| Hard rap to hip hop is what heavy metal is to rock. | | | | "Keep Your S*** The Hardest." Other notable tracks |
| While some of the hardest tracks never make it to | | | | include "Ruff Ryders Anthem" and "Get At Me Dog" |
| radio, there are a huge number of the "when I hear this | | | | though anything of his debut album "It's Dark and Hell Is |
| song I just wanna break stuff" songs out there today. | | | | Hot" could qualify for this list. |
| Let's take a look at some of these songs that come | | | | Method Man and Redman. Honestly, I've never |
| from well known rappers. | | | | considered Method Man as a hard rapper, but teamed |
| For hard rap, you can't go wrong with Ice Cube. | | | | with Redman-who's straight fire, period- the two set |
| Responsible for such tracks as You Can Do It, this MC | | | | off some hot tracks with their album "BlackOut." My |
| can come at the mic like a crocodile. His hardest track: | | | | vote: "Tear Da Roof Off" |
| Go To Church, with Snoop Dogg. | | | | Three 6 Mafia: Not really a fan of their work, but "It's A |
| 50 Cent. One hip hop's most street credible rappers, | | | | Fight" gets my blood pumping every time. |
| 50 came up thanks to his mixtape Forever King, full of | | | | Hard rap songs that deserve honorable mention: |
| disses to other rappers, politicians and just about | | | | Triumph by Wu Tang Clan |
| anybody he could think of. His hardest track: I Don't | | | | Crunk Music by Dipset |
| Know Officer. | | | | Da Blow by Lil Jon |
| Eminem. This Detroit born MC could fill a roster with his | | | | Yall Heard of Me by C- Murder |
| list of hard hitting beats and raps, though his absolute | | | | Kill Us All by Twista |
| roughest rhymes come out on "Till I Collapse" "The | | | | Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J (the acousitc |
| Way I Am" and "Kill You." What I like best about these | | | | version on MTV's Unplugged is rocking!) |
| tracks is that Eminem's verses march along with the | | | | Interested in more hard core rap? Check out Pandora |
| beat, and would be a great intro to a football game. | | | | and enter "hard rap" into their search engine. It will |
| DMX. Any list of hard core rap would be incomplete | | | | create a list of songs that will inspire stomping, crashing, |
| without DMX- after all, he does have a song called | | | | breaking, screaming and yelling. Good times. |