Eight Worst Hip Hop Collaborations

By Matt Oliver Thu., Feb. 2 2012 at 7:01 AM

T-Pain and Taylor Swift

Last week, Cypress Hill released their single "Roll It, Light It" with dubstep sensation Rusko, and it wasn't pretty. This is not what hip-hop needed. With rap trending on a horrible downward spiral, we thought it would be a good time to name our eight worst hip-hop collaborations.

8. Cypress Hill and Rusko

To trendy dubstep enthusiasts: Guess what, it's not a Skrillex remix. Rusko has teamed up with South Gate's own to make the terrible sounding "Roll It, Light It." Dubstep is showing its unwanted crossover ability in this one.

7. Linkin Park and Jay Z

At the time Collision Course was released it was pretty impressive until you found out how it was made. Every hip hop/rap fan(what ever you want to be called) should be eating every dirty word said about electronic music. Yes this CD was touched up on each end, but any kid can make this album in their grungy garage.

6. Jason Aldean and Ludacris

Ludacris used his southern hospitality (pun intended) to complement Jason Aldean's cowboy-hop ditty on "Dirt Road Anthem." Awkwardness sinks in when you hear Aldean try to rap. The song gets even more awkward when you the phrase "Luda" as Ludacris enters the song. Did someone tell Ludacris that this wasn't for a movie?

5. Nelly and Tim McGraw

Thank God this song isn't playing over and over again. After releasing the mega hit "Country Grammar," it was only a matter of time before Nelly teamed up with country superstar Tim McGraw. "Over and Over" was not creative at all, with annoying Nelly "Uhs" and the phrase repeated over and over again throughout the entire song. But who can account for taste? Even with the annoying phrases and a whining McGraw, "Over and Over" shot to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard top 40 chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Tags:

Anthrax, Cypress Hill, dubstep, Hip Hop, Jay Z, Limp Bizkit, Rusko

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Buzzer2kreturns

whoever thinks the PE/Anthrax collaboration was crap needs to be tied down and watch while his or her entire family is gunned down John Woo style

Macmerda

omg what fukin crack head put this list together??? besides tpain and taylor swift, this list is complete laughable garbage.

linkinpark/jayz?? P.E./ANTHRAX??? Method Man/fred durst????? nelly and tim mcgraw????

who ever made this list knows nothing about good (or bad) musicman get the fuck ouhhta here with this BULLSHIT!!!!

cadillac386

That's not even the real beat to the limp n method song

RAP E

a lot of those songs were good ass hole

Josh Mishima

I loved that Luda and Jason song, and loved that song Wyclef did with The Rock. o_0 nothing bad about that.

duub

My problem with this article...Most of these songs were hits that made money! And the Cypress Hill and Rusko collabo is pretty damn good. I think the "writer" might have a Skrillex bias....

909Jeff

Anthrax and public Enemy? Seriously? Were you like 2 when that came out?

As one of the first and most admired rap metal songs, the Anthrax version of "Bring the Noise" is considered highly influential. It attempted to bridge the gap between hip hop and heavy metal and paved the way for other attempts to mix the two genres. It was ranked #12 on VH1's 2006 list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs

Otherwise good list... I did like Numb by Jay z and Linkin Park, But dont entirely fault you for adding it to the list.