What We're Listening To: TNG Intro to Hip-Hop
Following up on my recent post, “Hip Hop Hooray?“, here is an intro to Hip-Hop mixtape of tunes. I’ve included a playlist after the jump. I know I’m missing a lot, but at 38 songs, the mix was getting a little too big (and Mixwit didn’t have some of the more obscure tracks I was looking for).
BTW, if you’ve never heard Immortal Technique, check out track eleven. He has consistently rejected a major recording contract, because he refuses to soften his political message. He’s probably the best hip-hop artist you’ve never heard of.
1. Eric B. & Rakim – Paid In Full (Seven Minutes of Music – The Coldcut Remix)
2. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
3. Missy Elliott – Gossip Folks (featuring Ludacris)
4. Common – Misunderstood
5. Blue Scholars – Back Home
6. Skee Lo – I wish
7. John Legend – Green Light (Feat. Andre 3000)
8. Ludacris/Mary J. Blige – Runaway Love (Ft. Mary J. Blig
9. Kanye West – Addiction
10. J-Live – The Best Part
11. Immortal Technique – The 4th Branch
12. De La Soul – Buddy
13. A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
14. Mos Def – Umi Says
15. Talib Kweli – Get By
16. Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck
17. The Fugees – Fu Gee La
18. Timbaland – Bombay (Feat. Amar & Jim Beanz)
19. Digital Underground – Humpty Dance
20. Eminem – White America
21. Slick Rick – Children’s Story
22. Beyoncé – Get Me Bodied
23. LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
24. 2 Live Crew – Me So Horny
25. Outkast – The Whole World
26. Tu Pac feat. Dr. Dre – California Love
27. Timbaland – Scream (Feat. Keri Hilson & Nicole Scherzinger)
28. Public Enemy – Son Of A Bush
29. Young MC – Bust a Move
30. P. Diddy – Come To Me (feat Nicole Scherzinger)
31. DJ Unk, OutKast, and Jim Jones-walk_it_out_(remix)
32. Salt’n'Pepa – Push It
33. Missy Elliott – Work It
34. Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
35. Common Market – Doors
36. Surreal and The Sound Providers – Place To Be (vocal)
37. The Coup – We Are The Ones
38. Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y.
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No Afrika Bambata?
and no biggie? good playlist though.
and no biggie? good playlist though.
Thanks – good tracks on here. Perfect way to kick off my weekend….
Fun intro list! But thought I’d contribute a few. Not sure if the following songs simply were not available, but it would be a HUGE oversight to not include:
1)”T.R.O.Y (They Reminisce Over You)” by Pete Rock and CL Smooth -one of the most classic and well produced tracks in the history of Hip-Hop.
2)”I Used To Love H.E.R” by Common -an ode to Hip-Hop itself.
3)”You’re All I Need” by Method Man and Mary J. Blige
M.I.A. is a good example of one interesting direction in which the genre is heading – (world music meets old skool hip hop)
M.I.A. is a good example of one interesting direction in which the genre is heading – (world music meets old skool hip hop)
good intro to hip hop: Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals”. Lots of hip hop vocals mixed over bits and pieces of pop tunes. Now when I work out at the Y I keep hearing the original versions of the hip hop tracks, songs I never would have bothered remembering if they hadnt been presented to me in his novel way.
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