10 Best Movie Rap Songs Ranked By Top YouTube Streams

10 Best Movie Rap Songs, Ranked By Top YouTube Streams

Movies and hip-hop and rap are more closely related than one may think, with some films launching the careers of today’s most famous rappers.

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It is hard to decipher how many streams a song has received these days, with so many music platforms and so many versions and releases of the same song on each of these platforms. Streaming numbers are even harder to calculate because songs are constantly uploaded and deleted, making stream counts almost obsolete in a technological age where creative permanence has been erased.

Nevertheless, the most popular songs, and the most popular uploads of songs, still get the most views on YouTube. Thus, YouTube’s top streams provide some quantifiable—although imperfect—data on how some of the best rap songs have been received by audiences today.

10 ‘Fight The Power,’ Do The Right Thing, By Public Enemy (1.4 Million Views)

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing has become one of the most important movies ever created. The movie featured a soundtrack from the political hip-hop group Public Enemy. “Fight The Power” was released in 1989, a year after N.W.A’s “F*ck Tha Police,” during a period that saw Black protests against police brutality. Hip-hop quickly became a cultural force against political oppression during the ’80s.

More so, “Fight The Power” would become emblematic of the genre because of its use of sampling, including samples of activists speaking. Like Do the Right Thing, the song is also about Black rage in America.

9 ‘Afro Puffs,’ Above The Rim, By The Lady Of Rage (2.5 Million Views)

During the 1980s and 1990s, female rappers topped charts, molding the heavily politicized era of hip-hop, and injecting feminism into the genre. “Afro Puffs” was The Lady of Rage’s first single, featuring Snoop Dogg. It was released as part of the soundtrack for the 1994 movie, Above the Rim, a sports movie featuring Tupac Shakur, Duane Martin, Marlon Wayans, and Wood Harris.

Although her lyrics are not political, “Afro Puffs” is thematically political, channeling The Lady of Rage’s political and gendered rage as a Black woman. Her afro puffs represent the energy of her anger, and her strength to continue to be as feminine and as Black as possible without reserve despite what American culture at the time dictated. The Lady of Rage would go on to star on The Steve Harvey Show during the ’90s.

8 ‘Paradise,’ Deliver Us From Eva, By LL Cool J Ft. Amerie (17 Million Views)

LL Cool J is a prolific rapper who released many rap soundtracks. He featured on the Space Jam soundtrack, “Hit ‘Em High (The Monstars Anthem)” with B-Real, Coolio, Method Man, and Busta Rhymes.

“Paradise” appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Deliver Us from Eva, where LL Cool J starred as the lead alongside Gabrielle Union. Union also appeared as the love interest in the movie, while Amerie, at the height of her career, provided the chorus for the song. The movie co-starred Kenya Moore, Meagan Good, and Duane Martin.

7 ‘Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip-Hop),’ Brown Sugar, By Erykah Badu Ft. Common (28 Million Views)

“Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip-Hop)” was part of the soundtrack to the 2002 movie Brown Sugar. The soundtrack features singles from hip-hop, R&B, and soul legends like Jill Scott, Mos Def, Mary J. Blige, and Angie Stone.

The movie centered around two childhood best friends whose love of hip-hop kept them together. They fall in love with hip-hop, and they fall in love with each other. The movie was an ode to hip-hop, as its title suggests, with cameos from Queen Latifah, Method Man, Fabolous, Jermaine Dupri, and Slick Rick.

6 ‘Men In Black,’ Men In Black, By Will Smith (91 Million Views)

One of hip-hop’s most recognizable songs produced for the very popular movie franchise of the same name, Men in Black remains a classic of cinema and hip-hop. The song was the lead single for the movie soundtrack and for Will Smith’s debut solo album Big Willie Style.

Singer Coko, from the R&B girl group SWV, sang the background vocals for the song which went on to reach number one in numerous countries worldwide. The song sampled another popular song “Forget Me Nots” by Patrice Rushen.

5 ‘King’s Dead,’ Black Panther By Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar & Future (126 Million Views)

Black Panther, a part of the MCU, was released to mass anticipation in 2018. Kendrick Lamar was the perfect choice for the single because of his musical history depicting political rage through hip-hop. The single appeared on both the Black Panther soundtrack and on Jay Rock’s album, making it Jay Rock’s first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The song won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance and was nominated for Best Rap Song.

“King’s Dead” also features English singer, James Blake, which surprised fans, as he is not known for producing hip-hop songs. The collaboration between rap artists and English singers, however, shares a long history, including “American Boy” by Estelle featuring Kanye West.

4 ‘Regulate,’ Above The Rim, By Nate Dogg & Warren G (230 Million Views)

Def Jam’s biggest single, Regulate reached number two on the Billboard 100. “Regulate” was the first single on the soundtrack for the 1994 movie, Above the Rim. The soundtrack also featured the song, “Afro Puffs” by The Lady of Rage and Snoop Dogg. Additionally, it included the singles “Pain” and “Pour Out A Little Liquor” by Tupac, who starred in the movie. Likewise, Snoop Dogg would release his own single, “Pump Pump,” for the soundtrack, with Naughty By Nature and Beastie Boys doing the same.

The ’90s and 2000s saw an explosion of Black movies, which popularized many hip-hop and R&B artists, during Hollywood’s golden age of Black cinema.

3 ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ Dangerous Minds, By Coolio Ft. L.V. (542 Million Views)

Considered one of the greatest songs of all time, Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” is the soundtrack to the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The music video also featured Pfeiffer, while the song featured sampled Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise.”

Despite the lack of hip-hop representation worldwide at the time, “Gangsta’s Paradise” was highly successful. It reached number one in nineteen countries and was 1995’s highest-selling single worldwide. “Gangsta’s Paradise” would break record barriers for hip-hop, making the genre more commercially successful worldwide.

2 ‘Still D.R.E.,’ Training Day, By Dr. Dre Ft. Snoop Dogg (854 Million Views)

“Still D.R.E.” was a rap song for the movie Training Day, although it was not included in the official soundtrack. The song was instead released as the lead single on Dr. Dre’s second studio album, titled 2001. The album went double-platinum because of the highly popular single “Still D.R.E.”

Released in the early 2000s, the song lacked the political passion of rap songs of the ’80s and ’90s. During the 2000s, Black movies and music became less political, as movie and music production companies focused more on commercial success over political messages.

1 ‘Lose Yourself,’ 8 Mile, By Eminem (1 Billion Views)

Eminem’s first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, “Lose Yourself” is an autobiographical song about the rapper’s struggle as he rose to hip-hop fame in Detroit, Michigan. The movie plays out the pain of Eminem’s early life as a boy born into very dreary working-class conditions where he was abused by his mother.

The emotion in “Lose Yourself” has been accredited as the reason why it is Eminem’s best song. The Oscar-winning song also touches upon Eminem’s struggles as a white man trying to break into the rap game.

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