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A Definitive Ranking of All 'The Fast and The Furious' Soundtracks

Spoiler alert: the new one looks better than all of the rest.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB

The tracklist for the soundtrack to The Fate of the Furious – the eighth film in the The Fast and the Furious franchise (yes we are on eight of these now, thanks) – has just been released, and my friends……. it's lit. Including contributions from Migos, Young Thug, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, Lil Uzi Vert, Kehlani, Lil Yachty, and of course, Mr International himself (Pitbull), it'll be led by "Go Off" by Lil Uzi Vert, Quavo and Travis Scott.

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Look over the entire tracklist below; in my scientific opinion, it's going to be quite a bumper when it's released in a few months' time to coincide with the movie's US opening (on 14 April):

1) Young Thug, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa & PnB Rock - Gang Up
2) Lil Uzi Vert, Quavo & Travis Scott - Go Off
3) G-Eazy & Kehlani - Good Life
4) PnB Rock, Kodak Black & A Boogie Wit da Hoodie - Horses
5) Migos - Seize The Block
6) YoungBoy Never Broke Again – Murder (feat. 21 Savage) [Remix]
7) Bassnectar – Speakerbox (feat. Ohana Bam & Lafa Taylor) [F8 Remix]
8) Post Malone - Candy Paint
9) Kevin Gates - 911
10) Lil Yachty – Mamacita (feat. Rico Nasty)
11) Jeremih, Ty Dolla $ign, & Sage The Gemini - Don't Get Much Better
12) Pitbull & J Balvin - Hey Ma (feat. Camila Cabello) [Spanish Version]
13) Pinto "Wahin" & DJ Ricky Luna - La Habana (feat. El Taiger)
14) J Balvin & Pitbull - Hey Ma (feat. Camila Cabello)

Whatever your views on the cinematic integrity of the The Fast and the Furious films (though if you are a person of a particular age there is a 100 percent chance that you smooched your crush in a cinema watching one of these films, and for that they should be objectively respected), their soundtracks are always amazing at capturing the zeitgeist in hip-hop culture, as evidenced by the list above. So, I have taken it upon myself to rank the eight that currently exist (the first film, for no discernible reason, has two entire soundtracks, and I am not including the scores in this because who do you think I am). In ascending order:

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8) Fast Five (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
This is probably my least favourite for quite a shallow reason: the lack of big names. It doesn't do the proper job of a Fast and the Furious soundtrack, because it doesn't reflect culture back at the listener. Although Ludacris, mainstay of these compilations, does sneak on at the end, to save the integrity of the form, and indeed, all of us.

7) The Fast and the Furious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, and it tells me that five Ja Rule songs (not one of which is an Ashanti collaboration), on this, the soundtrack to the first The Fast and the Furious film, is probably too many for the soundtrack to one film. There is, unfortunately, only so much growling ears can withstand.

6) Fast & Furious (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
This is the soundtrack to the fourth film. There is an exceptional amount of Pitbull on this and I cannot in good conscience put it any higher.

5) Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
This would have been higher if Tyga wasn't on it. I'm petty.

4) 2 Fast 2 Furious: Soundtrack
…and I have literally only placed this so highly because Chingy is on it.

3) More Fast and Furious
This is the 'second' soundtrack to the first The Fast and the Furious film, and in the words of our friends at Wikipedia, almost inexplicably, "this album contains alternative metal and nu metal songs, as well as selected tracks from the film score."

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"this album contains alternative metal and nu metal songs"

"alternative metal and nu metal" Until today I did not know this existed. There is a Hoobastank song on this soundtrack. THERE IS A MACHINE HEAD SONG ON THIS SOUNDTRACK. Have some fucking respect.

2) Fast & Furious 6 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ludacris is here, 2 Chainz is here, bloody Peaches is here. Everyone is here. This is an excellent soundtrack that mingles eclecticism (say hi, Deadmau5 and Cypress Hill) with a loyalty to the zeitgeist that all the good The Fast and The Furious soundtracks have. Highly commended.

1) The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Two words: Teriyaki Boyz. Ten more words: "She Wants to Move (Death from Above Remix) by N.E.R.D. Fin.

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