Expect to see selections from the established stars, the next wave of new talent, the up-and-comers and everyone else in between. If the song is fire enough to beat the competition, it'll take one of the weekly spots. You can trust us on this one; follow our lead and you'll never get laughed off the aux cord again. Your friends will finally trust you with playlists; it'll be wonderful. In addition to that, you can check back every week for the latest and greatest tracks. You'll always have somewhere to turn to each week, being sure to find some songs you'll dig.
Enjoy this week's list, featuring new songs from Latto ("Somebody"), Joey Bada$$ ("The Finals"), Bossman Dlow ("Hit" featuring Gucci Mane) and more. See you next week!
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"Somebody"
LattoSomebody
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"The Finals"
Joey Bada$$Joey Bada$$ - THE FINALS (Official Audio)
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"Don't Hold the Fire"
SoFaygoSoFaygo - Don't Hold The Fire [Official Video]
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"Hit"
Bossman Dlow Featuring Gucci ManeBossMan Dlow - Hit Ft. Gucci Mane (Official Music Video)
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"Sista Wives"
2 Chiainz and Lil Yachty2 Chainz, Lil Yachty - Sista Wives (Official Video)
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"Get to It"
Ian and Nino Paidian & Nino Paid - Get To It (Official Audio)
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"Selfish"
Lil MoseyLil Mosey- Selfish (Official Audio)
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"Game Time"
AZ ChikeAZ Chike - Game Time (Official Music Video)
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"Ironic"
TiaCorineTiaCorine – IRONIC (Official Audio)
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"Manicures on Board"
GashiManicures on Board
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"Ain't Done"
BlxstBlxst - ain't done (Official Visualizer)
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"Feels So Good"
AminéAminé - Feels So Good (Official Audio)
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"Catch Me If You Can"
LogicCatch Me If You Can
SEE 50 OF THE MOST CLEVER HIP-HOP LYRICS
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Lil Wayne
Song: “Lollipop (Remix)” featuring Kanye West
Year: 2008
Clever Lyrics: “Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex/’Cause you don’t want that late text, that ‘I think I’m late’ text”—Lil Wayne
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Jay-Z
Song: “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”
Year: 2001
Clever Lyrics: “I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiend’s weight”
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Nas
Song: “N.Y. State of Mind”
Year: 1994
Clever Lyrics: "I never sleep ’cause sleep is the cousin of death"
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Big Daddy Kane
Song: “Smooth Operator”
Year: 1989
Clever Lyrics: "Transformin' on stage like a Decepticon"
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Nicki Minaj
Song: “Good Form”
Year: 2018
Clever Lyrics: “See a b***h get more press than a keypad”
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Jeezy
Song: “Soul Survivor” featuring Akon
Year: 2005
Clever Lyrics: “Thought I was a juvenile, stuck to the G-code”—Jeezy
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André 3000
Song: UGK's “Int’l Players Anthem” featuring Outkast
Year: 2007
Clever Lyrics: “I’m so like a pimp, I’m glad it’s night”—André 3000
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Kendrick Lamar
Song: “M.a.a.d. City”
Year: 2012
Clever Lyrics: “Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys”
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Ludacris
Song: “My Chick Bad” featuring Nicki Minaj
Year: 2010
Clever Lyrics: “She always bring the racket like Venus and Serena”—Ludacris
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Tupac Shakur
Song: “I Get Around” featuring Digital Underground
Year: 1993
Clever Lyrics: “Fingertips on the hips as I dip/Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips sink ships”—Tupac Shakur
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Redman
Song: “Da Rockwilder” with Method Man
Year: 1999
Clever Lyrics: “You ship off keys and we ship Grand Pianos”—Redman
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Jadakiss
Song: “We Gonna Make It” featuring Styles P
Year: 2001
Clever Lyrics: “We Soul for Real in the hood, we make Candy Rain”—Jadakiss
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Tyler, The Creator
Song: “Yonkers”
Year: 2011
Clever Lyrics: “I’m not gay, I just wanna boogie to some Marvin”
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Common
Song: Erykah Badu's “Love of My Life” featuring Common
Year: 2002
Clever Lyrics: “She needed cheddar and I understood that, looking for cheese, that don’t make her a hood rat”—Common
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21 Savage
Song: “10 Freaky Girls”
Year: 2018
Clever Lyrics: "Moesha keep on drinkin' all the Brandy"
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Raekwon
Song: “Incarcerated Scarfaces”
Year:1995
Clever Lyrics: “N***as, yo, they be foldin' like envelopes, under pressure, like Lou Ferrigno on coke”
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Fabolous
Song: “Quiet Storm (Freestyle)"
Year: 2015
Clever Lyrics: “My goons in the audience still clap when cued”
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Future
Song: “That’s It” featuring Lil Uzi Vert
Year: 2020
Clever Lyrics: “I’m a part of the lynching, got 21 chains on my neck/Had to go Dominique”—Future
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KRS-One
Song: “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know”
Year: 1995
Clever Lyrics: “You dope, you lied, I reside like artifacts on the wrong side of da tracks, electrified”
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Eminem
Song: “My Name Is”
Year: 1999
Clever Lyrics: “And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross”
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Vince Staples
Song: “Blue Suede”
Year: 2014
Clever Lyrics: “Watch out Judas, Vice and G Unit, 5-0 f**kin' with the yayo, too”
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Ab-Soul
Song: “Pineal Gland”
Year: 2012
Clever Lyrics: “S**tted in a crater last time I sat on Saturn/Got a letter from Andromeda, they tryna shrine my bladder”
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Dr. Dre
Song: “Nuthin But A G Thang” with Snoop Dogg
Year: 1992
Clever Lyrics: “Mobbin' like a muthaf**ka, but I ain't lynchin'”—Dr. Dre
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Lil' Kim
Song: “Crush on You (Remix)” featuring Lil Cease
Year: 1997
Clever Lyrics: “You can slide on my ice like the Escapade”—Lil' Kim
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J. Cole
Song: “No Role Modelz”
Year: 2014
Clever Lyrics: “I came fast like 9-1-1 in White neighborhoods, ain’t got no shame ’bout it”
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Pusha T
Song: “Drug Dealers Anonymous” featuring Jay-Z
Year: 2016
Clever Lyrics: “Blond mohawk the collection, I’m Dennis Rodman”—Pusha-T
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Gucci Mane
Song: Lil Wayne's “We Be Steady Mobbin” featuring Gucci Mane
Year: 2009
Clever Lyrics: “Toni Braxton sniper rifle, make you never breathe again”—Gucci Mane
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Rick Ross
Song: “Idols Become Rivals”
Year: 2017
Clever Lyrics: We veterans, so it’s better if you go get your army”
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Drake
Song: Rihanna's “What’s My Name” featuring Drake
Year: 2010
Clever Lyrics: “The square root of 69 is 8 somethin', right?/’Cause I’ve been tryna work it out”—Drake
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Travis Scott
Song: “Sicko Mode” featuring Drake
Year: 2018
Clever Lyrics: “Yeah, this s**t way too formal, y’all know I don’t follow suit”—Travis Scott
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Lloyd Banks
Song: “Start It Up” featuring Kanye West, Fabolous and Ryan Leslie
Year: 2010
Clever Lyrics: "Hard knock, orphan Annie loop, off the stoop"—Lloyd Banks
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Remy Ma
Song: “Company” featuring A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
Year: 2018
Clever Lyrics: “I just want some sloppy, every couple days I want the D/I don’t need no E, I got some M’s and now I got a G”—Remy Ma
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Styles P
Song: “Can You Believe It” featuring Akon
Year: 2005
Clever Lyrics: “Party ran pack, minglin' baby/And I can LL shake, you jinglin' baby”—Styles P
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Cordae
Song: “Have Mercy”
Year: 2019
Clever Lyrics: “Suite presidential that’s inauguration, ’cause we cookin' crack like Ronald Reagan”
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AZ
Song: “Rather Unique”
Year: 1995
Clever Lyrics: “Child got a style sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia/Slaughter your circulatory like leukemia”
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Nelly
Song: “Country Grammar (Hot S**t)”
Year: 2000
Clever Lyrics: “My grammar be’s Ebonics, gin, tonic and chronic/F**k bionic, it’s ironic, slammin' n***as like Onyx”
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Kanye West
Song: Drake's “Forever (Remix)” featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem
Year: 2009
Clever Lyrics: ”Now its super bad chicks giving me McLovin”—Kanye West
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Big L
Song: “M.V.P.”
Year: 1995
Clever Lyrics: “I got a crime record longer than Manute Bol”
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Snoop Dogg
Song: “Gin and Juice”
Year: 1993
Clever Lyrics: “With my mind on my money and my money on my mind”
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Benny The Butcher
Song: “Deal or No Deal”
Year: 2020
Clever Lyrics: “I’m good, pounds stocky as Suge/Smokin' Gary Payton just like the ’96 Bulls”
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Talib Kweli
Song: “Get By”
Year: 2002
Clever Lyrics: “We rock like Paul McCartney, from now until the last Beatle drop”
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JID
Song: Dreamville's “Down Bad” featuring JID, Bas, Young Nudy, J.Cole and EarthGang
Year: 2019
Clever Lyrics: “Let a nigga cover FADER ’fore I had to fade a n***a at the Fader Fort”—JID
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Big Pun
Song: “Twinz” featuring Fat Joe
Year: 1998
Clever Lyrics: “Dead in the middle of Little Italy/Little did we know that we riddled two middlemen who didn’t do diddly”—Big Pin
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Ice Cube
Song: “Check Yo Self”
Year: 1992
Clever Lyrics: “Go ahead and keep your drawers, giving up the claps and who needs applause”
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50 Cent
Song: “21 Questions” featuring Nate Dogg
Year: 2003
Clever Lyrics: ”I love you like a fat kid love cake”—50 Cent
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Lauryn Hill
Song: “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
Year: 1998
Clever Lyrics: “How you gon’ win when you ain’t right within”
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Song: Craig Mack's “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)" featuring Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J and Rampage
Year: 1994
Clever Lyrics: “N***as is mad I get more butt than ashtrays”
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Method Man
Song: Wu-Tang Clan's “C.R.E.A.M.”
Year: 1993
Clever Lyrics: “Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M., get the money”