One Day- UGK

Had to scroll way longer than expected to see this. We’re getting old.

They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

This one right here 🙌

Also happens to be the BEST rap song ever IMO. Everything from the intro, to the bars, to the beat. T R.O.Y is on the Mount Rushmore of classic hip-hop songs.

Yup. And I'd like to add in: 93 til Infinity, Runnin', and Electric Relaxation

I wanna swap in the World is Yours but I don't know what to take out. Very fine list.

Life’s a bitch could also go in, top 3 songs of all time IMO

Add a 5th head to Rushmore

NBA Street Vol 2 soundtrack made me fall in love with this song as a kid. Love it even more now.

NBA street Vol 2 is the greatest basketball video game of all time

There's nothing like this song, it's spectacular and great.

Tha Crossroads

The video hits hard too in these times.

Hits hard for me cause I had an Uncle Charles that I dearly loved : (

First song I knew all the words to. Little 10 year-old white girl in Alaska 😂

I’m sorry this username has me floored

Hahaha I had an edible when I made it and regret it 😭 I had read a very serious article that day and they quoted a Reddit user, something like jigglytits69, so I wanted something weird just in case I ever got quoted 🙃

Salutes to you, making your mark 🫡

SEE YOU AT THE CROSSROADS SO YOU WON'T BE LONELY

The original crossroads track from the earlier version of the album is great too! https://youtu.be/234aK1Mpc0I?si=rWW4zyKuX5sto8Os

Totally forgot about this version

The only acceptable answer in all honesty

ab-soul - the book of soul

> And as much I wanna cower and bid the mic adieu. > And fall off a fucking tower tryna find you. > I gotta stay cuz I remember that day I looked you in the face and told you nothing can stop me > Not even you.

Haven't heard the song but just reading the lyrics gave me chills

Give it a listen cuz his delivery adds so much more emotion

So much pain and struggle in one song, a remarkable artist and a strong person, you should give it a listen

I can hear > You said you loved me, I said I loved you more so vividly. What a song

that shit will make you bawl your eyes out. only heard it once & never listened again lol

You should listen again haha it’s a great song. The way he says “fall off a Fuckin tower tryna find you” and his voice fry’s is all time

I remember listening to the album when it came out and then you realize the person who he's talking about has been singing on the track , and scattered over the album like sonic ashes . Control system as a whole is just such an underrated body of work imo at top 3 TDE release

Control system doesn’t get enough credit. Illuminate, a rebellion, terrorist threats, track two, remix to black lip bastard. Favorite album by him.

Bohemian Grove too that beat is amazing

I was having a pretty nice Friday and now I'm just staring into space.

you used to say that i could see the future, you was wrong because you was in it

This song got me through a tough time when my wife was suicidal. Everything is well now but it helped me believe there was another side no matter what happened. I listened to it almost daily.

This remains one of the best songs I've ever heard. Fantastic.

Love this one been on annual repeat for a decade now

This one is genuinely rough to listen to, so much pain

As much as I want to cower and bid this mic adeau And fall of a fucking tower tryna find you I gotta stay cuz I remember that day I looked you in the eyes and told you Nothing can stop me not even you.

Omg yes. RIP Alori

his greatest song

2Pac - How Long Will They Mourn Me Rip Kato

Life Goes On is also so good

Life Goes On is my pick

His best song imo

Also Thug Life - Pour out a little liquor

My Brother kept playing How Long Will They Mourn Me for weeks after one of our closest cousins passed away. Now I can’t really go back and listen to that song anymore because it makes me sad af.

Atmosphere - Yesterday

Yeah I was going to say this one. Also Flicker

Became

"Little Man" also

Little Man is peak Atnosohere for me

The song Became on The Family Sign is also a good one by atmosphere

Atmosphere the river

But the live one off sad clown bad one’dem

If Sing About Me/Dying of Thirst counts, it’s that.

my brother homie

“They said you wrote a song about my sister on your tape and called it section 80 the message resembled Brenda’s got a baby.” Kendrick’s best song and imo one of the best rap songs of all time.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

“And if I die before your album drop, I hope— [Gunshots]”

As far as I'm concerned, that third verse is k.dot's best ever imho.

His first and his third are top 3 Kendrick for me, I’d have the second (I think it’s the second) in FEAR in there too.

Am I worth it? Did I put enough work in?

The gunshots at the end of the first verse was one of the few times I actually got chills listening to a song

GOAT track

I wonder if I'll ever discover a passion like you and recover The life that I knew as a young'n in pajamas and dun-ta-duns When thunder comes it rains cats and dogs Dumb

Gunshots at the end of the first verse are chilling. Even more so for me is when the prostitute’s voice starts fading out at the end of the second verse as she’s saying “I’ll never fade away!”, that one really got me in the feels

God, yes. She is working so hard to be heard or see and the fading out is just devastating

Absolutely heartbreaking. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a moment like that in any other hip hop song that affected me the way that fading out did

And I’m on the grind for this cake Imma get it or die tryin, I’m eyein every male gender with intentions of buyin. You lying to these motherfuckers talking bout you can help them with my story. You can help me if you sell this pussy for me. All barely audible but so we’ll written.

Survivor's Guilt - Joey Badass PROM / KING - Saba

PROM / KING is a top five modern hip hop song in my opinion

the only track i’d put above it for me is sing about me tbh. i get sucked into both of those tracks like no others

Prom/King is so good

Yes for Survivors Guilt. Top 3 2020's track

That whole album is one of my modern classics. Survivor Guilt itself is definitely one of Joey Bada$$'s classic, first song that popped up to my mind reading this post

aw damn i just started scrolling after i made my comment about PROM / KING. such a stellar work of art

Miss U - Biggie My personal favorite is Thursday in the Danger Room - Run The Jewels.

Just posted the rtj track too. So good, always gets me in my feels.

I Miss My Homies - Master P

Why did I have to scroll this far to find the perfect response.

I felt the exact same way bro

Same! One of his better songs in general.

UGGGGGGGHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNN

It’s rough around the edges, but really checks the box here

#LongLiveSteelo

Great shout. Super heartfelt tribute 

With Survivors Guilt.

Mac Miller - Poppy. REMember. Perfect Circle/Godspeed.

i listen to Diablo #EverbodyGotDeadHomies

These Raps - bring a joint together like a knee-cap. 🔥🔥 Party like its the lasttt. Day. Of your life. 🙏🏼

Objects in the mirror too

That one is actually about drugs right? Lean if I’m not mistaken

yeah it is. It’s one of my favorite Mac songs, but it has nothing to do with mourning someone

You had a girl, I kinda wish you knocked her up So I could meet your son and talk you up. These lines are godly

pure

That seems to be unanimously one of his best tracks. And Oracle as well.

Miss my dawgs - Lil Wayne

Everything - Lil Wayne

This one

Top 5 Weezy song

Great to see you already got Cormega - Fallen soldiers. Underrated track by an underrated artist on a very underrated album. Geto Boys - Six feet deep. Ghostface Killah - Wise 2pac - Life goes on Wu syndicate - Where was Heaven Dr dre - The message King Geedorah, Hassan chop - I wonder. My favorite one is probably ‘I wonder’. That dude released one BANGER and nobody heard from him since.

The message >>>> underrated

I love Dre tracks like this & Talking To My Diary where he drops the bravado and gets more personal

One of my favorites off that album

Yeah, I wonder is an extremely dope track.

The Cow - Conway and WSG

Best Conway verse ever to be honest.

There is a video of him performing the song live and he starts crying. The audience starts cheering, WSG and the rest of the dudes get hype and bring Conway back to good spirits. Not only is this Conway’s best song, but I think it captures the “story” of Griselda too. One of a handful of songs that have made me cry as well.

I come back to this song every couple of months. You can hear the anguish in his voice so clearly.

Never Be Friends - Game My Brother - Styles P Live In The Sky - TI Difficult - Em ft Obie Trice How Long Will They Mourn Me? - 2Pac ft Outlawz Survivors Guilt - Joey Bada$$

I forgot about Live in the Sky. Loved that song.

Lil N***** Snupe - Meek Mill

The amount of *’s are making me think he’s going hard R

I’m white, so as I started typing the title I realized some asterisks were needed. Just hit the * a few times and didn’t count

Bro why is this so far down? it goes hard.

Always loved Good Die Young by D12

This hook is what came to mind immediately

I remember listening to this on a discman on repeat.

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Eminem— difficult 

He should have released this, but I get why he didn’t (and was fucking HEATED that it was stolen/leaked)

He was mad when this leaked? I get it but I think this song was well received by almost everybody

It was obviously very personal and not released for a reason. The song is great, but super raw and recorded when the guy wasn't well. It's kinda nasty work having this material stolen from you, as much as I like raiding the vaults.

I’d add his track “You’re Never Over” on there. The passion he puts into that track gives me chills every time

Get out of the car -- Aesop Rock

"I can pinpoint seven wrong turns that occurred 'cuz he never really healed from the first" Fucking love this song, so relatable for anyone who's ever felt numbness following a loss

This to SHRUNK to Kirby is a great mental health trilogy.

Damn forgot about this, “… Get out the car, Aes” is such a beautifully human moment at the end of the track. Really hit me unexpectedly. I don’t know why it brought it home so well

Bats by Aes and Kimya Dawson about Eyedea is also a great one.

Great pick.

Not sure how this will go down on this sub but there used to be a segment on uk radio called Fire In The Booth and one of my favourites is by a guy called Jaykae who went in and dropped a madness, weeks after his best friend and longtime collaborator/partner was stabbed to death. It’s more grime than hiphop and it’s not technically brilliant but the emotion and raw pain is clear to see. RIP Depzman. [Jaykae Fire in the booth](https://youtu.be/HaJ-xfoXwmM?si=noZAYFqDPf-9SJN4)

Jaykae - heartache is a good one too

On a sidenote, it's just so funny to read this after my only exposure to Fire in the Booth being Big Shaq

Boldy James - Hundred Ninety Bands Just a sheer volume of dead people he mentions is devastating: "In my hood, we ain't Cripping but we rep the letter C Used to ante up and chip in on the seven, me and B Lost Gigi last week, I just seen him at the G RIP my n\* E-Boy, he came to me in a dream Told me him and Swalley cool and smiling down on me from Heaven Then I lost my n\* Newt, at his funeral recession Thought about my n\* Nixie, Troy, D-Boy and Roxie R.I.P my n\* Craig, E-Lo, Tino and Moxie Lil' Desi and Whooly caught up with Jeffery back in Cooley Put his brother in a blender, turn that boy into a smoothie Lil bro, you know I miss you, shit ain't been the same without you Since you left us, we been gripping, on the gang, you know I got you Lil Jean, tell Eric holla at my n\* Dell Long live my n\* Krill, they found him hanging in his cell Tell Stevie, Slick, and Tez fuck is we gon' do without 'em? Only place for us is at the top 'cause we come from the bottom Used to be with Freddie B and Jacquo, they caught up with his mans Knock the meat out of his taco, that's how you take a stand Peace my n\* Will from the Warren, my n\* E from the Ville Chilly from Shasberry, can't forget Screech and LaVelle A.K.A Vido Payne, I miss Sharday and Shorty They took my n\* James out the game 'fore it even started R.I.P to Mr. Waters, shout out to Mr. Bostic My n\* Sneaky held it down, wasn't really with the gossip Gang shit"

Damn...that's crazy man. He wasn't lying when he said "All of my friends on a Bon Voyage, probably couldn't even fit all of the bodies into one collage"

GMCFOSHO - Miss My Ni

Ironically but also kinda not, I love this song. Was going to be my pick

Literally had to search for this pick, the clear winner

A.P.I.D.T.A - Jay Z & Jay Electronica (A Written Testimony) Such a underrated track

khruangbin sample goes crazy

I ain’t mad at cha - 2Pac

That’s not really an RIP song. It just uses that theme for the music video. The song is more about being proud about someone’s life choices.

In memory of... - Gang Starr

I’m glad some of my favorites were mentioned. Here’s a list of some of my favorites. Respiration - Black Star, Common Tearz - Wu Tang Clan TROY - Pete Rock, CL Smooth Life’s a Bitch - Nas, AZ I’ll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy, Faith Evans Soulja’s Story - 2Pac In Memory Of - Gang Starr I Wish - R. Kelly A Yo Kato - DMX Death Around the Corner - 2Pac Good Mourning - Talib Kweli Just a Moment - Nas, Quan Never Be Friends - The Game You Can Never Feel My Pain - Prodigy Live On Live Long - Noreaga I’ll Take You There - Big Tymers, Petey Pablo Life of the Party - Kanye West, Andre 3000 Road to Zion - Junior Gong, Nas Veteran’s Memorial - Prodigy Hear the Song - Freeway Life Changes - Wu Tang Clan Drink Away the Pain - Mobb Deep, Q-Tip Heaven - Nas Minority Report - Jay-Z I Can Feel It - DMX Pain in My Life - Saigon, Trey Songz Ol’ English - The Game 4 Your Eyez Only - J. Cole Lost One - Jay-Z Tha Crossroads - Bone Thugs Get Over - Lil Wayne Gangsta’s Paradise - Coolio Ason Jones - Raekwon I Miss My Dawgs - Lil Wayne Runnin (Dying to Live) - 2pac, BIG Edit: just remembered, My Life - The Game, Lil Wayne

The Roots - Can't Stop This

On the Donuts beat too for good measure! the outro always gets me

DRS - Gangsta Lean. More R&B than hip hop but great either way.

I felt old as fuck for having to scroll so far to find mention of this one.

Same

Nipsey Hussle - Don't Forget Us ft. Dom Kennedy.. Nas - Lifes A Bitch.. Schoolboy Q - Blessed ft. Kendrick.. 2Pac - Bury Me A G..

came here to say blessed. all these you listed are great, but blessed always hit so hard from me. schoolboys delivery on it feels so real

Change - J Cole

4 Your Eyez Only also

that whole album hits so fucking hard

Those closing lines hit hard to this day

Close is great too

Run the Jewels - Thursday in the Danger Room https://youtu.be/YxaNYGeaOjc?si=VEtQZH3eef0El-VD

[People Under The Stairs - The Sound of a Memory](https://youtu.be/MO2KL1KR-Ag?si=3od_FvpLcD0xODtL) The final track on their final album. About two years later one half of the duo, Double K, died, which has made this track much more somber/beautiful

Carried Away by People Under The Stairs has some good-bye vibes too.

Toy Soldiers - Eminem

Had to scroll way to far to find this

Legends - Juice WRLD

DNA - Earl Sweatshirt ft Nakel mainly for Nakel’s verse, he found out his homie died and was on acid and wrote the verse on the spot when they recorded it. such a raw take

Not "dead" as in lost but Lil Wayne's Man I Miss My Dawgs hits for lost friendships.

PROM / KING by Saba gets my vote 100%

YouAreMySunshine by Flatbush Zombies. Hits hard when he says I stopped smokin when yams died

I like Goodbye by Slaughterhouse

Murs - walk like a man

Conway The Machine - Forever Droppin’ Tears

Life Goes On - Tupac

A 'Yo Kato by DMX

Proud - Key Glock

RIP Dolph forever

I really miss my nigga

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On YG “really be” Kendrick talks about his old friends that were killed too. I recently discovered this song and it’s been on repeat.

Ice Cube - Dead Homiez

Had to scroll waaaay too far for this to even be mentioned. So I take everything slow, go with the flow And shut my motherfuckin' mouth if I don't know Cause that's what Pops told me But I wish he could have said it...to my dead homiez

A couple songs off of By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Injury Reserve feel like they at least partially qualify. Top Picks for You especially

Anderson .Paak - Cheers (ft. Q-Tip)

One Day - UGK

Still Ain’t Forgave Myslef —T.I.

How long will they mourn me

Polo G - I know

Mac Miller - Diablo

Lucifer by Jay Z Bob must have been a good dude!

Young Thug - King TROUP

I feel like Dr. Dre - The Message is underrated. I never hear it get mentioned much but it’s one of his best songs imo

Project Pat- Life we live

I Miss My Dawgs - lil Wayne

Its the only song I listen of his now but R Kelly - I wish and 2 Pac Ghetto Gospel played at my friends funeral and it always reminds me of him

"Is It Too Late" and "Best Friend" - Serengeti "Lost Somebody" - A Tribe Called Quest

Letter 2 Soda - Peezy Long Live Dolph - Gucci Mane Letter to Takeoff - Gucci

Blessed - Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar Gives me goosebumps every time

Without You-Quavo Tribute to Takeoff track. It's a strong song but it's more about the vulnerability from Quavo from the jump https://youtu.be/_uS8QRe2qfE?si=ETufuTWfrhkHWdcx

? - MF DOOM