25 Best MC Lyte Songs

Standouts from the timeless catalog of the rap great.

Living Legend - MC Lyte took the mic during Girls' Night Out. (Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images for BET)
"Cold Rock a Party" - Sean Combs (when he was known as Puff Daddy) produced this 1996 club banger for Lyte, which featured Missy Elliott. With its sample of Diana Ross' disco classic "Upside Down," this cut was the perfect soundtrack to the era of ghetto fabulous. (Photo: Rick Davis / Splash News)
"Keep On, Keepin' On" - Lyte boldly flexed her sexy on this 1996 track, which was featured on the soundtrack for the high school basketball film Sunset Park.    (Photo: HRC/WENN)
"Eyes Are the Soul" - When hip hop and house music combined forces to create the short-lived genre "hip house," Lyte lit up the dancefloors with this Soul II Soul-esque cut, where she rhymed about a guy whose life is torn apart by an addiction to crack.   (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images For Bloomingdale's)MC Lyte  - MC Lyte shares her excitement about the 2013 BET Awards, where she will act as the show's voiceover artist.(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

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"Cold Rock a Party" - Sean Combs (when he was known as Puff Daddy) produced this 1996 club banger for Lyte, which featured Missy Elliott. With its sample of Diana Ross' disco classic "Upside Down," this cut was the perfect soundtrack to the era of ghetto fabulous. (Photo: Rick Davis / Splash News)

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