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New York City<\/a> is a center for many things in the world: fashion, art, media, finance, professional basketball supremacy t<\/a>hanks to the New York Knicks, etc. <\/p>\n But New York didn\u2019t birth any of those things. New York\u2014and the Bronx specifically\u2014is the birthplace of hip-hop. W<\/a>hich means New York City and hip-hop are forever intertwined. Rap listeners around the world who\u2019ve never been to the Big Apple still know places like Nas\u2019 Queensbridge projects,<\/a> the slums of Wu-Tang\u2019s Shaolin,<\/a> and KRS-One\u2019s South Bronx.<\/p>\n So it should come as no surprise that all five of its boroughs have produced many of rap\u2019s greatest talents.<\/a> Slick Rick, Fat Joe and Big Pun all hail from the Bronx. Big Daddy Kane, the Notorious B.I.G.,<\/a> and Jay-Z<\/a> are all from Brooklyn. Nas, LL Cool J, and 50 Cent rep Queens. Staten Island\u2019s main contributions come from one camp but remain significant with Method Man, Ghostface Killah, and Raekwon. Even Manhattan has its own Harlem World fresh with stars like Kool Moe Dee, Big L, and Cam\u2019ron. The fact that artists who even attempt to carry NYC\u2019s flag these days are inevitably crushed by its sheer weight is a testament to the city\u2019s contribution to the foundation of hip-hop.<\/p>\n All of that is reason why picking the 100 Best New York City Rap Songs is no easy task. There\u2019s so much to choose from that so much still gets left out. For this list, we gave special preference to songs that repped for the city itself. We also imposed the limitation of no more than three songs per artist to reflect a greater diversity. And we only mostly picked artists who hail from within the city\u2019s borders\u2014although we made a couple of exceptions. So make sure there\u2019s money in your OMNY card because this is a trip through New York and its five boroughs.<\/p>\n Here are the 100 best New York City rap songs of all time. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.complex.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York City is a center for many things in the world: fashion, art, media, finance, professional basketball supremacy thanks to the New York Knicks, etc. But New York didn\u2019t birth any of those things. New York\u2014and the Bronx specifically\u2014is the birthplace of hip-hop. Which means New York City and hip-hop are forever intertwined. Rap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2482390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-100-Best-New-York-City-Rap-Songs-of-All.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482391,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482389\/revisions\/2482391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}