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Jun 2, 2017 · That madcap genius is all over “Brooklyn Zoo,” which was co-produced by ODB, especially on its endlessly repeated chorus. “It’s like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins somehow made the best hip-hop ...
Feb 15, 2024 · Built on a sample of Chic’s “Good Times,” the song proved that hip-hop, like disco, ... Hip-hop and its accompanying culture is not what it was 50 years ago, but its conscious origins have ...
- Outkast, ‘B.O.B’ Stankonia, 2000. Outkast greeted the 21st century with a single that’ll probably still sound ahead of its time in the 22nd: Big Boi and Andre 3000 air millennial anxieties over a genuinely insane beat of jackhammer drums, Hendrix-at-Monterey guitars and massed voices chanting “Power music, electric revival” like a gospel choir conducted by Afrika Bambaataa.
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, ‘Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel’ Non-album single, 1981. Using three turntables and a crossfader (a device he invented), 23-year-old Flash created a continuous party jam out of records by Chic, Blondie, Queen and more – showing off frenetic steel-wheels moves and establishing the DJ as a new kind of pop musician.
- Marley Marl, ‘The Symphony’ In Control, Volume 1, 1988. Wizardly producer Marley Marl dials up a beat for the ages – a ferocious drum break and Otis Redding piano loop – and summons the cream of his Juice Crew affiliates.
- Funky 4 + 1, ‘That’s the Joint’ Non-album single, 1980. Nearly 10 minutes and God knows how many bars of exhortations and boasts, sprawling across a hopped-up disco beat.
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Oct 8, 2019 · Shook Ones (Part II), Mobb Deep (1995) 2. Fight The Power, Public Enemy (1989) 1. Juicy, Notorious B.I.G. (1994) More on BBC Music’s greatest hip-hop songs of all time: What critics had to say ...
Oct 8, 2019 · The greatest hip-hop song of all time, in their opinion, is Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls. The 1994 release is a watershed moment in the timeline of hip-hop, marking the ...
May 14, 2024 · Founding Father of Rap & Hip Hop. When we talk about the "father of rap," a few legendary names come to mind, but one stands out: DJ Kool Herc. Back in the 1970s, in the Bronx, he started something phenomenal by isolating the instrumental portions of funk records to highlight the beats.
