2022 The Most Famous Rap Songs All Time

According to DJ Kool Herc (the man who founded the genre), hip hop began in 1971 with free and peaceful music parties in the Bronx aimed at ending the violence that gripped the black community.

It was there that Herc laid the groundwork for hip-hop music, focusing on "breaking" the record and looping a short percussive section of the song that set the party on fire. From there, aspiring presenters began to rap over the beat. The rest, as they say, is history.

It's unbelievable to think that hip-hop is so old. In many ways, he still feels like a child who is still growing. A lot of what rap sounds like today is different from how it sounded, say, 20 years ago. Of course, this is part of the beauty.

This makes ranking the best hip-hop songs of all time a difficult task. You compare different genres, trends, and sounds that sometimes sound completely different. But we tried anyway. After all, hip-hop has been a controversy in barbershops for decades. So why stop now? Without further ado, here are the breaks:

200. Mobb Deep feat. Lil’ Kim – “Quiet Storm (Remix)” (1999)

No one writes menacing anthems like Mobb Deep. Horrible rap suited the duo so well and was somehow accessible. The original version of "Quiet Storm" is a massive hit. But the remix gets Lil Kim's treatment. Even alongside two very experienced hosts, Prodigy and Havoc, Kim delivers his best guest verse since "All About the Benjamins": it's Q to B, with M-O, B-B/Queensbridge Brooklyn, and we're D-double-E-P. ".

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