Activities: Grinding At A Nightclub

Today's hottest hip hop club anthems.

From crunk classics to modern baller anthems, this is the boisterous sound of southern rap songs that are guaranteed to tear the club up. Get low!

Go shawty, it's your birthday! No need to wait in line at Tao, Pure, Lavo, or Marquee -- pop some bottles and drop it like it's hot with the hottest club bangers of the '00s.

Starting in the early-mid '90, hip hop took on dramatic changes in sound as gangster rap and rich, soulful production became the dominant styles. These are the classic club anthems from that era.

From Magic City in Atlanta to King of Diamonds in Miami, gentleman's club DJs are now powerful tastemakers in rap and R&B music. This playlist features some of the dramatic and sexy sounds that pervade many of these popular urban haunts.

Iowa-born hip hop producer Bangladesh has been making waves (and getting serious airplay) with his speaker-blowing productions for Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj. This playlist collects all of Bangladesh's beats from the last decade.

Listen to the most popular rap songs in America as determined by the Billboard charts.

Listen to the most popular hip hop and R&B songs in America as determined by the Billboard charts.

As a freshman, Derek Smith left college to focus on music production full-time. Today, as Pretty Lights, Smith runs his own record label and is headlining festivals around the country. Listen to the best tracks from Pretty Lights and his contemporaries.

This collection of heart-thumping hip hop beats will help you reach the next level in your cardio workouts.

Baile funk (or funk carioca) is a type of dance music commonly played in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Derived from the bombastic sounds of Miami bass (a.k.a. booty bass), Baile funk brings powerful Brazilian slang to undeniably danceable music.

Bhangra is a lively, percussive form of folk music and harvest dance from the Indian state of Punjab. Bhangra has enjoyed a surge in popularity worldwide, both in traditional form and as a fusion with genres such as hip-hop and reggae.

A taste of the hottest new dancehall "riddims" created during the last decade, featuring hard, fast, reggae-based grooves that have influenced hit songs by Beyonce, Rihanna and more.

This energetic urban hybrid of Latin American musical traditions and dancehall beats has ignited on a global scale, boasting multi-platinum reggaetoneros.

On this playlist the fiercest Latina femcees take on the testosterone-dominated genres of reggaeton and hip hop.

The Neptunes produced some of the biggest hit songs of the late 1990s and early 2000s. These are the essential tracks that defined this production duo's raw, percussive sound.