last genuine organic hit i can think of
literally blew up when X was in jail and had no proper team and wasn't signed.
got on the billboard 100 while he was independent

Shoutout pharrell for the hook

Afroman - Because I got high

this song was gonna be a hit no matter what

i think The Hills is a better example for him

Tyler the Creator - Yonkers

levitating

That's not what I'm saying dude. I'm talking about the difference between a label backed track that spends 20+ weeks and one that doesn't.

Peep the post above me too Faneto was a hit with no label.

Surprised no one said this yet. He literally dropped it intending it to be a loosie along with 2 other songs (I believe it was two can’t remember) but it blew up so huge that it’s now a career defining song for him

AND ALL MY B****ES SEXY CALL EM BAR BAES

Performed in a small joint months before it blew up. The GOAT

shrooms n milk cereal tryin this friday night

bootleg cha cha slide

probably one of the most organic hits in recent memory. Dropped as a loosie and hit the top 10

acidrap

edit:
cannot find the article for the life of me, but i remember acid rap charting back then when someone put it up for sale

damn that's real s***, nobody expected this to be a smash hit. s*** low-key birthed the emo rappers that came up in 2018

i remember disticnctly trying to put my audiophile friend onto: studio session rip -> live audio rip -> radio rip -> itunes leak of:

and he never believed me and called uzi trash up until the point he rly rly made it

then he came back to me n said: holy s*** u were right man

You real for recognizing this, but the only emo rapper I ever recognize was Peep, RIP

idk what you're trying to say bro. This thread is basically just saying hits that the people really f***ed with rather then a short lived "hit" like that 69 and nicki minaj song which was just bought

Creep by Radiohead

Rockstar by Post
Knew it the first time I heard it when it came out

Antidote wasn’t a hit until it was pushed