring people together, and whether or not you like rap these songs were the building block that music today is founded… Imagine what we would be hearing on the radio if Old school rap didnt ever spark? (it would probably be some form of yodeling) They are pretty cheesy songs we can admit that, but Everything is the shit when it first comes out, remember boy bands, the spice girls, the dixie chicks? They suck now, but you couldnt go a day without hearing their music. These songs are still being played, the context doesnt matter, which proves that they will allways be here, like it or not.
BTW… Im AMERICAN. you racial bastards.
I guess it’s a requisite for white people to like old, near meaningless rap. At least Jump Around has some life in it.
I think people should leave the racial observation humor to Chappelle and Pryor.
Digable Planets – Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Don’t know if its cos Im British or cos I just tuned out for a few decades, but half of the top ten are ones I can’t remember – and half of the remaining are songs I wish I couldn’t remember.
I cant believe you missed Grandmaster Flash ‘White Lines’.
Agree with other posters that Public Enemy should be in there. And Ice-T (Ice-T got pretty well known in the UK, think he used to present a program here on Channel 4)
You got to add Push It by Salt N Pepa! I was at a country and western club (It was a mandatory work thing yo!) when all of a sudden, smack in the middle of like Alan Jackson and Shania Twain, the DJ spun SNP! The rednecks damn near lost their minds! And so did I! They rushed the dance floor like they were at an SNP concert! Peeps started grinding, poppin’ it, rollin’ it and, I kid you not, dropping down on the floor and humping it doggy style (Of course they were all miles behind the beat)! I still have nightmares…
Anyway, ever since then I’ve gone back and tried to remember all the times I’ve heard this song at predominantly white functions and I was amazed that I remembered so many. Boy those crazy white folks are something else!
You forgot “Gangsta’s Paradise,” “Men in Black,” “I’ll be Missing You,” and “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems” – all songs white people LOVE with uncreative uses of samples.
dont b a h8r. it looks like the black folks are groovin on it too. it’s all good. damn youz one funny white boy. peace
A million comments and no one has added Spearhead to this list?
Michael Franti & Spearhead.
C’mon y’all. You don’t know white people so well after all.
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Why are you all so obsessed with colour and limiting definitions of people? If you must do it there are many more interesting ways to define people.
Dude, you totally need to add some Bel Biv Devoe and Public Enemy. As a hella-white Gen-X’er, trust me on this.
Also,
Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt. II” is getting dangerously close to being on that list between being used in the B-Rabbit/Freeworld hip-hop battle in 8-Mile and the line “As long as I’m alive, I’ma live illegal.” being quoted on Sublime’s “April 29th, 1992. (Miami)”
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Yo I would say that the reason some of these songs are on the list is because they are so terribly awful that in some strange way it makes them enjoyable to hear. When I hear Biz Markie it makes me think I’m listening to a fat retard so for some reason its fun to sing along. And no I’m not fat and I’m not retarded. I’m white and guess what when I’m in a club and these songs come on surprisingly black people sing along to. Strange! And vanilla ice, sorry dude but I don’t think any one fucking dumb ass thinks he is 110% gangsta… are you fucking kidding, just bedcause you said that makes me think that maybe you are partially handicapped. I would say most of things songs are just fun to make fun off because they bring back memories if you were a kid when they first came out.
Hi, this white person’s favorite rap song is Doctor Octagon, Blue Flowers. I’ve never even heard half the shit on this list.
I didn’t scroll through the entire list of comments, but what about J5!? White people LOVE J5. Here’s proof. Look at these little white kids go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koyr9ForHhs
What are you, blog author? A nigger or a jew?
Wow! some of the bad commenters forgot to take their meds, I think!
Another honorable mention should be given to Public Enemy’s “Bring Tha Noize”. Lots of us white metalheads (back in my high school days!) got into this, big-time, when they redid it with Anthrax. I still love it!
Sorry… forgot to put in the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abg2vOQTYrA
As a white person AND a member of an Asian crew, (#11: Whites DEF DO love AZN’s, unless they’re behind the wheel of an Acura), I fully back everything in the pretty green boxes. It blows my mind how seriously people are taking this list. You are a great writer and I hope that you continue to study the whities and report back.
I guess I should explain the #11 thing:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wo.....ian-girls/
Hilarious.
Hmm, I’m white, 34, and English. This last might explain why I hadn’t heard of any of these until the top 3.
Loathe Vanilla Ice.
Like House of Pain.
I admit to loving Baby Got Back. You know why? Because I have a BIG FAT ARSE. (For the same reason, I love Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls.)
Great blog post. Still getting daily comments after 5 months, that says a lot. Shame about the ignorant assholes exposing their inherent racism.
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as a 30 year old white guy i’ve always been into Ice Cube from the beginning NWA days, and he never scared me. Ice-T always topped my list along with Eazy-E as favorites.
Don’t forget to add Petey Pablo “Raise Up” to your list.
though the college kids i knew were definately into your top 10 list.
Yeah, Gotta Add BBD’s Poison… and Regulate by Warren G.
Other than that, dead-on.
just another drop in the bucket here but im white and i notice that tribe was conspicuously left out. of all my white friends who happen to like some hip hop, tribe is usually among their favorites. maybe its just that none of their singles got too big in the bar mitzvah circuit. also, jurassic 5 should be big on this list – i put them in the category of rap music for people who never listen to rap music.
i also wanna ask: is it conspicuously white of me to be able to (and do) recite verbatim most of the lyrics from 36 chambers and fear of a black planet? do black people still listen to wu tang and PE religously?
is it also a faux pas to be very apt to start doing slick rick rhymes when im drunk??
Hey, what about Grandmaster Flash “The Message”? Jeez, it had one of its lines in a movie about cute penguins (Happy Feet)!
Bro…You did such a great job ranking these bitches! Now who does the countdown? Who is the whitest person/DJ who wants to be a rapper?
When I move you move! Just like that? That one should be on there. Luda
um, I put my hand up on your hips and when we dip I dip you dip? That one too.
R Kelly Ignition. Dont forget that one.
De La Soul, me myself & I. Missy Elliot Sock it to me. Pharell Frontin. Anything with Timbaland.
That’s my list. Only seven though. not rap but white people like Time the Bird, oh we oh we oh ho hum
Wow- I thought the article was amusing- Yeah I’m as white as they come, and I like all kinds of music, including rap. And “Me so Horny” (among others up there) are somewhat dear to my heart.
But I’m reading thru the comments…and I’m just speechless I almost feel like banging my head against a wall. I can’t believe that so many (white) people think there’s something racist about this article. Get over yourselves and grow up. Jesus, white people are crazy sometimes. I mean, goddam.
Gin and Juice resonates with not only white surburban kids but diverse youth everywhere because alcohol is a great unifier. I was 15 when the song came out and we got piss drunk on cheap gin with grapefruit juice, my momma wasn´t home but I didn´t have any bitches in the livin room gettin it on… so we understood part of the experience and dreamed of living the rest of it. Damn Snoop´s cool.
LA dream Team – She Only Rocks and Rolls
I am white skinned, but not white.
This list is so true, one of the saddest things you will see is stupid white girls going crazy Baby Got Back, and for the exact same reasons you mentioned. White people do get all excited when they here sexual phrases by rappers. And its because they’re prude.
Also Id say White people are obsessed with the hip hop song Hey Yeah…..
A suggestion for a future topic:
White people love Karaoke.
What a funny list! I have to admit, it’s been years but I still LOVE Jump Around! Kind of surprised that there were no Eninem songs.
apologies if this has already been mentioned- my a.d.d. has sunk in – but you are missing the quintessential white girl rap song: shoop by salt n’ pepa. good list though.
When I used to go to college frat parties, every single white person would know the lyrics to Eazy E, Gimme That Nutt. I must have heard that song played 12,000 times over the course of 4 years.
As an almost old(49) white guy who has drifted away from pop culture and joined the rat race full time, I think your list is on the money. I would throw in some PE and EU’s Da Butt (though EU is probably not rap by your definition).
You deserve much love for stirrin’ up this shit.The posters who find this offensive or racist are part of the problem, not the solution. I suggest they open a beer, light up a bone, and mellow out.
are you kiddn me—KOOL MOE DEE–I GO TO WORK! how did you miss that one!
You forgot “Passin’ Me By” by Pharcyde. White people love that song.
Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this one, but I love “This Is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan.
“If you were from where I’m from then you would know
I can get mine in a big black truck, you can get yours in a 6-4″
I’m too old to know the songs on your list. (Found you by way of StuffWhitePeopleLike, which I found out about on NPR, but of course!(
My generation of white folks still loves Motown.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is first with the girls. Because, as you put it so well, “it gives us a chance to playfully reject a male suitor’s advances on the dance floor before blowing him at the end of the night. It’s empowering.”
The generation before me dig the Blues. Okay, I do too. And the ones before that were hep to jazz music.
Funny site. Thanks.
what about ring ring ring by de la soul?
Fresh Prince’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand” trumps Will Smith’s “Jiggy.” So does “I Think I Could Beat Mike Tyson,” “Girls Ain’t Nothin’ But Trouble,” and “Nightmare on My Street.”
Dang, B…
Where ‘da funk am “Big Pimpin’ by Jay Z?
Why you always gotta be trying to play the playa, Playa?
OK – you found me out. White boy. Guilty.
I keep thinking of those two ultrawhite music teachers on SNL* singing “Get Ur Freak On” and “Ladies Night”.
(When SNL* was still good before Lorne Michaels started hiring a bunch of cute guys who weren’t funny–Gee, I wonder why!)
Three words:
De
La
Soul
Why is MC Hammer not on the list with “You can’t touch this”. It’s almost a white anthem!
OMG I always felt as an Armenian American girl I was cool because I listened to mostly rap…but turns lots of other white people listened to this stuff too?! Man I thought I was cool! I think with the exeption of Ice Ice Baby, which I loved and did a dance performance to in 7th grade, and Bust a Move all the top ten and most of the honorable mentions on in my ipod. Mad props to whoever put this together, you made me laugh my ass off!
correction: Positive K is the only rapper on “i got a man”.
he does both the male and female (with pitch alteration)voices.
i guess its white ppls favorite pseudo-duet
Great list. You forgot a crucial one though… Blood Hound Gang – Bad Touch … Not only is it more than suggestive, but it’s performed by fellow whites.
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I am white and I like 39 of the songs you’ve listed here.
I think this list is less about “what white people like” and more about “what people who ‘don’t know hip-hop’” like. Personally…I like a lot of these along with a lot of other hip-hop, plus hard rock, light rock, piano rock, rock mixed with rap, pure pop, Christian music…I’d go on but I think you get my point. Good music is good music, regardless of who likes it.
Where’s “Juicy?” White kids looove that one.
The list is HI-larious. I am a huge hip-hop head and a kid of the late 80’s/early 90’s so some of these songs blew up when I was in jr. high or high school. Good times…
F-in’ genius. I’m white and you clearly just downloaded the the “rap section” from my ipod. (Except for ice ice baby. Really, come on, no one likes him. When white people want to listen to ice ice baby, they listen to “under pressure.” Its not rap, but its also not stolen and has the same beat.)
Regulators! i am a white girl from DC. i truly liked Gogo, the Ices (T and Cube), and ALL Tribe, was a yo!MTV Raps (and 120 minutes for that matter) growing up, later 2Pac etc. Love seeing these blasts from our past. all of us. i have to 2nd the addition of C’mon ‘N Ride It (The Train) by Quad City DJ’s Many a southern white folks’ wedding devolves into a train at this being played : ) To the person who said rap is crap, just cuz you don’t like it does not make it bad – there’s no arguing about taste. this is in the name of FUN. @Billy “it’s been covered…about half pop/novelty rap songs that only dumbasses (of any race) love.” hee hee too true
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I think you mean “Top 10 Rap Songs White Chubby Drunk Girls Love”
OMG My best friend lives in Wyoming now, and I go to visit her sometimes. There is this cowboy bar with a huge dance floor and they ALWAYS play Baby Got Back. And al lthe white girls either FREAK OUT like the song is about them or get really excited that I’m there to share in their love for the song. It is the weirdest thing.
BTW – Boyz in the Hood is Eazy E… not NWA. I know it’s nitpicky but I thought I’d leave a comment without compaining about racism but still holding onto by hiphop integrity by not acknowledging that “OMG… I… love… these sthongs stho much”
this list is perfectly on point!
Hey you forgot Regulate by Warren G!
you forgot Pharaoh Monch – Simon Says. Makes us white boys feel tough. hahahahah.
Is LL Cool J not a rapper? I think most white peeps know “Going back to cali”.
I think I just peed in my pants from laughing
- AH
but who could forget Mystikal’s (spelled from memory mind you) “Shake That Ass (But Watch Yo’ Self)” or something to that effect. Good christ, us white folks went the proverbial bananas for that track. I did shake my ass and i did not watch my self!
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Here is something thing white dude loves:
this white dude loves this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-xlbDzVbQ
all dead vids… why does utube suck such fat balls
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fuck you nigger
Anything by the Beastie Boys should have been on the list.
Maybe some Oaktown 357, Juicy?
Who the hell is Positive K? Honestly, never heard of them. And I’ve heard a lot of music.
What about that song Supersonic? I’m a white girl and that song has always been a fav
How you gonna leave Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five off the list? White Lines.
2 Live Crew 4eva
The only one missing for me is an old one, and I still can’t get it out of my head.
The Show by Doug E Fresh and the Get fresh crew featuring Slick Rick.
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I’m a White Person, and one of my time-tested party tricks is rattling off the third verse of “Things That Make You Go Hmm…” by C&C Music Factory. Just wanted to throw that out there.
And although I don’t love every song on this list, I am 100% certain that if any of them came on at a party, and if I were drunk, I would love it like I love my mother.
@ White Guy – that song has verses? And lyrics?!
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I’m a white person, I think this was funny as heck, and its true. lol good one guys
I think you should’ve done a top 25-there were several in the “honorable mention” list that were too good to pass up. I felt that, as a white person, in the 30-35 age range, that it would be criminal if I didn’t vote for Criss Cross ONLY because I remember white people wearing their stuff backwards, and thought about voting for MC Hammer because my friends and I (male and female alike) had Hammer inspired pants. There were too many choices!!! For anyone that disputes the list, I have a friend who still has noted a Rob Base song on her top 10 most listened to (current) song. No kidding!
Your choice system is straight garbage. Only thing pick system worse than this is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and any media I Love Me award show. As it turns out others have made such studies for different reason and have discovered most whites, that enjoy rap music, listen to Gangsta Rap more than that sugar coated garbage proposed in your countdown. In fact during a documentary, Chuck D commented that he would look out into the audience and see it made up of white kids.
I don’t know if this list is tounge in cheek of if you truly are this ignant.
Never heard “In Da Club” but DAMN if I don’t love “Outta Control.” Being a forty-something white woman I once put ten people on the floor howling with laughter when I recited the lyrics.
We thirty deep in this bitch, we stuntin’.
You forgot “Summertime” or “The Fresh Prince Theme”…or anything else by Will Smith. White folks love Will Smith
You forgot….Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
its the song from Office Space. Awesome.
as a white person with many white friends, i must say that we all greatly enjoy 99 problems by jay-z. also, drop it like it’s hot by snoop, because, as you know, white people love weed.
Does anyone know the name of the person or group that sang the rap song called….Games People Play…..It came out in the mid eighties I think….If so, can you write me at ahhperfection-aff@yahoo.com ….Thank you.
more links i’m loving…
random links from my interweb travels: Stuff White People Like – guilty, guilty, and guilty again. hilarious…
I’m white and this list is hilarious.
Hip Hop Hooray is on replay right now.
Before this page loaded, I knew “Baby Got Back” would be #1…honestly, I think the song is funny but grossly overrated…I would have chosen “Hail Mary” by 2Pac because that song is so dark and brutal…and I’m as Aryan as they come! Peace
How about a Heads Up to the First Hip hop Song Us whities really listened to….
From 1981
By The Clash
Drum rollllllllllll – “The Magnificent Seven”
Thank you very much.
i just wanted to say hey brian. i was put the link to this page on my friend’s myspace because HE HAD “DITTY” paperboy on his page. and i thought it was just a west coast thing. he is definitely a white kid from boston who likes the ditty. that’s all. see you tomorrow. please dress accordingly to the theme. and it’s a hip-hop club with proper and stank-tified music. ok.. chow.
Maybe I’m too young, but I don’t even know about half of these songs, and of the ones i do I just remember them being the ones everyone thought were kind of lame at dances. I think currently all (teen to young adult) white people like any rap song featuring t-pain or akon, especially if young jeezy or rick ross is on the track – buy u a drank for example
Maybe I’m too young, but I don’t even know about half of these songs, and of the ones i do I just remember them being the ones everyone thought were kind of lame at dances. I think currently all (teen to young adult) white people like any rap song featuring t-pain or akon, especially if young jeezy or rick ross is on the track – buy u a drank or I’m so hood remix for example
TDaySpawn, you are correct – you are definitely too young!
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I have never heard any of these songs, granted I hate rap. I don’t understand your reasoning for making this list. I also don’t understand why there are wiggers. Well whatever makes you happy I guess.
P.S If you think your an expert on white people than I am an expert on black people.
If you want to see something really interesting go to a University of Wisconsin football game (an extremely white place) and wait for the break between the 3rd and 4th quarters when they play “Jump Around.” 78,000 people jumping up and down in an old stadium. I wouldn’t want to be on the 2nd deck of that place during that. Some day those chunky Wisconsinites will collapse that thing.
This comes from African tribal music if you listen to it it will make you commit crimes that harm decent white people!
You forgot about “Bring the Noise” by Anthrax and Public Enemy. What about Cypress Hill and Tribe Called Quest? I think your mistaking “White People” with white college girls. An young white chicks ipod is the detrus of a broken society.
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I’m a white person and I always liked the rap part of Blondie’s “Rapture.” Wheee!
WOW…hehehehe..white people do not like to be sterotyped. Can’t anyone take a joke anymore JEEZE!!!
I second the vote for Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise”. One of the first things I did after college to express my rejection of white, middle-class society (in my own white-boy way) was buying a copy of “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”. But only after I read the review in Rolling Stone magazine, of course.
I know I’m really late to this party, but as a white guy, I agree with 80% of this top 10, and probably 95% of the additional list.
However, Fatman Scoop – Be Faithful also needs to be added. Everytime I’ve gone out, it’s usually played in conjunction with DJ Kool’s Let Me Clear My Throat, and we white folk go crazy for it.
No love for GangStarr or Jeru the Damaja or Redman?
I cant tell if this thread is a joke. Because lord knows black people do the same shit with alot genres that have majority white musicians. But white people who are not informed with hip/hop pretty much will sing to any artist embraced by main stream pop culture. The sir-mix-alots, house of pain, and the puff daddys for instance. Yea its pretty corny, I will admit, I have become embarassed for the caucasian ethnicity numerous times when Im out at a bar and this tragedy of musical exhibition takes place. But lets not get all arrogant about hip/hop folks its only music.
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this should read »top 10 rap songs that european-americans love,« as there are no strictly »white« or »black« people, this is only part of u.s.-based brainwashing and propaganda, talking about so-called races and crap.
the list applies to u.s.-americans, only, europeans have a different taste (whom u.s.-americans incorrectly label as »white,« thanks to the domestic brainwashing mentioned above).
my personal list is as follows:
01. niggaz wit attitudes: parental discretion iz advised
02. geto boys: mind of a lunatic
03. derek b: bullet from a gun
04. mc solaar: caroline
05. de la soul: ego trippin’ (part two)
06. the d.o.c.: no one can do it better
07. der tobi & das bo: wir sind die besten
08. eric b. & rakim: move the crowd
09. edo maajka: pržiiiii
10. krs one: i got next
»ice ice baby« is very popular among africans and african-americans, by the way (which is fine, since it’s a great song).
young mc.c.’s best tune is »principal’s office,« by the way. digital underground’s »freaks of the industry« would be my pick; positive k was spot on (awesome track); sir mix-a-lot wins with »swass« (lyrics were later partly stolen by the pussycat dolls); biz markie is in a league of his own, a true don.
»Unlike most of his peers on this list, the Biz is a guy long deep in the hip hop scene with lots of cred«
you don’t seem to be familiar with a lot of the peers on the list you published (e.g. positive k, sir mix-a-lot, young m.c.), as your statement is false. i wonder why you didn’t include tone-loc’s »wild thing« (and check out the writer credits) …
Damn. I have to agree with this most list. I’m not a fan of Vanilla Ice, Sir Mix-A-Lot of Tag Team, but everything else is fuckin’ sweet.
Everything else on here is very sanitized and suburb-ready, but also damned fun. A few are even insightful and witty. I can’t deny it, I love Naughty By Nature. Crank me some O.P.P.!
Someone may have already mentioned it, but you forgot “It Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)” by Snoop. Pretty much #1.
This is some racist shit!!!!!!
All these songs suck….
This is why racism is such a huge problem. These jokes are just a stupid way to keep racial tension alive. Anyone who thinks “white people sre like this” or “black people sre like that” is ignorant.
My Top 10 Rap songs are:
10. Big Pun – Super Lyrical
9. Mobb Deep – Shook Ones pt. II
8. KRS-One – Step into a World
7. Jadakiss – Why?
6. DMX – Lord Gimme A Sign
5. Biggie – The Realist Niggas Remix
4. Nas – Hate Me Now
3. Wu Tang Clan – Triumph
2. Big L – All Black
1. Tupac – Hail Mary
Everyone who likes rap is gonna like some if not all of these songs.
What? No Cypress Hill?
I’m a white chic and love “How I could just kill a man”.
Also where’s “Poison”(1990)? Can’t remember who did it atm.
Another undderated rap song is Kid Frost’s “La Raza”(beautiful) & “low rider”, love those too.
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YOU HAVE GOT BE KIDDING, IF YOU THINK ALL WHITE PEOPLE LISTEN TO THOSE SONGS, NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE SAME, SO PLEASE DONT CATEGORIZE ALL WHITE INTO ONE GROUP, CAUSE I HAVENT LISTENED TO THOSE SONGS IN YEARS AND IM DAMN SURE THEYRE NOT MY FAVORITE, I DONT KNOW WHAT KIND OF WHITE PEOPLE YOU HANG WITH BUT THEYRE SURE AS HELL NOT LIKE ME
P.S. VANILLA ICE SUCKS! I WOULD RATHER GO DEAF THAN TO HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIS LAMEASS MUSIC
OK…You ABSOLUTELY need to add songs by biggie and tupac.
Biggie – Juicy
Tupac – Any given song, he’s like the modern/black Bob Dylan to your “down” white people.
But if I had to choose, probably I get around, how do you want it, i aint mad at cha, or CHANGES. Don’t believe me? Type it into google, CHANGES at least will be one of the first songs you see.
White people relate oh so much to that song, apparently.
BTW you did a great job! I thought it was hilarious and unfortunately, toooo true hahaha.
I laughed my butt off though.
LOL! so true! of course, I remember all the Top 10 songs, many of them from the 80s … but my iPod contains all the ones from the honorable mention category … OMG I never thought I was that predictable!
First off I am a rascist and I approve of this site. the white people who ‘accidentally’ found this site were just trying to find out what is new and cool in ‘urban’ areas.
as a dj and attendee at many a white-person wedding, this list is on the money. Being part white and from the bay area does make me partial to most of the songs on the list but i cannot begin to understand the fascination of white people with young mc. is it his name?
my own personal favorite: BBD – poison. who would have thought that the 3 guys form new edition that couldnt get solo albums could start a new jack revolution?
What about “Hay” by Crucial Conflict? OR….”I got five on it”? Any video with Dru Down wearing sausage curls while keeping it real gets my vote.
Now, as a mid-30’s black woman, I can list a few of my fav rock songs from the 90’s….ahem…..
1. Everything Zen (by a group I just can’t remember right now)
2. Closer NIN
3. If I Had a Million Dollars (can’t quite remember THAT bamd either) OH YEAH!!! Barenaked Ladies
4. Crazy Train Ozzy (not 90’s but I liked it back then)
5. World that I know Collective Soul
There are more, but I cannot figure out the titles from the (few) lyrics I remember. ( like the BEE GIRL song)
Let’s see…..country music for black people…..
1. Boot scoot Boogie
2. Chattahotchie (sp)?
3. Don’t Rock the Juke box
4. Reba Mcintyre (ALL)
5. Rodeo (or any other 90’s GB)
6. Wild One
A’int it scary that I can look back into my memory and find that there are more country songs than I’d like to admit—that were, in fact, THE SHIT to my Inner-city Detroit, way too cool to smile, hard core *giggle* circle of friends? My heads gonna explode….
BTW, I’m linking this post in every e-mail I send for the next few weeks. More folks need to wallow in their humiliating 90’s flashbacks. It builds character, no?
I’m “white” and i dont even know any of these rap songs. I don’t think any white person does. I hate mims and soujla boy but i love stronger and ayo technology.
As a guy who was a DJ from 1987 – 2002, I can tell you your top 10 is pretty much dead on.
In Philly, I would add:
The Glamorous Life – Cool C
Only You – Kwame
Knock Some Boots – Sam the Beast
I just about peed my pants when I read this. I have intimate memories of 8 out of 10 of these. I get misty-eyed thinking of my clubbing days.
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BIGGIE JUICY!
Wait for the part where every white person in the club goes
“If ya don’t know, now ya know……”
HILARIOUS EVERY TIME!
tg
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Hilarious list man, but there’s one you missed, Big Pun – Still Not a Player.
I’ll never forget at one of my high school dances this track came on and some girl starts squeeling “oh this is my boyfriend’s theme song!”
Any chance that you can do a few different versions of this list?
Some ideas:
- Last 10 years
- Tracks over utilized while under the influence
- Tracks which convince white guys that they are either:
1. black
Still so hilarious. I actually keep a playlist on my iPod called: “Play in Case of White People.” Most of these songs are on here, plus many, many others.
It’s surprisingly effective.
Any chance that you could do a categories list?
- last 10 years
- most over utilized while under the influence
- tracks that can convince an average white guy that he too can be one of the following:
1. black
2. a drug dealer
3. a pimp (in the literal sense of the word)
4. a blood / a crip
5. survive multiple gunshot wounds / drive-by / etc.
- Stadium anthems
I’m white and you hit the nail right on the head with this list. Every time baby got back comes on at a music place or something white people go crazy. They scream, they dance, and they sing. I don’t do any of that shit but every other white person does. I’m not that down with O.P.P. but I know every other white person is.
Dominick, you’re 100% right – and even more importantly, I just had to test out these groovy new Wordpress 2.7 threaded comments – holla!!!
Hmm, they need a little work – damn it
Have you even BEEN to Ecuador? Most of the people there aren’t white, they’re freaking mestizo, indigenous, or black. And its no more backwards than this country, just a hell of a lot poorer because fat white bastards buy up all the land to grow those $8.99/dozen long stemmed red roses you Americans are so fond of buying your girlfriends.
Indeed I have. And bless their hearts, 11 years after it came out (I lived there in 2003) they’d play People Everyday every day, people. Ditto Madonna’s Like A Prayer, Mary J. Blige’s No More Drama, In Da Club, Eminem crap, and every song from the Juanes album Un Dìa Normal at least 20 times. Good old Ecuador.
moving away from the pioneers of hip hop, all white people love the salmon dance by the chemical brothers.
I live in vancouver, therefore whites and blacks are scarce. However, I am a 14 year old white female and the only song I would dance or listen to (which appears on this list) is California Love by tupac. I did not grow up in a staggering amount of gang violence and assure you do not try to feel ‘black’ when listening to my favourite artist. These assumptions are utterly misguided and stereotypical.
and they fuckin say white people arte racists fuck you niggers
white people should be wiped from the face of the planet. i should know, i am one.
Whatever. None of this is nearly as bad as all the black people who think Lil Wayne is ‘rock’ now. lol
Come on, Rebecca, people who know music (black, white, whatever) know he’s not rock.
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By the way, the bee girl song is No Rain by Blind Melon. And, yes, I am black and from the Midwest too (Cleveland, to be exact).
On the real, I have a soft spot for some Reba. She can sing and she looks damn good for 50. Johnny Cash also gets much respect.
There is only one rap song that all of my white friends know every word to:
THE FRESH PRINCE THEME SONG!!!!!
i’m a white 41 year old, and i can’t believe there wasn’t even a MENTION of de la soul!!! “three feet high and rising” came out in, what, ‘88, and by 1996 every hip white guy owned it and loved it!
Yes, it’s true that these few novelty hip-hop songs are beloved by the dorkier of the white race. However, for every “idiot” white person who thinks they’re gangster because they know the verses to “Baby, Got Back”, you can find a black guy who thinks he’s being respectful of the white people’s culture because he knows all of the words to “I Wanna Rock n’ Roll All Night” by Kiss. I will not deny as a white girl that I dig at least half of these songs. Mostly, because they remind me of my awkward adolescent skating rink days. But when it comes to music, I am truly eclectic. I believe in listening to all forms of music. I am passionate about music and others’ points of view. I enjoy blues, jazz, and bluegrass just as much as rap, hip-hop or rock n’ roll. I find it truly sad, to say the least, that any representation of white people ALWAYS has to be that we’re just uncool, ignorant idiots who like to pretend we’re black on occassion by listening to Kanye West. If we’re truly being “real”, I think there’s a group of black people out there who misunderstand white people as much as white people misunderstand them. I also find it hilarious that a lot of black kids say white kids are dork, but they’re running around rapping to songs who’s hooks are sampled from Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, and Fleetwood Mac, just to name a few. I won’t deny I like those songs. In fact, I enjoy hearing someone creative, black or white, who is able to hear a classic song and mesh it with the new to create something different for the present generation. I think the world, and yes, music would be a much better place if we stopped making it a white or a black thing, and start making it a “people” thing. Think of all the great music we could create then.
Great list man this was too fucking funny and completly true. Mabe one or two songs were off but I have to hand it to you anyone who disagrees with the list is white or wrong or both. There’s only one song you forgot that white people absolutly love the Fresh Prince Theme Song! BTW I’m white (as if you couldn’t tell).
this is the stupidest shit i have personally ever read i dont LOVE any of these songs as a matter of fact they give me a headache and i dont think you should make all white people look like complete asses other races dont like for white people to talk shit about them and i dont fucking like it either grow the fuck up and get a life ASSHOLE
10 racist things that black people USUALLY say
1. “Look at that white boy trying to act like he black, damn eminem looking mother f**ker”
2. “Look at that white girl tryin’ to dance”
3. “Imma beat yo white ass”
4. “It’s because I’m black, isn’t it?”
5. “White people can’t dance, jump, run, listen to good music”
6. “The three point shot in basketball was made to give white people a chance”
7. “A black guys dick is always bigger than a white guys” FALSE. LOOK IT UP HOMIE
8. “Girl, you know she’s only dating a black guy to piss off her parents.”
9. “Man, why don’t you date a sister/brother?”
10. “White people are soooo racist!” ?!?!?!?!***
Ok so, me(white) and my boyfriend(black) wrote this together.. We go to college together and have been dating for two years. If your still racist in 2009, you’re an idiot. Seriously, get over yourself. There are just as many racist black people as white people, so quit bitching and feeling sorry for yourself.
p.s. You forgot “Shake it like a white Girl”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4J-xFMO-vM
Spot on mate, but Slam by Onyx should definitely be in that list, probably instead of Biz Markie. And where are all these white people claiming to have never heard of these songs from? I’m a white metalhead with almost no exposure to hip hop, and I know all these songs, and will even admit they’re all songs you’d catch us partying to in university. Quality post!
wow fuk you. u honestly have the biggest stereo type in the world. u think white people have no taste for good rap. well go suck a cock. my top 12:
1) rakim
lord finesse
2) De la soul
3) Nas
4) Wu-tang clan
5) KMD
6) RBL posse
7) Jedi mind tricks
9) prodigy
10)mobb deep
11) run-dmc
12) MF doom
hows that cock sucker? yeah how about you give that a try. i bet u listen to lil wayne u faG
you spelled ‘fuck’ wrong
And Ur a lame! The List is Spot-On!
Wow. Although as a white guy, I make no effort to speak for “white people”…I don’t know anyone white who likes these songs. For me, they mostly suck.
Keep in mind that “white people” like rock, country, R&B, classical, blues, jazz, etc…so anytime you attempt to refer to “white people” as a collective, your statement is likely to describe only a small segment of “white people”, and will probably offend many of the rest.
You are a stupid and cliched run of the mill asshole who thinks he is fighting against racism by making fun of white people. This is as far as your “fight” goes. Why don’t you think up a more ballsy/intelligent way of criticising/fighting racism? Perhaps like Mumia Abu Jamal? People like you take comfort and feel super satisfied in making dumb-ass comments like this.
I am a foreigner (you probably don’t like foreigners either) and heard this Jump on streets and I found the “eeee-ee- eee-ee” sound that plays throughout the song–I don’t know what instrument it is– very catchy. So I was searching for this in google (search terms: Jump rap) and lo and behold your stupid-ass link came up!
Then I heard the full song and video: it was lame. Both the music and the video are bla.
But all the same you are an impotent black (if you are indeed black) asshole for doing something like:
Top 10 rap songs that white people like.
i dunno about it being songs white people love. id say lame white people that think theyll be a little cooler if they listen to them…who knows why. overplaying? anyways…im white, dont listen to any of them haha gin and juice is alright but def none of these are my favorites by far. i like living legends, big tymers, zion i, public enemy, luniz, etc
i think way more white people listen to rap and hip hop than they used to, so its not really uncommon for a rock background white kid to end up listening to mainly rap/ hip hop
by the way the funniest remake is boyz in the hood by dynamite hack. most white song in the world hahaha
Youse cannae list the irish tunes with 99% of this shite.
For me, a white guy (check the name, Blake) who likes rap, this was funny. This was obviously meant as a joke, but can’t you see the stereotypical white dudes driving around in their car, Jump Around comes on the radio, and they get all giggly and smiley and excited because they know a rap song…
Brian, I don’t know if you’re white or black, but this is some funny shit. Props.
My personal favorites are Wu-Tang and NaS…but I’ll get down to Ice Ice Baby any day! (not).
white peopl have no rythm and cant dance?, ok then ill stick to the stereotypes that niggers are stupid, smell, and are a burden on society
They say that to be a good dancer you should never think. So naturally black people are good at that right?
Im not really racist
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No white person can resist “Jump Around” by House of Pain. It’s in our goddamn genes to love that song. “I’ll serve your ass like John McEnroe!” Oh no he din’t!!
Anyways, there are a lot of uptight white people on this page. I think the list is dead-on and hilarious, and you white folk should fucking relax and admit it. Although I have to say none of it applies to me personally (except for “Jump Around,” which is still awesome), back in the early 90’s — when most of that stuff came out — almost every white person I hung out with loved pretty much all of that shit. Like a lot. But guess what, black people loved it back then too. Maybe not as much as white people, but those were all jams that pretty much everyone who wasn’t a music snob was into. Shit was a lot more innocent back then, and we’re only talking like 15-20 years ago.
How about “Dazey Duks” (or however they spelled it)? And then there’s Freak Nasty’s “Da Dip”. Both were only around for a short time, but they got white people’s feet moving more than truckload of New Balance footwear.
what if you’re just so white you boycott rap?
actually no my favorite is ‘on a boat’
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I am a white guy with absolutely no tolerance for (C)rap. Of 15,000 songs in my music library, the only rap song is the Gourds’ version of Gin ‘n’ Juice. Here’s why:
I was a Marine in the mid to late 1980s. Music was used as a cultural bludgeon; most of the fistfights I witnessed were over which radio station got played. Instead of listening to genres everyone could enjoy (or at least tolerate) like motown, blues, Brit-rock, alternative, pop, folk, reggae, etc, the music played was polarized into the type of music most offensive to other groups, basically metal, rap and crying country. Instead of alternating days or some reasonable solution, you’d have 2 or 3 radios turned up max on different stations trying to drown each other out. The rap fans were by far the least tolerant of other people’s preferences and the most insistent on inflicting theirs on others. I am still feeling the effects of this: ANY rap song still feels very viscerally to me like a deliberate insult, even if it is just a small part of an otherwise passable song (like Red hot chili peppers, et al.).
Not being a fan of angry music or narcissism, I probably would never have preferred the genre of rap, but because of those experiences I abhor it to the point that I refuse to spend money on anything that uses it in advertising, I change the channel if a rap “song” comes on, etc. Some of the crying country still offends, the metal lost its teeth and now just seems pathetic instead of feeling deliberately offensive.
The songs on this list are particularly vile to me because they are the ones I’m most frequently assaulted with.
I’m also white and i want to say that those top 10 songs all suck. If they come in radio then ill turn radio off.
I dont agree with this list and agree with some of the above comments being a white person I would have to say that we find these songs just as annoying as black people the songs listed are mostly enjoyed by white people over the age of 40 who hear the songs at a wedding. I stay listenin to Yo Gotti, Gucci Mane, Project Pat etc. (mostly cause they from my hood) I hate Nelly’s “Hot in Here” and Solja Boy (yes i knwo how to do that stupid ass dance but who doesnt white or black) but i will say i found your list funny but your racist remarks are uncalled for racisim on either side of the spectrium i find ignorant and fucked up. as if white people are so lame that we would define rap as “Wooop ther it is” is insulting.
PS- VINILLA ICE!!!!??? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS if you know a white person who likes that song shoot them repeatedly
Oh, and To all the white people who still get excited or start to dance cutesy lil dances or sing all the words to any of the songs on the list at clubs or bars…
STOP IT!!! YOUR NOT AS COOL AS YOU THINK, BLACK PEOPLE DONT FIND YOU IMPRESSIVE, YOU LOOK LAME, AND ARE AN INSULT TO YOUR OWN RACE
Dear Webmaster,
I am white and don’t like any of those songs, therefore you are wrong. Follow the logic? Further, I am 21 and therefore have only lived in a world where hip hop has always been mainstream and since I’m mature for my age, I can only accept that that’s how it’s always been. Listening to hip hop but being thought of as “uncool” by blacks is my deepest fear that is why I am so offended by this list. But to be honest, it’s mostly because I haven’t heard many of it.
P.S. I consider anything prior to 2004 to be “Old School.”
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Okay, enough, But seriously, I was a DJ playing mostly popular and niche hip hop for four years in Chicago. I’m talking downtown Chicago with alot of south siders too. We had a diverse audience who would enjoy the “standards” as well as unique and new stuff, too. I can say the list is pretty spot on, except for Positive K, which while a pretty good song, wasn’t very known or requested. I did play it though, but never by request.
This list is so accurate I got embarrassed and shat my pants. I may not be white but – more to the point – I’m not black either. In fact, the very reason I came across this webpage is because I’m every cliche of a white man when it comes to hip hop. I remembered this hip hop song I really like (“Whoomp [There It Is]“) and was trying to find out its name though Google – but I didn’t have much luck knowing such limited lyrics – until I came across the heading “The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love” and KNEW the track would be there! I admit to having ALL of the songs above on a playlist entitled “Novelty Hip Hop” (like some other peeps on here) and blast those tracks out of my shitty car real loud, like a total douche.
Honorable mention: THE KENAN & KEL THEME TUNE!
“…Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick!”
(Yes, I counted.)
look at all these offended white people!
go ahead and whine you casper lookin nickelback lovin motherfuckers!
go drink some bud ice and put 3000$ wheels on a 700$ car
31 white male here…and I think your list is garbage. Spice 1, MC Eiht, B-Legit are where its at.
I love Kelly clarkson!!! She is awsome!!
I think this list should be called “Songs White People Play at Weddings and Parties” because it’s pretty much songs to get the dance started. Now I’m white and I grew up in the 90’s and my favorites back then were….
10. Wu-Tang Clan – Shame on a Nigga
9. 2pac – I Get Around
8. Biggie – Juicy
7. LL Cool J – Doin’ It
6. Arrested Development – People Everyday
5. Main Source – Lookin’ at the Front Door
4. Tribe Called Quest – Bonita Applebum
3. Busta Rhymes – Put Yo Hands Where My Eyes Can See
2. The Fugees – Fu Gee La
1. Ahmad – Back In The Day (It Got Me Started On Hip Hop)
I am Hip Hop and I am more into underground and conscious rap nowadays but it’s a shame today’s rap on radio and T.V. suck more than a pacifier. Man how I miss the golden days and for those who talk shit about rap. Seriously, Shut the fuck up! Don’t criticize what you can’t or don’t want to understand. Hip Hop is more than music, it’s life.
this list sucks ass and umm like i am black and i hate all of these songs vanilla ice is the only good one but the Top 10 Rock Songs Black People Love is WWWWAAAAYYYYY better than this one
lean back by fat joe,
and hits from the bong by cyprus hill
shud be there. this was a good idea for a top 10 , true.
fuck the police by nwa aswell, and stright outa compton,
even a racist loves nwa.
oh baby i like it raw by odb is another pale favourite.
I’m White and if I listen to hip-hop it’s always Cypress Hill. They’re hands down my favorite rap group ever. Also, I like some Eminem. Mostly off his first two albums. That’s about it. I like some Rap-Metal and Funk-Metal to but that doesn’t really count.
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Here’s a couple of fast risers on the list
Black Eyed Peas – I Got A Feeling (obviously)
Kardinal Offishall – Dangerous
I think you have just listed the 10 most annoying songs of all time, i hope you are proud of yourself.
Hypocritical bullshit this. “Durrr white people don’t feel comfortable with black music but the moment they like something we like we’ll say they are trying to be black.” How does it feel to know black music has gone to complete shit thanks to the new generation? From Public Enemy to 50 Cent. Psht, oh but what’s that? I can hear the call of Public Enemy isn’t intended for me. Fuck off.
i’m ur 5 star chick but i’m only 14 and live in englewood ohio ………………
What is Caz talking about? There is some crap new “black music” and also crap new “every type of music” but anyone who is into hip hop knows there are a lot of amazing talented new rappers out there right now (as well as ones that have been around awhile).
I’m white but I’m not defensive about this list because I’m actually a hip hop fan and I know this list is referring not so much to ME PERSONALLY (some people obviously have a hard time not taking things personally) but more to white people who don’t listen to hip hop but *think* they like it because they know a few mainstream songs. I know approximately one bajillion white people like this. Therefore I found this list hilarious and accurate. They really do go “HELL YEAH” and think they are so hip for knowing some 90’s rap song. Especially if alcohol is involved. Oh, yes. Then its on.
Haha all of these songs are completely retarded! Some white people have good taste! [I am white,and] I do like Ice Ice Baby and Baby got Back.. but that’s only cause they’re so damn funny!! The other ones are soooo annoying like I wanted to shoot myself in the fucking face! I gotta admit though, I do like Eminem.. but you don’t have to be white to loove him like I do.
But reading this list was pretty entertaining and I love reading racist shit it’s funny!
ur fucking racist fucking sob, what now all the sudden u think that black people r better than other races, this list si fuckin stupid but not as much as u r fuckin prick and these comments……wow u have WASTED 27 YEARS of your shitty life
I think I had the DJ play all of these at my wedding. In fact he didn’t have them so I had to make a playlist on my iTouch for him. I got married this past April….not in 1994.
Why cannot vote for Montell Jordan’s This Is How We Do It? That’s really what I wanna vote for!
Down in Australia, you won’t find a honky who doesn’t love Beastie Boys. Especially Fight For Your Right To Party.
A lot of white guys I know also claim to love Public Enemy (even the hardcore Black nationalist stuff), KRS-One and N.W.A. My theory is that it makes them feel less racist.
Oh yeah, I’m 21 and mixed race.
As a white, Australian female, I found your comments to be fucking hilarious. Eminem is an icon to the “white trash” element who dress like black americans, and talk about being from “the hood” (a.k.a. a nice area), and yes Baby got back is probably the only rap song you would find in a karaoke bar. To everyone who is getting pc and talking racism and stereo typing – DID YOU NOT GET THE IRONY AND HUMOUR WITH WHICH THE COMMENTS WERE MADE? Most of the white peope claiming racism are probably racist and trying to hide it, if im walking down a street and see a bunch of dodgy white guys in front of me, and a group of decent looking black guys on the other side of the road, IM GUNNA CROSS THE STREET!
Anyone who is offended by the list needs to fucking get over themselves!
not going to lie…I have the Humpty Dance as my ring tone….very accurate list. All those songs are downright hilarious!
Black folk love all those songs too ya douche!
You fool. I bet I have better taste in rap than you.
Hahaha! Funny! I can’t stand most white people either, as I grew up with them, was raised by them, and am one…this is funny, sad, but true.
Hee hee thanks for the laugh.
This white girl likes
1. Quasimoto
2. Blackalicious
3. Ice Cube (love him covering Bop Gun)
4. Latryx
5. etc.,
Anyway, I am recovering. But back in the sticks during high school, my sister and I would cruise around thinking we were the bomb cause we were listening to Bel Biv, MC Hammer, and Megadeath.
i think your list and comments are not particulary funny…and they just prove to me that racism apart..at the end of the day (as racist as this statement may itself sound)..Americans are just simply Americans..white or black…how about a little more education you guys ? why not forget all of that provocative crap and get on with your lives ? music is music…politics are what YOU make of them…and people are free to do what they want…like what they want…and my god, listen to what they want…
kindergarten !
I have to agree with Jamie, and others above that find too much generalization of white people as a whole. This post is extremely racist to me, and I live in the south where Racism is supposed to be the heaviest I guess. Yes, I am white, but I listen to so many different kinds of music, including and especially R&B, soul and rap… I grew up on it.
Music is music and should be appreciated for the talent that was put into it and the genius of the artist. Most of these songs you listed above are lame anyway, I don’t like any of them really. I wish people would stop trying to group everyone by skin color when there are so many more facets to people’s personality than just their appearance, what color they are. Ignorance really is bliss I guess.
You’re just so wrong.
Where’s ‘The Real Slim Shady’?
Wow…where do I even start?
First, let me start by saying…Mad props to you Brian for starting this enlightening post. I found this site last night while searching for movies that portrayed interracial couples with black females and white males. Needless to say, I’ve been glued to my laptop going back and forth between this post and it’s sibling. It amazes me, how quickly people turned such a simple post into such a controversial issue. Any good debate, which I seem to have stumbled upon (from Google, I might add) always has to have two sides. I first noticed that this began over 2 years ago and was bummed to think that I wasn’t going to be able to be a part of this heated debate…So I was excited to see the more recent entries…Now I don’t feel like I’m gonna throw my 2 cents out there, 2 late.
Second, I do have to make some recommendations for your Top 10
1) Rumpshaker – Wreckx-n-Effect …All I wanna do is a zoom zoom zoom… and
2) Tootsie Roll – 69 Boyz
I am a 32 yr old, black female married to a white guy with a mixed son. So I feel like I have the best of both worlds. I’ve lived on both the East and West Coast and now smack dab in the Heartland of the good old USA in Nebraska. So I think that qualifies me to share my thoughts from past experiences. Everyone knows that racism is still very much a part of our lives, regardless of how society tries to sugarcoat it. And personally, I think that racism is just envy and jealousy taken to the extreme by both Blacks and Whites. It’s almost 2010, and you would think that we would have learned by now to appreciate the so many wonderful differences that we share living in this “melting pot” of a society. And for those of us who don’t read…as implied by “b” in his post…
“i’m gonna make a list about the “best books that black people secretly love to read”…oh wait…nevermind”
Melting pot – n. an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated
Brian, I feel that because you made such a broad generalization, some people found it offensive. But what I saw and read, was a bunch of youngsters who were offended because you said that they listen to old school rap, that wasn’t all about screaming n*gga this and n*gga that. Another important factor is wide range of the age spectrum of the people posting. As cheesy as your Top 10 is, White or Black, you gotta love em’ just for the simple fact that yes…they are over 2 decades old and there are “PEOPLE”… young and old…White and Black that act like they lost their damn minds cause their “jam” came on. Basically what it boils down to…Is any song that has some form of direction in it, it’s automatically going down as a “oldie” but “goodie” that we will repeatedly be forced to endure for many years to come.
It’s hilarious to see post like paulhansonhatesyou’s :
“dude, what the fuck, im white, i like jump around, all the rest i fuckin hate, you racist fuckin nigger, go die, im gonna hang your family in my backyard, porch monkey, heres a list for you:”
I think Paul Hanson is just angry inside cause he found out his mother is one of the possible thousands of White people “hand jiving” on the dance floor to 2Legit2Quit…Hey Hey…lol
I noticed that a few of the other post were from people that were DJ’s so they can appreciate knowing that by playing any one of your Top 10, they are guaranteed to have people (mostly white) out on the dance floor. I’ll admit it, Rob Base comes on, and I get to bobbin’…It Takes Me about 2 seconds…Baby Got Back…You’d catch me out on the floor, for sure… I was at a Karaoke bar just last week being a back up dancer for the white guy who was singing Sir Mix A Lot. I consider myself to be cultured so I enjoy all types of music, old and new. And yes, I even enjoy some country. As long as it has good meaningful lyrics, a bad ass hooks, or a killer guitar/drum solo…I can appreciate it for being good entertainment, as it was meant to be. I find music to be very therapeutic and I know plenty of “Rock” songs that has gotten me through tough times.
And to be fair, I will give you my personal Top 20 Rock/Country That Black People Love…whether they wanna admit it or not…lol…And here is some added perspective…that age place more of a role in these debates than race does…
Top 20 Rock/Country Songs Black People Love – (I’m gonna let out our secret…)
1. Welcome To The Jungle – Guns N Roses (Not to be stereotypical but most all Black people have seen “Lean On Me” and I guarantee they did the Axl Rose dance)
2. Jack and Diane – John Mellencamp (Hands down this is my “ditty”)
3. Enter Sandman – Metallica (EXIT LIGHT…ENTER NIGHT…TAKE MY HAND…WE’RE OFF TO NEVER NEVER LAND)
4. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd (It gets your toes tappin’)
5. Black Velvet – Alannah Myles (She just has that sultry voice…gotta love it)
6. Paradise City – Guns N Roses
7. Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
8. Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard (sex sells…)
9. Closer (I Wanna F*ck You Like An Animal) – NIN (Nine Inch Nails)
10. The Joker – The Steve Miller band (I admit to being a midnight toker)
11. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana (I definitely “moshed” around my room to this one more than one occasion)
12. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen (We liked it so much, we had The Braids remake it)
13. One Way Or Another – Blondie (I’m gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha)
14. Cocaine – Eric Clapton (Not really Rock or Country, but universally accepted)
15. The Devil Went Down To Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band (And I liked this before Coyote Ugly hyped it up)
16. Old Time Rock & Roll – Bob Seger
17. Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
18. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet – Bachman-Turner Overdrive (had to look that one up and still had no clue they sang it) B,b,b baby
19. Shook Me All Night Long / Dirty Deeds – AC/DC (dirty deeds and they’re done dirt cheap)
20. Anything by Linkin’ Park – Hands Down…
That’s enough for now…That got kinda long…lol
I agree with some of your other commenters that music is less black or white than it is good or bad. I don’t agree with all your choices in this and the other post, but I love that you’re doing these lists. Great music should be shared.
So, how about some Will Smith? I’ve loved him since Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. (And I mean before The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.) My teenagers love “Parents Just Don’t Understand” as much as I did when I was their age, and Will Smith’s just gotten better. In fact, Will Smith may be white people’s favorite black person period.
Others I’d add would be L.L. Cool J, Run DMC (although I see your poll has one of their songs), and The Fat Boys. White people also love The Beastie Boys because, duh, they’re white and they had a loud rock married with rap kind of thing going on. Yes, this is all old, as am I. (Hey, I’m still under 40.) My kids listen to a lot of rap and hip hop and I do like some of the newer things, but I prefer the old school stuff, including some of the songs you’ve listed here.
I hope you keep going with these lists. I’d love to know what country songs black people secretly like. I’d also like to see a list of the “belters” as someone else called them because I’ve been trying to come up with that list myself–you know, the songs everyone, regardless of race, loves to belt out along with the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=popular
this says it all:)
I may be white but i don’t like any of dem songs. I like artists like haystack, 8ball, z-ro, and all them others. so chek ur list again…thanks ya…^_^
~Tay-Tay~
tell me if u guys like this rap or not about my dad it is all true i know it does not ryme much to LEAVE ME ALONE MOTHER FUCKER DONT TRY TO BE MY DADDY U LEFT WHEN I WAS 8 U WENT TO VEGAS TO PLAY THE SLOTS NOW U ONLY HAVE 5 DOLLARS YOU SPENT THE REST ON THE HOOKER THAT U COULD GET THEN U RIPPED HER OFF THEN U PLAYED THE LOTTO NOW U LIVEN IN A TAHO NOW U COMMEN TO ME 4 MONEY U DO IT 1 MORE TYME IM GONNA KILL YA THEN I CALL THE COPS ON YOUR ASS MOTHER FUCKER THEN U GET PUT IN THE SLAMMER ISNT THAT YOUR THIRD STRIKE YOULL BE IN 4 LIFE MOTHER FUCKER P.S DAD I HATE YOU I WONT EVER TALK TO U MOM OR NICOLE AGAIN I GOT MY SELF
I stumbled across your article just now — and let me tell you I have cracking up here at the office! This is the funny but true type stuff…well, not entirely true for myself persay, but I was having flashbacks from dances at the high school gym — all my white girlfriends (yeah, guys too, ewww) screaming and running to the dancefloor when one of these songs came on. For me, though they have always been pure cheesiness for the most part. I do love anything by 2pac, but California love was ruined for me when everyone and their mama played it over and over and….! C´mon your not really a 2pac fan if you became one after he died and the only two songs you know are California and Changes. I´m more of a gangster party and chronic 2001 fan. Anyways, you are F´n great — keep up the writing! (yes, I´m the lil southern white girl who loves rap and bleeps out the curse words, just can´t get myself to do it, lol).
Yea, Rapper’s Delight should be there too with U Can’t Touch This. White people are always singing “Can’t touch this!” and then humming off the song, as well as saying “hip hop hippity hop”
Do you even know what rap is? Half of those songs aren’t rap. The only half decent song on there is Gansta’s Paradise.
I just had to stop by to vent!
If I were Obama, I would LEGALLY BAN FRENCH LANGUAGE HIP-HOP from all American hip-hop stations! I cannot stand it! The French language is beautiful, but just does not sound right in hip-hop…YUCK! I was listening to a great Itunes hh station and a Frenchie rap song came on and I had to switch up the station….rather listen to “German bluegrass” or Russian country:)
(I can say this, BTW, my grannie is a native Montreal Canuck so I can say this!
im white on the outside so i think this is bull
i hate all these so called “rap” songs
so just so u kno coz ur skin is white doesnt mean that ur white
truely depicts how racist most blacks are, if white ppl put a blog or somethin up with comments like this it would be on the news under fire by your pointless naacp.
white ppl elected a black president woohoo now all your programs that force ppl to hire blacks can also be used to hire whites. so even though i guess its a white thing to say hell yea,,, hell yea atleast i know there will be one white person workin at mcd’s and it wont take so damn long to get my food. and one more thing to the guy that made fun of whites for drinkin natty lite. why dont u go drink a bud ice 22oz
White people are the ones who have the power in this world. THAT’S why it would be racist if a white person said this. Minorities can say whatever they want about white people, because white people are the ones who are better off in this world. You may not believe it, or even accept it but racism is still there. Whether or not you think that just because we elected a Black president, you can say whatever you want and that racism is gone. No, white people still hold the power and until that’s different you’ll just have to put up with all the things minorities say.