Top 54 Rap Songs for Weddings

These are the Best Rap Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! Rap style of music is created from African music. For all intensive purposes rap music can be intertwined as hip-hop music. Rapping is a vocal style in which the vocalist speaks lyrically, in rhyme and verse. The creation of hip-hop has been accredited to Keith Cowboy of the music group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Hip-hop beginnings in the 70’s entail block parties in New York City in which DJs would isolate percussion breaks of popular songs. Turntable techniques, playing records, beat mixing/matching, and beat juggling eventually developed along with the breaks, creating a base that could be rapped over. Hip-hop was predominantly popular in New York City in the 70’s. It did not grow its internship until the 80s with new styles of hip-hop.

There are many claims on the first hip hop recording. However, our favorite is to be The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight from 1979. The lyrical content of hip hop evolved from the 70’s to metaphorical lyrics over more complex, multi-layered instrumentals. Artists such as Chuck D and KRS-ONE revolutionized hip-hop by transforming it into a more mature art form. Hip hop from the 80’s and into the new decade formed into many genres including east coast and west coast hip hop, gangsta rap, new school hip hop, world and crunk.

Our Top 5 Rap Wedding Reception Songs: 1) Hey Ya! – Outkast, 2) Whoomp! There It Is - Tag Team, 3) In Da Club - 50 Cent, 4) It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, 5) Electric Slide - Grandmaster Slice

Being former wedding DJs, we've calculated a list of our favorite Rap Songs. If you have a special song that you think should be added to our list, please add your song suggestion through the comment section below. Be sure to also check out the song lyric link to find song relevance to what you want for in your song choice. Once decided, we provided a link to iTunes to purchase and Amazon.com to purchase and listen to a sample of each song.

Best Rap Songs for Weddings

Song	Artist	Format	Lyrics	iTunes	Amazon
Airplanes	B.o.B.	Rap
Baby Got Back	Sir Mix-A-Lot	Rap
Big Poppa	Notorious B.I.G.	Rap
Boom Boom Pow	Black Eyed Peas	Rap
Bottoms Up	Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj	Rap
Bust A Move	Young MC	Rap
California Love	2 Pac	Rap
Club Can't Handle Me	Flo Rida Feat. David Guetta	Rap
C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)	Quad City DJ's	Rap
Cyclone	Baby Bash w/T-Pain	Rap
Da Dip	Freak Nasty	Rap
Drop It Like It's Hot	Snoop Dogg	Rap
Electric Slide	Grandmaster Slice	Rap		- -
Empire State Of Mind	Jay-Z with Alicia Keys	Rap
Fantastic Voyage	Coolio	Rap
Fight For Your Right	Beastie Boys	Rap
Funky Cold Medina	Tone-Loc	Rap
Gold Digger	Kanye West	Rap
Good Feeling	Flo Rida	Rap
Hey Ya!	Outkast	Rap
Hot In Herre	Nelly	Rap
I Cry	Flo Rida	Rap
In Da Club	50 Cent	Rap
It Takes Two	Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock	Rap
Jump Around	House Of Pain	Rap
Just A Dream	Nelly	Rap
Lean Back	Terror Squad	Rap
Let's Get Married	Jagged Edge	Rap
Like A G6	Far East Movement	Rap
Live Your Life	T.I.	Rap
Low	Flo Rida	Rap
Mo Money Mo Problems	The Notorious B.I.G.	Rap
Over & Over	Nelly & Tim McGraw	Rap
Push It	Salt 'N Pepa	Rap
Rapper's Delight	Sugar Hill Gang	Rap
Right Round	Flo Rida	Rap
Right Thurr	Chingy	Rap
Stronger	Kanye West	Rap
Starships	Nicki Minaj	Rap
Super Bass	Nicki Minaj	Rap
Teach Me How to Dougie	Cali Swag District	Rap
The Humpty Dance	Digital Underground	Rap
The Way I Are	Timberland	Rap
The Way You Move	Outkast	Rap
Tootsee Roll	69 Boyz	Rap
Umbrella	Rihanna w/Jay-Z	Rap
Whatever You Like	T.I.	Rap
Whatta Man	Salt 'N Pepa	Rap
Who Am I (What's My Name)	Snoop Doggy Dogg	Rap
Whoomp! There It Is	Tag Team	Rap
Whistle	Flo Rida	Rap			<
Wild Ones	Flo Rida	Rap
Wild Thing	Tone-Loc	Rap
Wobble	V.I.C.	Rap