![]() Some of the most powerful hip-hop songs are tracks with elements so simple your brain would explode trying to explain their logic: Take the unstoppable two-note guitar stab in Craig Mack’s “Flava in Ya Ear.” (I hounded the producer, Easy Mo Bee, for 17 years for the secret behind it – then wanted to throw someone out the window when I heard how basic it was.) Or the huge sound of the Roland 909 on Schoolly D’s “PSK” – an echo that seemed like it came from a church cathedral eight city blocks wide. “Rapper’s Delight” turned this future high school band geek into a superstar for the month of October 1979. My boy Aantar became my agent that week, scheduling performances of the song in exchange for snacks or hand-holding with girls in gym class. The next night, I was prepared, with a prehistoric tape recorder in hand and a black-and-white composition notebook. I said a hip, hop, the hippy to the hippy/To the hip hip hop, you don’t stop. . . . Me and my sister, Donn, were sneaking a listen of the local soul station while washing dishes when an army of percussion and a syncopated Latin piano line came out of my grandma’s JVC clock radio – what appeared to be Chic’s “Good Times.” How was I to know that my world would come crashing down in a matter of 5, 4, 3, 2 . . . on a Thursday, after a dinner of porgies, string beans and creamed corn. I was eight years old when “Rapper’s Delight” made its world premiere on Philadelphia radio. Click to read the full list of voters.Īn Introduction by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Next on the docket? Befriending new Toronto Raptors lottery pick Gradey Dick.Looking for the full list of the 100 greatest hip-hop songs of all time? Check it out right here.Įditor’s note: To make this list, Rolling Stone asked 33 artists and experts – from Rick Rubin to Busta Rhymes – to choose their favorite hip-hop tracks, then crunched the numbers. ![]() The album announcement is the biggest musical moment in what has been a relatively quiet year for Drake, save for the single “Search & Rescue,” features on songs by J Hus and Popcaan, and his pair of appearances on Young Thug’s new LP Business is Business. ![]() Rappers dabbling in the world of books is nothing new, from Russ penning a self-help book in 2019 to Gucci Mane’s autobiography to the Tupac Shakur poetry collection The Rose That Grew From Concrete, though when Drake dips his toes into any new creative avenue it’s a big deal. (This approach to media is much friendlier than his last marketing stunt, which involved fake Vogue covers that led to Condé Nast suing him and 21 Savage over trademark infringement.)\Īs Rolling Stone noted, Drake first teased the book in a 2022 episode of his radio show Table For One. Information about the album came when fans scanned the QR codes that appeared in major print publications like the New York Post, Toronto Star, and New York Times. “I am the soundtrack for lives that go on without me,” reads a particularly emotional line. “I’m a terrible texter, but a great writer / Hate confrontation,” but a great fighter,” one goes. Snippets of text from the book seem to have been shared on social media by publisher Phaidon, featuring quotes that, like so many Drake lyrics, feel destined to become summer Instagram captions. Drake’s last notable literary venture? Placing one of his Nocta Hot Step sneakers atop a stack of books including novels by Hanya Yanagihara, Aldous Huxley, and Rachel Yoder that set erudite corners of the internet aflame last March. The poetry book is co-authored by longtime Drake collaborator Kenza Samir, who has written songs like “HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right)” “Jungle,” and “Emotionless.” “I don’t know if I have ever wanted people to buy or support something more in my life,” Drake wrote in his Instagram post announcing the book. The announcement is accompanied by images of puppies that bear a similarity to recent outfits Drake wore earlier in the year that bore the unfortunate phrase, “Hard Feelings, Harder Dick.” (One wonders if Drake seriously considered pushing that through as the album title at one point.) That second sentence, a reference to his 2011 single “Headlines,” could be hinting at the musical style of For All the Dogs, as a potential return to the melodic moodiness of Take Care. “They say they miss the old Drake, girl don’t tempt me.” “I made an album to go with the book,” Drake wrote on the Titles Ruin Everything website. That’s not where the news stops, though, as he also revealed via a QR code in several newspaper ads that an accompanying album, titled For All the Dogs, is on the way. The 36-year-old musician and media mogul announced on June 23 that he will be releasing his first poetry collection, called Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness. Over the years, Drake has entered the worlds of fashion, fragrances, and TV production, so it’s not a shocker that he’s found his way into fine literature.
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