Unkut.com Presents: The 50 Greatest Queensbridge Rap Songs

From MC Shan to Mobb Deep, we're counting down the best musical moments from the world's most famous housing projects.

Not Available Lead
Image via Complex Original
Not Available Lead

Unkut.com Presents: The 50 Greatest Queensbridge Rap Songs

Queensbridge. According to MC Shan's everlasting anthem, it's the place where stars are born—and pioneering work by Marley Marl, Tragedy Khadafi, and Blaq Poet laid a solid foundation for artists such as Mobb Deep, Nas, and Capone-N-Noreaga to spread the QB sound across the planet. No other area has produced so many great rap records in such a short span of time, or had such a widely felt influence on the style of emceeing since the pioneering early days in The Bronx.

Pound for pound, it's tough for any other spot to challenge the legacy of Bridge Rap, which combines an advanced verbal science with a double dose of drama, set to stark, unforgiving soundtracks. As we anxiously await the inevitable arrival of "The Bridge 2010," Complex teamed up with the scholars at Unkut.com for a guided journey through the 50 Greatest Queensbridge Rap Songs of All Time. [Note: Prodigy and Nore's solo tracks were excluded since they aren't technically from the Bridge, hailing from Hempstead, Long Island and Lefrak City, Queens respectively.]

By Robbie Ettelson

#50. Bravehearts feat. Nas "Oochie Wally"

Not Available Interstitial

#49. Nature "Natures Shine"

Not Available Interstitial

#48. Mobb Deep "Young Luv"

Not Available Interstitial

#47. Nature feat. Nas & Noreaga "Triple Threat"

Not Available Interstitial

#46. Mobb Deep feat. Big Noyd & Vita "Burn"

Not Available Interstitial

#45. Capone-N-Noreaga feat. Foxy Brown "Bang Bang"

Not Available Interstitial

#44. Nas "Doo Rags"

Not Available Interstitial

#43. Tragedy feat. Havoc "What's Poppin?"

Not Available Interstitial

#42. Nas "Ether"

Not Available Interstitial

#41. Screwball "F.A.Y.B.A.N."

Not Available Interstitial

#40. Infamous Mobb "Capitol Q"

Not Available Interstitial

#39. Big Noyd "Shoot Em Up (Bang Bang) Pt. 1"

Not Available Interstitial

#38. Cormega Feat. Prodigy "Thun & Kicko"

Not Available Interstitial

#37. Nas "Nas Is Like"

Not Available Interstitial

#36. Mobb Deep "In The Long Run"

Not Available Interstitial

#35. Big Noyd feat. Prodigy "Usual Suspects (Stretch Armstrong Remix)"

Not Available Interstitial

#34. The Fedz (MC Poet & Rockwell Noel) "Taking U Out"

Not Available Interstitial

#33. Killa Sha "Come On"

Not Available Interstitial

#32. Shante "Big Mama (Large Professor Remix)"

Not Available Interstitial

#31. Mobb Deep & ACD "Street Life"

Not Available Interstitial

#30. Cormega "Testament (Original Version)"

Not Available Interstitial

#29. PHD "I'm Flippin'"

Not Available Interstitial

#28. Super Kids "Go Queensbridge"

Not Available Interstitial

#27. Big Noyd feat. Prodigy "Recognize & Realize Pt. 1"

Not Available Interstitial

#26. Tragedy Khadafi "Blood Type"

Not Available Interstitial

#25. MC Shan "I Pioneered This"

Not Available Interstitial

#24. Nas, Tragedy Khadafi & Noreaga "Calm Down"

Not Available Interstitial

#23. Blaq Poet "Don't Give A Fuccc"

Not Available Interstitial

#22. Kamakazee "Snakes"

Not Available Interstitial

#21. Mobb Deep feat. Kool G Rap "The Realest"

Not Available Interstitial

#20. MC Shan "Kill That Noise"

Not Available Interstitial

#19. Kool G. Rap feat. Nas "Fast Life (Norfside Remix)"

Not Available Interstitial

#18. Super Kids "The Tragedy (Don't Do It)"

Not Available Interstitial

#17. Iron Skeiks (Tragedy & Imam THUG) "Allumaniti"

Not Available Interstitial

#16. Mobb Deep "G.O.D. Pt. III"

Not Available Interstitial

#15. Marley Marl feat. Tragedy "Live Motivator"

Not Available Interstitial

#14. Nas "Made You Look"

Not Available Interstitial

#13. Roxanne Shante "Roxanne's Revenge"

Not Available Interstitial

#12. Mobb Deep feat. Nas & Raekwon "Eye For An Eye (Your Beef Is Mine)"

Not Available Interstitial

#11. Marley Marl feat. MC Shan "Marley Scratch"

Not Available Interstitial

#10. Iron Sheiks (Tragedy & Imam THUG) "True Confessions"

Not Available Interstitial

#9. Marley Marl feat. Craig G. "Droppin' Science (Hip Hop Version)"

Not Available Interstitial

#8. Kamakazee feat. Nas & Cormega "On The Real (Original Version)"

Not Available Interstitial

#7. Capone-N-Noreaga feat. Tragedy Khadafi "T.O.N.Y. (Top Of New York)"

Not Available Interstitial

#6. Mobb Deep "Quiet Storm"

Not Available Interstitial

#5. Nas "Halftime"

Not Available Interstitial

#4. Capone-N-Noreaga feat. Mobb Deep & Tragedy Khadafi "LA, LA (Kuwait Mix)"

Not Available Interstitial

#3. Nas "It Ain't Hard To Tell (Large Professor Remix)"

Not Available Interstitial

#2. Mobb Deep "Shook Ones, Pt. 2"

Not Available Interstitial

#1. MC Shan "The Bridge "

Not Available Interstitial

Latest in Music