Including a clutch of hip-hop/R&B crossover anthems, The Very Best of Pure R&B has a bizarre title but a winning tracklisting. The two-disc set features some of the best R&B tracks of the '90s and early 2000s -- Blackstreet's 'No Diggity,' Ginuwine's 'Pony,' OutKast's 'Ms. Jackson,' Jay-Z's 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),' and even Afroman's 'Because I Got High.' For listeners who don't have any of these tracks and can get over the abrupt mixing of the Firin' Squad -- who move from Wu-Tang Clan's 'Gravel Pit' to Sisq贸's 'Thong Song,' definitely a first -- The Very Best of Pure R&B makes a worthwhile purchase.
The 90s were without a doubt, the golden age of rap. NME’s bringing you a killer playlist of the 20 finest hip-hop tracks of the 1990s.
Title/Composer | Performer | Time |
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1 | 3:44 | |
2 | Teddy Riley / William Stewart / Lynise Walters / Bill Withers | 4:11 |
3 | Woody Cunningham / Norman Durham / Roger / Tupac Shakur / Larry Troutman | 5:25 |
4 | 3:34 | |
5 | David Axelrod / Brian Bailey / Snoop Dogg / Robby Pardlo / Ryan Toby / Andre Young | 2:48 |
6 | Ashanti / Ja Rule | 4:14 |
7 | Mikkel Storleer Eriksen / Tor Erik Hermansen / Hallgeir Rustan | 2:54 |
8 | 3:25 | |
9 | Montell Jordan / Oji Pierce / Ricky Walters | 3:07 |
10 | Delvis Damon / Anthony Hamilton / Cliff Lighty / Darren Lighty / Balewa Muhammad | 3:42 |
11 | El DeBarge / William DeBarge / Jason 'Jay E' Epperson / E. Jordan | 4:19 |
12 | 3:32 | |
13 | 3:23 | |
14 | Mystikal / Nivea | 2:56 |
15 | David Frank / Steve Kipner / Pamela Sheyne | 2:19 |
16 | 3:24 | |
17 | R. Brown / Kaygee Gist / Darren Lighty / Denzil Miller / L. Michael Smith / K. Walker | 3:24 |
18 | 1:51 | |
19 | Jason Boyd / Sean Combs / Michael Keith / Quinnes Parker / Mario Winans | 2:36 |
20 | 3:16 | |
21 | 3:46 |
Title/Composer | Performer | Time |
---|---|---|
1 | 4:10 | |
2 | M. Andrews / Desmond Child / Tim Kelley / Bob Robinson / Robi Rosa | 3:08 |
3 | 3:26 | |
4 | 3:02 | |
5 | 3:34 | |
6 | Nate Dogg / Rose Warren-Green | 3:40 |
7 | 2:41 | |
8 | 3:24 | |
9 | 3:30 | |
10 | Missy Elliott / Timothy Mosley | 4:18 |
11 | Mark Curry / Puff Daddy / Black Rob | 3:40 |
12 | Mary J. Blige / A. Miller / Bruce Miller / Sting | 3:08 |
13 | 3:21 | |
14 | Robert 'Kool' Bell / Ronald Bell / Donald Boyce / George 'Funky' Brown / Jerold Ellis / Denzil Foster / Anthony Gilmour / Garrick Husbands / Jay King / Thomas McElroy / Robert 'Spike' Mickens / Claydes Smith / Dennis 'D.T.' Thomas / Richard Westfield | 3:32 |
15 | 3:23 | |
16 | 2:51 | |
17 | 3:26 | |
18 | 3:56 | |
19 | Steve Garrett / Elgin Lumpkin / Timothy Mosley | 5:03 |
20 | 3:43 | |
21 | 3:13 |