Chris Rock's Best Hip Hop Moments
Rock is so hip hop.
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Rock and Hip Hop - During an outstanding Oscar monologue and critically acclaimed hosting stint at last night's Oscars, Chris Rock performed a sick balancing act as a master of ceremonies and speaking out on the Oscars diversity issues. Plus, when a host closes out the show by mentioning Brooklyn, BET and Black Lives Matter in mere seconds, he did good. The show even closed out with the house band playing "Hollywood Swinging" and the closing credits were rolling while Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" blared on network TV.Chris Rock’s affinity for hip hop has been at the forefront of his stand-up comedy and more so in his off-stage creations. Let's celebrate his awesome Oscar gig with some of the best hip hop moments in his career. — Jon Reyes (Photo: Caroline McCredie/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
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Kanye West's 'The Blame Game' and Method Man's 'You Play Too Much' - This legendary feature on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy added insane color to the already dynamic album. Chris Rock’s vocals over John Legend's piano playing, while inferring to Amber Rose’s come up in the celebrity world was purposeful and hilarious all at the same time.Then of course there was Rock's intro off Method Man's Tical 2000: Judgment Day, where he made an extended joke about Meth having way too many aliases. Only Rock would have the guts to do that to the Ticallion Stallion. Too funny.(Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)
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Who Shot Tupac? - This amazing joke about the U.S. government hating rap so much they couldn’t find the killer of a man killed on the Vegas strip but could find Saddam Hussein has us still rolling in the LOLs.(Photo: IACF/Paramount Pictures)
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Not Listing Eminem - During the media blitz for his movie Top 5 in 2014, he was asked to list his Top 5 favorite rappers and every time he did, it seemed people were up in arms about not listing Eminem as one of them. His nuanced reasoning brought people back to the reality that Chris is a die-hard hip hop fanatic with specific tastes like anyone else.(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Comedy Central)
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Top Five - The last film he directed and wrote was a deep examination of fame and celebrity coupled with his underlying love for hip hop.(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Variety)
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His Top 25 - An incredibly written and deep examination of his favorite 25 hip hop albums. It’s a microscopic view of Rock’s love of lyrics and inspiration for how he views the world.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Ice Cube’s 'Us' Inspired ‘Black People vs. N****z' Joke - One of Rock’s most infamous jokes from Bring the Pain in 1996 was actually inspired by this Ice Cube record.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for BET)
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Chats With Questlove - This 2014 conversation with Questlove for the New York Times is a magnificent look into what two hip hop lovers can unearth speaking to one another.(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images)
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Not Dropping Out of the Oscars - Since the #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign due to the announcement of the upcoming show’s award nominations, many came out to say they thought Chris Rock should bow out of hosting this year’s telecast. He didn’t. That’s gangster.(Photo: REUTERS /STEPHEN CHERNIN /LANDOV)
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Champagne - His hilarious satire of rap videos at the time is still funny. Chris definitely takes a Puff Daddy persona in it and digs in and even parodies a Missy video.(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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