Top 10 Indie Covers of Rap Songs

[OSUsushichic]

These are great!

If you are an unknown band looking for exposure, I?m pretty sure all you need to do is cover a rap song. If you can work out an acoustic or bluegrass version, you?re bound to get people playing it at parties and dumb ass bloggers like me posting mp3?s on their sites. You might even score yourself a hit. Remember Dynamite Hack?

If you are too much of a purist to get suckered in to these shameless cover songs, I offer a challenge. At your next party, get your friends all liquored up and put on ?Gin and Juice? by the Gourds. I guarantee that it will end up playing on repeat and things will get weird.

And yes, I know Fergie and JT don?t qualify as rap, but I had to get to 10 tracks somehow.

1. The Gourds - Gin and Juice (Snoop Dogg)
2. Rock Plaza Central - SexyBack (Justin Timberlake)
3. Travis Morrison - What?s Your Fantasy? (Ludacris)
4. Nina Gordon - Straight Outta Compton (NWA)
5. Jill Sobule - Hot in Herre (Nelly)
6. Port O?Brien - My Humps (Fergie)
7. Brent Runyan - Bring the Noise (Public Enemy)
8. Jonathan Coultan - Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-a-Lot)
9. Kooks - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
10. Dynamite Hack - Boyz in the Hood (NWA)
Honorable Mention:
Ben Folds Five - Bitches ain?t Shit (Dr. Dre)

http://www.hearya.com/2007/05/25/top-10-indie-covers-of-rap-songs/

 

[Flocka]

Nothing compares to Gin & Juice. Boyz in the Hood is good as well.

 

[OSUsushichic]

Alanis's version of My Humps should be on there.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6uLGLQpiUM[/YOUTUBE]

 

[OSUsushichic]

A few more great ones....

mental_floss Blog ? Top 5 Folky Covers of Rap & Hip-Hop Songs

(I love "Hey Ya", "Baby's Got Back," and the Flight of the Conchords one!)

 

[DaytonBuck]

I've never seen anyone get the name of the gin and juice song right before. In college people always told me it was Phish that was doing it.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Before I saw this, the only one I knew of was Dynamite Hack. After listening to all of them, the only one thats any good is Dynamite Hack. Gin and Juice is particularly awful. Sounded like a cheap country song.

 

[RoscoeParrish]

They all stink, but that Straight Outta Compton made me laugh my ass off...

 

[OmahaBeef]

My favorite on the list is "Bitches Ain't Shit."

I think the remake isn't a bad song lol.

 

[OSUsushichic]

I've never seen anyone get the name of the gin and juice song right before. In college people always told me it was Phish that was doing it.

Yep, it's not Phish. I don't know why everyone thought that. It's always been The Gourds (band from Austin, TX).

By the way, the people who run the hearya.com website must be Buckeye fans. They posted the OSU fight song the day of the NC game.

 

[Oneshot]

My favorite on the list is "Bitches Ain't Shit."

I think the remake isn't a bad song lol.

Ben Folds is a goddamn genius.