#2. Bonita Applebum – A Tribe Called Quest

“You’re like a hip hop song.” – Q Tip

EVERYTHING about this song not only screams hip hop but it screams love. From the Little Feet breakbeat to the R.A.M.P. sample. I don’t know if there’s EVER been a smoother hip hop song made about a shorty. It’s like this song was hip hop’s 1st crush on somebody. And the remix?!?!? Don’t even get me started on the remix. “I flirted and I flirted ’til there was no end, but she kicked the diabolical as if we were friends.” Come on, what dude can’t relate to feeling like that? And the way Tip freaked the Isley’s “ Between the Sheets” sample YEARS before the rest of hip hop jumped on, it just helps certify the original AND the remix in my eyes as one of hip hop’s ILLEST love songs.

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