There are a few pop artists whose careers come to life during the holiday season - however there doesn’t seem to be a hip-hop equivalent.

Chance the Rapper and Jeremih’s Christmas mixtape

is probably the most well-produced and well put together holiday project there is. Beyond

- some unexpected hip hop artists have dropped Christmas projects, like Gucci Mane’s

, Snoop Dogg's

and Afroman’s

.

There are not many full length rap Christmas albums, but there are dozens and dozens of really fun hip-hop holiday songs.

This is the number one overall, cream of the crop, champion of all Christmas rap songs. There is no discussion of this subgenre without RUN DMC’s

Every year it surprises me that

doesn’t get mainstream play or love. It feels like people don’t even care that Kanye West has a Christmas song, and they should! This is a great Christmas song, it’s produced by Hit-Boy, Teyana Taylor kills the hook, and the verses are memorable. If you’ve never heard Christmas In Harlem, give it a shot!

This is not only a great Christmas song, it is quite possibly the greatest Christmas trap song ever made.

Gucci yells.

is the opening track to

and the best song on the album. Try out a taste of East Atlanta Christmas to see how you like it.

walked so that

could run. This is a throwback that's worth listening to, however it doesn't sound much different than any other Kurtis Blow song. The references to Christmas are vague and few, but it's the 1970's so who cares! Enjoy this songs light hearted lyrics and funky music.

We've put together a playlist of some of the best Christmas rap song, which includes Mariah Carey's

with Jermaine Dupri and Bow Wow, which sounds much more like Afrika Bambaataa's

than the original song. Our playlist also features