#20 “Tha Crossroads” – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
One of the biggest rap songs of the 1990s, these five speed-rappers from Cleveland offered up a touching tribute to the dearly departed with this DJ U-neek-produced classic. Coming only months after the death of their mentor, Eazy E, it still stands as hip hop’s most effective elegy—in a genre that has more than its fair share of tracks “for my dead homies.”
