One of the complaints about ringtones is that they sometimes tend to be annoying, particularly with hip hop songs. In many cases, this is due to the blaring rap verses and choruses. The solution to making your ringtones annoyance free is to use the instrumental version of these songs. You will be surprised how awesome just the melody of these songs sound as ringtones. In fact, they feel more like actual ringtones. Here are some examples.

So how do you get the instrumentals from these songs? YouTube is a good place to search. Simply search "Song title Instrumentals" and you will most likely find it. Once you find it, you can use the Create Ringtone from YouTube feature in Ringtone Expressions to create the ringtone. Ringtone Expressions also has a new feature called wake up tones, where you can now use these same instrumentals as your wake up sound instead of an annoying alarm sound. More details on this here.