Vote: The Official List: Top 100 Eastcoast Songs of All Time!

[Don Breezio]

ok you guys the main forum did a top 100 westcoast songs. somebody suggested we do an eastcoast one...lets get crackin:

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Nas - The Message
Nas - If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa
Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Puff Daddy - Victory
Puff Daddy - Been Around The World
Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
Run DMC - Walk This Way
Run DMC - Adidas
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J - I Need Love
DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem
DMX - Slippin'
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Fredro Starr - What If
50 Cent - In Da Club
Gangstarr - Right Where U Stand
Gangstarr - You Know My Steez
Mos Def - Mista Nigga
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Respiration
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Slick Rick - Childrens Story
Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh - The Show
Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh - Lodi Dodi

everyone agree with those? what else can you guys list?

[We Fly High]

man theres so many
adding to that
notorious big - the what
notorious big - one more chance and the remix
notorious big - mo money mo problems
notorious big - fuckin you tonigh
notorious big - going back to cali
notorious big - notorious thugs
rakewon - incarcerated scarfaces
raekwon - verbal intercourse
mos def ms fat booty
nas - halftime
nas - represent
nas - it aint hard to tell
nas - the world is yours .....................
TOO MANY

[Bramsterdam (see ya)]

probably off the top of my head..

Talib Kweli feat. Kool G Rap - Ghetto Afterlife
Talib Kweli - Eternalists
Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Black Star) - Definition
Talib Kweli & DJ Hi Tek feat. Vinia Mojica - The Blast
Canibus - Letitibus
DMX - Ruff Ryders anthem
Keith Murray feat. Redman & Eric Sermon - Yeah Yeah, You know it
Mos Def feat. Pharoahe Monch & Nate Dogg - Oh No
Pharaohe Monch - Fuck You
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Run DMC - Tricky
Method Man & Redman - Da Rockwilder
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Wu-Tang Clan - Killa Beez
Wu-Tang Clan - Reunited
Run DMC - Its Like That
Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Black Star) - Respiration

Like any songs off of Mobb Deep "The Infamous"
or from Black Star..

too many though really..

[Kill]

u want something like a top 20 too? or just a list with as many songs as people can think of? and how u gonna make the list?

[West C. Connected]

Talib Kweli - Get By
I just think that's an East Coast classic.

[Hatesrats™]

Let's be realistic...

"Message"
"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)"
"Beat Street"
"Rapper's Delight"
"King Of Rock"
"Sucker M.C.'s (Krush Groove 1)"
"Walk This Way"
"The Breaks"
"Ain't No Half Steppin"
"Smooth Operator"
"I Need Love"
"I Can't Live Without My Radio"
"I Ain't No Joke"
"Paid In Full"
"Children's Story"
"Mona Lisa"
"Teenage Love"
"You Gots to Chill"
"It's My Thang"
"So What Cha Sayin"
"Hardcore"
"Fight The Power"
"Fight For Your Right"
"My Philosophy"
"You Must Learn"
"Potholes In My Lawn"
"Me Myself And I"
"Bonita Applebum"
"I Left My Wallet In El Segundo"
"Protect Ya Neck"
"Juicy"
"World is yours"
"Cinderfella Dana Dane"
"Roxanne, Roxanne"
"Top Billin"
"Paper Thin"
"How Ya Like Me Now"
"Can You Feel It"
"Ladies First"
"Vapors"
"The Show"
"Lovin' Every Minute Of It"
"More Bounce"
"We Got Our Own Thang"
"Gyrlz, They Love Me"
"It Takes Two"
"Joy And Pain"
"Get On The Dance Floor"

& fuck it...(I had "2 Hype")
"Gittin' Funky"
"Rollin' With Kid 'N Play"
 
ECT.....(I'd be here all day long)

Can't get them all...
but would be criminal if these song's are left off

Keep it real (Remember the foundation)
Hatesrats 2oooIV

[Don Breezio]

some of these arent exactly eastcoast classics. go read the top 100 westcoast songs and you'll get the idea...but songs like these probably shouldnt be included in the list:

Da Rockwilder
Levitibus
Ghetto Afterlife
Eternalists
The What
Fuckin You Tonight
What If (even though i posted it originally)
Right Where U Stand

though all great songs...they really arent the best of the eastcoast.

props to bram though for mentioning pharoahe monch...(Simon Says) Shut The Fuck Up is a classic.

[Don Breezio]

u want something like a top 20 too? or just a list with as many songs as people can think of? and how u gonna make the list?

no we'll have 100 songs from the eastcoast...then we'll go through and figure out which ones are the top 20 or so, then from there i'll just kinda put a list together randomly out of the songs we've listed from 21-100

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

I didn't read all of them but scanning thru I didn't see Big Daddy Kane's "Raw" or Eric B. & Rakim's "Eric B. Is President".  Shit, those are probably the top two.

Anyways, add:  (If they aren't there)

EPMD - "It's My Thing"
EPMD - "You Gots Too Chill"
EPMD - "So What You Sayin'"
EPMD - "Headbanger"
BDP - "South Bronx"
Big Daddy Kane - "Young Gifted & Black"
Biz Markie - "Vapors"
Biz Markie - "Make The Music With Your Mouth Biz"
Marley Marl - "The Symphony"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Award Tour"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Scenario"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Check The Rhime"
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - "Streets Of New York"
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - "Road To The Riches"


Just a few.  

[Kill]

aight, so i'ma just drop sum i really luv in no particular order

Nas - New York State Of Mind
Nas & AZ - Life's A Bitch
Nas - The World Is Yours
Nas - Memory Lane
Nas - Represent
Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell
Nas - The Message
Nas - One Mic
Nas - Nas Is Like
Nas - Drunk By Myself
Nas - Doo Rags
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. I
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
Mobb Deep - Q.U. Hectic
Mobb Deep - Just Step
Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth
Mobb Deep - Back To You
Mobb Deep - Up North Trip
Cormega - The True Meaning
Cormega - Endangered Species
Cormega - Verbal Graffiti
C'N'N - Bloody Money
C'N'N - T.O.N.Y.
C'N'N - Invincible
Mos Def - HipHop
Mos Def - Mathematics
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents
Jay-Z & Biggie - Brooklyn's Finest
Jay-Z - Encore
Jay-Z - U Don't Know
Jay-Z, Jaz-O & Sauce Money - Bring It On
Gangstarr & Jada- Rite Where You Stand
Gangstarr - You Know My Steez
Gangstarr & Deck - Above The Clouds
Gangstarr - Moment Of Truth
Biggie - Machine Gun Funk
Biggie - Suicidal Thoughts
Biggie - Ten Crack Commandments
Biggie - Juicy
Wu-Tang - C.R.E.A.M.  
Wu-Tang - Protect Ya Neck
Wu-Tang - Reunited
Wu-Tang - It's Yourz
Rae & others - Wu-Gambinos
Rae - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Rae & Ghost - Criminology
GZA - Duel Of The Iron Mic
GZA - Killa Hill 10304
Big L & others - 8 Iz Enuff
Big L - Ebonics
Big L & Big Daddy Kane - Platinum Plus
Kool G Rap - Streets Of NY
Kool G Rap - Ill Street Blues
Jedi Mind Tricks & Kool G Rap - Animal Rap
Reflection eternal & Kool G Rap - Ghetto Afterlife
Reflection Eternal - The Blast
Talib Kweli - Get By
Busta Rhymes - Gimme Sum Mo
Prodigy - Keep It Thoro
Styles - A Gangsta And A Gentleman
Cage - Agent Orange
Non-Phixion - Drug Music
Gravediggaz - Defective Trip
Grandmaster Flash & THe Furious Five - The Message
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
BDP - The Bridge Is Over
Rakim & Eric B. - Paid In Full
Rakim & Eric B. - Move The Crowd
EPMD - You Gots To Chill
EPMD - Let The Funk Flow
ATCQ - Find A Way
De La Soul - Ring Ring
Canibus - Poet Laureate II
Canibus - 2nd Round KO
Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz
Onyx - Slam Harder
Ghostface Killah, Rae & Cappa - Daytona 500
RUN-DMC - Hard Times
The Roots - The Next Movement
The Roots - Step Into The Realm
The Roots - Respond/React
Immortal Technique - You Never Know

that list could go on for so long, that's what came to my head right now

[The Watcher]

is this eastcoast only, or east+midwest+south, since thats what this forum caters for?

anyway..

notorious big - ten crack commandments
notorious big f/ r kelly - fuckin you tonight
notorious big - goin back 2 cali
notorious big - i got a story to tell
notorious big - juicy
notorious big - machine gun funk
notorious big - big poppa
notorious big - one more chance remix
wutang - cream
mobb deep - shook ones
mobb deep - survival of the fittest
mobb deep - shook ones pt 2
Jay-Z & Biggie - Brooklyn's Finest
Jay-Z & Biggie - I Love the Doe'
Jay-Z & Eminem - Renegade
Gangstarr & Jada- Rite Where You Stand
Gangstarr - You Know My Steez
Cage - Agent Orange
Gravediggaz - 1800-SUICIDE
Last Emp f/ Poetic - One Life
Method Man - M E T H O D MAN!
Meth & Red - Da Rockwilder
Meth & Red - Cereal Killer
Meth & Red - How High Pt 2
Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray(sp?)
Run DMC - King Of Rock !
Run DMC f/ Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Meth & Red - Blackout
RZA - We Pop
Redman - Redman Meets Reggie Noble
Redman - Sooperman Luva II
Def Squad f/ Biz Markie - Rhymin Wit Biz


there's a heap more songs..

[eS El Duque]

wow..no eminem songs?  

[Don Breezio]

wow..no eminem songs?  

last i checked michigan wasnt on the east coast  

[Dave Shining]

Big L - Flamboyant

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Had a quick read through, heres a few I saw missed out by others:

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - TROY
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Creator
Gangstarr feat Big Shug, Freddie Foxxx - The Militia