#Old ludacris songs full#
To properly anthologize the genre in full is to reckon with its contradictions, its competing narratives and its inconsistencies. They come right after “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground and “Me So Horny” by 2 Live Crew - different sorts of breakouts by bug-eyed humorists from opposite ends of the country - and just before Brand Nubian’s strident “All for One,” which arrives like a mean sentry striving to restore order. 20 that acts as a foundation, primer and master narrative of the genre’s growth from 1979 to 2013. These hits - including one from a white rapper, no less - were different, nigh unprecedented phenomena.Īnd yet here they are, back to back in the middle of Disc 5 of “The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap,” a 129-song collection and boxed set due out Aug. Rap music, then still barely over a decade old, had only just begun to reckon with attention from outside the genre’s walls. While wildly popular in the pop mainstream, both songs were - in differing but related ways - derided in hip-hop, kept at arm’s length. Hot on its heels a few months later was Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” which sampled “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie and became the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. That summer, MC Hammer released “U Can’t Touch This,” his flashy, breakout single that, thanks to the flamboyant fashion and quick footwork in its video, became a pop music phenomenon. In 1990, hip-hop was in the throes of an identity crisis.
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