100 Best Rap Songs of 2009

Putting together a list of the best rap songs of the year is no easy task and a list of 100 songs is damn near impossible! So, before you start beef with me because you totally disagree, I hope you will at least appreciate the effort. I spent hours researching Billboard.com, Amazon, iTunes, music blogs and even looking through our own posts in an attempt to identify and rank songs appropriately. The songs are in no way completely ranked according to personal preference. I do not think “I Gotta Feeling” is necessarily the #2 song of the year, however, popular opinion would probably agree with that position. Several artists made the list multiple times including Jay-Z, Drake, Eminem, Fabolous, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and more. I also made sure I included artists that produce REAL hiphop – Camp Lo, Skyzoo, Souls of Mischief, Tanya Morgan, A Tribe Called Quest and others are all on the list. Please comment and feel free to add songs that you think should be on the list that aren’t and re-arrange the top 10 or 20.

Without further ado, here is the 100 Best Rap Songs of 2009:

1. Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind
2. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
3. Drake - Best I Ever Had
4. Fabolous ft. Jay-Z - Money Goes, Honey Stay
5. Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers
6. Clipse ft. Cam'Ron - Popular Demand
7. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
8. Slaughterhouse - The One
9. Drake ft. Trey Songz - Successful
10. Eminem - Beautiful

Download the Top 10 by clicking the song names above!


11. Pitbull – Hotel Room
12. Gucci Mane ft. Plies & OJ Da Juiceman – Wasted
13. Flo Rida – Right Round
14. Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – Forever
15. Fabolous – Throw It In The Bag
16. Jay-Z ft. Rihanna & Kanye West – Run This Town
17. Rick Ross ft. T-Pain, Kanye West & Lil Wayne – Mayback Music Pt. 2
18. 50 Cent ft. Ne-Yo – Baby By Me
19. Birdman – Money to Blow
20. New Boyz – You’re A Jerk
21. Sean Kingston – Fire Burning
22. Iyaz – Replay
23. Snoop Dogg ft. The-Dream – Gangsta Luv
24. Kid Cudi ft. Kanye West & Common – Make Her Say
25. Ludacris – How Low
26. K-OS ft. Saukrates & Nelly Furtado – I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
27. Young Money – BedRock
28. Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock
29. Drake ft. Trey Songz – I Invented Sex
30. Gucci Mane ft. Usher – Spotlight
31. Young Money – Steady Mobbin
32. Roscoe Dash ft. Soulja Boy – All The Way Turnt Up’
33. Lil Wayne – Drop The World
34. Jay-Z ft. Mr. Hudson – Young Forever
35. Flobot – Handlebars
36. Flo Rida ft. Nelly Furtado – Jump
37. Pitbull ft. Akon – Shut It Down
38. Juelz Santana ft. Chris Brown – Back to the Crib
39. Drake – I’m Goin In
40. Young Money – Every Girl
41. Big Boi ft. Gucci Mane – Shine Blockas
42. Mos Def – Quiet Dog Bite Hard
43. Kid Cudi – Soundtrack 2 My Life
44. Jay Sean – Down
45. Lil Wayne – On Fire
46. The Clipse – Door Man
47. Theophilus London – Humdrum Town
48. Asher Roth – I Love College
49. Jay-Z – D.O.A.
50. Eminem – 3AM
51. Bow Wow – You Can Get It All
52. GS Boyz – Stanky Legg
53. Rick Ross ft. John Legend – Magnificent
54. Hurricane Chris ft. Superstarr – Halle Berry
55. Soulja Boy ft. Shawty Lo & Gucci Mane – Gucci Bandanna
56. Fast Life Yungstaz – Swag Surfin
57. Ludacris ft. Plies – Nasty Girl
58. Skyzoo – Beautiful Decay
59. KRS-One & Buckshot ft. Talib Kweli – Oh Really
60. Busta Rhymes – Arab Money
61. Wu-Tang Clan – Sound the Horns
62. Marco Polo & Torae – Double Barrel
63. Heltah Skeltah – Everything is Heltah Skeltah
64. Jadakiss ft. Swizz Beatz & OJ Da Juiceman – Who’s Real
65. Birdman ft. LIl Wayne & Mack Maine – Always Strapped
66. Finale – One Man Show
67. K’Naan – Dreamer
68. P.O.S. – Goodbye
69. Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal
70. Raekwon – Ason Jones
71. Ghostface – Baby
72. Lushlife – The Kindness
73. Consequence – Whatever U Want
74. Tanya Morgan – So Damn Down
75. D-Lo – No Hoe
76. DJ JS-1 ft. OC & Pharoahe Monch – Ridiculous
77. Diamond District – I Mean Business
78. Dres of Black Sheep – Forever LuvLee
79. Jern Eye ft. Guilty Simpson – So And So
80. The Game – Big Money
81. Wiz Khalifa – This Plane
82. Rakim – Walk These Streets
83. Blakroc – Stay Off The Fuckin Flowers
84. Wyclef Jean – Walk Away
85. Crooked I – Mr. Pigface
86. Camp Lo – Another Heist
87. Juvenile – Gotta Get Back
88. Souls of Mischief – Tour Stories
89. B.G. ft. GAR & Mannie Fresh – My Hood
90. DOOM – Gazzillion Ear
91. Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne – I Get Crazy
92. Tech N9ne ft. Three 6 Mafia – Demons
93. Brother Ali – Fresh Air
94. Royce ad 5′9″ – Something 2 Ride 2
95. J. Cole – Lights Please
96. The Grouch – Weight of the World
97. Blue Scholars – No Rest for the Weary
98. B.o.B. ft. Bruno Mars – Nothin On You
99. Masta Ace & Edo. G – Little Young
100. Gorilla Zoe – Echo

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Posted by: AZ December 2009