
The Neptunes emerged on the scene during the mid-90s, but it wasn’t until 1998 that they really started making a name of themselves. to Queens / The I-95, now we hit the Philippines” Hardest line: “Yo from New Orleans, L.A., V.A.

The haunting trap beat by Mario Beats is just the cherry on top of this track. In terms of lyrical performance and hard bars, nothing on the tape beats “Cross the Country” which is just 6 and a half minutes of straight spitting. “Man y’all who hating really need to hear the mixtape them boys got bars,” Tip wrote in one of his many tweets talking about the Atlanta trio. When Rich Nigga Timeline dropped back in 2014, Tribe frontman and legendary hip hop producer Q-Tip took to Twitter to gush about how dope the mixtape was. Hardest line: “No shame in the game, I’m a bull with the nine / Like Luol Deng, finna bang with the thing”

Dre, RZA, Just Blaze and plenty more, who have architected banging soundscapes, there were plenty of hard rap songs to pick from.įrom DMX’s “Get at Me Dog” to Kendrick Lamar’s “M.A.A.D. With the talented rap producers throughout history, with Dr.

But, we had to start from somewhere so here we go. You could put together the list on decades, or even years alone, that’s how many songs we had to choose from. For a culture that’s built around competition, battles and breakbeats, you could imagine putting together a list of the hardest rap songs of all time was quite a task.
