"THERE'S ONLY FIVE YEARS LEFT!" bellowed Busta Rhymes on Everything Remains Raw. Then we all finally got to party like it's 1999, the clock struck midnight, and... ain't a damn thing changed. This was particularly true in Rap because half the biggest anthems of 2000 were released in 1999: Black Rob's Whoa, Method Man & Redman's Y.O.U, Dr. Dre's The Next Episode, Crooklyn Clan's Be Faithful, Jay-Z & UGK's Big Pimpin', DMX's What's My Name and Party Up (Up In Here), Juvenile's U Understand, and Nelly's Country Grammar (Hot Shit).
All of which is a fancy way of reminding all y'all that I dropped a 1999 list last year, and now I'm postin' a 2000 list as a sequel to my recent 1990 list. The 35 best Rap songs of 2000 as according to me.
Ghostface Killah - Saturday Night
Kool G. Rap ft. RZA - Cakes
Mac Dre - Off Tha Rictor
Prodigy - Keep It Thoro
8Ball & MJG - Pimp Hard
M.O.P - Roll Call
DJ Quik - Pitch In On A Party
Shyne ft. Barrington Levy - Bad Boyz
Black Rob ft. G-Dep - B.R.
Three 6 Mafia ft. UGK & Project Pat - Sippin' On Some Syrup
Project Pat - Gorilla Pimp
Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn
Nelly ft. City Spud - Ride Wit Me
SPM ft. Baby Beesh - Oh My My
Big L Flamboyant
Cam'Ron ft. Prodigy - Losin' Weight
Mystikal - Big Truck Boys
Bumpy Knuckles - Industry Shakedown
Trick Daddy ft. Trina, Deuce Poppito & Co - Shut Up
Trina - Pull Over
De La Soul ft. Redman - Oooh
Big Tymers - Get Your Roll On
Mad Skillz - Ghost Writer
Snoop Dogg ft. Kokane & Suga Free - Bring It On
C-Murder ft. Magic & Snoop Dogg - Down For My N*ggaz
Big Pun - N*gga Shit
K-Rino ft. DJ Screw - Why Ya Wanna Hate?
Beanie Sigel - The Truth
Field Mob - Project Dreamz
AZ - I Don't Give A F*ck
Ruff Ryders ft. Snoop Dogg, Yung Wun, Scarface & Jadakiss - World War III
Jakki Tha Motamouth ft. Copywrite - Widespread
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Note: if people can dance to songs by/featuring a serial groomer like Drake then I can stan for SPM's one legit 5/5 song.
Classic Quik song. Probably my fav song about not actually enjoying the party. Great example of the Everyman/slice of life quality he excelled at.
ReplyDeleteLOL @ listing Trina's Da Baddest Bitch in both the 1999 and 2000 lists.
ReplyDeleteOops! Switched to Pull Over.
ReplyDeleteIts funny in the early 2000s people thought rap music was changing for the worse but when you look back at it now a lot of it has held up just as well as the early to mid 90's that most people consider the golden era.
ReplyDeleteIs AZ's I Don't Give A Fuck the G.O.A.T fake Primo beat?
ReplyDeleteGood selection. As with late 93 into 94 there's stuff carried over from the previous year but that's because good music has staying power. Next Episode in particular popped for a 2-3 years.
ReplyDeleteI reckon The Next Episode has become Dre's biggest song in the U.K. I base that on it being the song I hear most frequently in bars/video I see most frequently on the music channels.
ReplyDeleteAnd why not? It's by far his best single not from The Chronic innit.
Also R.I.P to Hostyle from Screwball.
ReplyDeleteHad planned to include H-O-S-T-Y-L-E in this list until I realised the 12" dropped in 1999.
In fact, all the best songs from that first Screwball album dropped on 12" in 1999 😕
Westwood looks younger now than he does there lol.
ReplyDeleteThe wonders of a good diet, clothes which actually fit, and Just For Men hair/beard dye.
ReplyDeleteR.I.P Hostyle.
ReplyDeleteSome other good 2000 songs
Jay-Z - Dynasty Intro
Wu Tang Clan - I Can't Go To Sleep
CNN + Foxy Brown - Bang Bang
Great Field Mob song. Never heard that one. This might be the GOAT Field Mob song though https://youtube.com/watch?v=7LJc_UAIEec
ReplyDeletetaking a moment to acknowledge project pat waiting 15 years to make a music video for "gorilla pimp" didn't even matter because it is still so good
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlbOiwLgaM
I never heard this Field Mob song before. So good 👍
ReplyDeleteThis was the year Westwood the album 1 came out, the best intro to a mixtape ever.
ReplyDeleteNOTHIN' BUT BIG THINGS!
ReplyDeleteSome 2000's jams that would be on my list:
ReplyDeleteScarface – Last Of A Dying Breed
Twista – Victory Or Death
Half-A-Mill – Thug Luv
Nature – We Ain’t Friends
Tela – The World Ain’t Enough
Prodigy – Genesis / YBE ft BG
Nas ft Prodigy - Self Conscience
E-40 - Nah, Nah… ft Nate Dogg
Big Moe – Barre Baby
Eightball & MJG – Buck Bounce ft DJ Quik
Snoop Dogg – Hennessy and Buddah ft Kokane
504 Boyz – Wobble Wobble
Shyne - Watcha Gonna Do
If I had to pick another Quik song from that album it'd probably be How Come. Balance & Options isn't talked about as much as some of his other albums but it's a good one for sure.
The only “bad” DJ Quik album is Under The Influence and even that had a couple dope songs on there
DeleteBarre Baby is a great shout.
ReplyDeleteThat Twista is 1999 though, so I gotta disqualify it.
hell of a list here. might see about putting together a spotify playist.
ReplyDeletehard agree with fred re: "wobble wobble".
Fair enough for the Twista, my copy of the cd says 2000 but then I went on ze discogz and it does say that a 2xLP of Legit Ballin already came out in 99, damn.
ReplyDeleteI'd say that the main problem with Under The Influence is that the mix is a bit plain in a way, it doesn't pop out as much as on his other releases.
2000 was 20 years ago that's so wild
ReplyDeleteThe biggest one u dont have on here for me would be:
ReplyDeleteMystikal - Neck Uv Da Woods ft. OutKast
1999 song. It's in the 1999 list.
ReplyDeleteFred's list is on par with what mine would be. marty's list, of course, is great.
ReplyDeleteimpossible to make this kind of list but also
xzibit f/ nate dogg - been a long time
Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg (whats my name pt 2)
mr. short khop - dollaz dank and drank
Daz Dillinger f/ Mark Morrison - Baccstabbers
E-40 f/ Nate Dogg - Nah, Nah, Nah
Kurupt & Snoop Dogg - Story To Tell
Suga Free, DJ Quik - Hotel, Motel
Xzibit - Year 2000
Mausberg f/ DJ Quik - No More Questions
Ice Cube f/ Krayzie Bone - Until We Rich
Warren G f/ Snoop, Xzibit & Nate Dogg - Game Don't Wait (Dre Remix)
Tha Eastsidaz f/ Jayo Felony - Got Beef
DJ Quik f/ Mausberg - Change Da Game
Mack 10 f/ T-Boz - Tight 2 Def
Doggys Angels f/ Layzie Bone - Pleezbaleevit
Tash f/ Snoop Dogg, Kurupt & Xzibit - G's iz G's
And THAT'S just west coast shit
A very Barber list 👌
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