Singles: “Smooth Operator”, “I Get the Job Done” Singles: “I Can’t Live Without My Radio”, “You’ll Rock”, “I Can Give You More”, “Rock the Bells” Singles: “Ego Trippin'”, “Travelling at the Speed of Thought”, “Funky”, “Watch Me Now”, “Ease Back”, “Give the Drummer Some” Singles: “Follow the Leader”, “Microphone Fiend” Singles: “Raw”, “Ain’t No Half-Steppin'”, “Set It Off”, “I’ll Take You There” Singles: “It’s Like That”, “Hard Times”, “Rock Box”, “30 Days”, “Hollis Crew (Krush Groove 2)” Singles: “Hold It Now, Hit It”, “Paul Revere”, “The New Style”, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)”, “Brass Monkey”, “No Sleep till Brooklyn”, “Girls” Singles: “Friends”, “Freaks Come Out at Night”, “Big Mouth”, “Escape (I Need a Break)” Singles: “Looking for the Perfect Beat”, “Renegades of Funk” Singles: “I’m Bad”, “I Need Love”, “Go Cut Creator Go” Singles: “Brand New Funk”, “Parents Just Don’t Understand”, “A Nightmare on My Street” Singles: “Eazy-Duz-It”, “We Want Eazy”, “Eazy-er Said Than Dunn”, “Radio”

Singles: “Stop the Violence”, “My Philosophy” Singles: “The Breaks”, “Throughout Your Years”, “Hard Times” Singles: “I’m Your Pusher”, “High Rollers” Singles: “It’s Nasty”, “Scorpio”, “The Message” Singles: “I Cram to Understand U (Sam)”, “10% Dis”, “Paper Thin”, “Lyte as a Rock”Ģ9. Singles: “Wrath of My Madness”, “Dance for Me”, “Ladies First”, “Come Into My House”, “Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children” Singles: “6 ‘N The Mornin'”, “Make It Funky”, “Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy)” Singles: “I Got It Made”, “Think About It”, “I’m the Magnificent” Singles: “Me So Horny”, “C’mon Babe”, “The Fuck Shop”, “Coolin'” Singles: “How Ya Like Me Now”, “Wild Wild West”, “No Respect” Singles: “Wild Thing”, “Funky Cold Medina”, “I Got It Goin’ On” Singles: “Jail House Rap”, “Can You Feel It?” Singles: “Poison”, “Road to the Riches”, “Truly Yours” Singles: “Words I Manifest”, “Positivity” Singles: “The Symphony”, “Droppin’ Science” Singles: “It Takes Two”, “Get on the Dance Floor”

Singles: “Make It Funky/Top Billin'”, “Hickeys Around My Neck”, “Many Styles / The Questions”, “I Don’t Care” Label: First Priority Music, Atlantic Records , here are the 50 best hip hop albums of the 1980s. With some of greatestĭropping their finest work during this period, this decade was some of the most fertile time for hip hop culture. In 1988 alone, you had countless albums dropped that would reshape how rapping and production would progress forward in the future. While the ’90s is arguably the greatest decade in hip hop history, it was the ’80s that laid down the foundation for the culture. It seemed like every other week there was a new classic being dropped.

When it comes to innovation and new styles of hip hop music, there isn’t a decade in history that can surpass the 1980s.

List of 80s 90s hip hop songs