Hip-Hop Workout

Ladies and gentlemen, soldiers and shawties, it’s time to step it up! Hip-Hop Workout is in the house, with muscle-pumpin’, heart-thumpin’ beats and rhymes to power your hustle for fitness. So, why throw your precious coin at a personal trainer when you’ve got street-strong MC Joe Budden at your back and in your earbuds pushin’ you to “Pump It Up” whenever you hit the gym? Let mastermind Jay-Z’s track “Takeover” help you dominate your regime, and by the time you and YoungBloodZ can say, “Damn!” you’ll be on your way to fitness for real.

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“One moment — would you capture it?” Listen up to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” and think of that one moment as your workout routine, your chance to push yourself to limits of what you know you’re capable of. When you want to make the most of your physical potential, it’s crucial to have the right tunes to guide you to the zone, that place where you aren’t leaving anything on the table and still you want more. And more is what you get, from Kris Kross’ fail-safe cardio-kicker “Jump,” to Mystikal’s rough-but-right booty-shaper “Shake Ya A*s,” to Mase and a hip-hop ode to the glorious results of your hard-charging workout, “Feel So Good.”

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You did it! You got it going at last, moving from the first-step fitness moves of Unk’s “Walk It Out,” straight on up to the hardcore aerobic marathon that is House Of Pain’s “Jump Around.” It feels right, right? Maintenance is the name of the game now — let us take care of the tunes so you stay focused on total workout glory. It helps to make it fun, so have a laugh and “Bust a Move” with Young MC’s hip-pop classic, and when you’ve perfected your fitness form, enlist Juvenile, Lil Wayne & Manny Fresh and show ’em how you “Back That Azz Up.”

This right here? This is your own super set of in-the-gym movers designed to help you light the fire, fight through the burn and come out of your fitness regime feeling right strong and smokin’ hot. It’s Hip-Hop Workout, our Essentials playlist packed with the beat of the street to give you the push and drive on which you thrive, from the nasty rhymes of Terror Squad, Fat Joe & Remy’s “Lean Back,” to the Lil Wayne steam-shower “A Milli,” to the Sugarhill Gang’s in-the-beginning breakthrough “Rapper’s Delight.” Most definitely, these are the tunes to train by, whether you want to build your body to the cyborg beats of 50 Cent’s “In da Club,” do some heavy lifting to super-cut rapper LL Cool J’s “Headsprung,” or just work it out on the treadmill to OutKast and the live-strong sounds of “Hey Ya!”