Artist	Song
MC Hammer	U Can'T Touch This
from Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990)
LL Cool J	Mama Said Knock You Out
from All World - Greatest Hits (1996)
Sir Mix-A-Lot	Baby Got Back
from Mack Daddy (2007)
Will Smith	Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
from Will Smith: Greatest Hits (2002)
Fugees	Ready or Not
from The Score (1996)
Coolio	Fantastic Voyage
from Rhino Hi-Five: Coolio - EP (2005)
Arrested Development	Tennessee
from 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In the Life Of... (2010)
Eminem	My Name Is
from Curtain Call - The Hits (Deluxe Version) (2005)
Snoop Dogg & Dat Nigga Daz	Gin and Juice
from Doggystyle (2001)
Kris Kross	Jump
from Totally Krossed Out (1992)
Digital Underground	The Humpty Dance
from Sex Packets (2005)
Warren G	Regulate
from Regulate...G Funk Era (1994)
Loleatta Holloway & Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch	Good Vibrations
from Radio Waves of the '90s: Pop Hits (2002)
Tag Team	Whoomp! (There It Is) [Radio Edit]
from Whoomp! There It Is - EP (1993)
Naughty By Nature	O.P.P.
from Naughty By Nature (2004)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	Summertime
from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: Greatest Hits (1990)
Salt-n-Pepa & En Vogue	Whatta Man
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Salt-N-Pepa (2008)
Montell Jordan	This Is How We Do It
from This Is How We Do It - EP (1995)
Puff Daddy & The Family	I'll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans & 112)
from No Way Out (2005)
Digable Planets	Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
from Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time & Space) (1993)
Heavy D & The Boyz & Aaron Hall	Now That We Found Love
from Heavy Hitz (2000)
P.M. Dawn	Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (Radio Edit)
from The Best of P.M. Dawn (2000)
Sisqó	Thong Song
from Unleash the Dragon (1999)
Skee-Lo	I Wish
from I Wish (2008)
Lucas	Lucas With the Lid Off
from Lucacentric (1994)

Comment:

If the '90s proved anything about rap, it's that it's not all about bling and bad boys, as the sound of the 'hood made a beeline for the mainstream. That riff, that voice . . . [i]those pants[/i]! Just weeks into the decade, America set its clock to Hammer Time, as the Oakland-born MC lifted a riff from Rick James' "Super Freak," rapped around a wraparound, and catapulted "U Can't Touch This" into the Top 10. Licensed to ill before they're licensed to drive? Check out the pants-backward glory of Kris Kross, all of 13 years old when "Jump" jumped to the top of the charts for two solid months, representing with a [i]wiggida-wiggida-wack[/i] as only a [i]miggida-miggida-miggida-mack-daddy[/i] (or two) from the ATL can. And jazz/hip-hop fusioneers US3 engineered a rebirth of the cool around a core sample from Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" in "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)," from their full-length debut, [i]Hand on the Torch[/i]. From Warren G to LL Cool J, from "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" to "Baby Got Back," we've got the hottest tracks — with a side of ice, ice, baby — picked, packed, and primed for your iPod pleasure.

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