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Songs from your favourite movies including Set It Off, The Bodyguard, Bad Boys, 8 Mile, Love & Basketball, Step Up, You Got Served, Kidulthood & Honey.

BBC 1Xtra serves you a heavy dose of nostalgia with the best throwback tunes.
We're throwing it back to the best of the best of the original soundtracks of the movies that made us.

Think Set It Off, The Bodyguard, Bad Boys, 8 Mile, Love & Basketball, Step Up, You Got Served, Kidulthood & Honey.

Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1Xtra.

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Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Ooh Wee (feat. Ghostface Killah & Nate Dogg)

    • Ooh Wee.
    • Elektra.

  • Diana King

    Shy Guy

  • Color Me Badd

    I Wanna Sex You Up

    • Giant.

  • En Vogue

    Don't Let Go (Love)

    • Don't Let Go (Love).
    • East West.

  • Seal

    Kiss From A Rose

    • Seal II.
    • Warners.
    • 6.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Independent Women, Part I

    • Independent Women Part 1.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Eminem

    Lose Yourself

    • Lose Yourself.
    • Interscope.

  • Boyz II Men

    End of the Road

    • End Of The Road.
    • Mowtown.

  • Beyoncé

    Check On It (feat. Slim Thug) (feat. Slim Thug)

    • Columbia.

  • The Streets

    Blinded By The Lights

    • Locked On/679.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • Universal.

  • M.O.P.

    Ante Up (Remix) (feat. Busta Rhymes & Tephlon) (feat. Busta Rhymes, Teflon & Remy Ma)

    • Ante Up (Remix).
    • Epic/Loud.

  • Wiz Khalifa

    See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth)

    • Atlantic.

  • Coolio

    Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.)

    • Gangsta's Paradise.
    • Tommy Boy.
    • 1.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Will Always Love You

    • I Will Always Love You.
    • Arista.

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