![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Click to read the full list of voters.Īn Introduction by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson They gave me a try, and when I got on set they were happy with what I did.”īesides rapping and acting, Kap G is also one of the faces of Sprite’s new “Cold Lyrics Series” campaign, along with Vince Staples, Vic Mensa, D.R.A.M., Lil Yachty, and Kamaiyah.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. They wanted more of the typical cholo with a bald head and tattoos all over. They didn’t really want me to play it at first. “They said, ‘I want you to audition for this Dope movie.’ I was like, ‘Cool, I’m with it.'” explained the Atlanta representative in a 2016 interview with. Kap G was also featured in the Pharrell-produced film Dope. The Pharrell Williams protégé already has a discography that includes Real Migo Sh*t, Like a Mexican, El Southside, and SupaJefe. “Me and Chris Brown are releasing a mixtape soon, and right now, I’m just working on my album,” Kap told the publication. (AllHipHop News) Chris Brown just teamed up with Ray J for the Burn My Name mixtape.Īpparently, the R&B superstar is next set to drop another joint project with 2017 XXL Freshman Kap G. ![]()
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