It's been 30 years since Outkast's "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik" dropped. Here, Billboard ranks the 17 tracks on the game-changing debut. The duo of Big Boi and André 3000 went on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" in 2004, the last time that award was won by a hip hop act.
"'I’ll teach you how to flow,' spits Antonio… but Antonio, believe it or not, is not an up-and-coming rapper on a diss track but a character in The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, first performed to English royalty back in 1611."
PE's fierce call out on mass media's propaganda, the MSM false narratives & how it influenced groupthink.
"Anybody who knows me really well or cares knows I wrote Don’t Believe The Hype a bit influenced by Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent in the 80s,” Chuck D said in a tweet from 2021.
Soon after the fall 1979 release of “Rapper’s Delight,” versions of the first commercially successful rap recording began cropping up around the world – showing the truly universal themes of #rapmusic.
From Tupac to Jay-Z, many rap artists have set pen to paper to pay homage to the women who gave them life.
We spoke with A.D. Carson, a rapper in his own right and scholar who studies hip-hop and how it shapes society, to share his thoughts on the most influential rap songs about #mothers, including newer tracks.