​As we've already informed you, just about all of the shows that you were planning on attending this weekend have been called off. In other words, no Afro-Punk, no Ted Leo, no P.S. 1 Warm Up, and no Dave Matthews Band. After we collectively begin to pull ourselves together, put away our hacky sacks and fill our bathtubs up with water, we're going to need a new set of tunes to get us through to Monday. So, as an alternative to the Bob Dylan and Scorpions YouTubes that have been filling your newsfeeds for the past 24 hours, we've pulled together ten of our favorite rap songs that maintain some sort of connection to this weekend's storm, ranging from The Click's ode to Hurricane Malt Liquor to a Beastie Boys collaboration with DJ Hurricane and Jadakiss asking, "What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?" Enjoy these tracks while you still have power, and don't hestitate to remind those co-workers that "Hurricane" is one of the weak links on the mad underrated Desire.

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The wobbly wheel that was last week's "It's Over"--a track just laid back and passive enough to work against Rich Boy's own world class talent for holding titanic beats in barely-contained check--wasn't the greatest sign. "Drop" and "Hataz," the two most recent RB songs to make the rounds before that one, had been outsized, melodramatic bangers--implacable, force of nature stuff. "I'm too big for the city, bitch!" dude swore on "Hataz," and who could doubt him?

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First "Drop," a completely gigantically absurd song, and now "Hataz," which sounds like Young Dro's titanic "Take Off" minus the goofy Yung L.A. verse. Rich Boy is currently the king of sounding like he's 1,000 feet tall. [Nah Right]