Best Rap Songs
Top 32 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
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Lyrics
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| Baby Got Back |
Sir Mix-A-Lot |
Rap
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| Bottoms Up |
Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj |
Rap |
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| Bust A Move |
Young MC |
Rap
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| California Love |
2 Pac |
Rap
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| Cyclone |
Baby Bash w/T-Pain |
Rap
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| Da Dip |
Freak Nasty |
Rap
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| Electric Slide |
Grandmaster Slice |
Rap
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| Empire State Of Mind |
Jay-Z with Alicia Keys |
Rap
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| Fantastic Voyage |
Coolio |
Rap
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| Fight For Your Right |
Beastie Boys |
Rap
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| Funky Cold Medina |
Tone-Loc |
Rap
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| Gold Digger |
Kanye West |
Rap
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| Hey Ya! |
Outkast |
Rap
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| In Da Club |
50 Cent |
Rap
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| It Takes Two |
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock |
Rap
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| Jump Around |
House Of Pain |
Rap
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| Live Your Life |
T.I. |
Rap
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| Low |
Flo Rida |
Rap
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| Mo Money Mo Problems |
The Notorious B.I.G. |
Rap
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| Push It |
Salt 'N Pepa |
Rap
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| Rapper's Delight |
Sugar Hill Gang |
Rap
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| Right Round |
Flo Rida |
Rap
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| Right Thurr |
Chingy |
Rap
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| Stronger |
Kanye West |
Rap
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| The Humpty Dance |
Digital Underground |
Rap
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| Tootsee Roll |
69 Boyz |
Rap
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| Umbrella |
Rihanna w/Jay-Z |
Rap
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| Whatever You Like |
T.I. |
Rap
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| Whatta Man |
Salt 'N Pepa |
Rap
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| Who Am I (What's My Name) |
Snoop Doggy Dogg |
Rap
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| Whoomp! There It Is |
Tag Team |
Rap
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| Wild Thing |
Tone-Loc |
Rap
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Best rap songs list is updated periodically throughout the year. If you have a song that you think should be included, please add your song suggestion through the comment section below.
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