Oct 24, 2015

obviously everyone is going to have nitpicking points here--for me, the specific ones are that big pimpin should slide to 1999, the year it was actually released, and 2000 should be given to bombs over baghdad; 2012 should be cartoons and cereal or love sosa or even n----s in paris. also, as mentioned, what you know is clearly, clearly the song of 2006.

if i have a broader complaint, it's that the post-2000 picks skew so heavily toward songs by rappers who are respected album artists. there's no t-pain for the middle of the decade?

but everyone should pick this up. something i don't think has been mentioned is that the biggest selling point is really the art.

 

Oct 23, 2015

that it's the most important of the year? i wouldn't disagree. it's not the best song to me, but it's hard to argue against something that gets chanted at protests.

 

Oct 23, 2015

Shea Serrano’s The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed does pretty much what its title suggests.

Released earlier this month, it’s New York Times best seller, and is presently sold out on Amazon.

Here are the 36 songs Serrano has deemed most important (which doesn’t necessarily mean best) since 1979:

1979 ‘Rapper’s Delight’ The Sugarhill g---
1980 ‘The Breaks’ Kurtis Blow
1981 ‘Jazzy Sensation’ Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five
1982 ‘The Message’ Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
1983 ‘Sucker M.C.’s’ Run-DMC
1984 ‘Friends’ Whodini
1985 ‘La Di Da Di’ Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick
1986 ‘6 in the Mornin” Ice-T
1987 ‘Paid in Full’ Eric B. and Rakim
1988 ‘Straight Outta Compton’ N.W.A
1989 ‘Fight the Power’ Public Enemy
1990 ‘Bonita Applebum’ A Tribe Called Quest
1991 ‘Mind Playing Tricks on Me’ Geto Boys
1992 ‘Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang’ Dr. Dre, featuring Snoop Dogg
1993 ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Wu-Tang Clan
1994 ‘Juicy’ The Notorious B.I.G.
1995 ‘Dear Mama’ Tupac
1996 ‘California Love’ Tupac, featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman
1997 ‘Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down’ Puff Daddy, featuring Mase
1998 ‘Ruff Ryders’ Anthem’ DMX
1999 ‘My Name Is’ Eminem
2000 ‘Big Pimpin” Jay Z, featuring UGK
2001 ‘Takeover’ vs. ‘Ether’ Jay Z vs. Nas
2002 ‘Grindin” The Clipse
2003 ‘In Da Club’ 50 Cent
2004 ‘Still Tippin” Mike Jones, featuring Slim Thug and Paul Wall
2005 ‘Gold Digger’ Kanye West, featuring Jamie Foxx
2006 ‘Hustlin” Rick Ross
2007 ‘International Players Anthem’ UGK, featuring Outkast
2008 ‘A Milli’ Lil Wayne
2009 ‘Best I Ever Had’ Drake
2010 ‘Monster’ Kanye West, featuring Rick Ross, Jay Z, Bon Iver, and Nicki Minaj
2011 ‘n----s in Paris’ Jay Z and Kanye West
2012 ‘Same Love’ Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
2013 ‘Control’ Big Sean, featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica
2014 ‘Lifestyle’ Rich g---, featuring Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan



http://news.hiphopearly.com/new-book-lists-important-rap-songs-every-year-1979/

 

Oct 23, 2015

@ThuggerSXN 2014

 

Oct 24, 2015

i think "grindin" is as big or bigger than "lose yourself" among people who would describe themselves as hip-hop fans. if you control for the fact that it's (technically) a debut single from a coke-rap duo from virginia and label purgatory vs the career climax of the biggest rapper ever, it's a landslide.

 

Oct 23, 2015

-2016

 

Oct 23, 2015

Macklemore is on the f---ing list