A Bay Bay
2007
A Shreveport club chant for DJ Hollywood Bay Bay, which Phunk Dawg's beat carried all the way to number seven.
★ 1.0
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Snap Yo Fingers
2006
Finger snaps where the snare should be, E-40 riding shotgun, and Lil Jon proving crunk could whisper.
★ 2.1
Right Thurr
2003
Trak Starz built the beat, Ludacris and Chaka Zulu signed him, and the Walnut Park kid stalled at number two.
★ 2.1
Walk It Out
2006
Atlanta radio had it in March 2006; by September the country did, and Outkast joined the remix.
★ 2.7
Live Your Life
2008
Eighty to number one in a single week, on a hook lifted from the Moldovan pop song behind Numa Numa.
★ 4.0
Area CodesLudacris
Area Codes
2001
Jazze Pha's beat, Nate Dogg on the hook, and a Rush Hour 2 single that maps boasting by telephone prefix.
★ 4.2
Low
2007
DJ Montay's beat, T-Pain on the hook, and the first song to sell four million digital copies in America.
★ 4.3
Get Back
2005
Cartoon-sized arms in a men's room, courtesy of Spike Jonze, and Tom Cruise dancing to it in Tropic Thunder.
★ 4.4
Move BitchLudacris
Move Bitch
2001
Mystikal barks the guest verse, Ludacris takes his first top ten, and 2003 antiwar marchers rewrote the chorus.
★ 5.2
Rollout (My Business)
2001
Timbaland built the beat at Manhattan Center Studios, and Ludacris turned deflecting nosy questions into pure comic swagger.
★ 5.2
Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta
1992
Drums lifted from a 1973 Ripple record, a closing verse in a president's voice, and Office Space did the rest.
★ 5.3
Ridin'
2006
3.2 million ringtones sold, a Grammy won, and Play-N-Skillz's beat under a hook about racial profiling.
★ 5.3
6 Foot 7 Foot
2010 · From Tha Carter IV
Bangladesh built the beat around Harry Belafonte's Day-O, and Wayne released it six weeks after leaving jail.
★ 5.7
Hustlin'
2006
Produced by the Runners in 2005, it drew bids from Bad Boy and Murder Inc. before Def Jam won.
★ 5.8
One Day
1996 · From Ridin' Dirty
Pimp C built it on an Isley Brothers loop, Ronnie Spencer sings the hook, and Texas rap found its elegy.
★ 5.9
Get Low
2003
Crunk's breakthrough, produced entirely by Lil Jon, stalled at number two and drove the album past two million copies.
★ 6.3
ATLiens
1996 · From ATLiens
OutKast were booed at the 1995 Source Awards and answered with a title splicing Atlanta and aliens over echo-heavy dub.
★ 6.6
Back That Azz UpJuvenile
Back That Azz Up
1999
Mannie Fresh's violin line over a bounce beat, Lil Wayne's chant at the close, and New Orleans bounce gone national.
★ 7.3
International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
2006 · From Underground Kingz
A Willie Hutch loop left alone at the top, and Andre 3000's verse reportedly returned with the drums stripped off.
★ 7.6
Mind Playing Tricks On Me
1991
An Isaac Hayes loop from Tough Guys, three verses by Scarface, and a rap record about fear rather than swagger.
★ 7.7