The Yankees have long held a special place in the world of hip-hop and the artists that do it so well. Proving so, the folks at Fanatics recently compiled a comprehensive list of the 300 most iconic rap songs in history to see which sports teams were best represented.
Using a combination of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All-Time,” crowdsourced lists from Ranker, Billboard’s hip-hop archives and hours upon hours of music videos, Fanatics unveiled an unprecedented collection of data about sports’ influence on and hip-hop.
While baseball as a whole may be struggling to hold the attention of a millennial audience as compared to the uptempo nature of the NFL and NBA, it is MLB that features sports-related gear in over 50 percent of hip-hop music videos — 58.