A list of songs to describe your favorite genre.

Alright here's something simple, I want you guys to take your favorite genre of music. Now make a list of however many songs you want to really show the genre. Not really your favorites, but more to show the genre and what it is as a whole, its culture, its style, etc.

Here's mine for Hip-Hop ( keep in mind Hip-Hop is alot different from rap, if I was to do rap I would put a bunch of Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars, and Kid Cudi songs.)


- Tupac - Keep Ya Head Up
- A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
- Arrested Development - Tennesee
- Big Daddy Kane - Smooth Operator
- M.V.P - Big L
- Big Pun - Still Not A Player
- Biz Markie - Vapors
- Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
- Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Thuggish Ruggish Bone
- Brand Nubian - Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down
- Camp Lo - Luchini
- Chubb Rock - Treat 'Em Right
- Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
- Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
- D-Nice - Call Me D-Nice
- Das EFX - They Want EFX
- De La Soul - Me Myself and I
- Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
- Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
- DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Summertime
- DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat
- DJ Quik - Dollaz + Sense
- Domino - Long Beach Thang
- Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick - The Show
- Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride
- E-40 - 1 Luv
- Eazy-E - Real Muthaphukkin G's
- EPMD - Strictly Business
- Eric B. & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique
- Erick Sermon - Music
- Father MC - I'll Do 4 U
- scammer Scoop - Be Faithful
- Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
- Geto Boys - My Minds Playin Tricks On Me
- Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - Its Nasty
- House Of Pain - Jump Around
- Ice Cube - Bop Gun (One Nation)
- Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher
- Kid Frost - La Raza
- Kriss Kross - Jump
- Kool Moe Dee - I Go To World
- Kool Moe Dee - Wild Wild West
- KRS-One - Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight)
- KRS-One - Sound of Da Police
- Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
- Kurupt - We Can Freak It
- Lighter Shade of Brown - On A Sunday Afternoon
- Lil' Troy - Wanna Be A Baller
- LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
- Ludacris - Get Back
- Luniz - I Got Five On It
- M.O.P. - Cold As Ice
- Mack 10 - On Them Thangs
- Mark Morrison - Return of The Mack
- MC Hammer - You Can't Touch This
- Mellow Man Ace - Mentirosa
- Mobb Deep - Survival of The Fittest
- N.W.A. - Express Yourself
- Nas - The World Is Yours
- Nate Dogg - These Days
- Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray
- Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.
- Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
- Onyx - Slam
- Outkast - Hey Ya!
- Paperboy - Ditty
- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
- P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
- Positive K - I Got A Man
- Public Enemy - Can't Truss It
- Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome
- Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You
- RBL Posse - Bounce To This
- Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - Joy & Pain
- Run DMC - Walk This Way
- Salt-N-Pepa - Shoop
- Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back
- Slick Rick - I Run This
- Slick Rick - Children's Story
- Snoop Dogg - Who Am I? (What's My Name)
- Snow - Informer
- Spice 1 - Strap On The Side
- Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
- Tag Team - Whoomp (There It Is)
- The D.O.C - Its Funky Enough
- The Fat Boys - Stick 'Em
- The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
- The Fugees - Ready or Not
- The Pharcyde - Drop
- The Roots - You Got Me
- Too $hort - Just Another Day
- Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
- Warren G - Relax Ya Mind
- Warren G ft. Nate Dogg - Regulate
- WC - Walk
- Westside Connection - Gangsta Nation
- Whodini - Friends
- Will Smith - Wild Wild West
- Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
- Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit
- Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
- X Clan - Funkin' Lesson
- Young MC - Bust A Move
- Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
- MC Brains - Everyone's Talkin About MC Brains
- Beastie Boys - Whatcha Want
- Eminem - The Real Slim Shady

Phew! There it is, the ultimate mix tape for an oldschool Hip-Hop fan whos just got a bunch of Tupac and Snoop Dogg on their iPod. Now for your genre's. (keep in mind yours has to be nowhere near as long as mine.)

Edit: When I put in Fat-man Scoop without the dash it changed it to scammer Scoop, so yea.