Top 10 Best Rap Dance Songs

Rap as a music genre is very famous and its popularity grew over the years for the past few decades. The very first rap music can be traced to the local streets of the great New York City in the late seventies. It then grew popular among the youth and spread like wildfire. Rap songs were made, bands were created, albums were sold and it has been uphill since then.

Many great rappers such as Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Eminem, Tupac Shakur, Kanye West etc came into the spotlight and changed the world with their works. 2018 saw many new rappers arise and songs becoming popular. Creek Boyz, Jay Critch, Lil Skies are some of the long list of names in the rapping industry that are trending right now.

In this article, we are going to look into some of the best dance rap songs of all time. It is very difficult to make such a list considering the amount of good music out there but we thought it was a worthwhile thing to do.
 

Now let us get to our take on the top 10 rap songs of all time. The following list is created based on certain available rankings, total views and our taste. Do check the songs out and let us know your opinion:

1 -  Juicy

Created by the “notorious” American artist, The Notorious B.I.G. on 1994, “Juicy” is definitely worth the top spot in our list of best dance rap songs. It was a part of the artist’s debut album called “Ready to Die” and the song brought the artist straight to the spotlight.

The song speaks about the rapper’s rise to riches and also about the hardships he faced on the journey. Many famous medias such as Rolling Stone, Ranker.com, The Source has mentioned this song as one of best rap songs ever made.

2 -  Straight Outta Compton

Created by the very famous American group N.W.A, this rap song was released on 1988 as part of their debut album “Straight Outta Compton”. Four rappers of N.W.A namely Ice Cube, MC Ren, Eazy-E and the famous Dr. Dre have sung in this.

Ever since its release, the song has been mentioned in numerous charts such as the “Billboard Hot 100”, VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

3 -  Dear Mama

Sung by the American artist “Tupac Shakur” aka “2Pac”, "Dear Mama" came out in 1995 and sold many million copies. It is about the singer’s mother who happened to be a cocaine addict. It is, however, a song that speaks about his love for her.

The National Recording Registry of the USA in the Library of Congress described it as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States."

4 - The Next Episode

Created by the infamous duo of Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, this came out in 2000 and got into many charts. The First couple of lines of the rap became famous as part of the thousands of “thug life” videos. These videos are so famous that this song is searched for by people who see those videos first.

5 - It Was a Good Day

Released in 1993 in the album “The Predator”, by the artist “Ice Cube”, this song is the fifth in our list of best rap songs to dance to.  Like the name suggests, the song speaks about all the good days in life that one often overlooks.

6 - Stan

Created by the American-British duo, Eminem and Dido, "Stan" is a single from Eminem's third album, “The Marshall Mathers LP” which was released on 2000. The lyrics are very powerful and speak about Stanley "Stan" Mitchell who is said to be a big fan of Eminem. He is angry at Eminem for not replying to his fan mail. It says that Stan is about to kill himself and his pregnant girlfriend by driving his vehicle into the river.

7 - Shook Ones, Part II

Mobb Deep sings this one in their 1995 album “The Infamous”. It is a sequel to the 1994 song with the same name. It is about the youth of the city who are busy in a war of their own trying to make money. It is written in their own perspective. It found itself in many hip-hop lists.

8 -  Nuthin' But a G Thang

Another one from the Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg duo, this is a part of Dr. Dre’s debut album, The Chronic. It is a bit vulgar and the video song even has nudity A censored version is available as well. It is so famous

that the XXL magazine named it as the top hip-hop song of the decade.
 

9 -  California Love

Tupac Shakur sang this along with Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman back in 1995 after 2Pac was released from prison after an assault case. It was like a comeback song for him and it did its job.

10 -  Freaky Friday

This is a more recent song as compared to others in this list. This was released in 2018 and is one of the new rap dance songs that one should try. It is created by American rapper Lil Dicky and has many other singers singing as well.

How to download best rap dance songs?

Now that we have seen some of the best rap songs to dance to, let us get to the next section. Here we will see how to download these song videos.

It is not so convenient to play these good rap dance songs on YouTube every time you need it, especially if you’re trying to learn the lyrics or trying to dance with it. Thus it is a very good idea to download these rap dance songs. You can download these best rap dance songs easily by using a tool called DVDFab YouTube Video Downloader.

DVDFab Youtube Video Downloader has a very good user interface and makes downloading youtube videos very easy. Once you have downloaded the videos you can even convert them to any format of your choice such as MP3, AVI etc by using DVDFab Video Converter.