Artist	Song
MC Hammer	U Can'T Touch This
from Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990)
Run-DMC	Walk This Way
from Run-DMC: Greatest Hits (2002)
Beastie Boys	Fight for Your Right
from Licensed to Ill (1995)
Sir Mix-A-Lot	Baby Got Back
from Mack Daddy (2007)
Tone-Loc	Funky Cold Medina
from Loc-ed After Dark (2007)
Digable Planets	Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
from Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time & Space) (1993)
Young MC	Bust a Move
from Stone Cold Rhymin' (2007)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	Summertime
from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: Greatest Hits (1990)
Digital Underground	The Humpty Dance
from The Best of Digital Underground: Playwutchyalike (2005)
Naughty By Nature	O.P.P.
from Naughty By Nature (2004)
Kris Kross	Jump
from Totally Krossed Out (1992)
DJ EZ Rock & Rob Base	It Takes Two
from Profilin' - the Hits (1990)
LL Cool J	Around the Way Girl
from All World - Greatest Hits (1996)
P.M. Dawn	Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (Radio Edit)
from The Best of P.M. Dawn (2000)
Heavy D & The Boyz & Al B. Sure!	We Got Our Own Thang
from 20th Century Masters - The Millenium Collection: The Best of Heavy D & The Boyz (2002)
J.J. Fad	Supersonic
from Supersonic (2005)
Kid 'N Play	Rollin' With Kid 'N Play
from 2Hype (2005)
L' Trimm	Cars That Go Boom
from Shakin' Booty (2007)
Onyx	Slam
from Bacdafucup (1994)
Chill Rob G	The Power
from Ride the Rhythm (2008)
Father MC	I'll Do 4 U
from Love Hip Hop - 12 Slammin' Hip Hop Hits (2000)

Comment:

While hair metal strutted its Spandex-stretching stuff all over MTV and college rock donned its cardigan on the other side of campus, pop rap acts like Kris Kross, P.M. Dawn, and Wreckx-N-Effect were kicking down barriers with sticky-sweet, radio-ready jams that put rump-shakin’, car-boomin’, and move-bustin’ right where it belonged — front and center. With the rhythmic snap and pop of Bazooka bubblegum, Naughty by Nature jacked the Jackson 5 for the [i]sha-na-na[/i] groove of “O.P.P.” — a tune as addictive as a schoolyard rhyme . . . and as conniving as a motel tryst. On “Baby Got Back,” Sir Mix A Lot convinced healthy-hipped women to kick Barbie Doll-shaped expectations to the curb, but not without also pumpin’ the bumps on a meaty bassline and freaking a tongue-tangling flow. And in four blessed minutes, Young M.C. reminded us why pop rap is the undisputed king of dance floors from the Bronx to Bangkok, courtesy of the hip-swinging goodie “Bust a Move.” There's more where these came from, too, as groups from Digital Underground to Kid ’N Play put the [i]pop[/i] in [i]hip-hop[/i].

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