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Ludacris‘ pick for best rap song of all time makes perfect sense – as it essentially introduced Hip Hop to the masses.
Backstage at J. Cole‘s Dreamville Festival over the weekend, Complex caught up with Luda and a host of others to find out what their favorite rap track is, and the answer was a no-brainer for the Atlanta talent.
“I’ma go with [the 1979 Sugarhill Gang single] ‘Rapper’s Delight.’ I would have to say that triggered a butterfly effect,” he said. “If anybody else come to you today and try to say what the best Hip Hop song is – if that song didn’t happen, that song wouldn’t happen!”
Check out the clip below to find out what songs Anycia, Young Nudy, Juvenile, Wale and EarthGang also picked.
In other news, Ludacris recently looked back fondly on the time he challenged Snoop Dogg in a weed smoking contest, noting that “it was a hero moment.”
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The Atlanta icon took to X to reflect on the weed-heavy event and the 21st anniversary of his celebrated album Chicken-N-Beer.
He said: “Man, happy anniversary, first and foremost, to the Chicken-N-Beer album. I just wanna say thank you to all the fans for reminding me today. One of my favorite songs on that album has gotta be ‘Hoes in My Room.’ Now listen, this is my first time working with Snoop Dogg, always wanted to work with him. One of my heroes.
“I remember being out in LA and he told me to come by the studio and I had Poon Daddy with me. This the guy that I was on the radio with. Still friends to this day. Anybody that knows Poon knows he can out-smoke anybody.”
He continued: So now we going to Snoop’s studio, right. This is damn near the south versus the west. I’m not backing down, I know Poon’s not backing down. We get there, they start lighting up blunts. I’m talking like six, seven blunts in rotation all at one time. My man Bishop Don Magic Juan was there.
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“Anyone knows Don Juan knows that he puts the blunt up to his nose and inhales and then tries to pass it to somebody else. I wasn’t hitting the booger blunt. I let it skip me, but I was hitting every other blunt that came around. So was Poon. Of course Snoop was as he’s writing his verse.”
Luda concluded: “I say an hour went past, everybody still smoking. Two hours go past, he’s almost done. For the first time in my life I look at Poon and I see him get passed a blunt and he goes ‘Poon tapped out.’
“I thought I’d never see it in my entire life. So now it’s just me and Snoop. I out-smoked Poon Daddy for the first time. I will not say I out-smoked Snoop, but it was one of the hero moments with me to be in the studio with Snoop Dogg. I love you with all my heart.”
