The Songs canon

Sourced and sung.

Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Loyal

2013

Nic Nac's beat borrows from "Money Ain't a Thang," and three regional versions carried it thirty-six weeks on the chart.

★ 2.9

Whatever You Like

2008

Jim Jonsin built the beat from the Rocky II theme, and it leapt seventy places to number one, a chart record.

★ 3.8

Busy Earnin'

2014

Two Shepherd's Bush friends hiding behind the initials J and T, falsetto stacked over a warehouse full of dancers.

★ 4.3

Feel So Good

1997

Kool and the Gang's Hollywood Swinging flipped by Puffy and Deric Angelettie, and Mase's drawl making effort look optional.

★ 4.5

Ride Wit Me

2001

A DeBarge interpolation from 1982, Jay E producing, and Nelly making must be the money a national catchphrase.

★ 5.2

Mr. Big Stuff

1971

Wardell Quezergue brought five artists to Malaco in a borrowed school bus; Stax passed, then Knight's put-down sold millions.

★ 5.6

Luchini

1997 · From Uptown Saturday Night

Dynasty's Adventures in the Land of Music, looped by Ski, and Camp Lo answering in seventies slang nobody else spoke.

★ 5.7

Fuck You

2010

Twinkling piano, bumping bass, the Smeezingtons doing sixties Motown, and a typography video that went viral on release day.

★ 6.1

Good Life

2007 · From Graduation

West and DJ Toomp sped up Michael Jackson's P.Y.T. into a Grammy-winning glide, T-Pain's hook floating over it.

★ 6.2
Sunny AfternoonThe Kinks

Sunny Afternoon

1966 · From Face to Face

A white upright piano, a bout of illness, and Britain's supertax reimagined as a lounging aristocrat pleading poverty.

★ 7.2
A MilliLil Wayne

A Milli

2007 · From Tha Carter III

Bangladesh looped a pitched-down Tribe Called Quest vocal, skipped the chorus entirely, and Wayne rapped through the gap.

★ 7.5