10. Just a Friend – Biz Markie – It’s a crying shame and a crime that only one Fat Boy got to make a single. Anyone, repeat ANYONE, can bust a rhyme if the Biz can solo. “Oh baby yooooooouuuuuuu……”. Priceless.

 

9. Jump Around – House of Pain – One of two white rap groups to make the top 10, also the name of the place where I got my tattoo. Smack the hoe. Another song that never gets turned off, and admit it you yell all the curse parts that get blocked off the radio version.

 

8. Buckwheat the Rebel – Unity 2 – Another underrated song from 1991. “Once upon a time I had girlies and cash, now I’m just a crackhead looking through the trash.” Who can’t relate?

 

7. Mama Said Knock You Out – LL Cool J – Any song where LL can talk about dropping a bomb on a town is okay with me. As long as it’s Baltimore, Maryland.

 

6. Iesha – Another Bad Creation – 5 kids under the age of 10 doing a rap song about falling in lust. Words cannot express my adoration for this song. The Ali-Baba intro works wonders also.

 

5. They Want EFX – Das EFX – Grossly underrated song from 1991. All they do is spit out words and phrases you might recognize from TV commercials, or life in general from the 80s. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Roscoe P. Coltrane and Connect 4 make this song, how can you go wrong?

 

4. She’s Crafty – Beastie Boys – Hard to pick one song from the trio from Brooklyn, but this is my favorite for 2 lines: “I think her name was Lucy but we all called her Loose”, and “The girl is crafty like ice is cold.” No one can think this stuff up without doing a Wild Turkey intravenous.

 

3. The Humpty Dance – Digital Underground - What more do you need. He got busy in a Burger King bathroom. A guy with big glasses and a big nose, Humpty Hump’s his name. Self-deprecating, Mr. Hump is the opposite of what we know rappers and hip-hop artists of today are. If I ever heard this song on the radio I would listen to it again and again.

 

2. Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - The last song Will Smith did as the Fresh Prince. Apparently he wanted to get out of doofy, ass clown songs and made himself into a mega star with this ballad to warmer times. It’s a great cruising, relaxing song, utterly fantastic.

 

1. Baby Got Back – Sir Mix-a-Lot – No explanation needed. There has never been any better.