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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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He’s white. Really.
Rite well im quite disturbed at the image that i have in my head of all the