25 Influential Hip Hop One-Hit Wonders

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  • Vanilla Ice, Bone Crusher, Craig Mack
  • Vanilla Ice, "Ice Ice Baby"
  • Craig Mack, "Flava In Ya Ear"
  • Luniz, "I Got 5 on It"
  • Young MC, "Bust a Move"
  • Tag Team, "Whoomp (There It Is)"
  • 95 South, "Whoot, There It Is"
  • J.J. Fad, "Supersonic"
  • Can-I-Bus, "Second Round K.O."
  • T La Rock & Jazzy Jeff, "It's Yours"
  • Bone Crusher, "Never Scared"
  • DJ Kool, "Let Me Clear My Throat"
  • Apache, "Gangsta Bitch"
  • The Pack, "Vans"
  • Khia, "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)"
  • Cali Swag District, "Teach Me How to Dougie"
  • Audio Two, "Top Billin'"
  • Mims, "This Is Why I'm Hot"
  • DJ Webstar & Young B, "Chicken Noodle Soup"
  • MC T Tucker & DJ Irv, "Where Dey At"
  • The Showboys, "Drag Rap (Trigga Man)"
  • Wreckx-N-Effect, "Rump Shaker"
  • Crucial Conflict, "Hay"
  • Shawn Brown, "Rappin' Duke"
  • Playaz Circle, "Duffle Bag Boy" feat. Lil Wayne
  • Tim Dog, "F*ck Compton"

Vanilla Ice, "Ice Ice Baby"

This 1990 song may have become a punch line of sorts, but it was the first hip hop song to top the Billboard charts, changing the game in terms of what the genre could and couldn't do commercially.

(Photo: SBK Records)