what's your favourite classic track?

im sure if you're part of this forum you'll already know the majority of the tracks considered classic in hip hop...

i dunno what mine is..

either T.R.O.Y by pr & cl smooth or 93 til infinity by souls of mischief probably... but then there is passing me by by the pharcyde as well! ahhhhh i could be here for days. ONE OF THOSE THREE.

what about you guys?

I'd say The Message By Nas, or T.R.O.Y. by Pete Rock and CL or Big L - The Heist or Big Pun - Twinz

em's lose yourself)
genious...

Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow
coolio - gangsta paradise

Even though we're not that deep yet, I'm just not gonna do any repeats. here's some of my favorite "Classic" cuts.

Common - The Light, I Used to Love H.E.R.
Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell (^^ I don't think I would consider The Message by Nas a "Classic"^^)
De La Soul - Eye Know, Keepin' The Faith
Camp Lo - Coolie High
Biggie - Juicy
Fugees - Ready or Not
ATCQ - Scenario, Electric Relaxation, Award Tour, Can I Kick It?
Outkast - ATLiens
The Roots - You Got Me, What They Do
Black Star - Definition
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty

Dang, I really could go on all day (prob all month) but that's gonna do for now...

Jay-Z - D'evils
Biggie - The What
De La Soul - Buddy , Magic Number
Redman - Time 4 sum aksion
BDK - Raw , Set it off
ATCQ - 1nce again , can i kick it? , electric relaxtion , check the rhime
Fugees - Zealots
Outkast - ATLiens , Souternplayacadilacmusik , jazzy belle
the roots - you got me , silent treatment , clones , act two (love of my life)

shit i can go on and on for days..

ATCQ- Can I kick it, Scenario
De La Soul- Eye Know, Me myself and I
Nas- It aint hard to tell
NWA- Straight outta compton, Fuck tha police
Public Enemy- Fight the power, Bring the noise
Bone thugs- Tha crossroads

hmmm I have a lot more but...too lazy to type.

dont sweat the technique is also a favourite of mine

definitely T.R.O.Y. furshurrrrr, on the top of the list... but what else... um
also from Pete Rock and CL Smooth - take you there
Blackstar - Definition, Respiration, theives in the night
Nas - Heaven
Reflection Eternal - Too Late, Love Language, Ghetto Afterlife, Eternalists, memories live
Common - I Used To Love Her, Soul by the Pound, Breaker 1-9
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty.... LOVE this song, its my ringtone. def a classic.
The Roots - Guns are Drawn, water, sacrifice, double trouble and a ton of others
Jurassic 5- high fidelity, influence, Jurass finish first

there are so many more....


and I have a favorite tribe song.... what about Electric relaxation?

La Di Da Di by Slick Rick.
how could have no one mentioned it? D:

J5 have a bunch of classics!

aside from concrete schoolyard / quality control all of their albums have loaaaaads of great songs. do you not like jurassic?

i gotta agree, E&A is DOPE, but nothing CLASSIC. and as for J5, same thing. the closest they have to classic is Quality Control and What's Golden. end of discussion. thats not saying they dont have other dope tracks - they have lots - just nothing that can even make an argument with other classics.

good calls, yea as for the roots, if we're talking truly whats the most classic of their classics... it has to go to "You Got Me" and "What They Do"

"The Next Movement" and "Act Too (Love of My Life)" might be considered, but i ultimately think they fall short of the classic title.

also how about Run DMC - Walk This Way, and It's Tricky

and wow, no one said Pharcyde yet. How about "Passing Me By" and "Runnin' "

simon says - pharoahe monch

what about shook ones pt. 2 -- mobb deep