Just like the sights and sounds of hip-hop, Christmas is across the nook and doubtless on everybody’s playlist too. For most individuals, “Deck the Halls” and pop variations of “Jingle Bells” are normally the vacation carols of alternative. For rap followers, it could be extra “Christmas in Harlem” than “Silent Night time.”
Christmas rap songs are one of the vital distinctive traditions in America as a result of the road life from which they had been carved couldn’t be extra at odds with the new cocoa-drenched, all-American archetypes many people have been white-fenced into. Christmas rap usually subverts fashionable vacation customs and mythologies. Within the fashionable Christmas canon, St. Nick lands within the South Pacific earlier than he goes wherever else, however as Snoop Dogg tells it, “Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto.” A typical American will ring in Dec. 25 by consuming pumpkin pie and pretending to giggle at jokes grandparents inform. For OutKast, it’d imply touring to the annual baller’s reunion on the “Participant’s Ball.”
Through the years, a number of the rap sport’s greatest names have made Christmas songs to inform their tales, which exist fairly far outdoors of the mainstream’s creativeness. Right now, we check out the 25 of one of the best. Peep our record for your self beneath.
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“Merry Muthaf**kin’ Xmas”
Eazy-E
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“Christmas in Hollis”
Run-DMC
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“Deck Da membership”
Ying Yang Twins
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“Participant’s Ball”
OutKast that includes Sleepy Brown
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“Ballin on X-Mas”
Jim Jones, Stack Bundles and JR Author
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“It is Christmas”
Gorilla Zoe
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“Christmas Grind”
Killer Mike
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“Jingle Bellz”
Juelz Santana and Starr
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“If I Was Santa Claus”
Environment
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“Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa”
De La Soul
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“Christmas in Da Ghetto”
Grasp P That includes C Homicide
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“Christmas Rappin”
Kurtis Blow
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“Santa Child”
Run-DMC, Mase, Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Salt-N-Peppa, Onyx and Keith Murry
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“Christmas in Harlem”
Kanye West, Teyana Taylor and Cyhi da Prynce
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“Chilly Chillin’ on Christmas”
Juice Crew
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“What You Need for Christmas”
Quad Metropolis DJ’s, The 69 Boyz and Ok-Nock
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“Santa Goes Straight to the Ghetto”
Snoop Dogg That includes Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, Unhealthy Azz and Large Tray Deee
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“It is the Holidaze”
Westside Connection
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“12 Days of Christmas”
Gucci Mane
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“A Pimp’s Christmas Track”
Snoop Dogg
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“All I Need for Christmas”
Dej Loaf that includes Kodak Black
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