2. Bounty Killer featuring Junior Reid and Busta Rhymes “Change Like the Weather” (1995)
Talk about a power trio. This super slept-on single from Bounty Killer’s My Xperience LP (produced by Erick Sermon!) is one of our all-time favorite hip-hop/dancehall hybrids. In fact, we’ve already featured it high up on a handful of previous Top 10s, including our favorite rapper/deejay collabos (#4), Bounty’s toppa top hip-hop tracks (#1) and Busta’s biggest bashment bangers (#2). The classic video with Bounty, JR and Bussa Buss as raggamuffin weather correspondents is the icing on the cake of classicness that is “Change Like the Weather.”
See also: “Stop The Fuss and Fight,” Junior Reid and Bounty Killer’s dancehall answer to “Gangster’s Paradise.”