I’ve seen my reactions to hip-hop change from age nine (“What the hell was that?”) to age 14 (“That was incredible!”) to age 22 (“Wait . . . are they allowed to do that?”) to age 29 (“It was kinda different when I was a kid”) to now (“What the fuck was that?!“). Hip-hop gives listeners sets of rules that you follow like the law, only to see them change every five years. (My father, unimpressed, told me, “There ain’t a living spinning other people’s music” – little did you know, Dad, little did you know.) There were so many times when a song premiere could stop you in your tracks, then become a subject of discussion for the next four hours: in the high school lunchroom when me and Black Thought heard “Wrath of Kane” for the first time, or my first listen to “Fight the Power” – it sounded like Pharoah Sanders and Rahsaan Roland Kirk had gotten into a knife fight. These sounds had incredible power if you grew up with hip-hop: There was the summer I spent trying to match the mix to “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,” note for note, on two Fisher-Price turntables.
Some of the most powerful hip-hop songs are tracks with elements so simple your brain would explode trying to explain their logic: Take the unstoppable two-note guitar stab in Craig Mack’s “Flava in Ya Ear.” (I hounded the producer, Easy Mo Bee, for 17 years for the secret behind it – then wanted to throw someone out the window when I heard how basic it was.) Or the huge sound of the Roland 909 on Schoolly D’s “PSK” – an echo that seemed like it came from a church cathedral eight city blocks wide. “Rapper’s Delight” turned this future high school band geek into a superstar for the month of October 1979. My boy Aantar became my agent that week, scheduling performances of the song in exchange for snacks or hand-holding with girls in gym class. The next night, I was prepared, with a prehistoric tape recorder in hand and a black-and-white composition notebook. I said a hip, hop, the hippy to the hippy/To the hip hip hop, you don’t stop. . . . Me and my sister, Donn, were sneaking a listen of the local soul station while washing dishes when an army of percussion and a syncopated Latin piano line came out of my grandma’s JVC clock radio – what appeared to be Chic’s “Good Times.” How was I to know that my world would come crashing down in a matter of 5, 4, 3, 2 . . . on a Thursday, after a dinner of porgies, string beans and creamed corn. I was eight years old when “Rapper’s Delight” made its world premiere on Philadelphia radio.
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Click to read the full list of voters.Īn Introduction by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Dressed in an impeccable gold velvet suit, he sauntered down the runway arm in arm with his girlfriend, Kadida Jones, before returning to perform his hit California Love. Pictured here with E40, 2Pac wears one of the most iconic Versace shirts in hip-hop fashion: the collared silk button-up. In the 25 years since, the house has been featured in countless rap songs and collaborated with some of the biggest names in the rap industry.Looking for the full list of the 100 greatest hip-hop songs of all time? Check it out right here.Įditor’s note: To make this list, Rolling Stone asked 33 artists and experts – from Rick Rubin to Busta Rhymes – to choose their favorite hip-hop tracks, then crunched the numbers. Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the history of the famed Italian fashion house Versace. It all began in 1995 Donatella and Gianni Versace personally invited Tupac Shakur to walk in Versace's Fall/Winter 96 show- only months before his sudden death in 1996.
In one of his most scathing lines, he tabs a clear jab at cultural appropriating white girls, telling them to "please stop rockin' fake Fendi, eatin' nasty-ass Chipotle, wearin' bindis." Throughout the track, Father disses posers that dare to wear fake Versace- one of the most sacred luxury brands in the hip-hop industry. In May 2015, Father dropped Please Stop Making Fake Versace, an absolute banger that is everything this 90s Versace lover could ever ask for.
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