10. "All Eyez On Me" (1996)
Album: All Eyez On Me
Producer: Johnny "J"
Iggy Azalea: “It’s a great 2Pac song and everybody that ever listens to 2Pac—whether you like him or not—should listen to 'All Eyez On Me.' It’s standard. If someone’s like, ‘Have you ever heard of 2Pac?’ and you say no, then I’ll be like, ‘Well, you’ve probably heard 'All Eyez On Me.'’ It gives you a pretty good feel of what he’s about."
9. "Unconditional Love" (1999)
Album: Greatest Hits
Producer: Johnny "J"
Iggy Azalea: “For someone as hard as to 2Pac to write a song like that—it was really cool and I liked the way he talked about the different types of love you can have. Love of a friendship or a relationship. In every verse, he talked about a different type of love. I thought that was a cool way to write the song.”
8. "Enemies With Me" (1997)
Album: R U Still Down?
Producer: We Got Kidz
Iggy Azalea: "Just because it’s awesome.”
7. "Thug Passion" (1996)
Album: All Eyez On Me
Producer: Johnny "J"
Iggy Azalea: “I love that song and the way the way [Jewell] used to sing the song. I just love her voice. It’s so '90s. I love it and I just think it’s a funny fucking song.”
6. "Temptations" (1995)
Album: Me Against the World
Producer: Easy Mo Bee
Iggy Azalea: "I love that song and I love the samples. Its been sampled so many times. I just love that beat. I thought it was of great use sonically.”
5. "Can U Get Away" (1995)
Album: Me Against the World
Producer: Mike Mosley
Iggy Azalea: “I definitely say that song because everybody feels like that sometimes, especially as a female. He touched on something I’ve dealt with and sometimes when I get sad or feel stuck in a relationship or bind in my life, I always go back to that. It’s always the song I play to get away. Whenever I feel trapped in my fucking life, I always play it. If I ever feel sad, I’ll just listen to it. I like the thing about getting away. Everybody feels like that with their life sometimes."
4. "Hail Mary" (1996)
Album: The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Producer: Hurt-M-Badd
Iggy Azalea: "That song is awesome. C’mon. It’s up there. Seriously. It’s one of the best rap songs ever. It’s some ridiculous shit.”
3. "Letter to The President" (1999)
Album: Still I Rise
Producer: QD III
Iggy Azalea: “It’s an awesome song. I like the way the hook was so simple and chanty. It’s amazing listening to that song in Australia. It made me feel like I could look into what was going on at the time in the country and see the actual concept of things—whether it was politically or within the community. I thought it was really cool and really good storytelling with some sort of a purpose.
“Sometimes people try to tell a message and it gets lost because it’s too preachy and they get deterred from that. This song is about something going on politically, but it’s still something you can listen to on any level. I thought it was a good mix.”
2. "Can't C Me" (1996)
Album: All Eyez On Me
Producer: Dr. Dre
Iggy Azalea: “I listen to ‘Can’t C Me’ all the fucking time. When you listen to that, it makes you feel like, ‘Yeah, fuck you haters. You can’t see me, bitch.’ It makes you feel like, ‘Hell yeah, I’m the fucking shit and you can’t see me.’ I listen to it in the car all the time and I listen to it on pay day and I’m like: [Starts humming a tune.] It’s the fucking best. It’s way up there and motivates you. It’s like, ‘Fuck you.’
1. "Baby Don't Cry" (1999)
Album: Still I Rise
Producer: Soulshock & Karlin
Iggy Azalea: “It’s the song that made me like rap music. I thought it was cool because he started rapping and then he started talking about the girl. Even though it was an Outlawz record, I had never heard a song about anything and now here’s this song about a girl getting raped and all that. I thought it was a crazy song. I had never heard about all of that.
“Just as a woman, sometimes you feel kind of crappy and it was cool to have a guy make a song about women and to like keep your head up. It wasn’t corny. It was cool. It had a catchy hook and it was melodic. As a kid, I could still like it.
“It was able to reach a lot of people because it was a perfect blend of a bunch of different aspects altogether. It made me interested and made me buy every single fucking 2Pac album. It caught my attention. It made me fall in love with 2Pac.”
