It's Christmas Time: 12 Best Hip-Hop Holiday Songs Of All Time

Who says that Christmas is not gangsta? Rappers may not be the happy people in the music, but when it comes to the holidays, hip-hop is known to be down. Can not Nat King Cole, Mariah Carey and more recently Justin Bieber are the only ones to spread some yuletide cheer. Just as we the last hours of Christmas approach, MTV News a 12-song playlist of the best Holiday rap hits together.



"Christmas Rappin '", Kurtis Blow 


Run-D.M.C. can be done best, but Kurtis Blow it first, as he "Christmas Rappin '" was added in 1979. It is not hard to figure out how Kurtis Blow rap first bankable solo star was - he represented something fresh and original. Putting a new twist to the Christmas song, Blow rapped: "Do not you give me all that jive about things you have written before I was even alive / 'Cause this is not 1823 or even 1970." Take that Santa Claus!

"Christmas in Harlem," Kanye West featuring Big Sean, Pusha T, et al

Leave it to Kanye West, the biggest rap carol with the present "Christmas in Harlem." Not only does the song feature packed, the Louis Vuitton Don and his team good music, "Ye also MCs Cam'ron Dipset, Jim Jones and Vado next Rosenstolz, Cyhi da Prynce and Teyana Taylor to participate in the festivities. Produced by Hit Boy, found the six-minute, 32-second track every rapper has a different take on the holidays. Yeezy, the Bad Santa plays, tells a December 25 sexual escapade, while Jim Jones goes on a shopping spree. Sounds like a smorgasbord but in the end everything came together quite well.

"Christmas Rap", the Treacherous 3 


Every hip hop fan should see the 1984 cult classic "Beat Street" at least once in their lifetime. Kudos to the old enough to be the Treacherous Three hilarious "Christmas Rap", which worked on the Bronx, New York, MCs with Doug E. Fresh and dissed Santa Claus for the implementation Bootleg gifts under the tree remember.

"Ludacrismas" Ludacris

If Ludacris was cast in the 2007 holiday film "Fred Claus," why he should not add to the movie soundtrack? Employed on "Ludacrismas," the ATL MC gets it by knocking texts like: "I tell 'em all I want for Christmas is two gold front teeth." If not for the beat insistent bell, this one could bang all year.

"Santa Claus goes straight to the ghetto," Snoop Dogg 


Who says no gangstas chestnuts roasting on an open fire? In the 1990s, Death Row Records made ​​their bones to make deadly music, but also threatening the label Suge Knight has in the holiday spirit. In 1996 he made the astonishing title Christmas on Death Row. While the album's cover featured Santa in an electric chair, was the actual disc better suited some holiday tunes. Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and worked the late Nate Dogg on the funky "Santa Claus goes straight to the ghetto." Looks like death was not always the case.

"Deck da Club," the Ying Yang Twins


Leave it to the Ying Yang Twins to transform "Deck the Halls" into a crunk club anthem. The highlight is when Kaine and brother D-Roc take the melody from "Jingle Bells" and apply it to the gentlemen's club, singing, "We gonna keep on spendin' that dough, just to see her do her thang/ Makin' her booty roll, but just don't spill my drank." Strippers celebrate Christmas too.

"Bad Santa Intro" with Jim Jones, Sen and Shoota 


No rapper has always represented for more than St. Nick Dipset Jim Jones. In 2008, Jimmy fell A Tribute To Bad Santa, Christmas album in his catalog. Road but it was totally covered and the outstanding "Bad Santa Intro" in the Cape about sending Commissioner to his friends in prison and locked rhymed rising prices for Snow and poverty in the "hood.

"Jingle Bellz", Juelz Santana and Starr
 
Jim Jones is not the only Dipset MC who gets into the holiday spirit. Juelz Santana was comfortable with R & B singer Starr on a remix version of "Jingle Bells" - with az at the end, of course. I mean, who would not want to go dashing through the snow in a four-door white Bentley?

"Cold Chillin 'Christmas", the Juice Crew

In the 1980s, Marley Marl's Juice Crew was a lyrical juggernaut. Consisting of MC Shan, Roxanne Shante, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G. Rap, released the Juice Crew some of the rawest rapper in the day. They also showed the diversity in 1988 by releasing "Cold Chillin 'Christmas." Definitely worth listening to.

"The Christmas Song," David Banner 


Mississippi MC David Banner has never been about to bite his tongue, and on "The Christmas Song", it remains true to form. On 23 Published in December 2003, his second solo album Banner, MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water, and it was the grim-sounding "Christmas Song." Do not be fooled not the song title: DB does not spread any holiday cheer. Instead of the song hooks, he sings: "It is winter and we still can not find work / We fill applications, but you treat us like we are slobs / So we rob and steal us, because we are tryna get a meal. "Santa better watch his back.

"Merry Muthaf---in' Xmas," Eazy-E
Now you know Eazy-E couldn't just do a traditional Christmas carol. The West Coast legend did make a classic, however, when he recorded "Merry Muthaf---in' Xmas," a pornographic yet hilarious interpolation of "Jingle Bells." Trust us, it's not for the squeamish.