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Butterfly: "We be to rap what key be to lock"

From their debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) 1992

From the album Blue Lines (1991)

A clip from Family Feud that'll make any Hip-Hop Head cry. So drop your top 8 in the comments.

Title Edit: forgot to add "[Sabby Sabs (Political) Commentary on Candace-Eminem Beef]"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17753251

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17748917

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Notable comment:

@DonMcThrill | 12 days ago (edited)

1. 80s - focus on morals lyrically
2. 90s - focus on drama lyrically
3. 00s - focus on rhythmic sound
4. 10s - focus on overall production

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17747772

This song tells about the business of drug dealing and all the problems that are related to drugs from both the junkie’s and the dealer’s perspective. It also describes a girl who is willing to do anything for drugs.

This early Dr. Dre beat prominently samples the “Funky Worm” by Ohio Players.

https://genius.com/Nwa-dope-man-lyrics

Bullet in the Head is a song by American hardcore band Rage Against the Machine, released as the second single from their 1992 eponymous debut album. A fan favorite and one of the album’s heaviest tracks, “Bullet in the Head” refers to the band’s belief that the government uses media to control the population, drawing comparisons between typical residences and Alcatraz. The track was transferred intact from the band’s demo, also titled Rage Against the Machine.

https://genius.com/Rage-against-the-machine-bullet-in-the-head-lyrics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17679698

“If It Isn’t Love” was the first single from the classic 1988 album Heart Break. The single peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart as they were ironically held out of the #1 spot by former bandmate Bobby Brown’s single “Don’t Be Cruel.” This song tells the story of a young man trying to deny his feelings of love for a young lady but having no other emotion to describe his feelings for her. Producer Jimmy Jam said the following about the creation of the song:

We just mainly wanted to keep the fun in the music and give people the feeling that we got when we first heard ‘Candy Girl.’ We wanted people to feel when they heard ‘If It Isn’t Love,’ that same feeling. We just contemporized it using newer sounds. I remember the bass line on that song is sort of a derivative of the bass sound that we used on Janet Jackson’s song ‘Nasty.’ We thought it would be cool to have that bass line. We just wanted to make a classic chorus. I remember Terry [Lewis] came up with the lyric and melody for the beginning of the song because I didn’t have any ideas for that. The melody for the rest of the song was my idea and lyrically that was all Terry.

The music video for this song shows the group in a room rehearsing for a concert, and at the end of the video, the group is shown at the venue getting ready to go on stage. That final scene sets up the concert performance video for their follow-up single “You’re Not My Kind of Girl.”

https://genius.com/New-edition-if-it-isnt-love-lyrics

https://web.archive.org/web/20240304114348/https://genius.com/New-edition-if-it-isnt-love-lyrics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17679598

In this song, one of the Boyz know that his time with his girl is coming to an end, but he isn’t ready to let go of her.

“End of the Road” was Boyz II Men’s first ever #1 single, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for 13 straight weeks, which was a record at the time. This song also won 2 Grammys for “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” and “Best R&B Song”.

https://genius.com/Boyz-ii-men-end-of-the-road-lyrics

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617032504/https://genius.com/Boyz-ii-men-end-of-the-road-lyrics

This whole case is a circus.

I somehow missed this drop. Supposedly their last project together.

The national anthem!

This makes me happy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17607188

Released in collaboration with Bold Stories, this track serves a successor to the revered Long Live Palestine trilogy.

Throughout the song, Lowkey reflects on the military siege that Gaza has faced in recent months and shares critical thoughts on his place in music.

https://genius.com/Lowkey-palestine-will-never-die-lyrics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17606738

Alt. link: MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL (AUDIO ONLY) [02:48] https://youtu.be/wmg6vbt04TY

“HIND’S HALL” was released by Macklemore through social media on 6 May 2024.

The track broadly addresses the State of Israel’s attack on Palestinians in Gaza which began in October 2023. The attack, which has caused tens of thousands of casualties, overwhelmingly civilian, has been widely characterised as genocidal, including as plausibly amounting to genocide by the ruling of the International Court of Justice in South Africa v Israel.

More narrowly, the track addresses the 2024 encampment movement which took shape around the world in protest of other states' response, or lack of response, to the Israeli attack. Macklemore, who is based in the United States, particularly criticises US institutions' coercive, brute-force, often militarised response to student protesters using their (nominally) guaranteed rights to free speech.

The song is named in reference to Hind’s Hall, a building at Columbia University in Manhattan, more commonly known as Hamilton Hall, prior to its takeover by student protesters. The building was named in reference to Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl murdered by Israeli occupation forces. Hind’s fate is known because the civilian car she was riding in was disabled by an Israeli tank, killing most of her family and injuring her, whereupon her cousin placed a call to Palestinian emergency services crying and begging for help before also being killed. Hind subsequently spent three hours on call with Palestinian emergency services, allowing an ambulance to be dispatched and reach her. Upon its arrival, that ambulance was destroyed, and its crew and Hind were murdered, by the same or another Israeli tank.

Hind’s call was leaked online and instantly became a focus of widespread notoriety due to the cold, calculated nature of her and her family’s murder — Hind and her cousin’s calls and evidence from the scene consistently indicate Israeli forces were in the immediate vicinity and in visual range at the time of each killing, meaning there is no reasonable chance the Israeli tank crews did not fully realise what they had done. Moreover, the Israeli tank destroyed the ambulance after Israeli forces had provided the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and Gaza Health Ministry with a “guarantee” of safe passage and the ambulance had proceeded along a route laid out for that purpose. In addition, after the killing, Israeli spokespeople chose to lie about it and attempt to cover it up.

The song also features a sample from “Ana La Habibi”, by legendary Lebanese Arab singer Fairuz, to fit the theme of making a song for Palestine. Fairuz has also been vocal in her support for Palestine over the course of career with the album Jerusalem in my Heart, featuring the single “Zahrat al Madaen”, which became a pan-Arab anthem, releasing only two weeks after the 1967 Six-Day War.

https://genius.com/Macklemore-hinds-hall-lyrics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17604241

Title edit2: forgot to add video length; forgot 'La' in 'La Santa Grifa' and added more info about "La Santa Grifa"

Letra: https://genius.com/La-santa-grifa-el-diablo-anda-suelto-lyrics

La Santa Grifa es un grupo de rap underground mexicano de Tampico, Tamaulipas. Inspirado por actos como Control Machete y Cartel De Santa, el grupo escribe canciones fuertes y explícitas sobre las drogas, el alcohol y la vida en la calle, a menudo combinando rap rápido con ritmos lentos y siniestros. Su alineación ha cambiado a lo largo de los años, pero entre sus miembros se encuentran Yusak, Reghoz, Toldeck y Waza. Principalmente han aumentado su base de fans a través de su canal de YouTube, y han lanzado varios álbumes bajo Bear Busby Productions, uno de los principales sellos independientes de hip hop latino.

https://genius.com/artists/La-santa-grifa

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17601347

Papa Roach - Last Resort 2020 (Explicit) [03:22 | Rap, Rock, USA, In English, Rap Metal, Mental Health, Metal, Alternative Metal, Nu-Metal]

NYC 1997