Top 25 Atlanta Hip Hop Songs Of Past Decade
Hiptics.com will be re-locating our international headquarters to Atlanta, GA this summer. A local source of hip hop news, The Atlanta Hip Hop Examiner, recently ranked their favorite 25 Atlanta hip hop songs. Naturally, it caught our attention. What do you think of the list? What’s missing? Where’s OJ Da Juiceman?!
25. Knuck if You Buck – (2004) Crime Mob. Despite their enormous troubles, they’re best known for this staple of the crunk movement.
24. Get Low – (2004) Ying Yang Twins. The strip club and night club banger still gets play in the A.
23. You Gonna Love Me – (2005) Da Backwudz. Unfortunately, this is the only big single from this duo. Their only hit sampled “And I am Telling You” from Jennifer Holliday a year before the film Dreamgirls exploded into theatres.
22. Are We Cuttin’ – (2002) Pastor Troy. Pastor Troy is an ATL underground hero. This song featuring Ms. Jade is one of the bigger hits of his career.
21. Walk It Out – (2005) D.J. Unk. This song sparked one of the biggest dance crazes of the decade and one of the hottest remixes featuring Outkast and Jim Jones.
20. Damn – (2003) Youngbloodz. Some diehard Falcons football fans were shook up when the duo performed at a 2003 halftime show and much members of the crowd sang along loudly – with the uncensored version.
19. B.o.B. – (2000) Outkast took a huge risk – that paid off immeasurably – by releasing the high-voltage crunk, funk and rock jam as the first single to their groundbreaking Stankonia album.
18. Rubberband Man – (2004) T.I. Tip pays homage to his D-boy past with a grammatically awkward, but super-catchy hook.
17. I’ll Be Around – (2003) Cee Lo with Timbaland. The front man of the recently reunited Goodie Mob brought some deep-fried southern soul and real rhymes on this hit from his second solo album.
16. Icy – (2005) Gucci Mane had everybody and their mamas singing along to his top single.
15. Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It – (2005) Dem Franchise Boyz. At the height of the snap music craze, this was definitely one of the most irresistible dance songs of the past decade.
14. ASAP – (2004) T.I. The horns in the intro of this song deliver a sense of urgency all by themselves.
13. It’s Goin’ Down (2006) – Yung Joc. You know this is a big song when even Tom Cruise is doing the dance from the video.
12. A.D.I.D.A.S – (2002) Killa Mike a.k.a. Mike Bigga dropped a gem whose title is an old-school acronym for “All Day I Dream About Sex.”
11. Put On – (2008) Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West. Jeezy and Yeezy killed it on this one.
10. Move B***ch – (2001) Ludacris ft. Mystikal and I-20. Ludacris caught some flak for the title of this song, but if you’ve ever sat in Atlanta’s rush hour traffic, the song and the video make much more sense.
9. Never Scared – (2003) Bonecrusher, T.I., Killa Mike/Mike Bigga. Attenchun…was not only the title to the album containing this hit, but a call to jump to your feet.
8. Ms. Jackson – (2000) Outkast dedicated this one to the baby mamas’ mamas and talked about the good and bad sides of young fatherhood.
7. The Way You Move – (2003) Big Boi enlisted the help of crooner Sleepy Brown for this super-soulful lead single from Speakerboxxx on the diamond-selling Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
6. Get Rich To This – (2000) Goodie Mob. ATLiens loved this nationally slept-upon Goodie joint.
5. My President – (2008) Young Jeezy. Jeezy made a rather contradictory statement by juxtaposing his admiration for the Commander-In-Chief with the love of his Lambo. No love lost for the song, though, especially the remix with Jay-Z.
4. I’ll Be in the Sky – (2007) B.o.B. a.k.a. Bobby Ray. Unenlightened listeners compared this up and coming rapper/musician to André 3000. A closer inspection reveals a totally different sound and unique influences, including classic rock and even country.
3. Swagga Like Us— (2008) T.I. The King of the South was rockin’ with the best when he teamed up with Jay-Z, Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne for this Grammy winning smash.
2. Royal Flush – (2008) Big Boi, André 3000, Raekwon. Outkast and Raekwon hadn’t collaborated since the 1998 Source Magazine five-star earning Aquemini album. This track – with an amazing closing verse from André –showed us why they needed to do it again.
1. Welcome to Atlanta – (2002) Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri gave Atlanta its unofficial anthem and hip-hop’s equivalent to Ray Charles’ “Georgia On My Mind.”
Honorable mention: Pastor Troy’s “No Mo Play in GA.” While the song was originally recorded independently through Madd Society records on the album We Ready/I Declare War in 1998, it wasn’t officially distributed until 2001 through Universal on the Face Off album. Nonetheless, it was one of the most widely radio played and street-respected songs in the earlier part of the decade.
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