Some of hip-hop's best collaborations have came about when rappers banded with some of the era's biggest pop stars. Let's take a look at some of the best songs in which hip-hop and pop have merged.

For hip-hop, this meant manipulating breakbeats from songs like Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” and “Numbers” to energize b-boys and b-girls; for house, it meant extending disco’s rhythmic pulse ...