10 hip-hop anthems from 2001 that still sound huge We were promised hover cars by the turn of the Millennium – instead we had Game Boys and dresses over jeans. Luckily, it was an amazing time for music Missy Elliot in 2001. Credit: Getty People thought that, after the turn of the Millennium, we’d be driving in hover cars and living with alien. In fact, what 2001 really looked like was Nintendo Gameboys, Mariah Carey’s fictional biopic Glitter and women wearing dresses over jeans (really). But at least the music didn’t disappoint. You couldn’t look over your shoulder without there being a brand new Ja Rule verse or member of New York label Ruff Ryders climbing up the charts. A whole bunch of hip-hop tracks came out in 2001 – we tried to whittle it down to 10 to take you down memory lane.