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HHH Essential Album of the Week #118: Goodie Mob - Soul Food - HipHop

HHH Essential Album of the Week #118: Goodie Mob - Soul Food

Posted: 27 May 2020 06:53 AM PDT

Every Wednesday we discuss an album from our Essential Album list

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(Courtesy of music journalist Geoffrey Weiss)

Coming out of the same collective that birthed OutKast, Goodie Mob played an essential part in the rise of Southern rap. It starts in the Southern Baptist church and the red clay soil. It continues in the Dungeon, part tabernacle, part studio—blending voodoo healing rituals, slithering freestyles, and biblical spoken word. It slinks out the S.W.A.T. (southwest Atlanta), 10 miles to Curtis Mayfield's home studio, where Goodie Mob cooked Soul Food.

Origins can be corporeal or spiritual. In this case, they're inextricable. To understand why Soul Food stands up two decades later is like asking why people still revere sacred revelations. These texts are no less profound or unprovable than they ever were. They question the meaning of "truth" until it's unclear whether the gate was put up to keep crime out or keep your ass in. It's less about whether it's the government or the criminals peeking through your window; it's more about realizing that they're often indistinguishable.

We often mock the notion of "struggle rap," but the best rap emerged from the struggle. Yet the first bars of Soul Food aren't rapped, they're sung: "Lord it's so hard living this life." A weary benediction to the creator, Cee-Lo's screechy rasp is half-angel, half-devil, gifted and damned. This isn't blues, but it draws from the same poisoned well, feverishly trying to purify. Spirituals from the dirt. The Rhodes that belongs to Superfly. Death isn't knocking at the front door, it's in the house, snacking on the macaroni in the fridge, sitting on top of your chest. Freedom is the only goal. Different demons, same outcome.

OutKast was the face of Dungeon Family, but Goodie was the spine. Aquemini is the widely hailed masterpiece, but Soul Food is the vital nerve. The album is everything at once: the feast, the list of secret family recipes, the feeling of standing out in the cold. Goodie Mob initially referred to T-Mo and Khujo; T-Mo and Cee-Lo had known each other since nursery school. In a 2011 interview, Cee-Lo described his first trip to Organized Noize's Dungeon headquarters. "I sang and rapped for them and everybody thought it was cool. Then [producer] Rico [Wade] walked in with [OutKast's] Big and Dré. Dré got real excited like, 'That's my man Cee-Lo I told you about, who do them real good story raps.' Khujo and T-Mo showed up. Khujo was known for being a brawler. Then Gipp pulls up, jumping out a Cadillac, wearing a white lab jacket, because at the time he was attending beauty school, to do hair."

The arrival came on 1994's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Cee-Lo won The Source's Hip-Hop Quotable with his debut verse on "Get Up, Git Out". It established a worldview—trafficking in dualities and skeptical of extremes. ("I get high but I don't get too high.") It's not just the conventional Christian cycle of sin and penitence, but the seeker's quest for divine revelation. This is faith in its purest form, constantly tested but never abandoned.

Even though the quartet's chemistry was obvious, the idea to form as one came only after LaFace Records head L.A. Reid dangled the prospect of a deal. They planned to split into separate entities afterwards, but it didn't happen until 2004's high water mark of saltiness, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show.

The label expected Southernplayalistic II and it got Paradise Lost in East Point. Until OutKast, most rap from Atlanta focused on the booty shake. After MC Shy D and Kilo Ali fell from fame, Jermaine Dupri jacked G-Funk for Kriss Kross and "Funkdafied". Tag Team scored a smash by sanitizing bass music. There was Arrested Development, obsolete even before the Fugees rendered them superfluous. There was the TLC of the condom eye patch era. Then there was Goodie Mob, ancient by the time they were in their early 20s.

All the wisdom is on Soul Food. Maybe it was Dungeon poet Big Rube, bellowing parables in their ear. It could've been the spirit of Curtis, still alive, but paralyzed, threatening to barge in on the proceedings at any time.

"We were taught hip-hop from men: Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, Dougie Fresh, Kurtis Blow," Big Gipp told NPR a couple of years ago. "I learned more from Chuck D than I learned from school at the time." In a radio interview earlier this year, T-Mo picked up this thought: "We never made little-kid rap, always grown man stuff. We felt like we were chosen to say something."

When I first heard Soul Food shortly after its release, I loved it, but didn't understand it. It's easy to drown in the humid organ funk, the ecumenical harmonies, the rawness and technical skill of the four voices attacking like a Southern Wu-Tang or Public Enemy. There's thematic precedence in Poor Righteous Teachers and Brand Nubian, and Cee-Lo was a big fan of Busta Rhymes, Onyx, and Slick Rick.

But Goodie Mob betrays no direct ancestor. It's soul music gone to seed, fighting to ascend once again. If they can't make little-kid rap, it's because every song has consequences. You understand it better as an adult, because you've processed loss and tragedy. The genius of Soul Food is its ability to remind you of the damage, but offer the strength to hold on.

There's Cee-Lo starting off his verse about being $20 away from living on the streets and offering an idea that seems radical and alien in our culture 20 years later: "It would be nice to have more, but I kind of like being poor, at least I know what my friends here for."

If you can forget "The Voice" appearances and the damning Twitter comments, we'll always have Soul Food as the still life. Cee-Lo is the son of Baptist preachers, himself named for a minor sin, transvertebrating in the trap, possessed by something that might never return, vision blurry from crime, hounded by his own demise. Other than Biggie and Pac and Scarface, mortality had rarely been so starkly confronted. He's fatalistic but positive. If you're looking for the roots of the last two Kendrick albums, this is probably the most direct analog.

But there's no substitute for the clarity of these proverbs. If K.Dot strove to make his revelations oblique, Goodie opted for equally radical and introspective simplicity, putting the Clampett's and cross burners on the run. They're acutely aware of the cycle they're trapped in, but determined to learn lessons and derive strength from their surroundings.

In this music is the feeling of acid eating away your intestines when you can't afford to eat. It's the salvation and abundance of Sunday feasts, a heaping plate of soul food, chicken rice, and gravy. When these men rapped about food, it's like Henry Miller writing down the meals that he dreams of being able to afford eating.

"Soul food is gut food. It's food that sticks to you," Bun B told NPR in 2009. "So if you want music that's not just being made to get your money but that's being made to really inspire you, then Soul Food is that album."

The Dirty South comes from here. The Mob knew Bill Clinton was dirty years before Monica Lewinsky. Cool Breeze and Big Boi breaking down the rules, the warped education, the lies and the ability to correct them. It was originally the East Point native's song, but it was repurposed for the collective mission.

"Thought Process" thumps like a jeep on a dirt road, T-Mo looking for some change to survive. Combing the city streets, trying to get paid and keep his head from swerving. His consciousness doesn't stem from self-righteousness, but out of pain. He attended too many funerals before he could grow facial hair. Khujo is in the trap, one of the first times the phrase ever appeared on a major record. In this context, it's explicit: trap or die, a decade before.

"Cell Therapy" was their biggest hit, Orwell filtered through William Cooper's Illuminati conspiracy, glockenspiel, and Sega. In the mouths of Goodie Mob, it all makes sense. It's a record that celebrates community and the exposing of lies. The drug-free signs contradicted by the Bloods hanging out at the store. It's a call to arms and a request for salvation, praying in the shower and then heading out into mud.

Other than arguably The Chronic, no rap album had ever been this organic and musical. The samples are few, the funk is rolling. It's the feeling of being seized by something intangible and inaccessible. Ancestral spirit, echoing through minor-key pianos and accidental seances. Cee-Lo's verse on "Guess Who" is dedicated to his recently deceased mother. He leads the choir, the first time that singing was ever incorporated so seamlessly. It's an unofficial sequel to "Dear Mama". No surprise that 2Pac was allegedly obsessed with Goodie Mob, allegedly wanting to join the group.

The album will last forever because it strikes those universal chords. It's Bob Marley wailing for Zion. 2Pac searching for God and finding the Devil. Son House moaning about his death letter—the ghosts sulking over the burned land and the drugged searchers seeking hope in southwest Atlanta. It's an indictment of the cheating wrought by the government, a call for unity and peace—repentance for the sins and a requiem for those laid to rest. If their peers filled their albums with comic skits and violent schemes, Goodie Mob literally featured funerals. They warned against the New World Order long before it was a #StayWoke hashtag.

The first half of the record gets most of the attention. It has the hits, the most vivid slang, and the material that Goodie Mob actually still plays when Cee-Lo deigns to tour with them. But it's perfectly sequenced to the final curtain calls. T-Mo's verse on "I Didn't Ask to Come" contains opening bars as powerfully conceived as any in rap history: "Every day somebody gets killed/ What the deal/ It's 1995 and a nigga want to live."

Every line slaps like a premonition. They are priests, witchdoctors, ordinary men, virtuosos, trappers, and teachers trying to give the noose under their necks a little slack. Ready to roll up in the White House with an axe until they're ready to give them their shit. Cold and stressed like a man sitting on pavement under a bridge on I-20 West. Struggling and fighting to stay alive, hoping that one day they get a chance to die.

You can see the significance of Goodie Mob in anyone impacted by Dungeon Family, which is essentially everyone. The dark glass divinations of "Cell Therapy" are ubiquitous in our daily lives. But Soul Food taps most deeply into the roots of the past. They carried on the legacy of not just James Brown and Curtis Mayfield, but Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and Rosa Parks and Emmett Till and all those who never got the chance to offer testimony. It worships the richness of the culture that blossomed in spite of constant oppression. If the South had something to say, this was its most coherent statement—musically, spiritually, philosophically.

It ends with "The Day After", the only way it could. It's 1995, a year before the New South starts to take root with the Atlanta Olympics. Goodie Mob's debut is there to usher in this new era and remind us of the old corruption. The sins of the past are revisited and recounted. Somehow, the hope for the future is never entirely dimmed.

They saw this dirty world filled with surveillance at every angle, but their desire to transcend refused to be extinguished. If the city is merciless, the harsh realities innate, the good dead over bullshit, T-Mo, Gipp, Khujo, and Cee-Lo reveal the path directly in front of our eyes—the one that we can never clearly see. They offered freedom for the famished, soul for anyone in possession of such a thing.

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Posted: 27 May 2020 05:31 PM PDT

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New Freddie Gibbs x Alchemist album ALFREDO on the way, single "Scottie Beam" feat. Rick Ross coming Thursday at noon EST.

Posted: 27 May 2020 03:09 PM PDT

Gibbs tweeted out a teaser with the single's release date.

Twitter user JeffesVault put the snippet into Shazam to pull up the track and album info. Here's another clip of Gibbs rapping along to the song on IG.

The real Scottie Beam retweeted it, which Gibbs then retweeted with the heart eyes emoji.

Meanwhile, JeffesVault has been plugging in other Gibbs snippets into Shazam confirming other tracks...

-Frank Lucas ft. Benny the Butcher and Griselda

-Babies and Fools ft. Conway

-1985

-Something to Rap About ft. Tyler, the Creator (s/o LthePerry02 in the comments)

Lots of rumors swirling that the record is coming on Friday. Music writer Gary Suarez tweeted "Heard one of the best rap albums of the year this weekend. (You'll get to hear it on Friday.)" and replies indicate he's talking about Gibbs. Will update the post if more info becomes available.

Imgur mirror in case anything gets deleted

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Lil Yachty releases track list for Lil Boat 3.

Posted: 27 May 2020 02:04 PM PDT

https://imgur.com/hE8FDjw

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtKUAWj1wc/?igshid=o7rlyfiouroo

  1. Top Down

  2. Wock in Stock

  3. Split/Whole Time

  4. T.D (ft. A$AP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator & Tierra Whack)

  5. Pardon Me (ft. Future & Mike Will Made-It)

  6. Demon Time (ft. Draft Day)

  7. Black Jesus

  8. From Down Bad

  9. Love Jones

  10. Cant Go

  11. Oprah's Bank Account (ft. Drake & DaBaby)

  12. Range Rover Sports Truck (ft. Lil Keed)

  13. Lemon Head

  14. Don't Forget

  15. Up There Music

  16. Westside

  17. Till The Morning (ft. Lil Durk & Young Thug)

  18. Whew' Chile

  19. Concrete Boys

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I think this is a fitting time to repost Skepta's "FUCK THE POLICE" energy during his performance of Shutdown

Posted: 27 May 2020 06:03 PM PDT

Cash Money Records Covers June Rent for Hundreds of New Orleans Residents

Posted: 27 May 2020 04:59 PM PDT

Ugly God has been arrested for fighting outside an hospital

Posted: 27 May 2020 07:45 PM PDT

Childish Gambino - This Is America

Posted: 27 May 2020 11:30 PM PDT

Nas - Cops Shot the Kid (ft. Kanye West)

Posted: 27 May 2020 01:20 AM PDT

Joe Budden premieres SAINt JHN - Roses (Remix) ft. Future on latest podcast episode

Posted: 27 May 2020 11:31 AM PDT

XXXTENTACION - Riot

Posted: 27 May 2020 06:55 PM PDT

21 Savage - Nothin New

Posted: 27 May 2020 12:54 PM PDT

An introduction to Drakeo The Ruler and the Stinc Team

Posted: 27 May 2020 03:57 PM PDT

Drakeo the Ruler is a rapper from LA currently locked up for gang conspiracy and drive by shooting charges. Drakeo's case is a little complicated though, at first he was acquitted of all his murder and attempted murder charges but then the DA refiled the charges (which shouldnt be able to happen) but due to CA Penal Code 182.5 which basically states that gang members can be charged for crimes done by other members even if they did not participate in the crime just for being associated, he is. Not only is Drakeo locked up, his whole clique the Stinc Team is locked up which is full of talented rappers from LA. I dont see any competition in terms of talent on the whole west coast against Drakeo. His wordplay and flow are unmatched and most rappers in LA nowadays are somehow influenced by him. Im trying to shed light on Drakeo and his case because hes undoubtedly talented and should be free right now. Honestly though, most of the west coast is really underrated. If you were to come to cali, the streets arent listening to Kendrick or Blueface or any of that. Their listening to Drakeo, Greedo, Yatta, and all the other rappers trying to make it out of Cali. Heres some of my favorites from Drakeo and the Stinc Team

Drakeo the Ruler - Flex Freestyle

Drakeo the Ruler ft. Bambino - Bulletproof

SaysotheMac ft Ralfy the Plug - Mary Poppins

Drakeo the Ruler ft. ALLBLACK & Bino Rideaux - Cyber Bullies

Drakeo the Ruler ft. KetchytheGreat - Bedrolls or Bankrolls

Drakeo the Ruler - Popular Freestyle

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[RIP] Houdini - Myself

Posted: 27 May 2020 09:40 AM PDT

Mick Jenkins ft. BADBADNOTGOOD - Drowning

Posted: 27 May 2020 04:44 PM PDT

Billboard Hot 100 Discussion - May 24-30 2020 | Savage reaches #1

Posted: 27 May 2020 10:36 AM PDT

Billboard Hot 100 chart

Position Title Artist ▲/▼ Last week Weeks Charting Peak
1 Savage Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyonce ▲+4 5 10 1
2 Say So Doja Cat Featuring Nicki Minaj - 2 20 1
3 Blinding Lights The Weeknd ▲+1 4 25 1
4 Rockstar DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch ▲+4 8 5 4
5 Toosie Slide Drake ▲+1 6 7 1
6 Life Is Good Future Featuring Drake ▲+7 13 19 2
7 The Box Roddy Ricch - 7 24 1
8 Don't Start Now Dua Lipa ▲+1 9 29 2
9 Intentions Justin Bieber Featuring Quavo ▲+2 11 15 8
10 Circles Post Malone - 10 38 1
11 Gooba 6ix9ine ▼-8 3 2 3
12 Adore You Harry Styles - 12 24 6
13 Stuck With U Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber ▼-12 1 2 1
14 The Bones Maren Morris - 14 35 12
15 Roses (Imanbek Remix) SAINt JHN ▲+1 16 9 15
16 The Scotts THE SCOTTS, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi ▼-1 15 4 1
17 Blueberry Faygo Lil Mosey ▲+3 20 15 16
18 Chasin' You Morgan Wallen ▲+3 21 17 18
19 I Hope Gabby Barrett ▲+4 23 21 16
20 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi ▼-2 18 54 1
21 Falling Trevor Daniel ▲+1 22 27 21
22 Does To Me Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church ▲+6 28 10 22
23 Nobody But You Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani ▲+2 25 19 18
24 High Fashion Roddy Ricch Featuring Mustard ▲+2 26 21 20
25 My Oh My Camila Cabello Featuring DaBaby ▼-8 17 24 12
26 Sunday Best Surfaces ▲+3 29 12 26
27 Everything I Wanted Billie Eilish ▼-8 19 28 8
28 Whats Poppin Jack Harlow ▲+4 32 15 28
29 Death Bed Powfu Featuring beabadoobee ▼-2 27 10 26
30 Flex Polo G Featuring Juice WRLD ▲+71 [FRESH] 1 30
31 Memories Maroon 5 ▼-7 24 35 2
32 Solitaires Future Featuring Travis Scott ▲+69 [FRESH] 1 32
33 X Jonas Brothers Featuring Karol G ▲+68 [FRESH] 1 33
34 Trillionaire Future Featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again ▲+67 [FRESH] 1 34
35 I Hope You're Happy Now Carly Pearce & Lee Brice ▼-1 34 20 34
36 Before You Go Lewis Capaldi ▲+1 37 16 36
37 After A Few Travis Denning ▲+1 38 8 37
38 Party Girl StaySolidRocky ▲+10 48 4 38
39 Break My Heart Dua Lipa ▼-8 31 8 21
40 Daisies Katy Perry ▲+61 [FRESH] 1 40
41 RITMO (Bad Boys For Life) The Black Eyed Peas X J Balvin ▼-11 30 26 26
42 Beer Can't Fix Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi ▼-6 36 10 36
43 Be Kind Marshmello & Halsey ▼-10 33 3 29
44 Hard To Forget Sam Hunt - 44 8 40
45 Supalonely BENEE Featuring Gus Dapperton ▼-6 39 10 39
46 Hot Girl Bummer blackbear ▼-11 35 36 11
47 Dance Monkey Tones And I ▼-5 42 33 4
48 One Margarita Luke Bryan ▲+21 69 3 48
49 Ballin' Mustard & Roddy Ricch ▼-8 41 44 11
50 Heartless Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Featuring Morgan Wallen ▲+8 58 17 50
51 Sum 2 Prove Lil Baby ▼-6 45 19 16
52 Walk Em Down NLE Choppa Featuring Roddy Ricch - 52 9 52
53 Trapped In The Sun Future ▲+48 [FRESH] 1 53
54 All Bad Future Featuring Lil Uzi Vert ▲+47 [FRESH] 1 54
55 Bluebird Miranda Lambert ▲+2 57 7 55
56 Chicago Freestyle Drake Featuring Giveon ▼-10 46 3 14
57 Be Something Polo G Featuring Lil Baby ▲+44 [FRESH] 1 57
58 In Your Eyes The Weeknd ▼-4 54 9 16
59 Dior Pop Smoke ▼-6 53 14 30
60 Emotionally Scarred Lil Baby ▼-4 56 12 31
61 Martin & Gina Polo G ▲+40 [FRESH] 1 61
62 21 Polo G ▲+39 [FRESH] 1 62
63 Righteous Juice WRLD ▼-14 49 4 11
64 Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles ▲+37 [FRESH] 9 54
65 After Party Don Toliver ▼-2 63 5 63
66 Level Of Concern twenty one pilots ▼-19 47 6 23
67 Go Stupid Polo G Featuring NLE Choppa & Stunna 4 Vegas ▲+34 [FRESH] 8 60
68 Hard To Choose One Future ▲+33 [FRESH] 1 68
69 Ridin Strikers Future ▲+32 [FRESH] 1 69
70 We Paid Lil Baby & 42 Dugg ▼-15 55 3 55
71 Hitek Tek Future ▲+30 [FRESH] 1 71
72 Yo Perreo Sola Bad Bunny ▼-8 64 10 53
73 If The World Was Ending JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels ▼-12 61 8 59
74 Ride It. Regard ▼-12 62 6 62
75 Too Comfortable Future ▲+26 [FRESH] 1 75
76 Believe It PARTYNEXTDOOR & Rihanna ▼-6 70 8 23
77 Here And Now Kenny Chesney ▼-18 59 7 59
78 P*$$y Fairy (OTW) Jhene Aiko ▼-12 66 18 40
79 Posted With Demons Future ▲+22 [FRESH] 1 79
80 Out West JACKBOYS Featuring Young Thug ▼-13 67 19 38
81 Touch The Sky Future ▲+20 [FRESH] 1 81
82 One Of My Future ▲+19 [FRESH] 1 82
83 In Between Scotty McCreery ▼-11 72 6 72
84 Harlem Shake Future Featuring Young Thug ▲+17 [FRESH] 1 84
85 God Whispered Your Name Keith Urban ▼-4 81 5 81
86 Pain 1993 Drake Featuring Playboi Carti ▼-35 51 3 7
87 Die From A Broken Heart Maddie & Tae ▼-5 82 6 80
88 Don't Believe The Hype Polo G ▲+13 [FRESH] 1 88
89 I Love My Country Florida Georgia Line ▼-15 74 5 74
90 Godzilla Eminem Featuring Juice WRLD ▼-12 78 18 3
91 Turks NAV, Gunna & Travis Scott ▼-31 60 8 17
92 Beautiful Pain (Losin My Mind) Polo G ▲+9 [FRESH] 1 92
93 33 Polo G ▲+8 [FRESH] 1 93
94 Go Crazy Chris Brown & Young Thug ▼-18 76 2 76
95 I Know Polo G ▲+6 [FRESH] 1 95
96 3 Headed Goat Lil Durk Featuring Lil Baby & Polo G ▼-53 43 2 43
97 Me Vs Me Moneybagg Yo ▼-9 88 2 88
98 July Noah Cyrus & Leon Bridges ▲+2 100 11 85
99 Drinking Alone Carrie Underwood ▼-10 89 3 89
100 Be A Light Thomas Rhett Featuring Reba McEntire, Hillary Scott, Chris Tomlin & Keith Urban ▼-14 86 7 71

Billboard 200 chart

Position Title Artist Sales Change Last week Weeks Charting
1 High Off Life Future 145,472 (15,822 pure) -- [FRESH] 1
2 The GOAT Polo G 97,375 (14,539 pure) -- [FRESH] 1
3 My Turn Lil Baby 54,774 (359 pure) -17% 4 12
4 Dark Lane Demo Tapes Drake 54,917 (867 pure) -31% 3 3
5 BLAME IT ON BABY DaBaby 40,923 (414 pure) -5% 6 5
6 Eternal Atake Lil Uzi Vert 37,936 (648 pure) -11% 8 11
7 After Hours The Weeknd 35,613 (2,588 pure) -11% 9 9
8 Hollywood's Bleeding Post Malone 35,044 (1,150 pure) -1% 10 37
9 Reunions Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit 35,848 (31,609 pure) -- 149 2
10 Good Intentions NAV 34,774 (7,116 pure) -74% 1 2

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Why is X artist higher than Y artist on the 200 chart, even though X artist sold less?

A: This is because of a discrepancy between Billboard's ranking and the ranking from the website that the sales data is scraped from

Q: Where do you get the sales data from?

A: https://hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

Billboard updated a day late this week due to Memorial Day

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Lloyd - Get It Shawty

Posted: 27 May 2020 08:33 PM PDT

[DISCUSSION] The Sugarhill Gang - The Sugarhill Gang (40 Years Later)

Posted: 27 May 2020 10:05 AM PDT

Sugarhill Gang is the self-titled debut album by influential rap group The Sugarhill Gang.

The album was released in 1980 for Sugarhill Records and was produced by Sylvia Robinson. The single "Rapper's Delight" was the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #36 on the U.S. pop chart and #4 on the R&B chart. Although "Rapper's Delight" was the only charting single, the album also included the minor hit, "Rapper's Reprise". The remainder of the LP consists of several down-tempo soul tracks and a disco instrumental, as Sylvia Robinson did not believe an album consisting entirely of hip hop music would be commercially viable in 1980.

  1. "Here I Am" – 5:09 (Craig Derry, Nate Edmonds)
  2. "Rapper's Reprise (Jam-Jam)" (ft. The Sequence) – 7:40 (Sylvia Robinson)
  3. "Bad News (Don't Bother Me)" – 6:45 (Guy O'Brien, Henry Jackson, Michael Wright)
  4. "Sugarhill Groove" – 9:52 (Guy O'Brien, Henry Jackson, Michael Wright, Sylvia Robinson)
  5. "Passion Play" – 5:10 (Brenda Reynolds, Nate Edmonds, Ray Smith)
  6. "Rapper's Delight" – 14:37 [4:55 – shortened single version] (Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers)
  • Rappers – Big Bank Hank, Master Gee, Wonder Mike (The Sugarhill Gang)
  • Backing Vocals, and Rhythm Arrangements – Positive Force (tracks 3, 5, 6)
  • Bass – Bernard Rowland (tracks 3, 5, 6), Douglas Wimbish, possibly Chip Shearin[3][4] (track 6)
  • Drums – Bryan Horton (tracks 3, 5, 6), Keith LeBlanc
  • Guitar – Albert Pittman (tracks 3, 5, 6[5]), Skip McDonald, possibly Brian Morgan[4][6] (track 6)
  • Keyboards – Nate Edmonds, Skitch Smith
  • Percussion – Craig Derry, Harry Reyes, John Stump
  • Vibraphone, Backing Vocals – Sylvia Robinson
  • Special Guest Appearance – Tito Puente
  • Special Effects – Billy Jones, Nate Edmonds
  • Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Billy Jones, Nate Edmonds, Sylvia Robinson
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Kanye showing how effortlessly he makes songs during the Yandhi era (2018)

Posted: 27 May 2020 07:05 PM PDT

KXNG CROOKED I - I Can't Breathe

Posted: 27 May 2020 03:38 PM PDT

Ka - Our Father

Posted: 27 May 2020 11:10 AM PDT

2Pac - They Don't Give a Fuck About Us - (Unreleased - OG Vibe)

Posted: 27 May 2020 09:58 AM PDT

RIOT - XXXTENTACION

Posted: 27 May 2020 09:23 PM PDT

Prefuse 73 - Hide Ya Face ft. Ghostface Killah & El-P

Posted: 27 May 2020 03:55 PM PDT

Killer Mike Speaking In 2016 On Police Brutality

Posted: 27 May 2020 11:03 AM PDT
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