The DeuxDuel Golden Age Hip-Hop lineup
21 songs · 15 artists · 1987–2013 · listed A–Z, not ranked
What this list is
DeuxDuel draws from 21 songs when it builds a Golden Age Hip-Hop matchup. Two of them appear side by side, you play a 30-second preview of each, and you pick the one you would rather hear. Every track here is a real Apple Music catalogue song, hand-picked for this category — not pulled from a streaming chart — and voting needs no music subscription.
The order below is alphabetical by artist. It is not a ranking and does not imply one.
No ranking is published for Golden Age Hip-Hop yet. DeuxDuel only publishes a chart once a category has real head-to-head evidence behind it, so this page shows the lineup and nothing more. How the ranking works.
Every song in Golden Age Hip-Hop
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Can I Kick It?
A Tribe Called Quest · 1990 -
Scenario (Edit)
A Tribe Called Quest · 1991 -
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · 2005 -
Ain't No Half-Steppin'
Big Daddy Kane · 1988 -
Me Myself and I
De La Soul · 1989 -
Strictly Business
EPMD · 1988 -
Microphone Fiend
Eric B. & Rakim · 1988 -
Paid In Full
Eric B. & Rakim · 1987 -
Mass Appeal
Gang Starr · 2006 -
It Was a Good Day
Ice Cube · 1992 -
Sound of da Police
KRS-One · 1990 -
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL COOL J · 1990 -
N.Y. State of Mind
Nas · 1994 -
The World Is Yours
Nas · 1994 -
Bring the Noise
Public Enemy · 1987 -
Fight the Power
Public Enemy · 1989 -
Gin and Juice
Snoop Dogg · 1993 -
Big Poppa
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1994 -
Juicy
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1994 -
C.R.E.A.M. (feat. Method Man, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck & Buddha Monk)
Wu-Tang Clan · 2013 -
Protect Ya Neck (feat. RZA, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon, U-God, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Ghostface Killah & GZA)
Wu-Tang Clan · 1992
Disagree with what belongs here? The lineup is settled by the
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a published chart.