The Gangsta, The Kill and the Dope Dealer
1996
Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC trading verses, from a debut album that reached number two and went platinum.
★ 3.2
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Bow DownWestside Connection
Bow Down
1996
Bud'da's beat, Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC in formation, a West Coast declaration that topped the rap chart.
★ 4.1
San Francisco Knights
1998
Never a single, it became the duo's live staple: two Los Angeles crate-diggers immortalizing a 1996 visit to the Bay.
★ 4.2
Lodi Dodi
1993 · From Doggystyle
Dre put music under Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's a cappella original, and Snoop made the story his.
★ 5.0
This DJ
1994 · From Regulate...G Funk Era
Snoop wrote the hook but label trouble kept him off the record; Warren G took it to number nine.
★ 5.2
Natural Born Killaz
1994 · From Murder Was the Case: The Soundtrack
Sam Sneed and J-Flexx started it as 'The Heist'; Dre and Cube's first record together since N.W.A.
★ 5.2
A.D.H.D
2011 · From Section.80
Sounwave's woozy loop, Ab-Soul in the margins, and Lamar naming a generation's numbness on his debut album.
★ 5.5
Keep Their Heads Ringin'
1995 · From Friday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Dre and Sam Sneed rebuilt The Sequence's Funk You Up as G-funk, Nanci Fletcher singing the hook to number ten.
★ 5.6
Murder Was the Case
1993 · From Doggystyle
A Faustian bargain told in the first person, later expanded into an eighteen-minute film Dre co-directed with Fab Five Freddy.
★ 5.8
Poetic Justice
Kendrick Lamar and Drake
2012 · From good kid, m.A.A.d city
Scoop DeVille built it from Janet Jackson's "Any Time, Any Place", heard on the studio radio, and Drake glides in.
★ 6.0
Check Yo Self
1993 · From The Predator
Predator-era Cube with Das EFX in tow; the remix rode the Message beat to number one R&B.
★ 6.0
I Got 5 On It
1995
A Club Nouveau hook, Michael Marshall on the chorus, and a Bay Area anthem Jordan Peele later made sinister.
★ 6.2
I Ain't Mad At Cha
1995
Released two days after Shakur's death, Daz Dillinger's loop of DeBarge's A Dream carrying a farewell to lost friends.
★ 6.4
Let Me Ride
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
1992 · From The Chronic
A Mothership Connection sample, RBX writing Dre's verses, and the Grammy win that turned it into a hit.
★ 6.7
Boyz N' Tha Hood (Eazy-E)Eazy-E
Boyz N' Tha Hood (Eazy-E)
1987
Ice Cube wrote it for a New York group who walked out; Dre pushed Eazy-E to rap it himself.
★ 6.7
Forgot About Dre
1999 · From 2001
Eminem wrote the verses as a reference for Snoop Dogg, by Dre's account, and Dre kept the guide vocal.
★ 6.9
Changes (2Pac)
1998
Recorded in 1992, shelved, then remixed after his death over Bruce Hornsby's piano; a posthumous Grammy nomination followed.
★ 7.1
Regulate
1994 · From Regulate...G Funk Era
Warren G looped four bars of Michael McDonald in a Long Beach bedroom, and Nate Dogg sang his half.
★ 7.3
Keep Ya Head Up
1993
A Zapp groove under the Five Stairsteps hook, dedicated to Latasha Harlins, and rap's warmest tribute to Black women.
★ 7.4
Swimming Pools (Drank)Kendrick Lamar
Swimming Pools (Drank)
2012 · From good kid, m.A.A.d city
T-Minus made the beat for Trey Songz, who passed; Lamar turned the rejected demo into a study of addiction.
★ 7.4