The Best Hip-Hop & R&B Songs

Tracks that straddle hip-hop and R&B, ranked by how few beers they need. A lot of the biggest crossover hits of the last thirty years live on this chart.

Top 21 of 21 songs with at least 10 ratings. Ranked by average beer score on a 0 to 11 scale.

1
Respect
Aretha Franklin
Otis wrote it. Aretha took it. It was never his again.
1.1beers37 ratings
2
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
Motown told him not to release it. Motown was wrong.
1.4beers37 ratings
3
Sabotage
Beastie Boys
The Spike Jonze video is the best three minutes of the nineties.
1.8beers35 ratings
4
Hey Ya!
OutKast
Shake it like a Polaroid picture. Polaroid had to issue a statement.
2.0beers44 ratings
5
Gangsta's Paradise
Coolio ft. L.V.
A Stevie Wonder sample, a school choir, and total omnipresence in 1995.
2.2beers96 ratings
6
Lose Yourself
Eminem
Everyone thinks they can rap this. Beer proves them wrong.
2.4beers22 ratings
7
Crazy
Gnarls Barkley
Recorded in one take. Cee-Lo simply did that.
2.5beers31 ratings
8
Somebody That I Used to Know
Gotye ft. Kimbra
Kimbra's verse is why this went from good to inescapable.
2.9beers50 ratings
9
No Diggity
Blackstreet ft. Dr. Dre
The smoothest thing on this entire site. No doubt.
3.3beers86 ratings
10
Get Lucky
Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams
Nile Rodgers' guitar carried the entire summer of 2013.
3.4beers67 ratings
11
In Da Club
50 Cent
Go shorty, it's your birthday. It is always somebody's birthday.
3.6beers38 ratings
12
Empire State of Mind
Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys' hook did for New York what Sinatra couldn't.
3.7beers31 ratings
13
Walk This Way
Run-DMC ft. Aerosmith
The wall came down and rap-rock was born.
3.9beers45 ratings
14
Crazy in Love
Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z
That horn sample announces itself like a royal decree.
3.9beers78 ratings
15
Hips Don't Lie
Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean
The hips remain, to this day, honest.
4.2beers33 ratings
16
Uptown Funk
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
Too hot. Called the police and the fireman. Still works.
4.6beers77 ratings
17
Gold Digger
Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx doing Ray Charles over a Ray Charles sample. Layers.
4.8beers45 ratings
18
Circles
Post Malone
The most melancholy song ever played at full volume in a pub.
5.6beers34 ratings
19
Sunflower
Post Malone ft. Swae Lee
A cartoon spider film gave us this. Life is strange.
5.7beers51 ratings
20
Umbrella
Rihanna ft. Jay-Z
Ella, ella. You have no defence against this.
5.8beers56 ratings
21
One Dance
Drake ft. Wizkid & Kyla
The song that turned every summer barbecue into afrobeats.
6.4beers32 ratings