The typical mood of this crew (which is signed to Eminem's Shady Records) is lunchroom-table dour. Here, though, while a sampled Biggie shouts a mantra ("Lyrically, I'm untouchable"), member Royce da 5'9" points a way forward: "We not social/On Twitter, we block Oprah and Deepak Chopra." Guys! Was that . . . a joke?

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“Baby Got Back”

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”