…to be a shout out track, dedicated to fellow Hip Hoppers or fallen friends. Classic examples can be found on Brand Nubian’s One For All, Funkdoobiest’s Which Doobie U B…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PHxQ8L3dE4&feature=youtu.be In this episode of #vinyllockup Dave reviews the 1987 classic ‘Paid In Full’ by Eric B & Rakim. The Urban Art Dept is a digital content channel. Its programming…
…prodigious effort and an album worthy of classic status. The album ultimately hit double platinum units and was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. good kid, M.A.A.D. City clearly presented a…
…from Gang Starr’s classic catalog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM0qsdASO2s 1. Tha Squeeze (00:00) 2. You Know My Steez (03:03) 3. PLAYTOWIN (07:11) 4. Work (09:54) 5. Jazz Music (12:51) 6. Next Time (16:19)…
…to literal contributors. Tampering with the form also propagated a certain reckless abandon and danger to recycling culture, giving artists carte blanche to recontextualize the past without permission, foreshadowing everything…
…“I Wanna Rock” samples “All Night Long” by Mary Jane Girls, “I Can’t Live Without My Radio” by LL Cool J and most noticeable the classic “It Takes Two” by…
“Doggy Dogg World” is the third and final single from Snoop Doggy Dogg‘s debut album Doggystyle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6N5GBoevI It features 1970s-era classic R&B and soul group The Dramatics, with guest rap…
…classic song. “Midnight” ends with the lyric “Looked at my watch, it was six in the morning,” and “6 in the Mornin’” opens with the lyric, “Six in the morning,…
…“I live for the funk, I die for the funk” was sampled for the hook of The Notorious B.I.G. song “Machine Gun Funk” from his 1994 classic Ready to Die….
…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee2nwYzLZEU Produced by Mike Dean and N.O. Joe, the song was the Geto Boy’s first charting single with the classic line-up of Scarface, Willie Dand Bushwick Bill since their 1991…
…still regarded as classic Hip Hop by many: “Let Me Show You”, “Let the Words Flow”, and “The Power”. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source’s…
…with Outkast’s Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Soul Food has been regarded as one of the two albums that brought southern Hip Hop to the mainstream, and it is regarded as a southern classic….
