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Top Ten Tuesday: Ja Rule - HipHop

Top Ten Tuesday: Ja Rule

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 12:19 AM PST

Here's how this works:

• One song per comment.

• The thread will be put into contest mode (randomized comment order).

• Upvote the songs you like.

• Please don't downvote!

• Search/use ctrl+f to see if anyone posted the song already.

• Try to limit yourself to posting one or two songs.

• Please post a link with your song.

• The 10 songs with the most upvotes will be HHH Top Ten.

• Have fun!

Here is is our spreadsheet with all past results, made by /u/elektrikg33k.

Our upcoming schedule:

11/17/20 - Amine

11/24/20 - Gorillaz

12/1/20 - Westside Gunn

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja_Rule_discography

please take 5 seconds to ctrl+f the thread to see your song has already been posted

and as always pm me if you want to see a certain artist here

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Daily Discussion Thread 11/10/2020

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 10:27 AM PST

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

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[FRESH ALBUM] Kodak Black - Bill Israel

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:00 PM PST

Childish Gambino - Freaks And Geeks

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 02:02 PM PST

Lil Nas X announces Roblox Concert this weekend

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 06:48 AM PST

https://mobile.twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1326170835485253632

"I've been working hard with Roblox to create this incredible VIRTUAL LIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE! WE GOT VIDEOS & A PERFORMANCE you don't want to miss coming this weekend!"

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[DISCUSSION] Nujabes - Modal Soul (15 Years Later)

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 04:07 PM PST

On this day in 2005, Nujabes released the masterpiece that would end up the last album of his to be released during his lifetime, and what would later end up being hailed as his magnum opus.

A couple questions if you feel like sticking to them:

  • What are your favourite features, and what are your favourite instrumentals on the project?

  • With 15 years of hindsight, just how groundbreaking was it at the time of its release?

  • What do you think of its legacy? It's very often cited as one of the most influential albums for what's now referred to as "lo-fi hip-hop", and for post-2010s jazz rap in general.

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Loyle Carner announces new single "Yesterday" produced by Madlib coming tomorrow

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 12:06 PM PST

[LEAK] Lil Uzi Vert x Future - That's It (Football) prod. Wheezy [the one with the soccer music vid)

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 05:06 PM PST

DJ Scheme Announces “Soda” ft. Ski Mask the Slump God and Cordae Dropping Friday

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 03:47 PM PST

https://twitter.com/djscheme_/status/1326307099714981888?s=21

This is the first single off of his upcoming album "Family" dropping later this month.

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50 Cent cautions T.I. after his comments about handling your beefs in your city: "I bet you don’t even realize they will kill you for what you just said. ‍what hood you from again? come on now it’s quiet time."

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 11:09 AM PST

2Chainz announces album coming out Friday

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 06:27 AM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Rico Nasty - OHFR?

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:08 AM PST

Lil Loaded Turns Himself in for Murder

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:02 AM PST

[LEAK] Lil Uzi Vert & Future - She Never Been To Pluto

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 04:04 PM PST

Noname - Ace (feat. Smino & Saba)

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:28 AM PST

[Fresh] Wiz Khalifa & Empire Of The Sun - The Thrill

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:04 PM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Swae Lee, Tyga, Lil Mosey - Krabby Step (Music From "Sponge On The Run" Movie)

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:55 AM PST

Congressman-elect Jamaal Bowman (NY): It’s time we recognize, curate and celebrate the social, economic and political impact of Hip Hop as a cultural phenomenon.

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 08:28 AM PST

Twitter post

Also gives a shout-out to Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest

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Krispy Kreme - The Baddest

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:10 PM PST

Quasimoto- LAX to JFK

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 03:04 PM PST

Fantastic Damage - track by track breakdown from EL-P

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:44 AM PST

Very cool read: https://www.musicradar.com/news/classic-album-el-p-on-fantastic-damage-i-was-throwing-everything-i-had-at-these-tracks-anything-could-become-a-bassline-if-you-pitched-it-down

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Fantastic Damage track by track with El-P

Fantastic Damage

"This started off as a remix for a Rawkus [Records] compilation. And they couldn't handle it. They were like, 'It's too much'. So, I was like, 'You know what? It ain't too much for me, guys. This is where I'm headed'.

"The beat was all over the place. It is literally not sequenced. It's just me playing the whole thing out with different chops on the EPS-16 Plus [sampler]. I thought it was nasty! I was like, 'This shit is fucking raw!' It's a screaming intro. It's kicking the door open."

Squeegee Man Shooting

"This was based on this old newspaper article in New York. The title was the headline. It always stuck with me: somebody shot one of those guys that tries to clean your car windows and asks for money. It felt like New York; my childhood. It brought back memories.

"This was the first record that I was making under my own name. I needed it to be a documentation of who I was. I needed to start mining for this kind of material in my life."

Deep Space 9mm

"I was influenced by [Outkast's] Bombs Over Baghdad. It felt chaotic and fast and funky. It appealed to me, as I dealt it a bit of chaos myself, you know?

"I was reading a lot of Philip K. Dick novels as well. He introduced the idea of the steel and cages of ancient Rome still being under the surface. 'You're behind the walls of new Rome/You wanna buy the farm, but it's not yours to own'. It was sort of a commentary on how western religion thinks about suicide. I'm not sure a lot of people got that."

Tuned Mass Damper

"A tuned mass damper is the weight at the top of a skyscraper that slides depending on which way the wind is blowing it. I had stumbled on those words, and that concept, and I started to relate it to the way we deal with trauma and grief.

"I was really playing with the beat and evolving it, too. And that was one of the first pieces that I did where, by the time the song ends, it was really not exactly the same piece of music anymore."

Dead Disnee

"In my mind Disney World was the perfect metaphor for the cognitive dissonance of capitalism versus reality, and the dark truth of America. Disney World is the fantasy of what America is supposed to be. But if you look into it you start to realise what a nightmare it really is. They have jail cells under Disney. They don't allow anyone to die there. They'll keep you alive to drag you off the property so they can say, legally, that you didn't die at Disney World."

DeLorean

"This was just a joke. We were referencing Back to The Future in the chorus with the, 'Great Scott! We need to go back in time to when muthafuckers can rock'. That was me and Aes [-op Rock], just fucking having fun and trading bars. That was it. I don't think there was much of a high concept to it.

"In the breakdown I used a Company Flow track called Simian Drugs with Ill Bill. I always wanted to deconstruct it and use it somehow on this record, because it wasn't on an official album or anything."

Truancy

"This is one of my favourite songs on the album. It has Rob Sonic on. He has a great voice, so I had him come in and do back-up vocals for me.

"On this record, there was a lot of that. I didn't do any 'features' in the track titles. I loved using people for little things. It's like George Clooney playing the gay dog on South Park. They got him in, but just to bark as a gay dog, you know? That theory is something that I've applied to my music."

The Nang, The Front, The Bush And The Shit

"This is two-tier, layered, metaphor. It was a way for me to tell the story of how I got into music, and not finish school, and also comment on the phenomenon of army recruiters selling you a dream.

"The second half of the song was about being in The Shit. You're in the war. It was The Tour. It was a tour of duty, and also the tour of being a musician. Trying to get yourself out alive, desperately trying to hang on to the leg of the last helicopter out of there."

Accidents Don't Happen

"This was meant to be the absolute most paranoid fucking jam possible. I brought in Cage and Camu on this. I was like, 'I know two dudes who can be paranoid!'

"The way I made this beat was with a crazy tone. On the EPS-16 Plus you have a beginning and the end of the sample, and they're represented by numbers. If you play with the arrows, it gets so tight that the notes change as you go. So, when you hear all that [mimes a super high-pitched note scale] that's me, playing it live, on my sampler, with my fingers, all the way through. Just fucking around with the result of making that sample so small that it just becomes a tone, and literally changing the notes by inching it and edging in one direction or another."

Stepfather Factory

"This was me telling the story about my mother being abused and us witnessing it. By then I had a more sardonic perspective on it. I could darkly and humourlessly talk about it. I prefer that objective perspective to be darkly humorous about tragedy.

"I just imagined the idea that if you were to build a robot stepfather, it would still get drunk and beat the shit out of your mom. I used it as a metaphor to talk about broken families and mothers, out of guilt, trying to fill that position in the family with inferior models."

T.O.J.

"I had a really big love affair around the time of writing this. It only lasted probably about five months, but it was the first time I had fallen deeply in love. And it was this explosive, very passionate thing. It didn't work.

"This was my way of saying to the woman, 'Look. All this flailing and screaming and wishing aside, you're important to me and I'm proud of you. And I will be there for you in whatever way I can. Even though I'm hurt'.

"I'm still friends with this woman, 20 years later."

Dr. Hellno And The Praying Mantis

"That was me just talking about good old-fashioned raw dog fucking!

"It was supposed to be funny, and about real sex, and the joy of that, and being grimy and all that, but with respect. Like, 'Put my tongue up her ass crack/Until our future children hatch', you know?

"The idea of the most savage, raw, unhinged, fun sex, with someone you're in love with. You're in your 20s and you're like, 'Damn! That's what they're talking about. This is sex, as advertised!'"

Lazerfaces' Warning

"This was a mushroom trip through the neon chaos and pop culture of New York city. It was based on doing 'shrooms with Vast Aire and Camu Tao, in a taxi.

"Now, up until that point in my life I hadn't done 'shrooms. And these were pulsating with psilocybin – I've never even seen 'shrooms like them since!

"I'm in the back, screaming at the top of my lungs because I think there's light shooting out of my face! I can't close my mouth because I'm screaming, 'There's lazers coming outta my face!' and I'm laughing hysterically. This poor fucking cab driver, man.

"I feel so bad to this day. I'm sure it shook him to his core."

Innocent Leader

"That's just an instrumental. It was sort of to bring it down a little bit. There were little vignettes throughout the record.

"I always liked that about records when they did that. I attached bits to ends of records to ride you out. There's one on the end of The Nang, The Front, The Bush And The Shit. And this one was just that, as well.

"It's a bit of an 'intermission' before the final act, I guess."

Constellation Funk

"I love that jam, too. Ultimately, I was talking about how my family had encountered some brutal shit, and how I wasn't unable to protect them from it. As a young man I wrestled with that in a big way.

"I wanted to express to my sister in a song how that had defined me as a man. I wanted to use their strength in overcoming that as victims as a signifier as what it meant to be a man."

Blood

"'Pop loved the ladies/And mom kept the babies /And do right, do right, do right, do right, do right' – I had C-Rayz [Walz] sing that, but it felt like a good enough ending statement on who I was, you know? The truth. Broken down in the simplest way.

"You know? 'Do right!' You know? At the end of the day just fucking try to do right. It's not a judgement. It's not a critique. This was the life. The core of it. Childhood.

"I recognised that I was really making a statement about myself on this record. Laying out bare, for the first time, in a way, who I was, and why I was."

In the studio with El-P

"I made the album in my apartment in Brooklyn. I had the turntable and an Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus sampler. It was kinda fucking thoroughbred, at the time. The filtering and the sequencing and effects were really unique to it. You really could get something out of that, creatively. And changing the envelopes would fuck with the samples too.

"I had a Kaoss Pad. We used that quite a bit as a sort of an effects pedal, to a degree, with DJ Abilities.

"I had one of the shittier Oberheims. An OB-12. It barely worked. I bought it as a display model from Guitar Center. There was none of that sophisticated shit. It was a while before I managed to make sense of all that. The screen kept blinking in and out, and you wouldn't know what the fuck was happening.

"We barely even used ProTools. A lot of it was, in essence, tracking stuff directly from the EPS-16 to ADATs. DA88s, actually. Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say."

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[FRESH] Kodak Black - Remember The Times

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:57 PM PST

[FRESH ALBUM] Youngboy Never Broke Again - Until I Return

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 10:56 PM PST

[FRESH] Bones - DarkShadowBlunts

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 08:28 PM PST

Mac Miller - Eggs Aisle (Official Audio)

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 08:11 AM PST

Curtis Mayfield - Here But I'm Gone (prod. Organized Noize)

Posted: 10 Nov 2020 11:08 AM PST
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