C.R.E.A.M.
1994 · From Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
RZA looped a lonely piano figure from the Charmels, and Inspectah Deck's second verse became hip hop scripture.
★ 8.9
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
In Da Club
2003 · From Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Dre's beat was offered to D12 and Rakim before 50 Cent wrote to it and held number one nine weeks.
★ 7.9
God Bless the ChildBillie Holiday
God Bless the Child
1941
A quarrel with her mother over money, by Holiday's own account, gave the song its title line and its steel.
★ 7.8
Money
1973 · From The Dark Side of the Moon
Seven beats to the bar, a tape loop of coins and cash registers, and Pink Floyd's first American hit.
★ 7.7
Gold Digger
2005 · From Late Registration
Foxx sang the Ray Charles hook fresh from his Oscar for playing him, and it held number one ten weeks.
★ 7.7
Mo Money Mo Problems
1996 · From Life After Death
Kelly Price sang the hook uncredited over Stevie J's flip of I'm Coming Out, a posthumous number one.
★ 7.6
Niggas in Paris
Kanye West and Jay-Z
2011 · From Watch the Throne
Hit-Boy's beat, a Blades of Glory sample, and twelve straight encores of it one night in Paris.
★ 7.6
Hypnotize
1997 · From Life After Death
Herb Alpert's Rise looped into a strut, released five days before Wallace was killed, number one within weeks.
★ 7.6
Money Trees
2012 · From good kid, m.A.A.d city
DJ Dahi slowed Beach House's guitar intro and ran it backwards, and Jay Rock's verse steals the whole record.
★ 7.6
Paid in Full
1987 · From Paid in Full
Coldcut took 700 pounds for the remix, added Ofra Haza, and Rakim's minute-long verse reset how rappers rhymed.
★ 7.5
Can't Buy Me Love
1964 · From A Hard Day's Night
Two point one million American advance orders, and behind them a Paris hotel upright where McCartney wrote it.
★ 7.4
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
Dead Presidents IIJay-Z
Dead Presidents II
1996 · From Reasonable Doubt
Ski looped Lonnie Liston Smith under a Nas vocal, and Jay-Z made money sound like a weary confession.
★ 7.1
If I Ain't Got You
2004
Aaliyah's death in 2001 clarified what mattered, and Keys answered with piano, gospel restraint and a Grammy-winning vocal.
★ 6.8
Money (That's What I Want)
1960
Motown's first hit, cut at Hitsville in 1959, with a bluesy piano vamp and a writing credit long disputed.
★ 6.7
Bloodbuzz Ohio
2010 · From High Violet
Cut in Aaron Dessner's Brooklyn garage, a horn part stripped out late, leaving that rolling drum pattern and Berninger's baritone.
★ 6.4
If You've Got the Money I've Got the TimeLefty Frizzell
If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
1950
Jim Beck offered a free demo in his Dallas studio; Frizzell's stretched phrasing became the template Haggard and Jones inherited.
★ 6.2
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
Got Your Money
1999
Neptunes production at its bounciest, with Kelis on the hook a month before her own debut single.
★ 6.1
Fuck You
2010
Twinkling piano, bumping bass, the Smeezingtons doing sixties Motown, and a typography video that went viral on release day.
★ 6.1
Rich Girl
1977
Hall wrote it about a fast-food heir, changed Rich Boy to Rich Girl, and took the duo to number one.
★ 6.0
Independent Women
2000
Written for the Charlie's Angels soundtrack, eleven straight weeks at number one, and Michelle Williams's first single with the group.
★ 6.0
Money Honey
1953
Jesse Stone's song, cut once McPhatter rebuilt the group from scratch, topped the R&B chart for eleven weeks.
★ 5.8
Bills, Bills, Bills
1999
She'kspere started beatboxing the groove in a store, and Kandi Burruss turned a deadbeat boyfriend into a number one.
★ 5.8
Archie, Marry Me
2014
Snowed into a Prince Edward Island farmhouse, Rankin wrote a proposal song; VanGaalen cut it in Calgary.
★ 5.7
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
Ride Wit Me
2001
A DeBarge interpolation from 1982, Jay E producing, and Nelly making must be the money a national catchphrase.
★ 5.2
Gone Till November
1998
A hustler's goodbye scored by the New York Philharmonic, Sonny Kompanek conducting, with Bob Dylan cameoing in the video.
★ 5.1
The Way I Are
Timbaland and Keri Hilson
2007
Cut in Virginia Beach with Danja co-producing, Keri Hilson co-writing, and a hook that shrugs at the whole courtship.
★ 5.0
Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
Sean Combs and Mase
1997
Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" under a "Break My Stride" hook, six weeks at number one, and Mase arrives.
★ 4.5
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
Take a Walk
2012
Angelakos built each verse from a man in his own family who immigrated, then set financial ruin to synths.
★ 4.5
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
Aston Martin Music
2010
Filmed among Aston Martins in Miami, with J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League's beat and Drake turning Ross's luxury boast wistful.
★ 4.1
Love Don't Cost a Thing
2001
Ric Wake heard the demo, played it for Lopez, and both loved it; it went to number one in Britain.
★ 4.1
Big Things Poppin' (Do It)
2007
A guitar line lifted from the Top Gun theme, Mannie Fresh on the boards, and ESPN running it all summer.
★ 4.1
Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
2001
Dallas Austin wrote it, produced it, played bass and keys, and slipped a Sinatra snippet under Cantrell's revenge.
★ 3.9
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
Loyal
Chris Brown and Lil Wayne
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
Gettin It
1996
Ant Banks flipped a Bootsy Collins sample for a farewell album that went platinum, with Parliament-Funkadelic on the hook.
★ 2.9
Make It Rain
2006
Fat Joe found no club record built around throwing money, so Scott Storch cut one at the Hit Factory.
★ 2.6
I'm So Paid
2008
Coogi paid the entire million-dollar bill for the Miami video, and Detail's beat still outshines it.
★ 1.1