Hip-Hop's 10 Best Animated GIFs

I stole these from Complex.com's post of the 50 best and basically compiled them into the ones that I thought were the best. And just as a point of information, you can make an animated GIF out of any video footage so while a lot of these are animated GIFs technically, they're not true animated GIFs in that they were originally a set of still images combined into an animation (webNerd much?).

Without further adieu, here's my list of the best 10 out of Complex's 50, and a couple bonus ones I picked out.

Rolling in at #10, Mr. Bentley himself (Complex had this one at 47)...


Whatever happened to Mr. Bentley? He went from being Diddy's manservant to allegedly selling umbrellas to allegedly being signed to G.O.O.D. Music to being invisible. I guess he might have just pigeon-holed himself with the whole buffoonish manservant act. I hope not because dude is actually pretty daggon bright (as in, well-educated).

Coming in at #9 is Jay-Z and his Roc Boy's salute (Complex had this at #31)...

Fellas, you did this, at least once... With one of your friends.

Next up at #8 is Jay-Z again, but for all the wrong reasons, lol (Complex had this at #12)...


If you watched the Fade to Black DVD then you know that Jay-Z has a proclivity for making weird faces when he's feeling his music and this seems to prove he makes the same type of faces when listening to other people's music. It's hilarious how Jay-Z can be cool as a fan in pic #9 and a goofball at #8.

Who's up at #7 you ask? None other than Diddy himself (Complex had Diddy at 33)...

Sometimes I am thoroughly entertained by Diddy and other times I feel like he poaches hip-hop. It's really a case-by-case situation. But the Diddy Bop is classic. Perhaps not as classic as this though...

Number 6, Dame Diddy (Complex had this one at #34)

Dame might stay losing post-"BreakUpAFella", but when Rocafella was at its prime, Dame was a dancing machine (no Michael Jackson). This is one of his most classic moments doing the "roll the dice" dance. What Rachel Roy saw in an azzhole like Dame that danced like this I will never know, lol. The only issue I've got here is Dame being shirtless.

Number 5 (Complex had this one at #39)...I wonder how Jay-Z feels about me having Dame at #6. Well....

I bet this sums up how Jay feels very accurately. "He's alright but he's not real. Jay-Z's that deal", lol.

Coming in at #4 is the homie Brad Jordan aka Scarface aka Mr. Scarface (Complex had this at #6)

This is probably the last face you'd expect to see FaceMob making but if you saw the video from which this GIF was made, you'd totally understand why, lol. Real Face fans know about hittin' her with the "High Notes", lol.

Number 3 (Complex has this at #19) is dedicated to all NYers that think everything is about NY hip-hop and nothing else

This might be one of the lamest, most homo-erotic things to ever happen in hip-hop. I love New York hip-hop and always have but if this is what NY hip-hop has to rely on to "bring NY hip-hop back" then good riddance to NY rap. Personally, I think the people who ONLY respect NY rappers as lyricists and give less credit to southern other rappers with ridiculous skills (ie - Lil Wayne, TIP, Scarface, Andre Benjamin, etc.) should be forced to listen to MIMS move to Atlanta or Houston for about a year so they can get some "hip-hop exposure". New York was the birthplace and used to be the epicenter people, but the genre & culture is bigger than NY now and there are other talented artists outside the NYC's 5 burroughs. Get over it. Or pull a Diddy/Fat Joe and ride the south's "gonads" until you become relevant there.

Number 2 (Complex had this at #36) is one that needs no words really

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!

And my number 1 hip-hop animated GIF of all the times (at least from those that I pilfered from Complex.com's list) is...

Hands-down the coolest President eVAR! No, it's not because he's black and I am too. No it's not because being cool matters when it comes to Presidents. But simply because Obama is the type of cool that every man wants to be but only few are born with. I don't have it and most of you cats reading this don't either. But few men are blessed (yes, blessed dammit) to have his coolness, intelligence, speaking ability, confident humility, and overall presence. Even if Obama wasn't the President he'd be somewhere being the coolest mofo in the building and you can't deny even if you want to, lol.

Honorable Mentions

In case you were wondering what Complex's #1 choice was, it was CamRon arguing with Bill O'Reilly...


And here are a few others that I think are worth checkin' out...

This one is just completely hilarious!!!


It's really Officer Raw$e's reaction to LeBron's "Decision" but someone did a great job of making a hilarious animated GIF out of it, lol.

This one's really for the fellas. I used to be a big Rosa Acosta "watcher" but then she got to the point of over-saturation on the InterWeb and I stopped being interested, as much. Her stretching videos are pretty well-known in hip-hop webnerd circles so this one you've probably seen before but the sheer sexiness of it demands I post it here.


Watch for the hook hat!


Aubrey, Aubrey, Aubrey! He gets so excited about his music and performances sometimes he just can't stand up straight.



Im not really sure why or maybe it's because this kid is Justin Beiber-ish but this makes me laugh out loud (no lol).