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Gangsta Boo addresses all drama related to her arrest for allegedly robbing a dollar store. According to Boo she's the victim of a "fan gone mad" who made up this lie about her because she didn't want him around her anymore. Peep the full audio below.Gangsta Boo Outta Jail Talks About Robbery "RUMORS" With KING Of RAPSTARPROMO pt.1 of 3Gangsta Boo Outta Jail Talks About Robbery "RUMORS" With KING Of RAPSTARPROMO pt.2 of 3Gangsta Boo Outta Jail Talks About Robbery "RUMORS" With KING Of RAPSTARPROMO pt.3 of 3Read more…
AKRON, Ohio -- Police in Ohio say the mother of Pittsburgh Steelers star James Harrison has been charged with assault following a brawl at a game-watching party in a community hall.
Akron police say 62-year-old Mildred Harrison was one of three people cited after the fight at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post Thursday.
Police say it's not clear why the party turned violent about 10 p.m., during Cleveland's 13-6 upset of division foe Pittsburgh.
Victims have told police they were pushed, punched and struck with beer bottles.
Harrison is due in Akron Municipal Court on Thursday. She declined to comment to the Akron Beacon-Journal when reached by telephone at her Akron home Friday.
James Harrison was the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year in 2008.
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You hear a lot of negative things about rappers these days, but they often do good deeds that go unnoticed by the media..
Rapper Nelly follows the lead of 50 Cent, Master P, Jay Rock and KRS One and gives back to the community for the holidays.
The St Louis mc didn't let the recent break-in at his home slow him down as he spent time at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Hospital on Friday (Dec. 11). Playing Nintendo Wii and signing autographs for cancer patients there.
Nelly knows firsthand the heartache of losing a loved one to cancer. His sister Jackie Donahue, 31 lost a four year battle to leukemia in 2005.
Props to Nelly for giving these kids a gift they will always remember and cherish.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 12, 2009 at 10:30pm
Lil Wayne’supscale Miami apartment is proving a difficult sell due to the superstar emcee’s predilection for marijuana.
The NY Post reports that the New Orleans native has been renting the 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment from a landlord who has listed the property for $520,000.
The marijuana issue became public knowledge after several prospective buyers were taken aback by the signature aroma when visiting the home.
"My fiancée and I called to make an appointment to see it, and the broker, deadpan, goes, 'I have two questions: Are you offended by the smell of marijuana?” an unidentified couple told the NY Post. “And do you mind coming late in the afternoon? It's currently rented by Lil Wayne, and these are not morning people."
Although the couple was initially taken aback by the apartment’s abundance of scantily-clad women, they praised the Grammy-winning rapper for his neatness.
"Once we got there, a member of Wayne's posse opened the door to the overwhelming smell of marijuana. Two hot, rap-video-looking girls were walking around in nothing but a bra and underwear, blasting hip-hop. We just went in and looked around and tried not to stare,” they revealed. "He had a perfectly organized closet of crisp T-shirts on hangers, neatly stacked piles of XXL magazine, and a fully stocked bar featuring multiple bottles of Hennessy Black."
Wayne’s recreational use of syrup and marijuana has been the subject of intense media scrutiny, and the rapper addressed those issues in two interviews this year with Tim Westwood and Katie Couric.
“Whatever the hell was in my cup the reaction I did was get more popular, more successful, learn how to play guitar, put on the autotune and stretched my voice, and became #1 in the country with everything I dropped. I should probably pick that cup back up,” Wayne argued. “I will stand up for marijuana any day. I’m a rapper. That’s who I am, Miss Katie, and I am a gangster and I do what I want. And I love to smoke. And I smoke.”
Wayne’s rock project Rebirth has witnessed several delays this year and is now scheduled to drop in February 2010.
That month, Wayne will also be sentenced on his October 22 guilty plea for criminal possession of a weapon. He is expected to receive one year in prison.
Source: AllHipHop
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01. Intro
02. Jadakiss - Last Days (Feat. Styles P, Sheek Louch, And The Notorious B.I.G.)
03. Styles P - Machine Gun Rap (Feat. Bully)
04. Styles P - Supplier Freestyle
05. Jadakiss And Styles P - One More Step
06. Sheek Louch - It’s Your World
07. Sheek Louch - What A Thug About
08. Styles P - Nuttin Comes Ez
09. Snyp Lyfe - Boys 2 (Feat. Bully, Bucky, AP, And St. Raw)
10. Styles P - That’s D-Block (Feat. Bucky, St. Raw, And Large Amounts)
11. Sheek Louch - Ryde Or Die (Feat. Jadakiss, Styles P, Drag-On, Eve, And DMX)
12. Sheek Louch - Hot97 Freestyle (Feat. Jadakiss And Styles P)
13. Sheek Louch - You Heard Of Us (Remix) (Feat. Bully, Styles P, And Jadakiss)
14. Jadakiss - Problem Child (Feat. Styles P)
15. Jadakisss - Cartel Gathering (Feat. Ghostface Killah And Raekwon)
16. Sheek Louch - We Like
17. Trav - Remember Me (Feat. St. Raw (Team Arliss))
18. Sheek Louch - The Message (Feat. Styles P)
19. Lox (Jadakiss, Styles P, And Sheek Louch) - Fuck You
20. Sheek Louch - Get That Paper (Feat. Jadakiss, Styles P, And S.I.)
21. Styles P - Feel It In The Air (Feat. Jadakiss And Sheek Louch)
22. The LOX (Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, And Styles P) - Wild Out
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24. Jadakiss - If You Think I’m Jiggy (Feat. Sheek Louch And Styles P)
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02. Oh My God 3:09
03. Straight Up 3:45
04. She Dont Want You 3:40
05. Interlude 0:18
06. Paper Planes Freestyle 2:30
07. Computer Love Freestyle 2:33
08. High Times Freestyle 2:30
09. Undeniable 2:34
10. Dope Boy Swagg 1:47
11. Jody Breeze Interlude Pt. 2 0:35
12. Lets Ride 3:03
13. Whats Up 2:11
14. Bitch Get Off Me 3:46
15. Outro 0:34
16. If I Breeze Ruled The World 3:17
17. DJ Bobby Black Outro 0:45
18. Too Much 3:39
19. I'm Gone Shine 4:09
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02. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Girl Gotta Girl
03. Chalie Boy - Diamonds In Ya Face (Feat. Tum Tum)
04. $ticki - Pull Up
05. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Makin’ My Moves
06. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Have You Ever
07. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Slab On Jelly
08. Chalie Boy - Looks Like Money (Smell Like Dollaz)
09. Chalie Boy And $ticki - I’m Clean
10. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Flex
11. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Chiropractor
12. Chalie Boy - Bottles And Models (Feat. Da Blockboi)
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14. Chalie Boy And $ticki - What’s Goin’s On
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16. Chalie Boy And $ticki - Acta Azz
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03. Yeah (Feat. Sheek Louch And Bully)
04. Throw It In The Bag
05. Came Too Far (Feat. Moxberg And Tony Sunshine)
06. Invasion (Feat. J.R. Reid And Jadakiss) [Prod. By Green Lantern]
07. Broken Safety (Feat. Raekwon And Jadakiss)
08. Pablo Doe (Feat. Uncle Murda And N.O.R.E.)
09. Run This Town (Feat. Sheek Louch And Bully)
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11. Want It Wit P
12. Dirty Game (Feat. Cormega And Prodigy)
13. We Can Do It (Feat. Joell Ortiz)
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Since Michael Jackson’s untimely death in late June, the King of Pop has been honored at almost every major awards ceremony, from the VMAs to the AMAs. Now comes word Jackson will posthumously receive a lifetime achievement prize at January’s Grammy Awards, where his remarkable achievements will almost certainly be celebrated once again.
Chris Brown was slated to perform at last year’s Grammys, but pulled out of the ceremony after his altercation with then-girlfriend Rihanna the night before the event. The assault — which resulted in Brown pleading guilty in exchange for probation, community labor and anger-management classes — also prevented the young star from participating in the Jackson tribute at the BET Awards, which were held just days after the King of Pop’s death. In the new issue of Vibe, which hits stands next week, Brown confirms what Rolling Stone had learned at the time: that he was yanked from the show at the last minute.
“I was watching it, holding my face, like ‘Oh my God, this is wack,’ ” he tells Vibe, complaining about the production values of the BET tribute. “I was expecting them to have Usher, Omarion and even Justin [Timberlake]. They were so bent on not getting me there that they messed up their own show.”
Brown says the show told him he was pulled over concerns about sponsors. “I felt like BET should have been looking at the people who got drug charges, gun charges, weapons, other stuff,” he adds. “You can’t discriminate against one person because you’re afraid the media is going to kill you.”
Talking about the clubby song “Pass Out” on his new album Graffiti, Brown says he was aiming for a wider appeal, inspired once again by his fallen idol. “Michael Jackson didn’t make music for one audience. Rolling Stones and the Beatles, too.”
(Note: Of the performers on the BET Awards show that Chris was not allowed to perform on. I could only find two with weapons or drug related offenses. Jay-Z plead guilty and was sentenced to probation for stabbing record executive Lance "Un" Rivera in 1999. Lil Wayne has had numerous run ins with the law, Including arrests for possession of cocaine, weed, ecstasy and most recently a gun charge that will result in the New Orleans rapper serving one year in prison.
So is Chris Brown taking shots at them? Or is he simply pointing out the one sided view of BET executives for not letting him perform following his assault of then girlfriend Rihanna?)
Source: RollingStone.com
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Video After The JumpFloyd "Money" Mayweather Jr never bites his tongue. Appearing on HBO's Joe Buck Live program, he said he doesn't want fans to be surprised when they see what he's going to do to Manny "Pac Man" Pacquiao when the two meet in their much hyped bout. The fight will most likely take place on March 13,2010. To see the full interview with Floyd go to the HBO website.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 12, 2009 at 11:00am
WEST HOLLYWOOD -- Four people were arrested late Friday for being drunk and disorderly outside the House of Blues during a performance by gangsta rap pioneer Ice Cube, police said.
The incident happened around 11 p.m. at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip.
Authorities said the four suspects were intoxicated.
"Some people had too much to drink, and deputies took two of them into custody," said Sgt. Dave Valentine of the sheriff's West Hollywood station. "One or two others tried to get involved and got in a scrap with the deputies."
At least one of the four was booked on suspicion of battery on a peace officer, Valentine said.
No one was hurt, and the incident didn't affect the concert.
Last year, a brawl inside and outside the venue involving more than 100 people shut down the Strip for almost an entire evening, but there has not been such a major incident since then.
Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson. The 39-year-old rap artist and actor first gained notoriety as a member of the controversial group N.W.A., who gained international fame for their portrayal of South Los Angeles street life in the 1988 release of "Straight Outta Compton."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 12, 2009 at 10:00am
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Singer and Songwriter Ke$ha performed her smash hit single "Tik Tok" on MTV's It's On With Alexa Chung. Ke$ha's debute cd "Animal" is set to drop January 5,2010 on RCA Records.
In other news, MTV has decided to cancel Alexa Chung's show. This was the networks first attempt at a daytime talk show and it obviously didn't meet expectations. The last episode will air December 17th.
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The new President of Priority Records, Snoop Dogg continued his talk show circuit tour last night (December 11) promoting his new album "Malice In Wonderland.. Stopping by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Snoop kicked it with Jimmy for a bit before giving a special Snoop reading of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas". The west coast Don came back later in the show and performed a sick version of "I Wanna Rock" with The Roots Band.
Tiger Woods said Friday he is taking an indefinite leave from golf to work on saving his marriage, using the word "infidelity" for the first time in a statement posted on his Web site.
"After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf," Woods said. "I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person."
The announcement came two weeks after a car accident that set in motion a shocking downfall for the world's No. 1 player, which has included sordid allegations of numerous extramarital affairs. One woman even shared a voicemail she said Woods left her two nights before his Nov. 27 accident.
Woods has not been seen in public since the accident.
"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children," Woods said. "I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try."
How long Woods will stay away from golf was unclear.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said "we look forward to Tiger's return to the PGA Tour when he determines the time is right for him."
"We fully support Tiger's decision to step away from competitive golf to focus on his family," Finchem said Friday in a statement. "His priorities are where they need to be, and we will continue to respect and honor his family's request for privacy."
A year ago, Woods was out of golf for eight months while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery, and television ratings dropped 50 percent during his absence.
"I would like to ask everyone, including my fans, the good people at my foundation, business partners, the PGA Tour, and my fellow competitors, for their understanding," the statement says. "What's most important now is that my family has the time, privacy, and safe haven we will need for personal healing."
Woods and his wife, Elin, have been married five years and have a 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son.
"Again, I ask for privacy for my family and I am especially grateful for all those who have offered compassion and concern during this difficult period."
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Lil Kim said it best, “Money, power, respect… That’s the key to life.” In hip-hop especially there are no greater motivational tools than those three. Dissect the importance of each, and you’ll see that the first and third are byproducts of the second. And there are few scholars out there with more knowledge on how to obtain power than writer Robert Greene. A New York Times best-selling author, Greene is best known for his 2000 book, The 48 Laws of Power, which has become a guiding force behind the dollar-chasing pursuits of Wall Street types and politicians, as well as music industry elite.
Perhaps Greene’s biggest rapper-fan is Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, whose appreciation for the Los Angeles-born scribe’s work culminated in their collaborative text, The 50th Law. Released this past September, the book breaks down the key to triumph as a not-too-simple conquering of one’s own fears. To compile the nearly-300-page tome, Greene shadowed 50 for six months back in 2007, everything from attending meetings alongside the megastar to spending time at his Connecticut mansion. XXLMag.com recently caught up with Greene to discuss his time with the rapper/mogul who directly inspired The 50th Law. His insights may just paint a whole new Curtis Jackson picture.
XXLMag.com: How did you and 50 first meet to work on this book?
Robert Greene: Someone in his team had reached out to me in, I think it was early 2006. He’d read The 48 Laws of Power [and] found it very helpful, dealing with the music business, like a lot of other rappers. So, he wanted to meet me. I didn’t precisely know why at that time; I thought he was thinking about a book, and also there was all that stuff going on with Game, and he wanted to talk about that, which we did talk about. We met in this steakhouse in Manhattan, [in] the backroom. He had his entourage of about 10 people, and I was just by myself. [Laughs].
XXLMag.com: That must have been intimidating?
Robert Greene: His son was there, and his manager and agent and a few others. It was really good. I didn’t know what to expect, so I was a little surprised. He was more open, and he wasn’t intimidating at all. And I think I wasn’t what he was expecting—he was probably thinking this old man, kind of like Henry Kissinger, and I wasn’t like that. So I think we were both surprised, in a good way. We felt really comfortable.
XXLMag.com: Where you even familiar with 50’s music at that time?
Robert Greene: Well, I knew his music. When I was writing my 33 Strategies of War… sometimes, when I write my books, I like to have a bit of an aggressive energy, particularly when I was writing the war book. Sometimes, I just would wake up and it wasn’t there. 50 was one of the few hip-hop artists that I would put [his music] on and it put me in the kind of war-like mood.
XXLMag.com: Any songs in particular?
Robert Greene: Well, there were things like “Position of Power” and “My Toy Soldier,” and “Hustler’s Ambition.” I had Power of the Dollar, somebody had passed it to me secretly, and there were some songs I really liked. I don’t have it in front of me, but I had the hard stuff. And the one where he’s really dissing Ja Rule…
XXLMag.com: “Back Down.”
Robert Greene: Yeah, that’s the kind of stuff I like—the nasty stuff. So, I knew his music that way. Then, before I met him, when I knew the meeting was coming, I got a copy of From Pieces to Weight and devoured that. I think it’s a great book; I found it inspiring… When you first meet him, you’re kind of expecting that “gangsta,” intimidating presence, and I think he uses that to an effect. He knows that most people, particularly White guys like myself, when we first meet him we’re expecting that, and he uses that to his advantage, because it’s very disarming when you realize that he’s not. So my first impressions were, at first, he’s really nice and charming. He’s not like all ego-ridden. He looks you in the eye when he talks to you.
XXLMag.com: Earlier you said when you guys first started talking that he spoke to you about the Game situation. Was he looking for advice on that?
Robert Greene: I don’t think he was looking for “advice,” per se. Because, who am I to give him advice? But, maybe he was. We talked about it, for sure. To be honest with you, I wasn’t too up on the situation. I knew that there was a beef going on, but what was behind it? How did it start? I really didn’t know. So, talking about it then, what I would’ve said knowing what I know now about the whole thing, it would’ve been different. So I don’t know if my “advice” was particularly insightful at that time. That’s when I thought he was a very crafty person. He was really strategizing in a hardcore way, about how to make this guy go away. Not in the Mafia sense, but how to end [the problem], so it doesn’t turn into this mutually destructive war… I was impressed about how he was weighing certain options and not just going with raw emotion, because you’d expect someone with the persona that he projects—which really isn’t who he is—that he would be looking for something kind of ultra-aggressive. That’s the entertainment part of 50. The real 50 is much more strategic.
XXLMag.com: In order to write The 50th Law, you trailed 50 for nearly six months straight. Do any memories from that time stand out in your mind as being exemplary of his character?
Robert Greene: I remember we would talk about how he had learned to adapt to the business world. A lot of the book, at first, and even as it came out, was about him as a hustler on the streets and how that translated into working in corporate America… He said that he was always learning on the job. He noticed that Lloyd Banks, whenever he would be in a meeting, would be kind of surly, and didn’t want to talk to anyone. But because of that, people would always be trying to please him, and giving him attention, thinking he was upset and they needed to win him over somehow—but that’s just his personality. 50 noticed that he needed to talk less in these meetings, and act a little bit like he wasn’t totally happy, and then people would work harder to please him—a little psychological ploy. Then we went into a meeting and I saw him do exactly that. [Laughs] This group of four or five very conservative White people from the Midwest. He did a little seduction number on them, making them feel like he wasn’t totally happy with what they were offering, and it worked like a charm, just as he told me it would.
XXLMag.com: In the book, you talk about how the infamous throwing-the-plasma-TV-out-the-window incident, in response to his “Follow My Lead” video prematurely leaking online back in August of 2007, was staged, and how that showed his tactfulness, in a way.
Robert Greene: That was an amazing thing to watch, because I got to see how he handles a crisis, and how calm he was compared to everybody else, who were like chickens with their heads cut off. [Laughs] He came up with this kind of weird, made-up problem of him getting angry, and the television screen and all that, which I thought was really quite smart. And then, the next day, the management team at Violator had a meeting about this, which I attended, and they were really not happy with what he’d done, because their whole method of handling it was to suppress the video, and he had done the opposite. So there was this confrontation—not angry or anything. They were telling him, “You just can’t do that kind of thing,” and he was telling them, “No, the story is already out there. I’m not going to, like, stop something that’s already out there. You have to make a story out of it.” I thought it was really indicative of how he operates.
XXLMag.com: Another side of 50’s personality is that he seems to fully embrace this “bad guy” role that he’s been put into. How do you think that helps him as an artist?
Robert Greene: Well, it helps him, but it [also] hurts him, and that’s a real strategic bind that he’s in. It’s the entertainment character that he created, and it’s kind of a cartoon character, which he’s done all on purpose. He knows that he can’t be too subtle when you’re a celebrity like that. People want a good guy, a bad guy… You can’t be a mix, or they get confused. So he plays it up, particularly in those very public beefs that he seems to always choose. But then, on the other hand, you start getting older and you can’t keep doing that forever… Younger people come up. And it’s also just not the space that he’s in right now. He’s in this very comfortable world. So you can’t keep doing it forever. You get stale and people will grow bored with it. He’s trying to figure out how to keep that.
XXLMag.com: You think so?
Robert Greene: You know, the music sells when it’s more aggressive. He knows that. The ballads and the soft stuff, although I think is good and he likes it, just doesn’t have what people seem to be looking for. So he knows his audience, he knows what people want, and he’ll play that up, but at the same time, he has to figure out a way out of that. He has to figure out how in five-to-ten years he’s going to morph into this interesting business mogul. He just can’t keep doing it… He’s really hyper aware of how it works, how he can use that aggressive edge, and how if it can’t how he has to adapt it. Unlike a lot of rappers, who becomes sort of prisoners of their image, he’s thinking about it. He’s trying to solve it some way. —Matt Barone
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Timbaland told MTV News that if he makes anotherShock Value LP, he'll give it away.
"If this album does as semi-well as the last one, I'm done," Timbaland said. "I'm not going through the stress no more. I will do it for my fans and give it away for free."
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For Diddy it may have been all about the Benjamins but it wasn't by any means necessary. In his interview with Playboy, he revealed how almost getting popped made him reconsider his “Frank White” and King Of New York dreams.
"Some of my friends were selling drugs in the Maryland and (Washington) D.C. area. I remember them having all this jewelry and new BMWs. I was eating ramen noodles, stealing from the 7-Eleven to get some food. I thought, 'I need to get some money like y'all have.' So I go out on the block, the strip where they're selling drugs, and my man says, 'OK, I'm going to give you this. You wait there. They'll come up to you.'
I'm out there five minutes when three cop cars pull up and officers jump out and start chasing me. I ran and got away. We reconvene in the same place two hours later. This time it's dark, and all of a sudden a van pulls up. Cops jump out and start chasing me again. There's a helicopter overhead with a light following me through the woods.”
Puff then continued with the story where he finally met up with his boys hours later and started to really reconsider his choice.
“I wanted to go home, but I didn't know how to punk out and tell them. The cops were outside, and we heard them coming up the stairs (but) they were responding to a couple having an argument below us... I turned unto a scared white Harvard (University) student. God was sending me signals.
I told my friends, 'Thanks, y'all, but no thanks. This game is not for me.' I walked out that door, and I ain't been around nobody with no drugs. I don't want to see no drugs. I'm probably the shortest-duration drug dealer in history. That's why you never heard me talk about it in my rhymes."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 11, 2009 at 10:43am
Rolling Stone Magazine unveiled their best songs of the decade list.
It's sure to spark plenty of conversation as Gnarles Barkley's "Crazy" took the #1 slot. The Shady/Aftermath camp was well represented placing three songs in the top 15, but I have to take exception with M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" placing higher than Slim Shady's "Lose Yourself" and 50's "In Da Club. Check the full list below and leave your thoughts and opinions.
Songs of the Decade
1 | Gnarls Barkley — "Crazy"
2 | Jay-Z — "99 Problems"
3 | Beyoncé — "Crazy in Love"
4 | Outkast — "Hey Ya!"
5 | M.I.A. — "Paper Planes"
6 | The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"
7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Maps"
8 | Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"
9 | U2 — "Beautiful Day"
10 | Eminem — "Stan"
11 | MGMT — "Time to Pretend"
12 | Eminem — "Lose Yourself"
13 | 50 Cent — "In Da Club"
14 | Missy Elliott — "Get Ur Freak On"
15 | Johnny Cash — "Hurt"
16 | The Strokes — "Last Nite"
17 | Bob Dylan — "Mississippi"
18 | Kelly Clarkson — "Since U Been Gone"
19 | Kanye West — "Jesus Walks"
20 | Justin Timberlake — "Cry Me a River"
21 | OutKast — "B.O.B."
22 | Amerie — "1 Thing"
23 | Rihanna — "Umbrella"
24 | Radiohead — "Everything in Its Right Place"
25 | Missy Elliott — "Work It"
26 | Coldplay — "Clocks"
27 | The Postal Service — "Such Great Heights"
28 | Randy Newman — "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"
29 | Kanye West — "Gold Digger"
30 | R. Kelly — "Ignition (Remix)"
31 | The Flaming Lips — "Do You Realize?"
32 | Franz Ferdinand — "Take Me Out"
33 | Daft Punk — "One More Time"
34 | Coldplay — "Yellow"
35 | Bruce Springsteen — "The Rising"
36 | U2 — "Moment of Surrender"
37 | LCD Soundsystem — "Losing My Edge"
38 | Gorillaz — "Clint Eastwood"
39 | Modest Mouse — "Float On"
40 | Kelis — "Milkshake"
41 | LCD Soundsystem — "All My Friends"
42 | Arcade Fire — "Wake Up"
43 | The Roots — "The Seed (2.0)"
44 | Britney Spears — "Toxic"
45 | Kylie Minogue — "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
46 | MGMT — "Kids"
47 | Green Day — "American Idiot"
48 | The Killers — "Mr. Brightside"
49 | The Walkmen — "The Rat"
50 | Beyoncé — "Single Ladies"
51 | D'Angelo — "Untitled (How Does It Feel)"
52 | Christina Aguilera — "Beautiful"
53 | The Rapture — "House of Jealous Lovers"
54 | Coldplay — "The Scientist"
55 | OutKast — "Ms. Jackson"
56 | Radiohead — "Idioteque"
57 | The Shins — "New Slang"
58 | The White Stripes — "Fell In Love With a Girl"
59 | The Strokes — "Hard to Explain"
60 | Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable"
61 | Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
62 | Alicia Keys — "Fallin'"
63 | Lil Wayne — "A Milli"
64 | U2 — "Vertigo"
65 | Green Day — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
66 | Madonna — "Music"
67 | Wilco — "Jesus, Etc."
68 | Coldplay — "Viva La Vida"
69 | Santigold — "L.E.S. Artistes"
70 | Arctic Monkeys — "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor"
71 | Justice — "D.A.N.C.E."
72 | Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody"
73 | Queens of the Stone Age — "No One Knows"
74 | TV on the Radio — "Wolf Like Me"
75 | Arcade Fire — "Rebellion (Lies)"
76 | Madonna — "Hung Up"
77 | Dixie Chicks — "Not Ready to Make Nice"
78 | LCD Soundsystem — "Daft Punk is Playing at My House"
79 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss — "Gone Gone Gone"
80 | Phoenix — "1901"
81 | Pink — "Get The Party Started"
82 | Jay-Z — "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"
83 | The Gossip — "Standing in the Way of Control"
84 | The Clipse — "Grindin'"
85 | The Dirty Projectors — "Stillness Is the Move"
86 | Aaliyah — "Try Again"
87 | The Knife — "Heartbeats"
88 | Jay-Z — "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
89 | Bright Eyes — "Lua"
90 | Midlake — "Roscoe"
91 | Bruce Springsteen — "My City of Ruins"
92 | Brad Paisley — "Alcohol"
93 | Snoop Dogg — "Drop It Like It's Hot"
94 | Radiohead — "Pyramid Song"
95 | Mary J. Blige — "Family Affair"
96 | Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
97 | Fleet Foxes — "White Winter Hymnal"
98 | Amy Winehouse — "Back to Black"
99 | Gorillaz — "Feel Good Inc."
100 | Damian Marley — "Welcome to Jamrock"
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