I just came across a video posted on instagram by @sleeping with gems, sleeping with gems posts old music video clips from certain eras based on 10 music videos produced by Jermaine dupri or 10 music videos of songs representing the west coast.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwD5ynJqMka/
via @@ f felsienotelsee
She? Who’s she listed still Dre by dr Dre and minim, eve song, and so on. The comment section was expected to have some backlash, some agreeance, and disagreeable, obviously.
everyone is different and everyone comes to different conclusions based on their different backgrounds, and at the heart of the question, the question is subjective.
The initial question differs from what she provided though, but she originally asked what song would you introduce someone to if they have never listened to hip hop and rap before.
My mind wandered through the various factors and rules that could be applied to this. One who starts to tackle this question may not even question the way they go about answering this besides their personal, (and valid) response.
But what is this response rooted in:
- their top 5 all time favorite songs
- their perception of what the top 5 best hip hop songs are
- the most impactful
- the most hip hop and rap representing
whatever the case is it could be that none of these, all of these, or a partial amount of these would be a good representation factor to what distills something as a good introduction to hip hop.
people come from different generations
so to tackle this, I brainstormed ways about going forward with my own analysis to come up with my favorite songs:
- understand what 5 songs I would choose: I like the pick of still Dre,
- understand my own faults as someone who isn’t someone who grew up listening to eve, or hip hop and rap to the levels that others have
- understand the domain, the domain is Black People who is the primary target of original.
there is a difference, a vast difference from differing eras of rap, Kanye, NaS, biggie, topic.
These are considered the greats. But the greats of what
- Kanye is super influential in what I would refer to as new age
- nas and biggie had the east coast, Tupac and snoop had the west
- eminem is sometimes referred to as the best rapper, as the best lyricist, as the best production, as the best artists (Kanye)
- but the question isn’t asking that.
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