had the most traditional lyrical rapping style of anyone in the Hot Boyz. He may be the last of five rappers to spit on his biggest hit, "Bling Bling," a song best remembered for Weezy's dictionary-altering hook, but Chopper City in the Ghetto is B.G. at his finest. Other Cash ...
partner NORE enlisted the help of his New York brethren and completed one of the most influential East Coast rap albums in the game. While it infamously became another skirmish in the East Coast/West Coast nonsense of the late 90s, there’s more to ...
There are so, so many rap songs about jewelry: acquiring it, flexing with it, hoarding it, even beating people with it. But in the summer of 1999, six rappers from New Orleans changed the way we’d talk about it forever. Thanks to the proliferation of bounce music and early successes ...
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These rappers can rock, showing some serious hardcore skills when they picked up their instruments and pushed everyone’s pulses to race with the 1994 single “Sabotage” from theirIll Communicationalbum. The ‘70s cop show parody video was a huge smash on MTV, while the song shot onto alt-...
conversational flow and an eye for detail, B.G. had the most traditional lyrical rapping style of anyone in the Hot Boyz. He may be the last of five rappers to spit on his biggest hit, "Bling Bling," a song best remembered for Weezy's dictionary-altering hook, butChopper City in the...
Salt-N-Pepa were a rebuke to the music industry’s storied disdain for women rappers, having gone platinum on their first two records; by their fourth album Very Necessary, which quickly went multi-platinum, the trio could not be denied. They didn’t change up their raison d’etre: Salt...
Megan Thee Stallion continues to dominate as one of the better mainstream rappers of the 2020s. With a career that skyrocketed from underground to chart-topping following the Tory Lanez controversy, Megan proves her lyrical prowess once again on her latest album. While not quite reaching the heig...
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., known to the world as Snoop Dogg, is one of the most prolific and gifted rappers of all time. He emerged from the vibrant West Coast rap scene in the early 1990s. His unmistakable laid-back flow and smooth, rhythmic cadence quickly garnered him acclaim as a...