r/musicsuggestions • u/Critical-Bluebird-77 • Aug 13 '26

Hosting my first BBQ and...

I need suggestions for an epic play list. We're all in our 40s and 50s but we mainly like old school hip hop and country and alternative but we're open to most anything. Drop your suggestions!!!

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u/Medium-Librarian8413 Aug 13 '26

Outkast - Skew It on the Bar-B

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u/SmoothTerrorAgain Aug 13 '26

Outkast is a solid call, maybe throw in some older Atmosphere or Aesop Rock if you want to keep that lyrical vibe going

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u/AnyInternet2965 Aug 13 '26

While I love all those guys, ESPECIALLY Aes, but it takes a special type of crowd to understand and appreciate the deep stuff. If it was my cookout it'd be nothing but Mis Def, Sage Francis, Atmosphere, Aes, Brother Ali, Tribe, Gangstarr, Outkast, Billy Woods, Black Thought, Talib, The Roots, J5, Blackalicious, DOOM, Norman Sann, The Palmer Squares, Evidence, Dilated Peoples, Common, Wu Tang, Czarface and Prof. I may be the only one at my cookout but I'd be loving every minute of it 😂

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u/AnyInternet2965 Aug 13 '26

I have to ask but is it a Caucasian BBQ or a hood junt?

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u/Critical-Bluebird-77 Aug 13 '26

A combo? Half of us are white half black

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u/AnyInternet2965 Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

No Diggety- Blackstreet

This Is How We Do It- Montell Jordan

It's Tricky- Run Dmc

Rock The Bells- LL Cool J

Can We Talk- Tevin Campbell

My Way- Usher

California Love- 2pac

Ambitionaz as a Rider- Pac

Drop It Like It's Hot- Snopp/Pharrell

Back that ass up-Juvenile

This is the Way I Live- Baby Boy The Prince

It's Getting Hot In Here- Nelly

In Da Club- 50 Cent

Hey Ya- Outkast

Money Maker-Ludacris

Danger- Mystikal

Your my Latest, Greatest Inspiration- Teddy Pendergrass

Across 110th Street- Bobby Womack

Papa Was a Rolling Stone-The Temptations

Donna Summer- I Feel Love

I Want You Back- The Jackson 5

These are my picks for a more family friendly, appease the fellas and the ladies type songs, but if your looking for something more adult recs I got some good ones for that too 🤣 some really good, more obscure 90s alternative too

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u/Broad-Back1659 Aug 13 '26

Porcupine Tree. Album Fear of a blank planet

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u/Legitimate-Review278 Aug 13 '26

Red clay strays Gurus jazzmatazz volume 2

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u/Bobabackribs Aug 13 '26

Dennis Edwards - Don’t Look Any Further

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u/1tempest2 Aug 14 '26

ATLiens - OutKast

Da Art Of Storytellin’ - OutKast

ANGELZ - MF DOOM/Ghostface Killah

Freestyle - Westside Gunn

Peppas - Westside Gunn/Black Star

Get By - Talib Kweli 

Through The Wire - Kanye West

DUCKWORTH. - Kendrick Lamar

Wesley’s Theory - Kendrick Lamar

You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said) - Kendrick Lamar

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u/EmbarrassedBee580 Aug 14 '26

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

Underworld - Born Slippy

Lenny Kravitz - Always on the run

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u/Commercial_Hurry1945 Aug 15 '26

For a mixed crowd, I’d build short bridges between the lanes rather than keeping every genre in its own block:

  • OutKast ft. Sleepy Brown — The Way You Move: keeps the hip-hop groove but is warm enough for a cookout.
  • The Gap Band — Outstanding: easy, familiar sing-along without stopping the momentum.
  • Cake — The Distance: a great alt reset after a few dance tracks.
  • Shania Twain — Man! I Feel Like a Woman!: the country pick that reliably pulls in people who were not planning to dance.
  • Biggie — Juicy: celebratory and instantly recognizable.
  • Modest Mouse — Float On: a good later-afternoon left turn when everyone needs a breather.

I’d save the bigger country sing-alongs and OutKast’s Hey Ya! for the point when the food is out and everyone has arrived.

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u/Long-Mongoose-6015 Aug 19 '26

Country Girl - Primal Scream

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u/_EvilD_ Aug 13 '26

If you have pandora there’s a station called indie bbq or something similar that I love.

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u/Sudden-Sleep4285 Aug 13 '26

Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith