Kanye's 'Christmas in Harlem' Is PopEater's Favorite Holiday Song

By Denise Warner Posted Dec 24th 2010 02:20PM

Kanye West's 'My Beautiful Dark Fantasy' is arguably the best album of 2010 -- but the rapper wasn't done just yet.

His latest work -- 'Christmas in Harlem' -- is quickly becoming one of our favorite holiday tunes. Listen to it below. [Warning: Mature Content]

What are our favorites from Yuletides past? Check them out inside >>>

2. Jackson 5 -- 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town'
Hearing a young Michael Jackson belt this sweet song out definitely gets us in the spirit.

3. *NSYNC -- 'O Holy Night'
Justin Timberlake is so hot right now -- we just want to remind you where he came from. And don't forget the others!

4. Bing Crosby and David Bowie -- 'Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth'
The odd Crosby-Bowie duet works on a level that we don't try to understand. We just go with it. (For additional awesomeness, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly recreate this in all its glory.)

5. Paul McCartney and Wings -- 'Wonderful Christmastime'
You may hear a lot of critics who hate this choice, but whatever -- McCartney's great and this is on our Christmas playlist.

6. John Lennon and Yoko Ono -- 'Happy Christmas (War Is Over)'
You can't have McCartney without Lennon. Yoko is just a bonus.

7. The Kinks -- 'Father Christmas'
When they're not singing about Lola, The Kinks give us Father Christmas. And that's pretty cool.

8. Twisted Sister -- 'O Come All Ye Faithful'
We think it's cool that 'Faithful' shares chords with 'We're Not Gonna Take It,' making for one awesomely metal rendition.

9. Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell -- 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'
We're currently obsessed with Ms. Deschanel. (Seriously, did you hear her She & Him rendition of 'I Put a Spell on You' on 'Conan'? You haven't? Merry Christmas.) And after watching 'Elf,' we knew this belonged with other classics.

10. Mariah Carey -- 'All I Want for Christmas (Is You)'
It's not Christmas without Mariah's 1994 hit. Duh.

11. Sufjan Stevens -- 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel'
Maybe not technically a pop song, but it's amazing. Listen, please.

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Friday 24 December

By Conrad Shagwell

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Kanye West is a flaming bunghole. If he's ever in criminal court and I'm on the jury, he'll do time. He's got nothing to do with MY Christmas.

By Robert

Let's see if I have this right.."The best Christmas song" along with " [Warning: Mature Content]"..
This is the celebration of Christ's birthday for most of the world isn't it?? ..so with all the Christmas songs out there..this is the one we should be most excited about..??
No matter how you paint it..trash is trash and especially this time of the year we don't need to be subjected to it...like every kid that has an AOL email address that sees this "ad" is not going to click on that disgusting song by one of the most disgusting people on the planet..and you wonder why there are so many messed up kids in the world..do anything,,,say anything and the worse it is the more money you make..that is just messed up!!
kids..please accept my apologies and know there is a better way to say...Merry Christmas..
RB

By Norb

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Amen!

By Pat

I love the Beatles, Wings and Paul McCartney, but I HATE the Christmas song "Wonderful Christmas Time". It is brain numbing and when I hear it I shut off the radio or change the station.I just don't see how it made the list.

By Barry

I gotta tell whoever wrote this list. You have the absolute worst taste in music out there.

Kanye? The best Christmas "song" ever? Seriously?

I do like that you are trying to be hip and part of the cool crowd, but this is just dreadful.

By MTM

Not surprised - most of your choices suck. McCartney and Lennon are two of the worst songs heard this time of year.

By William

To quote Norm Macdonald, "Happy Birthday Jesus, hope you like crap!"

By PCB

Nothing listed is worthy of listening.

By great granny

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Am glad Kanye is doing better. Let him alone, he needs this time to recoup. Nobody can want another human being to fail, i hope. We all live and learn. Life is not easy and we need a little forgiveness in our hearts. By the way I like Eminems "Im not afraid".

By donald

A rap Christmas song from KW with mature content. If it's rap, it's crap. Why don't these maggots stick to what they know - drugs, robbery, prostitution, murder...

By Kenny

Geeeeezzzzzz. Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas", Luther Vandross' "Every Year, Every Christmas", The Eagles' "Hurry Home Christmas", The CHIPMUNKS!!!! Jose Feliciano. I can name about 40 other Christmas recordings better than Wonderful Christmas time and DRUMMER BOY!!!!!!C'mon guys!

By get it right

little drummer boy by Bob Seger is by far the best song for the holidays some songs on this list leave me wondering what yoy guys are on?

By James

Well, you got 4/10. You guys need to hire people with better taste and more knowledge of music than the douche bag, politically correct, in fear of their job, retards that made this selection.

By Laura

OK I understand wanting to stay "hip" and new with things. But this is a little over the top, even for me! I love the kinks, loved that song for years. Thinking that Vanessa Williams rendition of Baby It's Cold Outside is incredible and surely tops Zooey and Will. Loved NSYNC, but I do think that Boys to Men version had that one beat but just a tad. I guess I'm just shocked that these were the picks when their is so much out there that is clearly more loved than some of the car wrecks picked here.

By mand0623

Be real Where is White Christmas by Bing Crosby!

By Chuck

Sorry but - never heard of "Christmas in Harlem"

Saturday 25 December

By sammimadison

Where was this poll taken, obviously the Ghetto

By Allah

three words for the idiots who made this list.... TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA

By truth

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A B C's of RAP Arap =.05% of songs are good Brap .05% of songs are OK CRAP 99.9% ALL RAP MUSIC Merry Christmas Y'all