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Here’s Every Song in Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon’s ‘History of Rap, Part 6’

Late night social studies professors Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake are at it again, with the latest installment in their “History of Rap” educational series. For the sixth time in as many years, Jimmy and JT ran through a roughly chronological series of hip-hop standards, going as far back as LL Cool J’s “Rock the Bells” and as current as Fetty Wap’s “My Way.” They touched on 23 classics in all, though Fallon was interrupted by his MC partner when attempting to launch into N.W.A’s “Straight Outta Compton” (“You are not Straight Outta Compton. You are Straight Outta Upstate New York”) and Snow’s “Informer” (“You don’t lick your boom-boom down”).

Watch here, and check out the full song list from the entire History of Rap series below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1omPNEVOIaM

History of Rap
Sugarhill Gang – “Rapper’s Delight”
Run-D.M.C. – “Peter Piper”
Beastie Boys – “Paul Revere”
A Tribe Called Quest – “Award Tour”
Digital Underground – “The Humpty Dance”
Snoop Dogg feat. Dr. Dre – “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang”
Tupac Shakur – “California Love”
The Notorious B.I.G. – “Juicy”
The Roots – “The Seed”
Eminem – “My Name Is”
Missy Elliott – “Work It”
Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em – “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
T.I. feat. Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx – “Gold Digger”
Jay Z feat. Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”

History of Rap, Part 2
Kurtis Blow – “The Breaks”
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – “The Message”
N.W.A – “Express Yourself”
Public Enemy – “Bring the Noise”
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – “It Takes Two”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Push It”
Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”
Fatman Scoop – “Put Your Hands Up”
Cypress Hill – “Insane in the Brain”
DJ Kool – “Let Me Clear My Throat”
DMX – “Party Up in Here”
Nelly – “Hot in Herre”
50 Cent – “In Da Club”
OutKast – “Hey Ya”
Lil Wayne – “A Milli”
DJ Khaled – “All I Do Is Win”
Cali Swag District – “Teach Me How to Dougie”
Rick Ross – “B.M.F.”
Biz Markie – “Just a Friend”
Kurtis Blow – “The Breaks”

History of Rap, Part 3
Run-DMC – “King of Rock”
LL Cool J – “Mama Said Knock You Out”
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – “Parents Just Don’t Understand”
De La Soul – “Me, Myself and I”
JJ Fad – “Supersonic”
Sir Mix-a-Lot – “Baby Got Back”
Young MC – “Bust a Move”
House of Pain – “Jump Around”
Ice Cube – “It Was a Good Day”
Coolio – “Gangsta’s Paradise”
The Fugees – “Killing Me Softly”
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
Jay Z – “I Just Wanna Love You (Give It 2 Me)”
OutKast – “Ms. Jackson”
Snoop Dogg – “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
Kanye West – “Stronger”
Nicki Minaj -“Super Bass”
Naughty By Nature – “Hip Hop Hooray”

History of Rap, Part 4
Sugarhill Gang – “Apache (Jump on It)”
Grandmaster Melle Mel – “White Lines (Don’t Do It) “
Kurtis Blow – “Basketball”
Fat Boys – “The Fat Boys”
Run-D.M.C. – “It’s Tricky”
Beastie Boys – “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
LL Cool J – “Going Back to Cali”
Slick Rick – “Children’s Story”
2 Live Crew – “Me So Horny”
A Tribe Called Quest – “Scenario”
Cypress Hill – “Hand on the Pump”
Wreckx-N-Effect – “Rump Shaker”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Shoop”
Snoop Doggy Dogg – “Gin and Juice”
Busta Rhymes – “Woo-Ha! Got You All in Check”
The Notorious B.I.G. – “Hypnotize”
Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On”
Jay Z – “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”
Nelly – “Ride Wit Me”
50 Cent – “P.I.M.P.”
Chamillionaire – “Ridin Dirty”
Wiz Khalifa – “Black & Yellow”
Trinidad James – “All Gold Everything”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Thrift Shop”
Eminem – “Lose Yourself”

History of Rap, Part 5
LL Cool J – “I’m Bad”
Run-D.M.C. – “Beats to the Rhyme”
Crazy Calls – “Wait for the Beep”
Beastie Boys – “Fight for Your Right”
Tone Loc – “Wild Thing”
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – “Fresh Prince Theme”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Whatta Man”
Positive K – “I Got a Man”
The Notorious B.I.G. – “Big Poppa”
Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg – “Dre Day”
Warren G feat. Nate Dogg – “Regulate”
N.W.A. – “Straight Outta Compton”
Ini Kamoze – “Here Comes the Hotstepper”
Outkast – “So Fresh, So Clean”
Busta Rhymes feat. P Diddy & Pharrell – “Pass the Courvoisier, Part II”
Kris Kross – “Jump”
Skee-Lo – “I Wish”
Jay Z – “99 Problems”
Ludacris – “Move Bitch (Get Out the Way)”
Drake – “Started From the Bottom”
Kendrick Lamar – “Swimming Pools (Drank)”
Kanye West feat. T-Pain – “Good Life”
Run-D.M.C. – “Walk This Way”

History of Rap, Part 6
R. Kelly feat — Jay Z, “Fiesta”
LL Cool J — “Rock the Bells”
Whodini — “Friends”
Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick (MC Ricky D) — “La Di Da Di”
Public Enemy — “Fight the Power”
N.W.A — “Straight Outta Compton” (interrupted)
Salt-N-Pepa — “Let’s Talk About Sex”
MC Hammer — “U Can’t Touch This”
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince — “Summertime”
Wu-Tang Clan — “C.R.E.A.M.”
The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy and Ma$e — “Mo Money, Mo Problems”
Snow — “Informer” (interrupted)
Nelly — “Country Grammar (Hot S–t…)”
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — “Tha Crossroads”
R. Kelly — “Ignition (Remix)”
Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne — “Look at Me Now”
Kendrick Lamar — “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe”
Drake — “Know Yourself”
Big Sean feat. E-40 — “I Don’t Fuck With You”
Jay Z and Kanye West — “Otis”
Fetty Wap feat. Monty — “My Way”
Ace Hood feat. Future and Rick Ross — “Bugatti”
Beastie Boys — “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)”