Romantic rap songs

phenomenon

Ok I know rap isn't the genre for you if you're looking for love songs but occasionally we all come across tracks that make us go awwww! A few examples:

Ja Rule - Mesmerize (rap/r'n'b so I dunno if it counts)
DMX - Dog Love (as romantic as DMX is gonna get!)
2pac - Dear Mama (made it fashionable for rappers to express their love for their mothers)
Nas - Dance (really emotional)
Eminem - Hailey's songs (dedicated to his daughter)

Any other suggestions?

ghostdancer

the game - special

i'm sure i'll think of something else when i get home and look at my cds...

Makaveli

phenomenon wrote:

2pac - Dear Mama (made it fashionable for rappers to express their love for their mothers)
Eminem - Hailey's songs (dedicated to his daughter)

Emotional is not the same as romantic. A romantic song about a daughter or mother is nasty. Nasty, nasty, nasty.

scuba steve

TQ-Westside
21Questions-50Cent
Dilemma-Nelly
Down Ass Bitch and Always on Time-Ja Rule
Whats Love?-Fat Joe
Alone with the TV-Mitchell Brothers
So Amazing-50Cent

possibly some of them would be classed as hip-hop/rNb but ya get the picture

Orizio

Ok I know rap isn't the genre for you if you're looking for love songs

Why?

but occasionally we all come across tracks that make us go awwww! A few examples:

Ja Rule - Mesmerize (rap/r'n'b so I dunno if it counts)
DMX - Dog Love (as romantic as DMX is gonna get!)
2pac - Dear Mama (made it fashionable for rappers to express their love for their mothers)
Nas - Dance (really emotional)
Eminem - Hailey's songs (dedicated to his daughter)

Any other suggestions?

Hardly any of these are romantic.If you meant emotional then fair enough,but there are far better example then those tracks(Eminem's tracks about his daughter are boring in the extreme imo).

Common tends to be the king of romantic raps.The Light is one of my favourite tracks of all time and he has plenty more like it.The Roots You Got Me also comes to mind.AZ's Ho Happy Jackie was real romantic...:) Panacea's excellent debut released this month had a few romantic tracks on it.

Executive Steve

method man and mary j blige - you're all i need

that was pretty romantic if you ask me...

mos def "ms fat booty" too, sort of...

Kold

'Could Well be in' and 'Wouldn't have it any other way' by the Streets.

Why are we doing this again?

gamb1or

Kurupt - Your Gyrlfriend

ODB - Dog Sh!t

phenomenon

Orizio I meant that traditionally rap isn't the genre for love songs (NWA -'A bitch iz a bitch' anybody?) but I get your point. Its ironic that an artform as poetic as rap hasn't produced many great love songs.

And to clear this up - Yes I said romantic rap songs in the thread title but I really just meant love songs. So Haileys song doesn't mean Em is talking about sexual love for his daughter- thats just WRONG! It can be parental love or boy-girl stuff, ok?

evil_seed

Only one rap song that's romantic imo and that is.......

Scribe - My Lady

spacecoyote

hmmm yes, romantic songs about your mother and daughter, tis a little disturbing!!!

thanks for clearing that one up (maybe you should edit the title of your thread). And I wouldn't necessarily class NWA as traditional rap. There is a history of love songs from the earliest artists, Kevie Kev's - Waterbed Kev, The Sugarhill Gang's - Passion Play, or The Lover In You. But because the origins of hip hop lie within politics (Gil Scott Heron) or Party music (Sugarhill Gang, etc...) it wasn't necessarily guaranteed to move into love music. The first early(ish) artist i can think of that really made love songs was LL (mores the pity, LL was great when he was loud & in your face, and not being a bitch)

Blackstar's - Brown Skin Lady, Pharoahe Monche - The light, Rahzel - Suga Sista, Slick Rick - Teenage Love, Slumvillage - Climax, The Roots - You Got Me, Wyclef - Gone Til November, 911

Kold

Prize to the best incestuous romance song someone can make up ^_^

shane86

^^^^^

Bizarre from D12 has touched on the subject numerous times :eek:

Collie Collins

gamb1or wrote:

ODB - Dog Sh!t

LMFAO!!

Orizio

phenomenon wrote:

Orizio I meant that traditionally rap isn't the genre for love songs (NWA -'A bitch iz a bitch' anybody?) but I get your point. Its ironic that an artform as poetic as rap hasn't produced many great love songs.

And to clear this up - Yes I said romantic rap songs in the thread title but I really just meant love songs. So Haileys song doesn't mean Em is talking about sexual love for his daughter- thats just WRONG! It can be parental love or boy-girl stuff, ok?

You obviously don't get my point then-rap has produced plenty of great love songs(btw there is a clear difference between romantic and loev songs).Using one artist as an example for a whole genre is a clear red herring btw.

Dooom

Off the top of my head:

Klashnekoff - Trace's/Black Rose
Mobb - Hey Luv
Nas - Poppa Was A Playa
Cunninlynguists - The Light/Love Ain't

Somewhat a mixture of romantic/emotional ones there...

j2u

a friend of mine sent me a remix song called dont you trust me by 2pac,its a remix by dj fatal.i know a lot of people are pissed off by people eating off of 2pac and doing ****ty remixes of him but seriously if anybody has ever heard of the remixes by dj fatal they wont be dissapointed.i have a few if anyone wants me to send them to them.one of the best is a dj fatal remix of still ballin with kurrupt and it is amazing.there also an amazing remix of never be peace with the game but its a bit short but seriously for romantic love songs in hip hop the best ive heard are that of remixes by dj fatal

ghostdancer

the DJ Fatal remix of My Block is rubbish.

ubu

Suprised nobody has mentioned Talib Kweli yet, hes got plenty.....
Talk to you
Wont You Stay
Love Language
We Know (feat Faith Evans)
Never been in Love

another one off the top of my head is I Cant Wait for Love by Lyrics Born

pedrodali

I lways thought LL Cool J was the King of "Love Rap" lol.... I seem to remember some tune going " I need you...sha la la la la, your the one I want...ooh girl! That went broke into some creepy "Love Rap". Early 90's.

Jay Ru

hi-tek - no one knows her name
common - i used to love her (hip hop's greatest love song)

but u can't forget biggies - "me and my bitch" and "dreams" and what about akinyele's "put it in your mouth" romance at its finest

Jay-Jay

Slow Jamz - Twista,Kanye West and Jamie Foxx
All I Have - Jlo,LL Cool J
21 Questions - 50 Cent,Nate Dogg
Best Friend - Olivia,50 Cent
03 Bonnie and Clyde - Beyonce,Jay-Z
Give it up to me - Sean Paul

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moneyman

If you're just looking for emotional songs then Tupac has loads of them since he used so much emotion in his songs.

My block (not about love though)
Life goes on (really good one, mainly about his dead friends and how life has to go on)
Nas and 'Pac - Thugs mansion
Staring at the world through my rearview (just a slowish song, I find it filled with emotion )
Do for love (I guess that may be classified as romantic??)
Changes (deals with racism)


I realise they're all Tupac songs but he's the best rapper you can find for rapping with emotion. I don't want to turn this into a Pac vs. Biggie thread so don't criticise my opinion that 2Pac is the greatest ever.

Almost forgot a very good one about love:

Unconditional love

If you don't have them already, then get downloading!

BLITZ_Molloy

Viktor Vaughan & Apani B - Let Me Watch

That track always cracks me up. One of MF Doom's best.

tdc

not sure if these qualify but, here goes...

2pac - temptations
ll cool j - ooh wee
ll cool j - aint nobody
nas - hey nas
the game - dont worry
the game - special
g-unit - wanna get to know you
ja rule - put it on me
pharrell - that girl
bow wow - like you
joe - ride wit u

...and my personal favorite
snoop dogg - aint no fun

that one always gets the girls in the mood;)

spacecoyote

Artist: MC Paul Barman f/ Princess Superstar
Album: It's Very Stimulating
Song: MTV Get Off the Air Pt. 2
Typed by: gadg3t@yahoo.com

[MCPB]
A little goon
in a locker room
rat-tails the octaroon
He'll be drinking vodka soon
and his big brothers are frat guys
whose IQs lose to their fitted baseball hat size
Smirkin' jocks with hackysacks
in Birkenstocks and khaki slacks
I'm the hypest lyricist
while they're like, "What type of beer is this?"
The liquid is ubiquitous
and has such a hold
on all the strata, it's just got to be
government-controlled
Behind the bottle and the throne
sits an unknown man wiser
and bigger for the liquor store
the number one franchiser
Perhaps George Bush and his sons
are relatives of Anheiser

I wanted to get in a pooper hole one day
so I invited girls over on Super Bowl Sunday
only one showed up: Princess Superstar

[PS]
Thanks for inviting me over
let me look around the bed post
(bad dill folds?) back to back black dildos
nice kit kudos
pass the cool ranch doritos
I love nachos
put on Fat Joe
naw, that really sucks, let's put on the Beatles
Yo, let's check the half time show
I hope it's Michael Jackson
singin Satisfaction with Hanson
or Luther Vandross in a sparkling costume
with big pants dancin
or maybe I saw that in a Bud Light commercial
speakin' of which, give this bitch
a drink quick to wet my lips
you got enough cheddar lyin' around this place to
fix
up my tits
as if I need it...

[MCPB]
Conchetta please!
If you see any chedda'
it's chedda cheese
I'm easily great
I don't need to be in some sort of Ken Kesey state
to create something you can appreciate

[PS] Who are you talkin to?
[MCPB] Makin you draw conclusions
and superficial distinctions make you go sacreu bleu

[PS]
I can speak French too
suck my nuh-nuh
french my ****
comprande vous?
Look Pepe Le Pieux
let's cut to the (de nu-mon?)
you wanna **** me, I wanna **** you
so it's on.

[MCPB]
Can I chime in?
I'll still be rhymin'
when I'm in your hymen
I radiate like it was '88
and I'm searching for my lady mate
I'm a hunter-gatherer
a cunter-latherer
My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice
granny's panties moist

I do the new when the tried and true fails
plus I'm lookin' fly in my sky blue tails
Now peel off your tube top
so I can feel your boobs flop on my lubed cock
socks up to your calf like a chick from the Craff
I wanna put on a serated condom and saw you in half

[PS]
My knees are weak, I need knee-pads
you **** me blind, I can't see, dag!
run me a hot bath add the epsom salt
soak my lower half in your Mortal Kombat cocktail sauce
let me head south
put it in my mouth
cause I like the taste.

[MCPB]
When I burst in your face
I'll invade your personal space

[PS]
I'm like Chase, stick your card in and out
Thanks see, look how much stacks of cream are coming out

[MCPB]
I removed her sanitary napkin with my teeth
and there was a planetary backspin underneath
I faced her wound
Let's do a pap smear with a taster spoon
you can sleep on the guest cot
I'll sleep in the wet spot

(Singing)
I'll be your boyfriend
Smooch on your pooper hole
all through the Super Bowl
your man doesn't even miss you
glued to the boob tube, watchya gonna do dude?

I woke up sticky
and quickly applied a temporary tattoo to a hickey
went to salt and shake her awake
with orange juice, a straw, and coffee cake
after we had a bite,
we pushed the canoe in the lake

[PS] You don't paddle right
[MCPB] Look, a shooting star!
[PS] It's a ****in satellite
[MCPB] Lady, one more complaint
and I'll shove a rape-whistle up the Mrs. Va-J-J
(starts whistling)

[PS]
What'd you say?!?!
Listen Slim Shay-day
tell Dre he better ****in pay may (me)
(starts laughing)

[MCPB]
Your talents are bite-size
it's no suprise you rhyme with white guys
I jumped in the water
what did I want a girlfriend for?
Just like you, you jizz on your floor.
I don't want sweet potatoes anymore
I didn't even leave her an oar
did a medium crawl stroke back to shore

Who's next to flirt with this exhausting extrovert?
I parted some (palm frawns?)
Guess who left me dry long johns
Uncle Ralph McDaniels
He said "what's up Paul Nathaniel Barman
let's get MTV off the air I deserve my own channel."

Collie Collins

anything by Necro....

Gillie

Eminem - Crazy in Love

Colin Mac

Mobb Deep - Hey Luv
LL cool J - Loungin
Biggie - Sky's The Limit (not about love)
LL - Doin it

Orizio

Collie Collins wrote:

anything by Necro....

**** like this brings a tear to my eye...

Obey the master hoe, finger your rancid asshole
with that plastic pole - do as you're told

PrettyInPunk

LL cool J-hey lover..cmon people!

Collie Collins

Orizio wrote:

**** like this brings a tear to my eye...

exactly, it doesnt get more romantic then that for me anyway...