And all along it swaggers and boasts and never surrenders. If there's a pause to rest, the beat always returns. After a light-hearted interview performance of the song went viral in 2012, DMX released an official recording in 2017.Follow Men's Health on Spotify for the best workout playlists and more. Having blown up in 1998 with the track “Get At Me Dog,” New York rapper DMX turned to a different type of four-legged friend for an unlikely take on this Christmas classic. The New York legend recruited Starr for his hit from Jim Jones’ Bad Santa soundtrack, which finds Juelz talking about all white Bentleys cruising across snow-heavy streets.
Sure, Kanye and Big Sean may have made “Christmas in Harlem,” but anytime Juelz Santana of Dipset is rapping about the holiday, it quite literally is Christmas in Harlem. Forget snow at midnight or catching Santa coming down the chimney, Jeremih and Chance teaming up for hits like the raunchy “Snowed In” was the rare treat we all needed back in December of 2016. Jeremih and Chance the Rapper’s mixtape Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama was a true Christmas miracle. It was a risk for the artist, but he cashed in immensely on holiday cheer, propelled in large part by “Drummer Boy,” a playful, unexpected collaboration between Biebs and speed rap icon Busta Rhymes.Ĭlick to load video Jeremih & Chance – Snowed In It feels like forever ago, but Justin Bieber’s second full-length album was his Christmas-themed Under the Mistletoe. While David Banner’s impact on the rap game has been overshadowed by his raunchy hits, tracks like “The Christmas Song” proves that the Mississippi-bred MC and underrated producer has a versatility too often overlooked in evaluations of his career. Appearing on the soundtrack to Beat Street, their addition to the Christmas canon, “Santa Rap,” proved that rap and the holiday could mingle in a way that wasn’t just corny and commercial. Their speed rapping skills influenced artists like T La Rock, LL Cool J, Limp Bizkit, and Rakim. Treacherous Three never get their deserved credit as hip-hop innovators. Their version of “Santa Baby” became a massive hit, thanks to a bi-coastal effort from rap vets like Snoop Dogg, Onyx, Diddy, and Salt-N-Pepa. It’s hard to get more star power than Rev Run recruited as his Christmas All Stars. Diddy & Keith Murray & Mase) – Santa Baby Rev Run & The Christmas All Stars (Salt-N-Pepa & Onyx & Snoop Dogg & P. The track finds Tyler rushing to get home to meet his love before Christmas is over, a decidedly PG version of Tyler many families were happy to play at their Christmas festivities. Seuss’ The Grinch and features pop icon Santigold and Brockhampton collaborator Ryan Betty. “Lights On” comes from Tyler’s soundtrack for Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. The Ying Yang Twins said it better than anyone else: “Deck the halls with piles of money/Falalalala, lala, la, la.” Christmas is all about spending the bread you so carefully stacked throughout the year, to shower your loved ones with gifts and meals and merriment. Their contribution? “Player’s Ball,” a song only about Christmas if you really squinted, but then again, Andre and Big Boi were beamed in from a planet in which Christmas carols probably never existed.
Long before OutKast were, you know, Outkast, they were the face of a LaFace Records winter compilation set to emerge around Christmas. Though Snoop and the late Nate Dogg are best known for summertime smashes, on “Santa Claus,” they conjure up the first white Christmas Long Beach has ever seen.Ĭlick to load video Outkast – Player’s Ball (Christmas Version) Interpolating the title from James Brown’s seminal “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto,” Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, Tray Deee, and Bad Azz bring a little bit of West Coast gangsta rap to the Christmas staple. Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dat N-a Daz, Tray Deee, Bad Azz and Nate Dogg – Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto But with a shout out to fallen friends and an overall message of love and the importance of family, “A Christmas F_ing Miracle” is the gift that keeps on giving. Run The Jewels – A Christmas F_king MiracleĪs glacial as the winter freeze, RTJ’s seasonal offering unapologetically questions religion and calls out racism in the US. Its thumping beat flips “Here Comes Santa Claus” to devastating effect.
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The Southern rapper / actor appeared as DJ Donnie in the 2007 movie Fred Claus in 2007 and, of course, provided a tune for the soundtrack. Click to load video Ludacris – Ludacrismas
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