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I'm So Paid
Coogi paid the entire million-dollar bill for the Miami video, and Detail's beat still outshines it.
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Mike Will's synths under a Juicy J hook about Air Jordans, with Cyrus rapping on record for the first time.
We Dem Boyz
Detail and Choppa Boi built a beat out of space and chant; Nas and Rick Ross joined the remix.
Like a Boss
A Slim Thug track turned inside out over Rick tha Rular's beat, with a skeptical Seth Rogen questioning Samberg.
This Is Why I'm Hot
A jump from thirty-two to number one in a week, and a different sample for every region name-checked.
I'm On A Boat
T-Pain's Auto-Tune, a yacht in Biscayne Bay, and a Grammy nomination for a Digital Short.
We Be The Crew
Track three on The Antidote, cut-and-paste funk from the album Theo Keating built alone after his partner left.
Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay
By Sean's account Kanye handed over the beat with Roscoe Dash's hook already attached, and the whole thing purrs.
Make It Rain
Fat Joe found no club record built around throwing money, so Scott Storch cut one at the Hit Factory.
Ice Ice Baby
Queen and Bowie went uncredited until a settlement, and hip hop had its first Hot 100 number one.
Boom Boom Pow
will.i.am heard electro in Sydney nightclubs while filming Wolverine, then rode that beat to twelve weeks at number one.
Gettin It
Ant Banks flipped a Bootsy Collins sample for a farewell album that went platinum, with Parliament-Funkadelic on the hook.
Kiss Kiss
T-Pain wrote and produced it at Chalice in Los Angeles, and it held number one for three weeks.
Jump
Eight weeks at number one, backwards clothes, and two Atlanta thirteen-year-olds rapping over Jermaine Dupri's beat.
The Gangsta, The Kill and the Dope Dealer
Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC trading verses, from a debut album that reached number two and went platinum.
BedRock
Cut first as Girl You Know with Omarion, re-sung by Lloyd, and Nicki Minaj's debut single at number two.
Outta Control
Dre and Mike Elizondo built it spare, clipped piano and low thump; the Mobb Deep remix reached number six.
Fancy
Director X restaged Clueless for the video, and Charli XCX's hook carried both artists to seven weeks at number one.
Freaks and Geeks
A free EP download from 2011, Goransson on the beat, and Glover rapping like he had something to prove.
Boombastic
A King Floyd sample, Sting International's production, and a Levi's ad that carried it to number one in Britain.
Big Things Poppin' (Do It)
A guitar line lifted from the Top Gun theme, Mannie Fresh on the boards, and ESPN running it all summer.
Bow Down
Bud'da's beat, Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC in formation, a West Coast declaration that topped the rap chart.
Area Codes
Jazze Pha's beat, Nate Dogg on the hook, and a Rush Hour 2 single that maps boasting by telephone prefix.
Worst Behavior
Director X shot the video in Memphis with Drake's father, over a DJ Dahi beat that snarls.
Get Back
Cartoon-sized arms in a men's room, courtesy of Spike Jonze, and Tom Cruise dancing to it in Tropic Thunder.
Breathe (Fabolous)
Just Blaze cut it from Supertramp's Crime of the Century, and Fabolous raps it like a man being chased.
Feel So Good
Kool and the Gang's Hollywood Swinging flipped by Puffy and Deric Angelettie, and Mase's drawl making effort look optional.
Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" under a "Break My Stride" hook, six weeks at number one, and Mase arrives.
Black and Yellow
Stargate's beat, a yellow Challenger with black stripes, and a Pittsburgh hometown chant that reached number one.
All I Do Is Win
Three rappers, one T-Pain hook, and a brass fanfare Obama walked out to at the 2013 correspondents' dinner.
Here Comes the Hotstepper
Salaam Remi's remix bolts a Taana Gardner sample to that Land of 1000 Dances chorus, and Kamoze went number one.
Who Gon' Stop Me
Flux Pavilion's dubstep drop rebuilt into a rap victory lap, cut at the Mercer Hotel with Jay-Z trading verses.
Move that Dope
P-Nasty and Mike Will Made It's beat, verses from Pharrell and Pusha T, the hardest thing on Honest.
How We Do
50 Cent wrote the chorus, liked it enough to take a verse, and Dre's beat carried Compton nationwide.
Feel Me Flow
A Meters loop under Treach's easiest flow, pulled from the first album ever to win the rap Grammy.