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#5 Def Jam: Vendetta - [ PS2 ]

It's a fact: rappers love to talk trash on each other. But what would happen if these beefs escalated beyond mere music video bravado? EA Sports attempted to answer this burning question with Def Jam: Vendetta. Vendetta assembled a modest roster of Def Jam recording artists and let gamers live out their prepubescent fantasies about glistening men clutching and grappling on the ground. Or something like that, at any rate. It was so successful that EA later upped the ante with the sequel Def Jam: Fight for NY, as well as (shh!) a rumored next-gen Def Jam brawler.

#5 Def Jam: Vendetta
79% average
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#4 And 1 Streetball - [ PS2 ]

And 1 started out as a line of urban apparel, but the bold brand later blossomed into a multimedia blitz that represented the best of the hip-hop streetball scene. With mix tapes, exhibition streetball tours, an exclusive ESPN television deal, and now an Xbox game, And 1 has left its mark on the culture...and them some.

#4 And 1 Streetball
37% average
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#3 Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio: Future) - [ Dreamcast ]

Revolutionary for its time, Jet Grind Radio combined two distinctive urban subcultures-- graffiti and street skating--and set the whole affair in an eye-popping Neo Tokyo-style world. Jet Grind Radio also earned the honor of being the first game to allow gamers to create and customize their own wall art and tagging styles. Take that, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch!

#3 Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio: Future)
90% average
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#2 PaRappa the Rappa - [ Playstation ]

On the surface, PaRappa the Rappa may seem like a disposable button-mashing kiddy game, but hip-hop lifers would be hard pressed to discount the style and soul of this cool "dawg". PaRappa's gameplay and plot lines are synonymous with the verbal and cultural essence of what hip-hop is all about. Because, you know, "You Gotta Believe".

#2 PaRappa the Rappa
92% average
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#1 Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Content Under Pressure - [ Xbox ]

Exemplifying the very essence of street culture, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is expected to be the "All City King" of hip-hop videogames. Steeped in New York's hip-hop lore and sporting an intricate graphitti system as well as expansive environments, Getting Up isn't a hip-hop themed game...it is hip-hop.

#1 Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Content Under Pressure
69% average
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