If you’re on Spotify, take a listen to my playlist for April 2021. This month I compiled a bunch of my favorite hip-hop and rap songs. It was difficult to limit the list to roughly 3 hours, but I think I’ve got a good bunch of songs here. (Best listened to on shuffle.)

Tracks:

  • Arrested Development “People Everyday”
  • Atmosphere “Gotta Lotta Walls”
  • Beastie Boys “Root Down”
  • Big Daddy Kane “Ain’t No Half-Steppin'”
  • Biz Markie “Just a Friend”
  • Blackstreet (with Dr. Dre & Queen Pen) “No Diggity”
  • Busdriver (with Milo & Anderson .Paak) “Worlds to Run”
  • Childish Gambino “This is America”
  • Cypress Hill “Insane in the Brain”
  • Del The Funky Homosapien “Mistadobalina”
  • Digable Planets “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”
  • Digital Underground “Same Song”
  • Dizzee Rascal “Bonkers”
  • Eminem “Lose Yourself”
  • Eric B. & Rakim “Don’t Sweat the Technique”
  • Fugees “Ready or Not”
  • Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood”
  • House Of Pain “Jump Around”
  • Jurassic 5 “Concrete Playground”
  • Kanye West “Jesus Walks”
  • Kendrick Lamar “HUMBLE.”
  • KRS-One “Outta Here”
  • Lil Nas X “MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name)”
  • Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)”
  • M.I.A. “Paper Planes”
  • Missy Elliott “Work It”
  • Naughty By Nature “O.P.P”
  • Outkast “Ms. Jackson”
  • Public Enemy “Fight the Power”
  • Queen Latifah (with Monie Love) “Ladies First”
  • The Roots (with Erykah Badu and Eve) “You Got Me”
  • Roots Manuva “Witness (1 Hope)”
  • Run-D.M.C. “Hit It Run”
  • Run The Jewels “Legend Has It”
  • Salt-N-Pepa “Shoop”
  • Sir Mix-A-Lot “My Hooptie”
  • Skee-Lo “I Wish”
  • Snoop Dogg “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?”
  • The Streets “Fit but You Know It”
  • A Tribe Called Quest “Can I Kick It?”
  • Tyler, The Creator “IGOR’S THEME”
  • Us3 “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)”
  • Young MC “Bust a Move”