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Mystikal album original

Independent albums List of independent studio albums, with some notesĬompilation albums List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions "-" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. Format: CD, digital download, LP, compact cassette.Īlbums Studio albums List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications Following his release from prison in 2010, Mystikal's upcoming sixth studio album, Original, is to be released on Cash Money Records, and has so far been preceded by the single "Original", released in 2011, which features fellow rappers Birdman and Lil Wayne the song peaked at number 80 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The Hits and Chopped & Screwed, although neither appeared in the top 100 on the Billboard 200. While Mystikal served a prison term in 2004 for sexual battery, Jive released two compilations of Mystikal's music, Prince of the South. It peaked at number 37 and also charted in the United Kingdom. "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" became Mystikal's third and final song to appear on the Billboard Hot 100. Mystikal's fifth album, Tarantula, featured the singles " Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" and " Tarantula" – the latter a collaboration with rapper Butch Cassidy. In 2001, Mystikal collaborated with singer Joe on the single " Stutter", which became Mystikal's first and only song to top the Billboard Hot 100, and also appeared on several national singles charts worldwide. Let's Get Ready spawned two singles, " Shake Ya Ass" and " Danger (Been So Long)" with singer Nivea, which both charted within the top 15 in the United States and also achieved success in several other countries. It was later certified double platinum by the RIAA. The album became his most commercially successful release in the United States, peaking at number one on the Billboard 200, also charting in the Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. įollowing his departure from No Limit, Mystikal released his fourth album, Let's Get Ready, on September 26, 2000. Both songs peaked in the top 65 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Each of the albums featured one single, " Ain't No Limit" and "That's the Nigga", respectively. Both peaked in the top five of the Billboard 200 and were later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Mystikal's following two studio albums, Unpredictable and Ghetto Fabulous, were both released on the record label No Limit Records Jive distributed the albums rather than No Limit's distributor, Priority Records. The album featured the single "Y'all Ain't Ready Yet", which peaked at number 41 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Mind of Mystikal peaked at number 103 on the US Billboard 200 and at number 13 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Following his signing to Jive Records in 1995, the album was re-released under the title Mind of Mystikal as his debut studio album. In 1994, Mystikal released a self-titled album on the independent record label Big Boy. The discography of American rapper Mystikal consists of five studio albums, one independent album, two compilation albums, twenty-five singles and fifteen music videos.

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Icebox Woman

by Mystik Spiral

released 1998

recorded 1992 - 1997

2.33 / 5.0 from 70 ratings

Alternative Rock, Garage Rock, Post-Grunge

Grunge, Noise Rock, Power Pop, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia

lo-fi, raw, angry, noisy, lethargic, introspective, dissonant, psychedelic, melancholic, energetic, depressive, self-hatred, nihilistic, existential, occult, rebellious, spiritual, pessimistic, male vocalist, LGBT, atonal

4 Reviews

cumguzzlinggutterslut

★★★✩✩

i liked the part where those 2 guys howled like wolves that part was funny

30000monkies

★★★★✩

takes me back…i used to play at the zon in the 90s & actually met the guitarist after a gig when i went to use the bathroom. nice guy. i think his name was jerry? he gave me a blowie in one of the stalls & sold me the CD for $20. great stuff! would recommend!

dreamtheaterfan8000

★✩✩✩✩

Pure drivel. I cannot recall a single moment during my first (and only) listen of this garbage where I wasn't appalled. HOW DID THIS TAKE 5 YEARS TO RECORD????? Let us delve into the musical septic tank...

Mystik Spiral is yet another perfectly mediocre post-grunge band that has decided to unleash onto the unwitting public the suburban angst they've carried with them and kept latent since middle school. My first question: What the fuck is a Mystic Spiral? Is it supposed to be a metaphor for their career? It sounds like the name of a Doors cover band. Initially I assumed the misspelling of the word "mystic" to be intentional, but after finishing the album I am fully convinced the members are all semi-literate. Take these lyrics:

"The universe is a cold, cold place, black and Bleak like outer space, the wind chill drops below sub-zero, it's not no time to be a hero."

Woooooow. Didn't know the temperature could drop "below sub-zero," or that poetry you wrote for your Language Arts class when you were twelve constitutes as genuine lyricism. And who still rhymes "zero" with "hero?"

Fortunately, Mystik Spiral is allergic to songs over two minutes in length, making this a much less tedious listen than expected. This compliment is backhanded, as the "songs" are excretions of verse-chorus crap that barely hit the one minute mark.*Yawn.* There is nothing in this album that resembles originality. Why bother writing memorable riffs when you don't even know how to fix that buzz in your amp? Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.

The playing, if you can call it that, sucks. In spite of their apparent obliviousness to the concept of tuning, or practicing, so-called "guitarists" Trent Lane and Jesse Moreno have discovered an ingenious method: drown everything in as much feedback as possible so nobody can tell how bad it is. I cannot stress enough the fact that Mystik Spiral's sound is that of two college students whisper-arguing on top of TV static while someone living in their basement plays the drums. Props to the drummer, by the way, for managing to keep a simple 4/4 beat to this tuneless nonsense. I don't know why Mystik Spiral has a bassist, though. You can't even hear him, except some songs where he started playing too early & they decided not to do another take. It's like they're so ashamed to have him there they had to bury him in the mix. Or maybe he forgot to turn his volume knob up or something. Then I read that Mystik Spiral didn't even have a bassist until 1996, four years into the recording sessions. Who cares, man? It's called artistic liberty. Such is fate for so-called "alternative rock...." It should be illegal for bands to keep trying to emulate Nirvana and the Screaming Trees. Also Trent is the most bored sounding singer of all time. Also he can't sing. Also was it really necessary to include a 30-minute audio recording of a woman giving birth as a hidden track?

EDIT: After posting this review that took me a week to write I got a lot of messages insisting there was no childbirth recording & that I'm crazy. I swear to God it was there. It took up over half the album's runtime. How on earth is no one else hearing it?????

JesusSaves1968

★★★★★

This album gave me the first erection I've had in 30 years

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short list of some albums that didn't make it on 2000. some of these might not correctly belong in 2000 bc my playlisting was sloppy but either way i passed or could not make them work before the copyediting phase binary star masters of the universe (good group i'd like to rep more but too chill rap) add n to (x) add insult to injury (ugh) chris knox beat freezepop forever two lone swordsmen tiny reminders pj harvey stories from the city, stories from the sea (second guessing this right now) that interpol demo kylie minogue light years kittie spit spineshank the height of callousness (hed) p.e broke atari teenage riot various releases the blood brothers this adultery is ripe turing machine a new machine for living radio 4 the new song and dance vive la fete attaque surprise moloko things to make and do and various releases (do not like) grandaddy the sophtware slump the go! team get it together ep (ended up moving away from almost all early/original releases from the right-after bands even though i spent so much time researching that category lol) laurent garnier various releases bis music for a stranger world deltron 3030 deltron 3030 seotaiji seotaiji iv soulfly primitive (doing an emergency skim to be sure) snot strait up apartment 26 hallucinating mercury rev all is dream quasimoto the unseen (would have liked to make this work but also too slow) godspeed you! black emporer lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven mystikal let's get ready at the drive-in relationship of command pelican city rhode island lil wayne lights out broadcast the noise made by people m.o.p warriorz (this got really close) mates of state my solo project ghostface killah supreme clientele jay-z the dynasty rage against the machine renegades (probably--it was on here til the very end but i think i'm cutting it. title track is fine but this album is so bad lol) the white stripes de stijl wafflehouse* anthem the whisper (bummed to cut this but it's too advanced for me) rah digga dirty harriet DEFTONES WHITE PONY PROBABLY????

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Hits for 4/20 and afterwards

Lotsa people are smoking weed today.  Lots. 

So in honor of those who love to smoke weed, we decided to join the most predictable tradition on the internet and give you a list of stoner songs. 

From Snoop Dogg to Devin The Dude, there are artists whose legacies have become synonymous with making inspired weeded-out classics. Obviously, there's more to guys like Devin and Snoop than marijuana anthems, but they proudly tout their love of the sticky, as do fellow emcees like Redman, B-Real and Curren$y. But there are some classic rap weed songs that come from unexpected places (KRS-One?! Jay-Z?!!) you might not have really ever noticed are definitely weed songs. So yeah, we included a few of those, too.

And sorry—you won't be seeing "Because I Got High" because nobody really smokes to that song, bud...

#26

"BROWN SUGAR" (UMMAH REMIX) - D'ANGELO [BONUS SONG]

Our BONUS SONG pick is a celebrated classic guest spot! Or in THIS case, a dopeass remix from J. Dilla, Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed that sounds even more weeded than the original. 

#25

"MARY JANE" - THA ALKAHOLIKS 

"I can't hold it in/I gotta let it all out." Those words are so appropriate and "Tha Liks" celebrate their favorite girl. Yes, weed-as-a-beautiful-woman is an overused metaphor (you'll see it again on this list) but it's popular because it works. 

#24

"AMERICA'S MOST BLUNTED" - MADVILLAIN

MF DOOM and Madlib deliver a weed anthem that could only come from Madvillain. Their 2004 album is a classic and one of the best tracks is this off-kilter ode to burning.

#23

"BLUEBERRY YUM YUM" - LUDACRIS

It's almost an underrated weed classic, but Luda perfectly captures the joy of smoking the finest weed. Needing snacks from the store, bemoaning how your homies are smoking trash—this is life. 

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#22

"FEELIN' IT" - JAY-Z

The Jigga Man has never really been known for stoned-out rap, and even has stated that he isn't really a smoker; but this standout from REASONABLE DOUBT is a pretty convincing ode to getting high. He acknowledges his conflict ("...look I know I contradicted myself...") in the song itself.

#21

"SMOKE SOME WEED" - ICE CUBE

One of the best tracks on 2006s woefully underrated LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER, Cube gets his smoke on, advocating for that good green while name-dropping famous smokers from George to Bill Clinton. 

#20

"DRO IN THE WIND" - TRICK DADDY FEAT. BIG BOI AND CEE-LO

It's the perfect anthem for not givin' a fuck. This Jazze Pha-produced southern smoke classic captures the vibe of burning one on a warm day, cruising with your homeboys. 

#19

"STILL SMOKIN'" - MYSTIKAL

Who can't relate? Mystikal has always been an underrated storyteller, and here, the Louisiana legend sits you down for a stoned tale about getting stoned. 

#18

"MARY" - CURRENSY

Like Snoop, like Reggie, and like Devin, Currensy has become one of Hip-Hop's most famous advocates for the green. The NOLA emcee is also one of the most prolific on the subject—single-handedly debunking the myth that weed makes you lazy.

#17

"PACK THE PIPE" - THE PHARCYDE

The Pharcyde have always been some of the coolest oddball stoners. And on this epic from their first album, they contrarily advocate for dumping papers altogether in an era where blunts rule. 

#16

"BUDDAH LOVERZ" - BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

The Cleveland collective got to wade heavily into the "N-Harmony" part of their moniker on this standout from E.1999: ETERNAL. How stoned where they when they recorded this? Very. 

#15

"SMOKE BUDDAH" - REDMAN

OK, so full disclosure: we had the psychedelic funk of "Rockafella" on this list, but--c'mon, yo. This is a Redman weed anthem of the highest order (get it?!) He's one of the most famous and loudest advocates for herbage in Hip-Hop. Nobody does weed rap (especially of the East Coast variety) better than Reggie Noble. 

#14

"BITCH, DON'T KILL MY VIBE" - KENDRICK LAMAR

Kendrick's lush and melodic ode to not letting anyone fuck up your chill. The song is about being in a good space, and substances are definitely mentioned, even though it may not be a "weed song" in the truest sense. It certainly feels like it.

#13

"WE GET HIGH" - DEVIN THE DUDE AND COUGHEE BROTHAZ

Devin has given us so much. When it comes to weed anthems, there's nobody quite like the Texas legend. And this comedic classic with Coughee Brothaz (from 2010's Suite 420—released on April 20 of that year.)

#12

"MAD-IZM" - CHANNEL LIVE FEAT. KRS-ONE

Every "Teacha" you know smokes at least a lil bit. KRS links up with New Jersey duo Channel Live over a hypnotizing loop as the emcees spit lyrics about smoking the finest tree.

#11

"ROLL IT UP, LIGHT IT UP, SMOKE IT UP" - CYPRESS HILL

The legends from East L.A. show up on the soundtrack for the most beloved stoner movie of the 1990s. Of course, Cypress Hill laced Smokey with this weed anthem. OF COURSE.

#10

"MARY JANE" - SCARFACE

Featured on his 1997 album, The UNTOUCHABLE, “Mary Jane” is also one of the best (if not underappreciated) beats in rap. Produced by Face and Mike Dean, Face’s spaced out lyrics about his love for Mary is a weed classic. 

#9

"HANDS ON THE WHEEL" - SCHOOLBOY Q FEAT. A$AP ROCKY

Q and Rocky team up for this Kid Cudi-referencing ode to getting blazed. It just sounds like a hazy night; this right here is bleary-eyed brilliance. 

#8

"XXPLOSIVE" - DR. DRE FEAT. HITTMAN, KURUPT, NATE DOGG AND SIX-TWO

The album was technically the sequel to THE CHRONIC, y'all. The Good Doctor resumed his weed-friendly antics on 1999s 2001 and although "The Next Episode" was a BIG hit, this is the song that makes you want to take a hit. 

#7

"GOOD TIMES (I GET HIGH)" - STYLES P

The LOX rhymer got to kick off his solo career with this classic. One of the 2000s most popular odes to toking up, Styles doesn't give you a laid-back groove, instead he gives you a triumphant weed theme song.

#6

"DOOBIE ASHTRAY" - DEVIN THE DUDE

What Snoop is out West; what Redman is in the East, Devin The Dude is that for the South. Meaning: he's the go-to guy for stoner rap. Devin is a character unto himself and DJ Premier tapped into his Texas roots for this classic.

#5

"HITS FROM THE BONG" - CYPRESS HILL

Over a sample of Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man," B-Real and Sen Dog take smoke straight into tha chest. One of the best stoner tracks ever made. 

#4

"WHATEVA MAN" - REDMAN

Redman makes another appearance, on one of his most popular singles. MUDDY WATERS is a very weed-friendly album from start-to-finish, but this single embodies the spirit of the whole album.

#3

"GIN & JUICE" - SNOOP DOGGY DOGG

Given its title, you'd be forgiven if you labeled this DOGGY STYLE classic a drinking song. But it's NOT, really. At least not totally. Remember, the hook is smoking weed AND getting drunk. Pay attention, people.

#2

"CRUMBLIN' ERB" - OUTKAST

"...only so much time left in this crazy world..." They were barely out of high school when they recorded their debut album, but 'Kast already sounded world-weary. Or maybe they were just really, really stoned.

#1

"I GOT 5 ON IT" - THE LUNIZ

In 1995, there was no more popular song to roll one up to; the smoking anthem from The Luniz made them stars and became a staple of cloudy dorm rooms everywhere. Salute this classic and it's just-as-classic remix.

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[Album] Sandwell District veröffentlichen neue Compilation "WHERE NEXT ?"!

Sandwell District veröffentlichen am 23. Februar eine neue 12-Track-Compilation mit Singles aus der Geschichte des Kollektivs, darunter Songs von Function, Silent Servant, Regis und anderen. "WHERE NEXT ?" erscheint auf Doppel-Vinyl und digital über Point Of Departure.

Sandwell District – bestehend aus Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function), Juan Mendez (Silent Servant) und Karl O'Connor (Regis) - war ein Label, ein Kollektiv, ein Impuls, ein Himmelfahrtskommando, eine Gang, eine Sichtweise. Ein mit Amphetaminen angeheizter Fiebertraum, der zufällig Techno mit seiner eigenen düsteren, modernen Art neu erfand.

Das Kollektiv, das aus dem 1993 von Sutton und O'Connor gegründeten Label Downwards hervorging, hatte in den 2000er-Jahren eine starke Mystik. Die Platten verkaufen sich quasi von selbst und der Ruf wuchs ganz allein durch Mundpropaganda. Diese zeitgemäße Wiederveröffentlichung der Songs, wie das schon geteilte "Sampler 1 B1 (Regis Edit)", gibt uns nicht nur Gelegenheit, Sandwell District zu feiern, wie es war, sondern auch zu fragen, was es noch hätte sein können.

“Sandwell at that time was all about work, work”, erklärt Karl O'Connor aka Regis. "It was at such a rate that we often we had music available that didn’t fit the moment or release schedule, but was none the less important and found its home on limited releases. We now have had the time to fully realize and compile what we consider the essence of the Sandwell District.”

Tracklist "WHERE NEXT ?": 01. Sandwell District & Function - Reykjavik 02. Sandwell District & CH-Signal Laboratories (8003 Lucerne) - Hypnotica Scale (Original Mix) 03. Sandwell District & Kalon & Regis - Haiku (Regis Edit) 04. Sandwell District & Function - Disaffected 05. Sandwell District & Silent Servant & Kalon - Violencia (Kalon Mix) 06. Sandwell District & Regis - Man Is The Superior Animal (Regis Original 12” mMx) 07. Sandwell District & Silent Servant & Regis - Sampler 1 B1 (Regis Edit) 08. Sandwell District & Silent Servant - Mad Youth (OD Edit) 09. Sandwell District & Silent Servant - Discipline (OD Edit) 10. Sandwell District & Function & CH-Signal Laboratories (8003 Lucerne) - Variance Variance (CH-Signal Laboratories Edit) 11. Sandwell District & Function - Ember (New Mix) 12. Sandwell District & Function – Inter

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It’s still Easter, sooooo... Anyone else notice that Ola Salo’s Swedish translation of Jesus Christ Superstar has parts that have nothing to do with the original lyrics?

I know that when you translate musicals, you often have to change things to make the words fit or to make the lyrics rhyme. However, this translation has always given me the vibe that Salo had his own interpretation of the story and wanted to sneak in some new verses that reflected that, instead of going for a more accurate translation (unless there are alternate versions of the English lyrics I’m not aware of).

The most obvious bit is from the last verse of The Last Supper:

Always hoped that I'd be an apostle Knew that I would make it if I tried Then when we retire we can write the gospels So they'll still talk about us when we've died

Translated as:

Aldrig riktigt gillat den här Judas Aldrig såg vad Jesus ser hos han Sen när vi fått tid att skriva evangelium så vinklar vi det så han får all skam

Meaning:

Never really liked that Judas guy Never understood what Jesus sees in him When we find the time to write the gospel We’ll twist it so he gets all the shame

Or some subtler changes from Heaven on Their Minds:

Listen Jesus, do you care for your race? Don't you see, we must keep in our place? We are occupied Have you forgotten how put down we are?

Translated as:

Jesus, bryr du dig alls om politik? Har du gått vilse i magi och mystik? Du blir utnyttjad av folk som vill ha dig i deras strid

Meaning:

Jesus, do you care about politics at all? Have you lost yourself in magic and mysticism? You’ll be exploited by people who want you to join their fight

Also:

Listen, Jesus, to the warning I give Please remember that I want us to live But it's sad to see Our chances weakening with every hour

Translated as:

Jesus, lyssna på den varning jag ger Annars kan jag inte följa dig mer ”Himmelriket, det är inom oss” det var ju så du sagt

Meaning:

Jesus, listen to the warning I give Otherwise, I can’t follow you anymore ”The kingdom of heaven is within us” That’s what you said, right?

Dunno, I don’t really have a strong opinion about the changes, the ones I’ve noticed fit the tone of the piece well enough (though, admittedly, the change in The Last Supper is a little heavyhanded). Plus, the 2009 Swedish cast recording is definitely my favourite JCS album of all times in any case. I just think it’s interesting that the translator made choices like these and wanted to share!

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Maddog SBG year 2020 New Music/New Movies

Atlanta's produced some of the most influential artists our generation and continues to be a breeding ground for top talent in the industry. Maddog one of the latest artists to emerge from the ATL to breakthrough into the Underground. With the guidance of 44 soulja, Young Gar, Rob tac da charm and the backing of Stack Bread Gang Ent., Maddog became one of the most sought after artists in the game.

Maddog career beginnings launched in 2007 with the release of his project, (Almost Famous) under the name Maddog SBG. After being introduced to Atlanta, in 2010, he began making a heavier impact in the Atlanta region which spread to a national level following his appearance on SBG (Gangland)." His 2011mixtape, "SBG or Die" marked his first release under the full group StackBreadGangent

Since then, he's risen to the top of the rap game, working with everyone from Young jeezy , T.i , Trey Songz , Lil Wayne , Stack Bread Gang , SBG girls , along with a prolific guest appearance run.

Maddog is fresh off the release of his debut album,  Against all odds which debuted at #3 on the world wide hiphop list. With a joint project with 44 Soulja on the way, Maddog just getting started now.

A triple threat of the finest order, all we wanna know about Maddog is if he can entertain.Producer, and rapper, the Audio Mack God in the making drops singles like "Went to Church". Although ATL is his origin, Maddog was born in Atlanta, and spent his childhood living in Atlanta Georgia . This constant motion and rich body of influences has clearly made a monster out of Maddog. He’s an independent artist with enough hustle to make the rap game afraid for dear life. Selling album & Mixtapes worldwide on his own, Maddog has already gotten co-signs low key from Atlanta legends and released over 12 projects since his return to the music industry 2017 ,Starving for Success,Against all Odds , Broke & Depressed , NWO, Atlanta to Boston 2 , KKK , Hard-A-Way , and more

Everyone has their own idea of the best rappers today, but that doesn't necessarily denote the most famous rapper in the world right now. Sure, the best rapper in the world could also be the most famous rapper, but this isn't always the case. While there's room for opinion, there are also plenty of qualifying factors to consider. For instance, how's their most recent album selling? How often are they in the news and media? How big is their fan base? Of course, you are the fan base. You as fans are buying the albums. And you're the reason why the media covers them. So, who is the most famous rapper out right now according to you fans?

When it comes to the most popular rappers, Kanye West is certainly going to find himself toward the top of the list. However, plenty of current hip-hop artists and top new school rappers who may not have his credentials could still be considered just as famous. How about Lil Uzi Vert? Could it be Childish Gambino? Or is it his TV and movie stardom that puts him in the spotlight? As you can see, choosing the most famous rappers today isn't going to be easy, but that's where you fans come in.

Check out the list of famous rappers below and vote up the artists you think have the most fame right now.

 2 Pac played a huge part of Maddog rap career even though 2 Pac died in 1996, Tupac Shakur is universally considered one of the greatest rappers of all time and one of the best West Coast rappers as well. By the time he was just 25, he had released some of the best hip hop music of his time, which would live long past his life. In fact, he's one of few rappers to have a Diamond-certified album—and he has two (including greatest hits). This Tupac Shakur discography, featuring each of his studio albums, is ranked from best to worst, so the top Tupac Shakur albums can rightfully be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Tupac Shakur singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums.

If you think the greatest 2Pac albums aren't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Tupac album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular. If you want to know, "What is the Best 2Pac album of all time?" or "What are the top Tupac Shakur albums?" then this list will answer your questions. Albums here include everything from All Eyez on Me to Me Against the World.

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Stack bread gang entertainment ceo Maddog agree to many people, rap music is historically based in the Northeast, however, as the 1990s proved, Southern rappers are not only as force to be reckoned with, but are some of the best rappers period. Southern rap has grown from a regional form of music to being heard far and wide, and remains one of the best rap genres and easily one of the most recognizable. Southern rap encompasses rappers from Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Houston and Memphis. These are the most popular outposts for good Southern rap. The "Dirty South" sound has influenced rappers from all over the world and its impact cannot be said enough.

So, who are the best Southern rappers? If you're a fan of Southern rap, you know famous names like Outkast, T.I., Mystikal, Master P, Lil Wayne, Juvenile, the Geto Boys, Ludacris, Three 6 Mafia, and Texas rappers like Twisted Black. These are some of the names synonymous with Southern rap and with good reason. They've sold out arenas, had hit songs and have won a slew of awards, including Grammys. There's a reason why Southern hip hop remains wildly popular and it's because of the songs created by the talented rappers on this list.

That said, it's up to you to determine who are the best Southern rappers. If you notice that a Southern hip hop artist isn't on this list, feel free to add them. This list answers the questions "who are the best southern rap bands of all time?" and "who is the greatest southern rap musician ever?" If you know enough about the genre, please vote based on the quality of the musician's music instead of just voting for the most popular southern rap bands that you might've heard of.

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TOP 20 ROCK/METAL ALBUMS OF 2019

Been looking back at the list I made last year and it is hard to say if 2019 was better or not. I feel like, if nothing else, there were fewer let-downs and more out-of-the blue surprises, so I guess that means it was an improvement. For anyone who says there are no good metal albums coming out these days, I say they just need to dig a little. So many great bands have been forming in recent years and started looking back to the origins of metal before death and black metal ruled the world. Since that was the era I grew up in, it isn’t too surprising that a lot of my choices this year hark back to earlier times. Case in point…

20. BEWITCHER - Under the Witching Cross 

First up is one of many bands to put a modern spin on a retro sound and this one is even from the PNW (Portland). In this case, the most obvious comparison is early Venom. “Hexenkrieg” even has a chorus like “Acid Queen” and a bridge straight outta “1000 Days in Sodom.” Lyrically, Bewitcher may be even more primitive, with lots of references to Satan, goats, and witching of all sorts. Musically, however, they do show some real diversity and skills, mixing up lightning-fast tunes with slower, pounding metal. No sophomore slump here, thank Satan.

19. INCULTER - Fatal Visions

Norway is starting to establish itself as a home for raw and brutal old-school thrash metal, with the likes of Condor, Deathhammer, and Nekromantheon delivering some wildly OTT albums in recent years. Inculter are a bit newer but really impressed with their debut in 2015 and are back with an even more lethal release in 2019. The riffing is relentless, although the band does do a good job of mixing up the tempos throughout. Still, fast thrash with touches of early Sodom and Sepultura is the core of Inculter’s sound and it is the perfect soundtrack for getting out your aggression here at civilization’s end. 

18. MIDNIGHT PRIEST - Aggressive Hauntings

I’ve been following this Portuguese outfit since their debut nearly a decade ago and have seen a solid increase in songwriting and production, along with a solidification of style. Many bands have stolen King Diamond’s sound and style, but Midnight Priest use it as a jumping-off point into a realm of their own. The vocals cover a great range with theatrical lyrics of hauntings, convents, and candles, while the music is firmly in the classic 80s vein with some wildly catchy riffs that remind me as much of Priest and Accept as they do King and Fate. 

17. FATAL CURSE - Breaking the Trance

Hailing from the middle of upstate New York, this power trio has more in common with their NWOBHM-loving brethren across the northern border than they do most US bands. Fortunately, they pull it off with the effortlessness only a group of dyed-in-the-wool fans of the music can. Songs like “Can’t Stop the Thunder” and the title track overflow with pure, punchy energy that reminds me of the heyday of Diamond Head and Jaguar. It’s a short but power-packed debut that bodes well for the band’s future. 

16. BABYMETAL - Metal Galaxy

Although this might seem out of place, I’ve always had a love for electronic dance music and this is the best combination of metal and dance I’ve heard yet. While the first two Babymetal records had a cool sound, they felt kind of samey and it was hard to really remember any of the individual tracks. Not so here. “Da Da Dance” is pure anime energy, while “Shanti Shanti Shanti” incorporates Indian instrumentation and melodies and “Oh! MAJINAI” can only be called a pirate anthem. Even “PA PA YA!!” with its rap bridge totally rocks. Some folks are turned off by ‘manufactured’ bands like this, which I totally get, but I’m more interested in the results and “Metal Galaxy” is a really solid, diverse album that I’ve come back to many times already. 

15. IRON GRIFFIN - Curse of the Sky

Finland is apparently the world’s capitol of metal (most bands per capita) and represents all types well. Iron Griffin is a thoroughly original and enjoyable mix of 70s occult and hard rock, early USPM, and classic epic metal. The production is nice and organic, with each instrument shining through, especially the bass. Vocalist Maija Tiljander can deliver the mellow and screaming parts with equal panache, while all of the instruments are handled by Oskari Räsänen (drummer of the divine Mausoleum Gate). If you enjoyed their EP, this album is 100% better and that is saying something. 

14. VIGILANCE - Enter the Endless Abyss

Haven’t heard too many Slovenian heavy metal bands (Hellcats is the only other one I can think of), but Vigilance is quite impressive in both delivery and originality. Their style is a fairly complex mix of classic, speed, and black metal. The riffing is solid, with plenty of Maiden-esque harmonies to be had, while the vocals are gruff in the vein of Amok-era Sentenced. Every song is a bit of a journey, without being overblown, and it makes for a very satisfying album experience. 

13. TANITH - In Another Time

After being blown away by their performance at Frost & Fire IV, I was very pleased to see Tanith sign with Metal Blade and release a killer debut. Trying to describe the band’s sound is difficult, as they incorporate a lot of different elements. There is a definite 70s vibe and some early prog-rock influences at work, with complex song structures that thankfully never get self-indulgent. The blending of male and female clean vocals is another highlight and both work remarkably well with the melodic riffs. The bass playing is also worth noting, as it winds its way through each song in perfect counterpoint to whatever the guitar happens to be doing. Bonus points for writing a song about the Cassini probe and its journey to Saturn.

12. ATLANTEAN KODEX - The Course of Empire

When I hear the term ‘epic metal,’ this is exactly what comes to mind. It incorporates the most grandiose elements of bands like Manowar, Bathory, and Solstice, but Atlantean Kodex somehow take it to the next level. This isn’t a collection of catchy songs, it is a weighty opus that you need to sit back and let cascade over you. It has been six years since their last record but you can definitely hear the time was well-spent and great care taken to craft each song just so. Although it doesn’t surpass The White Goddess in grandeur, it is close behind. 

11. SUICIDAL ANGELS - Years of Aggression

Greek thrash very much in the vein of the classics from ’88-’90. Solid production, straightforward but great riffing, and a wide range of tempos. There are songs that swing back and forth between fast and slow, some that are mid-tempo throughout, etc. I love that Suicidal Angels sound like they are equally influenced by the Germans and Bay Area thrashers equally, with nods to outliers like Sepultura and Artillery as well. The band tends to sound pretty much the same from album to album, and that is true here as well, but it feels like this is one of the best collection of songs they have put together yet. 

10. POUNDER - Uncivilized

Here is another great US band, this time formed by some death metal merchants looking to do something a bit more traditional. Pounder really do a great job covering all the bases and Uncivilized overflows with catchy riffs and melodies, anthemic choruses, and a great deal of diversity. Speed metal like “Red Hot Leather” is followed by a power ballad in the form of the AOR-tinged “Long Time No Love” and both are excellent. Shades of Rainbow permeate tracks like “The Mists of Time” and “Uncivilized.” Early Pretty Maids is a good reference point for the styles covered and the gruff but melodic vocals. Stellar debut and I’m really hoping the band forges on as I think there a great deal of potential here for even better work. 

9. TOXIKULL - Cursed and Punished

This one almost slipped under my radar but glad I managed to hear it. This is the stunning sophomore release from Portugal’s Toxikull and is prime power/speed metal with searing vocals and some of the best change-ups and most memorable choruses of the year. Imagine Judas Priest’s Painkiller with more modern production and even more adrenaline and you have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Clocking in at just over a half hour, this is a solid album that never disappoints. 

8. DESTRUCTION - Born to Perish

Destruction was never my favorite of the German thrashers but I still enjoyed most of their albums, even if they started to sound pretty much the same shortly after the reunion in 2000. I felt like something was different with this new one, as the opening snare drum assault of the title track got stuck in my head almost immediately. The overall style is still very much modern, thrashy Destruction, but there seems to be a little more melody overall and the songs feel more thought-out and memorable. It is always heartwarming to hear a band releasing one of their strongest albums this far into their career. Now we just need a US tour… 

7. MYSTIK - Mystik

Another release that I nearly missed out on is Mystik, who hail from Sweden and pack a real wallop of melodic speed metal with compelling vocals and strong choruses. The production is that perfect balance between pro and underground and gives the music a really timeless feeling. This is another short album that gets to the point and delivers, song after song. The vocals remind me a bit of early Warlock and Acid, while the music has a darker edge and the two complement each other to a T.

6. ROTTING CHRIST - The Heretics

These Greek pioneers have really walked a wide-ranging path over the years, from raw black metal to polished gothic metal, and on into uncharted realms where those elements and more all come together in sublime fashion. There is a truly epic quality to the songs on The Heretics, even with all of the songs being in the 3-5 minute range. Gruff vocals are juxtaposed with clean backing vocals and chanted choruses, with the music covering equally diverse ground. A work of startling, dark beauty and possibly my favorite Rotting Christ record to date.

5. VULTURE - Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves

This is pure German speed metal, with frantic yet melodic riffs, relentless drums, and piercing vocals. Bands like Ranger and Speedtrap brought the sound back to life a few years back and Vulture really take it to the next level. The aggression and rawness is still intact, with nods to early Exodus, but there is a keen sense of melody and strong songwriting that runs throughout the record. Plus, possibly the best album title of the year.

4. AVATARIUM - The Fire I Long For While

I have always enjoyed Avatarium’s records, this is the first time that it feels like the band has really come into its own and produced a remarkable piece of art in the process. The heavy, doomy riffs are still plentiful, but there is a deeper resonance to the melodies and riffs than ever before. The powerful vocals of Jennie-Ann Smith take the center seat, but the increased use of organ and fuzz-heavy guitars and bass really rounds out the sound. The shift from 100% Leif Edling-penned songs to the majority coming from Smith and guitarist Marcus Jidell also no doubt lends to the more unique character of The Fire I Long For (though I must say that “Epitaph of Heroes” would be right at home on Ancient Dreams). 

3. DEATH ANGEL - Humanicide

As much as I love many bay area thrash bands, I think Death Angel have secured themselves as my all-time favorite. Their first three albums are timeless and the albums since the reunion have been close behind. The worst thing I can say about any of the records is that they are good but maybe not as memorable as the ones before (notably The Evil Divide and Killing Season). Humanicide is probably my favorite since The Art of Dying, with a wide range of styles, memorable choruses, and the artistic blend of rough and polished that Death Angel does so well. 

2. SOILWORK - Verkligheten 

It has been a while since I’ve paid that much attention to Soilwork and now I wonder if I’ve been missing out because this album is a monster. The combination of styles here, from melodic death metal with blastbeats to 80s metal to frantic thrash is intoxicating and executed so perfectly, the album just blows right by. “Full Moon Shoals” exemplifies the range perfectly, with one of the best bridges I’ve heard in ages. It feels like Bjorn’s involvement in the retro-minded Night Flight Orchestra has helped to give Soilwork a broader sound as well as a tighter focus on crafting the songs into something more than just a collection of riffs. Even the bonus Underworld EP is consistently strong, while many bands would just toss their throwaway tracks on such a release. For a band’s 11th album, Verkligheten is not just above average but near the top of the band’s best works, period. 

1. SACRED REICH - Awakening 

Sacred Reich was one of the brightest stars of the late 80s thrash wave, with a strong debut and a timeless follow-up, but, like so many others, they lost their way in the 90s and eventually disbanded. Although it took the band 23 years to finally get their comeback record out, damn, it was totally worth the wait. Everything that I love about Sacred Reich is here: speedy riffs mixed with chugging mosh parts, a hypnotic rhythm section, Phil’s one-of-a-kind vocal assault, and every song a winner. Even “Death Valley,” which I didn’t care much for on first spin, has grown on me with its groovy, stoner vibe. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for Sacred Reich’s heartfelt, socially-conscious lyrics, too, and Awakening is hopefully just that: the dawn of a whole new era for OD and tha Reich! 

There may not have been any big-name releases this year, but the underground came through with a ton of brilliant new releases. Narrowing down my list to 20 was more difficult than ever this year and I’d like to mention several other bands that nearly made the list: ALCEST, ANGEL WITCH, APHRODITE, BARBARIAN, CALYX, CRYPT SERMON, DEMON HEAD, EXCUSE, HAUNT, HELLISH GRAVE, KRYPTOS, LUCIFERA, METAL INQUISITOR, ROCK GODDESS, SANHEDRIN, SCREAMER, SMOULDER, and SPIRIT ADRIFT. Definitely check out any and all of these albums, preferably on Bandcamp where you can also buy them.

With so many smaller and retro-minded bands hitting the scene this year, there were also plenty of demos, EPs and 7” singles. Among the best: BEASTMAKER, CIRITH UNGOL DENIAL OF GOD, GALAXY, HAUNT, MIDNIGHT DICE, MIDNIGHT SPELL, SHADOW WARRIOR, SOLICITOR, SOURCE, THE NIGHT ETERNAL, TYRANN, and VISIGOTH. GALAXY in particular has the potential to really be something special and I can’t wait for their next release.

Will 2020 top this year? Hard to say, but there are plenty of promising releases on the way from SODOM, HELLOWEEN, DELAIN, NIGHTWISH, DARK ANGEL, and LUCIFER. Maybe MEGADETH will surprise us with a worthy comeback, too, you never know. It will be a chaotic year for the world, no doubt, so we are going to need some good, solid metal releases to help us cope. Horns up!

[yourfandomfriend]

Salty Millennial Jams

Unlike a lot of people my age, I really do like Gen Z and try my best to sympathize with you guys and trust your judgement. Listen to what you have to say. Try not be that idiot shaking their fist at a cloud. But guys. Guys. 

Britney Spears music was not good.

No, it wasn’t, you guys. It wasn’t, and I’m not gonna pretend that it’s just like, my opinion, man. No beef with her as a person or any of her later stuff I didn’t listen to, but in the 90s and oughts, her music was, to put it mildly, not okay. 

But it was everywhere. And we hated it -- by “we” I mean everyone who wasn’t a sheltered tweenaged child whose parents picked out all their music or a 35-year-old creeper dude who got banned from the library computers.

Please, if you wanna try out late ‘90s and early ‘00s music, try literally anything else before you settle on Britney/Backstreet 4 Life? Despite the barrage of non-stop painful pop we were being force-fed, there was still this window between 97 and 2002 when mainstream music -- like, accessable, radio friendly bops -- was so good.

In fact, here’s a playlist that I listen to when I’m nostalgic for the late 90s and early oughts, stuff you Gen Z kids didn’t hear if your parents had bad taste.

OLD MILLENIUM PLAYLIST

1.) “Bouncin' Back” by Mystikal

From the days when Pharrell was mostly just fucking around in the background of other people’s jams, it’s this was super-timely, clean rap song about people being brave and managing the grief and paranoia that followed the September 11th attacks. And it’s really good, you guys. I play this when I feel like I need more fight in me, like right now.

Also, it’s a reminder of a bygone era when rap music had emotion and didn’t sound like it just did a bump of ambien.

2.) “Crush” by Jennifer Paige

It’s like “Oops! I Did it Again,” only good! This is what people like me were listening to when your grandpa was first getting into Britney Spears. 

Yeah, you heard me.

3.)  Sleepwalker by The Wallflowers

It’s the Crowley song! Which Crowley? Exactly.

4.) “My Favorite Mistake” by Sheryl Crow

This is a special song because it’s Sheryl Crow’s last single before she went, “Fuck it, I don’t care. Soak up the sun, it’s all bullshit anyway.”

5.)  “Diggin' On You” by TLC

This is one of those songs from when people still bought entire albums for one single only to find gems like this a few tracks down. I mean, it just feels like summertime listening to this. The sound of sunlight radiating off pavement.

6.) “Otherside” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Warning: This song will try to make you listen to it on full blast five times in a row with earbuds in until yours ears bleed. Listen responsibly.

7.) "Love Is In The Right Place” by Bryan White 

Hey, did you know country music wasn’t always just puns and lists of rural stuff like pickup trucks and dirt roads and sweet tea and for the love of god, don’t watch the news? Yeah, there was once happy stuff, funny stuff, deep stuff, original stuff. Good stuff.

Between “Panderin’” and a couple decades of country just being “the music of sad people” there was Clinton era country, when the genre was capable of being fun and happy and making you feel good. Suspicious timing, no?

8.) Jumper by Third Eye Blind

Speaking of great albums, every track on this album was blindingly 90s. I mean that in a good way. The obscure ones like “In the Background” kinda blew your socks off, but the singles were so great.

9.)  "It's All Been Done” by Barenaked Ladies

This was part of that great 60s pop revival in the 90s that made everything on the radio so much more fun.

10.)  "You Light Up My Life” by LeAnn Rimes

Okay, one more country song, and yes, it’s a cover but... I never liked the original for some reason. Too self-indulgent sounding. But I feel like Rimes nailed it. There’s almost something menacing in her deep voice in the verses, so when she sings out the chorus it gives an uplifting effect.

11.)  "Are You That Somebody” by Aaliyah

Had to have at least one Aaliyah song on this list. She was one of those artists who made music like the world was the way it should be, to show it what it could be. Did I steal that line from an episode of Angel? You’ll never know.

12.)  Gossip Folks by Missy Elliott 

I love how gloatingly bitchy this song is. It don’t apologize and neither will I. There’s a clean version but it’s not the one on my playlist, Ye Be Warned.

13.) Sour Girl by Stone Temple Pilots

I have to end the list here because the amount of late 90s in this song threw my back out and I need to crawl for one of those grabber things.

[brendanwhiteman-blog1]

Progress Report

The key objectives for the project (a refined version of previously proposed objectives) are as follows:

Produce two EPs, 4 songs in length.

Release the project on mainstream streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Music.

Provide a detailed account of personal issues and experiences to inform young people of possible solutions to their own.

Use production techniques to enhance the story of each song.

Use literary devices and delivery techniques to portray emotions through lyrics in each song.

Accumulate 2000 views/plays on all related content including songs and social media posts one month after release.

At this stage in the production of this project, a handful of compositions have been started, a few of them currently with the primary musical ideas established and the structure and variation left to complete, plus lyrics left to write and record.

Sound Design Significant progress has been made with designing sounds of vocal origin. While only two Talking EP songs have been composed to a considerable extent, it has proven a fairly smooth process getting promising results that complement the genre of music. Designing sounds that evoke cosmic thoughts has proven difficult, so inspiration has been sought from composers and artists that have written music with the intention to evoke thoughts and feelings of extraterrestrial ideas and concepts. Several angles were investigated; from film scores by composers such as Hans Zimmer (Interstellar Soundtrack) to albums by electronic artists such as Digital Mystiks (Return II Space) that have been written with space themes. Listening to and analysing such music has given and will continue to give insights into practitioners’ conceptual and technical methods of stimulating thoughts of space in the listeners’ minds.

Lyric Writing Progress with lyric writing has been slow, but the developments that have been made have proven informative for the future progress of this task. Since this creative process can prove futile, despite how much effort and concentration is inputted, it is important that such attempts are ended considerably promptly, and that attempts are made to write lyrics several times a week, if not daily. This will ensure time is not wasted on fruitless sessions and will increase the frequency of positive sessions.

The executive decision had previously been made to work on Talking EP while methodologies are investigated further in order to compose songs for Space EP more effectively and more closely relating to the intended theme. Research into production techniques that can be used to evoke the idea of space into the listener has been since been undertaken. Various sources emphasised the use of analogue synthesisers as well as manipulated acoustic recordings (MusicTech.net, 2013). Naturally, the next step in the production of Space EP is to continue researching this topic while exploring the proposed techniques.

After production sessions, reflections and conclusions will be drawn in order to understand better why the creative decisions were made, where they can be improved and where to go from here.

References:

MusicTech.net (2013). ‘Sci-Fi Sound Design Tutorial’, Music Tech. Retrieved from https://www.musictech.net/tutorials/sci-fi-sound-design/

[michelleplayswithfire]

Top 25 Top 40 Hits of 2000

Honorable mentions: Blue (Da Ba Dee) -- Eiffel 65 (#6 -- peak Jan. 29) (#49 -- YE 2000) Simple Kind of Life -- No Doubt (#38 -- peak Jul. 22)* I Wanna Know -- Joe (#4 -- peak Jul. 1) (#4 -- YE 2000) Falls Apart -- Sugar Ray (#29 -- peak Feb. 19)* There You Go -- Pink (#7 -- peak Apr. 8) (#16 -- YE 2000) Most Girls -- Pink (#4 -- peak Nov. 25) (#52 -- YE 2000) Hot S**t (Country Grammar) -- Nelly (#7 -- peak Sep. 16) (#29 -- YE 2000) From the Bottom of My Broken Heart -- Britney Spears (#14 -- peak Feb. 26) (#77 -- YE 2000) Incomplete -- Sisqo (#1 -- peak Aug. 12) (#25 -- YE 2000) This I Promise You -- ‘N Sync (#5 -- peak Dec. 2) (#51 -- YE 2001) Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) -- Christina Aguilera (#1 -- peak Oct. 14) (#38 -- YE 2000) I Need You -- LeAnn Rimes (#11 -- peak Aug. 12) (#44 -- YE 2000) Back Here -- BBMak (#13 -- peak Jul. 29) (#33 -- YE 2000) All The Small Things -- blink-182 (#6 -- peak Feb. 19) (#40 -- YE 2000)* Wonderful -- Everclear (#11 -- peak Sep. 30) (#54 -- YE 2000)* The Next Episode -- Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg (#23 -- peak Jul. 29) (#76 -- YE 2000) Lucky -- Britney Spears (#23 -- peak Sep. 9) Let’s Get Married -- Jagged Edge (#11 -- peak Jul. 29) (#46 -- YE 2000) Cowboy Take Me Away -- Dixie Chicks (#27 -- peak Jan. 29) (#95 -- YE 2000) Learn To Fly -- Foo Fighters (#19 -- peak Jan. 22)*

25. You Sang To Me -- Marc Anthony (#2 -- peak Jun. 3) (#22 -- YE 2000) 24. Oops!...I Did It Again -- Britney Spears (#9 -- peak Jun. 10) (#55 -- YE 2000) 23. Shackles (Praise You) -- Mary Mary (#28 -- peak May 13) (#100 -- YE 2000) 22b. She Bangs -- Ricky Martin (#12 -- peak Dec. 2)  22a. Shake Your Bon-Bon -- Ricky Martin (#22 -- peak Feb. 12) 21b. Thong Song -- Sisqo (#3 -- peak May 20) (#14 -- YE 2000) 21a. Shake Ya Ass -- Mystikal (#13 -- peak Oct. 28) (#68 -- YE 2000) 20. I Try -- Macy Gray (#5 -- peak May 20) (#26 -- YE 2000) 19. Absolutely (Story of a Girl) -- Nine Days (#6 -- peak Jul. 22) (#35 -- YE 2000)* 18. Bent -- matchbox twenty (#1 -- peak Jul. 22) (#9 -- YE 2000)* 17. Pinch Me -- Barenaked Ladies (#15 -- peak Nov. 25)* 16b. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely -- Backstreet Boys (#6 -- peak Mar. 18) (#31 -- YE 2000) 16a. Shape of My Heart -- Backstreet Boys (#9 -- peak Dec. 2)  15. Amazed -- Lonestar (#1 -- peak Mar. 4) (#8 -- YE 2000) 14. Feels So Good -- Sonique (#8 -- peak Apr. 22) (#34 -- YE 2000) 13. Everything You Want -- Vertical Horizon (#1 -- peak Jul. 15) (#5 -- YE 2000)* 12. Graduation (Friends Forever) -- Vitamin C (#38 -- peak Jun. 10)* 11. Gotta Tell You -- Samantha Mumba (#4 -- peak Dec. 9) (#98 -- YE 2000) 10. Swear It Again -- Westlife (#20 -- peak Jul. 1) (#75 -- YE 2000) 9. Breathe -- Faith Hill (#2 -- peak Apr. 22) (#1 -- YE 2000) 8. Party Up (Up In Here) -- DMX (#27 -- peak Apr. 22) (#71 -- YE 2000) 7. Try Again -- Aaliyah (#1 -- peak Jun. 17) (#12 -- YE 2000) 6. Kryptonite -- 3 Doors Down (#3 -- peak Nov. 11) (#15 -- YE 2000)* 5. Otherside -- Red Hot Chili Peppers (#14 -- peak May 27) (#59 -- YE 2000)* 4. Who Let The Dogs Out -- Baha Men (#40 -- peak Oct. 21) 3b. It’s Gonna Be Me -- ‘N Sync (#1 -- peak Jul. 29) (#27 -- YE 2000) 3a. Bye Bye Bye -- ‘N Sync (#4 -- peak Apr. 15) (#21 -- YE 2000) 2b. I Turn To You -- Christina Aguilera (#3 -- peak Jul. 1) (#42 -- YE 2000) 2a. What A Girl Wants -- Christina Aguilera (#1 -- peak Jan. 15) (#19 -- YE 2000) 1. The Real Slim Shady -- Eminem (#4 -- peak Jun. 24) (#51 -- YE 2000)*

Albums Worth Checking Out: The Marshall Mathers LP -- Eminem Stankonia -- Outkast Kid A -- Radiohead  All That You Can’t Leave Behind -- U2 Hybrid Theory -- Linkin Park Parachutes -- Coldplay Music -- Madonna No Strings Attached -- ‘N Sync Return of Saturn -- No Doubt Veni Vidi Vicious -- The Hives Mad Season -- matchbox twenty Warning -- Green Day Black & Blue -- Backstreet Boys The Art of Drowning -- AFI L.D. 50 -- Mudvayne The Distillers -- The Distillers

The Bottom of the Pile: Tricky, Tricky -- Lou Bega (#74 -- peak Feb. 5) Californication -- Red Hot Chili Peppers (#69 -- peak Oct. 14)* Don’t Call Me Baby -- Madison Avenue (#88 -- peak Sep. 16) The Way I Am -- Eminem (#58 -- peak Sep. 30)* Stan -- Eminem Featuring Dido (#51 -- peak Dec. 2)* That’s What I’m Looking For -- Da Brat (#56 -- peak Apr. 15) The Bad Touch -- Bloodhound Gang (#52 -- peak Apr. 15)* Left, Right, Left -- Drama (#73 -- peak Mar. 18) Original Prankster -- The Offspring (#70 -- peak Dec. 9)* Tha Block Is Hot -- Lil' Wayne Featuring Juvenile & B.G. (#72 -- peak Jan. 8) Girls Dem Sugar -- Beenie Man Featuring Mya (#54 -- peak Dec. 2) Last Resort -- Papa Roach (#57 -- peak Dec. 2)*

Alternative songs are the ones starred.

[grimelords]

Two days after I said I’d upload it tonight, here it is! My October playlist is finished and it’s chock a block full of good music and also bad music that I love. From John Mellencamp to drone metal, from Katy B to Cassius, it’s all here and more. Deadmau5 also is here and for that I apologise.

Small Town (Acoustic) - John Mellencamp: Guess who had a legit emotional reaction to a John Mellencamp song this month, thinking deeply about what it means to be from a small town and how much this song gets right and wrong about identity and freedom in a small town versus living in a big town? This guy. I think this song works a lot better stripped down acoustically than it does in the album version. It gives the lyrics a lot more space, and really lays out just how simple the sentiment of the song is. It sets the tone of this month's playlist pretty well now that I think about it. I've been feeling like a real pea-brain hayseed this month and big chunks of this playlist really reflect that.

Katy On A Mission - Katy B: It feels like this and Hold It Against Me by Britney Spears (which was also 2011) is the moment that big american style dubstep completely crossed over into the mainstream, Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites was about six months ago and from there it was a tidal wave until oversaturation and complete death. But Katy On A Mission is different because it's at least got the credentials of dubstep pioneer Benga producing it and it doesn't go all-out on the super dirty bass, or even particularly have a big drop at all - it just uses it textually all the way through and it's better off for it.

I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos: The way this song is recorded is insane. It literally sounds like they're at the bottom of a well. And it's mixed in that good early stereo hard-panned style so the lead is in the right channel and the whole harmony is in the left channel and absolutely soaked in reverb in a way that just sounds incongruous with the rest of the song. It sounds like a dream. My favourite moment is at about 2:30 when the harmony vocals get so large on the high note that they clip out and distort in a way that just sounds very, very cool.

Horses In The Sky (Live Version) - The Sound Of Animals Fighting: The Sound Of Animals Fighting was a post-hardcore prog supergroup where they were all anonymous (it was just the entirety of RX Bandits plus Anthony Green from Circa Survive) and I really wish they'd done more like this after their first album - because they still wrote very very good songs but they got lost in the mire of studio ambient interludes and being avant-garde for the sake of it which sometimes worked and most times just bored you which thankfully they only succumb in the end section of this version. Compare this to the studio version if you want to know what I mean, halfway through the guitar solo it just starts playing in reverse.

Split Wide Open - Cannibal Corpse: Here's what I mean about feeling like a pea-brain this month. Cannibal Corpse is proper troglodyte moron man music. It makes me feel dumb as fuck like a real stupid guy. There's something interesting about Cannibal Corpse's enduring ability to shock people, and that a band making such extreme music are at least a name that people know. They were in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective for god's sake. Before Marilyn Manson and that wave of cabaret shock-rock really got into the popular consciousness Cannibal Corpse were making shocking, violent music without any of the glamour and I think it's served them well in the long run. Songs like 'Hammer Smashed Face' or 'I Cum Blood', are shocking in title, artwork and content to this day are still musically shocking to the vast majority, far more than Marilyn Manson's spooky androgyny and wearing like a top hat and having fangs or whatever that's aged like milk and become just another boring cliche. The idea of the devil being charming and sly, disguised in charisma is so much more boring than the devil just tearing you apart like mince meat and eating you. Anyway I'm here to say Cannibal Corpse is good music for dum-dums like me.

Funeraloplis - Electric Wizard: Someone's edited it now but it's still in the footnote links, but the best ever piece of writing on wikipedia was the quote on Electric Wizard's page where they were explaining the origin of their name because it said "Is the name Electric Wizard made out of two Black Sabbath song titles? [smokes a big bud of weed through a can] Hahahaha, yeah it is!" which is so good and sort of all you need to know about them.

I <3 U So - Cassius: Looking back through this list it seems I'm having a real 2011 moment for some reason. I don't think I *get* Cassius. From everything I read about them they seem to be french dance royalty but they literally have two good songs and they're both in this playlist. These two songs are very good though so maybe it's just that. Anyway it's a shame what Kanye did this to song on Watch The Throne but I don't blame him, it feels like this song is just impossible to work with. It's at a weird tempo, it's incredible loose, it basically has one section. I imagine this song would have frustrated a lot of DJs when it was popular cause I really don't know how you would mix in or out of it, but fuck it while it's on it's a great song!

Youth, Speed, Trouble, Cigarettes - Cassius: This is the other good Cassius song. I'm pitching it as the theme song for when they eventually reboot Skins. I really appreciate that this song has 1 idea and basically just does every variation it can with it before bringing it to a climax. When your idea is this simple and this good that's all you need. Also the big toms that kick in after the 'just one more' but are heaven sent.

It Took The Night To Believe - Sun 0))): Sun 0))) are such morons and it's so funny that you can be so dumb and so serious about this sort of music at the same time. On this song Greg Anderson is credited as Mystik Fogg Invokator and Stephen O'Malely is credited as Taoiseach, which is the name for the Irish prime minister. Whenever I listen to Sun 0))) for the first two minutes I'm like 'lol this sucks' but then suddenly the guy is like 'cry yourself to ash' and I'm feeling the pull of the void quite heavily. Basically it's just like that meme.

Seven Angels - Earth: I remember ages ago some guy posted Earth 2: Special High Frequency edition and it was just this whole album with a high pass filter on it which is a funny joke. Anyway it interesting to think of this album in the context of when it came out. Two years after Nevermind, six months before In Utero - grunge at the absolute height of its power, stoner metal like Kyuss and Sleep huge when suddenly this guy comes out of nowhere and distills guitar music down to its essence: slower, louder, heavier than anything else by an order of magnitude.

Mutual Slump - DJ Shadow: I finally saw Xanadu this month and now I can finally relate to the weird smiling breathing out your nose noise that she makes after she says 'I'd never hailed a cab before' in this song.

Walkin' On The Sidewalks - Queens Of The Stone Age: Queens Of The Stone Age's first album is 20 years old this year and I've been thinking a lot about how it was a two person operation. Josh Homme played and sang everything on this album except the drums and it's funny to think about writing this sort of music all by yourself outside of a jam structure. He really sat down with a pad and paper and wrote down 'outro: bass riff x400' and then recorded it just like that.

Witch - Maps & Atlases: I wake up with this song in my head so often it's insane. I think a triplet groove in 4/4 like this is such a good and underused feeling and this song really deploys is perfectly. I want more of this, the good kind of math rock where it's not just guys doing midwest emo tappy riffs that all sound the same.

Down 2 Hang - Kirin J Callinan: This is what meeting up with people from the internet feels like. It's kind of a shame that this album got completely overshadowed by the Jimmy Barnes screaming meme, and that it's the first and last a lot of americans will ever hear of Jimmy Barnes but in reality it's exactly what Kirin J Callinan wanted to good for him I suppose.

Fast In My Car - Paramore: If you can't tell already I'm having an extremely basic bitch moron man month and that included listening to this Paramore album a lot and telling my girlfriend about how isn't it so interesting that the guitarist Taylor York just took over drum duties for this album after their longtime drummer quit and did such a good job playing drums AND guitar and her rightly not caring at all. I'm always impressed by songs that keep the same chords through the verse and chorus, it seems impossible but it works great here.

Don't Stop The Dance (feat. Delafleur) - Breakbot: I'm clapping my hands to stress each syllable when I tell you that Disco Will Never Die.

Oqiton - Jeremy Dutcher: I'm so glad this album won the Polaris Prize because I feel like I would never have heard of it otherwise. I absolutely love it, and I think what I love so much about it is that it doesn't fall into the trap of similar projects like this in the past of smoothing out all the jagged edges and turning it into plastic pretty music from the untouched ancient peoples - it's a real and alive reinterpretation of old music that looks toward the future and past in equal measure. Including the actual original recordings in each track is such a smart move, it gives you the context you need so this album isn't about liner notes and extra sources and it lets those old recordings seamlessly fold into these new reorchestrations.

I Remember - Deadmau5 & Kaskade: Anyway moron month continues here with the only worthwhile contribution to the planet earth that Deadmau5 ever made, I suspect by letting Kaskade do most of the work. It sounds sadistic but I really appreciate how this song is nearly ten minutes long, I'm a big fan of any song with that much confidence that actually pulls it off.

Overtime - Jessie Ware: Fucking Jessie Ware is back and she’s got Bicep producing! I think I added this song to my playlist before it was even a minute in, I just heard the bassline and my brain stem said yes.

Body - Julie Jacklin: I really think Julia Jacklin might be the best songwriter around right now and I cannot wait for her new album. I guess this keeps with the moron man theme by telling it from the other side. I keep listening to this song and then getting into a real mood for about an hour afterwards so I can't imagine the damage the album is going to do to me.

Can't Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West: Throughout the whole ongoing Kanye drama I've been thinking of this song. " I feel the pressure, under more scrutiny, and what I do? Act more stupidly" "I'm on TV talking like it's just you and me". Anyway he's had is money right for a long time but it's becoming increasingly apparent that you really really can't tell him nothing. I think it's interesting that the thing that seems to have spurred him into clarifying his beliefs and finally backtracking on anything is that Candace Owens tried to credit him for the shitty Blexit thing and it turns out the one thing you can't do to Kanye West is manipulate him into putting his name on something he doesn't believe in or didn't create. It's insane that John Legend and Mos Def and Talib Kweli reaching out didn't change anything but Candace Owens taking one too many liberties absolutely did.

Like Wolves On The Fold - Colin Stetson: I've said it one million times but I love Colin Stetson. I love how straightforward this is for a Colin Stetson song. You can sing along to it! So much writing about him focuses on the intricasies of his technique rather than his resulting very human, very primal music. I feel like his music is not very far from beating on your chest and yelling a lot of the time (especially toward the second half of this song) and the saxophone element just makes it a lot more socially acceptable.

Sack 'Em Up, Pt. I / Sack 'Em Up, Pt. II - Gwenifer Raymond: Bandcamp had a really good article about American Primitive the other day https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/10/10/american-primitive-list/ and I found this album in it and fell completely in love instantly. I listened to it five times in a row. It's just incredible and I'm so glad that the music I love is finally being rescued from the mire of New Acoustic youtube men with their slapping and tapping and harp guitars and moving forward in new ways with artists like Sarah Louise, Marisa Anderson and Gwenifer Raymond. Women are finally allowed to play guitar now and thank fuck. One of the things I really appreciate about this album is just how written it feels. Every part, even the very swirly Part One of this song feels very purposeful, and if not totally written at least improvised in a tight framework before moving into the completely written second half. There's nothing wrong with improv but in a genre like this that's almost overrun with guys putting out hour long improv records it's refreshing to hear someone with such a clear vision execute it so expertly.

Bleeding Finger Blues - Gwenifer Raymond: Also, get a fucking load of this. An absolute powerhouse performance from a master. There's not enough solo banjo music around and it's a shame because I don't know if there's a better argument for banjo as a solo instrument than this song. The other thing I like about this album is there’s three banjo songs on it, which works well for breaking up the sequencing and making each song really distinct in a genre where albums can really blend together.

4:30 - Danger: It's a shame that Danger never really fulfilled his potential. With songs as good as this as 19:11 he seemed set. But then he took about a decade off before his debut album and I guess he lost something along the way. Anyway, doesn't matter because when you've got a song as good as this it's all you need. Also here's a good video where someone just put this song over the bar scene from Terminator which really accentuates the vibe in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37R39-mff8

Crybaby - Abra: I love love love the production on this. A friend sent it to me because he said it reminded him of the Call Me Mr Telephone song I was raving about and he’s absolutely right. I love how formless it is, it goes through about three different verse ideas before finally getting to the chorus at about a minute and a half in and it’s only stronger for it. I’m so glad a new generation of darkwave adjacent people are discovering freestyle because this is great.

OMG!!! - Yelle: This song is probably best experienced with the music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWK4rV3INY It’s fantastic on its own, especially the “oh my god!” sample and the whole chorus section, but the video - titties out, covered in glitter, very very good dance move for the rising 'ooo' part, a hamster is there. Really accentuates it.

Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow: Was thinking about this song the other day. Woke up with it in my head actually which was strange. I feel like this song and the Pina Colada song definitely take place in the same cinematic universe.

King Of The Dead - Cirith Ungol: I've been rereading Lord Of The Rings and also a very dodgy 70s sci-fi series called Dray Prescot and so divine fate has drawn me to discover Cirith Ungol. The good kind of metal where all the album covers could also be fantasy novel covers and all the songs are about how cool it would be to slay an ancient demon with a sword. I love this song because it feels impossible to sing it without doing some very dramatic face acting and also his voice is completely insane. I feel like this is maybe just how he talks.

Sugaree 10/21/1978 - Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead are good and ever since I came to terms with that I've felt like I'm always on the precipice of buying a box of tapes, covering my car in confusing stickers and dropping completely out of society. The problem with a big chunk of live Dead recordings that I've heard is that while the playing is always on point, the vocals can vary wildly - especially when they try any kind of harmony, but this recording is just great. Fantastic vocals with a lot of feeling, ample crowd noise so it doesn't feel like just a sterile soundboard recording, and of course an incredible extended jam.

Ring De Bell - Brother Resistance: I don't fully understand what rapso music is yet, I don't have enough understanding of the culture or surrounding genres. I basically just found this Best Of compilation and have been listening to it a LOT. As I understand it it's 70s Trinidadian calypso music that got very political, which is very cool. I'm a big fan of this sort of lyric where it feels like you could just go on and on for days about all the places you should ring the bell.

Kojack - David Rudder: The crown jewel of this compilation is of course this song I've posted about before and absolutely love to death. A protest song about them taking Kojack off the TV because it's too violent when shows like Dallas and Dynasty, which are far worse, remain on the air. Miami Vice! Before youtube comments and online petitions you had to make extremely good songs about this kind of thing, and its a huge shame that we've allowed this to die.

The Power Of Love - Celine Dion: I love Celine Dion because all her songs sound like they were recorded across 5 countries and 8 different studios and cost two million dollars. They always sound too expensive for casual listening to me, like I should have an emergency mink coat on me at all times just in case The Power Of Love starts playing in a supermarket.

Airworks - J Dilla: I've been listening to Donuts a bunch this month and really thinking about what makes him so good and the vast legion of Dilla imitators on soundcloud bad and I think this song is a good example. The main sample sounds straight up ugly, it's backwards and twisted to hell, the main strings part keeps folding over itself, it's just chaos but completely controlled chaos. Every imitator is so afraid to make a total mess like he does and is too focused on the underpinning laid-backness of the beat, where Dila somehow makes the relaxed feeling easily as a result of a million clashing elements.

Anti-American Graffiti - J Dilla: I also found a playlist on Spotify where someone had put together Donuts with all of the the original tracks it sampled (or at least the ones that are available on Spotify) and it's such an illuminating new way to listen to this album. https://open.spotify.com/user/keatonkreps/playlist/1TPeWt38uceWXD1Vhyf7wx?si=NJ_jHrYqQpCt18q-W9nrag

Marvel - Solillaquists Of Sound: Every genre has good music in it. Even rappity rap conscious hip hop has good songs like this one. There’s another song on this album called Popcorn that’s basically the It’s Media picture converted to a .wav but this song is good. Especially her vocals when they come in halfway through sounding like an astrology zine except good.

Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash has around one million songs about trains, including ‘Blue Train’, ‘Train Of Love’ and a song called ‘I’ve Got A Thing About Trains’ but this is the best one because it’s about train-related fraud and doing perhaps the most outlaw country manoeuvre ever and telling the toll man that you’re carrying livestock when you are in fact carrying pig iron.

I <3 U So (Skream's Made Zdar Feel Like He Was 20 Again Remix) - Cassius: Also as a kind of coda, here's Skream's version of I <3 U So, where he's completely ironed it out and turned it into a pulsing dnb thing which is always impressive to me when people completely reverse the feel of a song in a remix.

Worms Of The Senses / Faculties Of The Skull - Refused: Stereogum had a really good article about The Shape Of Punk To Come on its 20th anniversary and whether it really did turn out to be the shape of punk to come. They asked a bunch of people whether the title seemed arrogant and the vocalist from La Dispute had a really good answer where he said "But it’s like calling your shot and then fuckin’ hitting a home run. If it was arrogant, it was justifiably so." which is so great. https://www.stereogum.com/2020358/refused-shape-of-punk-to-come-turns-20/franchises/sounding-board/​

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HOW HIGH: THE 25 DOPEST RAP SONGS ABOUT DOPE

Rock The Bells Staff

Published Wed, April 20, 2022 at 12:00 AM EDT

Lotsa people are smoking weed today. Lots. So in honor of those who love to smoke weed, we decided to join the most predictable tradition on the internet and give you a list of stoner songs. 

From Snoop Dogg to Devin The Dude, there are artists whose legacies have become synonymous with making inspired weeded-out classics. Obviously, there's more to guys like Devin and Snoop than marijuana anthems, but they proudly tout their love of the sticky, as do fellow emcees like Redman, B-Real and Curren$y. But there are some classic rap weed songs that come from unexpected places (KRS-One?! Jay-Z?!!) you might not have really ever noticed are definitely weed songs. So yeah, we included a few of those, too.

And sorry—you won't be seeing "Because I Got High" because nobody really smokes to that song, bud...

#26

"BROWN SUGAR" (UMMAH REMIX) - D'ANGELO [BONUS SONG]

Our BONUS SONG pick is a celebrated classic guest spot! Or in THIS case, a dopeass remix from J. Dilla, Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed that sounds even more weeded than the original. 

#25

"MARY JANE" - THA ALKAHOLIKS 

"I can't hold it in/I gotta let it all out." Those words are so appropriate and "Tha Liks" celebrate their favorite girl. Yes, weed-as-a-beautiful-woman is an overused metaphor (you'll see it again on this list) but it's popular because it works. 

#24

"AMERICA'S MOST BLUNTED" - MADVILLAIN

MF DOOM and Madlib deliver a weed anthem that could only come from Madvillain. Their 2004 album is a classic and one of the best tracks is this off-kilter ode to burning.

#23

"BLUEBERRY YUM YUM" - LUDACRIS

It's almost an underrated weed classic, but Luda perfectly captures the joy of smoking the finest weed. Needing snacks from the store, bemoaning how your homies are smoking trash—this is life. 

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#22

"FEELIN' IT" - JAY-Z

The Jigga Man has never really been known for stoned-out rap, and even has stated that he isn't really a smoker; but this standout from REASONABLE DOUBT is a pretty convincing ode to getting high. He acknowledges his conflict ("...look I know I contradicted myself...") in the song itself.

#21

"SMOKE SOME WEED" - ICE CUBE

One of the best tracks on 2006s woefully underrated LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER, Cube gets his smoke on, advocating for that good green while name-dropping famous smokers from George to Bill Clinton. 

#20

"DRO IN THE WIND" - TRICK DADDY FEAT. BIG BOI AND CEE-LO

It's the perfect anthem for not givin' a fuck. This Jazze Pha-produced southern smoke classic captures the vibe of burning one on a warm day, cruising with your homeboys. 

#19

"STILL SMOKIN'" - MYSTIKAL

Who can't relate? Mystikal has always been an underrated storyteller, and here, the Louisiana legend sits you down for a stoned tale about getting stoned. 

#18

"MARY" - CURRENSY

Like Snoop, like Reggie, and like Devin, Currensy has become one of Hip-Hop's most famous advocates for the green. The NOLA emcee is also one of the most prolific on the subject—single-handedly debunking the myth that weed makes you lazy.

#17

"PACK THE PIPE" - THE PHARCYDE

The Pharcyde have always been some of the coolest oddball stoners. And on this epic from their first album, they contrarily advocate for dumping papers altogether in an era where blunts rule. 

#16

"BUDDAH LOVERZ" - BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

The Cleveland collective got to wade heavily into the "N-Harmony" part of their moniker on this standout from E.1999: ETERNAL. How stoned where they when they recorded this? Very. 

#15

"SMOKE BUDDAH" - REDMAN

OK, so full disclosure: we had the psychedelic funk of "Rockafella" on this list, but--c'mon, yo. This is a Redman weed anthem of the highest order (get it?!) He's one of the most famous and loudest advocates for herbage in Hip-Hop. Nobody does weed rap (especially of the East Coast variety) better than Reggie Noble. 

#14

"BITCH, DON'T KILL MY VIBE" - KENDRICK LAMAR

Kendrick's lush and melodic ode to not letting anyone fuck up your chill. The song is about being in a good space, and substances are definitely mentioned, even though it may not be a "weed song" in the truest sense. It certainly feels like it.

#13

"WE GET HIGH" - DEVIN THE DUDE AND COUGHEE BROTHAZ

Devin has given us so much. When it comes to weed anthems, there's nobody quite like the Texas legend. And this comedic classic with Coughee Brothaz (from 2010's Suite 420—released on April 20 of that year.)

#12

"MAD-IZM" - CHANNEL LIVE FEAT. KRS-ONE

Every "Teacha" you know smokes at least a lil bit. KRS links up with New Jersey duo Channel Live over a hypnotizing loop as the emcees spit lyrics about smoking the finest tree.

#11

"ROLL IT UP, LIGHT IT UP, SMOKE IT UP" - CYPRESS HILL

The legends from East L.A. show up on the soundtrack for the most beloved stoner movie of the 1990s. Of course, Cypress Hill laced Smokey with this weed anthem. OF COURSE.

#10

"MARY JANE" - SCARFACE

Featured on his 1997 album, The UNTOUCHABLE, “Mary Jane” is also one of the best (if not underappreciated) beats in rap. Produced by Face and Mike Dean, Face’s spaced out lyrics about his love for Mary is a weed classic. 

#9

"HANDS ON THE WHEEL" - SCHOOLBOY Q FEAT. A$AP ROCKY

Q and Rocky team up for this Kid Cudi-referencing ode to getting blazed. It just sounds like a hazy night; this right here is bleary-eyed brilliance. 

#8

"XXPLOSIVE" - DR. DRE FEAT. HITTMAN, KURUPT, NATE DOGG AND SIX-TWO

The album was technically the sequel to THE CHRONIC, y'all. The Good Doctor resumed his weed-friendly antics on 1999s 2001 and although "The Next Episode" was a BIG hit, this is the song that makes you want to take a hit. 

#7

"GOOD TIMES (I GET HIGH)" - STYLES P

The LOX rhymer got to kick off his solo career with this classic. One of the 2000s most popular odes to toking up, Styles doesn't give you a laid-back groove, instead he gives you a triumphant weed theme song.

#6

"DOOBIE ASHTRAY" - DEVIN THE DUDE

What Snoop is out West; what Redman is in the East, Devin The Dude is that for the South. Meaning: he's the go-to guy for stoner rap. Devin is a character unto himself and DJ Premier tapped into his Texas roots for this classic.

#5

"HITS FROM THE BONG" - CYPRESS HILL

Over a sample of Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man," B-Real and Sen Dog take smoke straight into tha chest. One of the best stoner tracks ever made. 

#4

"WHATEVA MAN" - REDMAN

Redman makes another appearance, on one of his most popular singles. MUDDY WATERS is a very weed-friendly album from start-to-finish, but this single embodies the spirit of the whole album.

#3

"GIN & JUICE" - SNOOP DOGGY DOGG

Given its title, you'd be forgiven if you labeled this DOGGY STYLE classic a drinking song. But it's NOT, really. At least not totally. Remember, the hook is smoking weed AND getting drunk. Pay attention, people.

#2

"CRUMBLIN' ERB" - OUTKAST

"...only so much time left in this crazy world..." They were barely out of high school when they recorded their debut album, but 'Kast already sounded world-weary. Or maybe they were just really, really stoned.

#1

"I GOT 5 ON IT" - THE LUNIZ

In 1995, there was no more popular song to roll one up to; the smoking anthem from The Luniz made them stars and became a staple of cloudy dorm rooms everywhere. Salute this classic and it's just-as-classic remix.

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Three For Silver präsentieren Red Moon

Three For Silver – die wilden Doom Folker aus Portland melden sich mit Video zur Single Red Moon zurück:

Charakteristisch, nicht nur für die Single Red Moon, sondern das gesamte Oeuvre von Three For Silver, ist atmosphärischer, fast schon pastoraler Doom-Folk, der mit einer ganz eigenen Energie lebendig macht, nur um wieder sanft zu berauschen. Das fesselende Musikvideo zu Red Moon entführt uns in eine rauschhafte Sphäre, in der Märchen und Utopie eins werden.

Die Band um Lucas Warford und Willo Sertain sind dabei mindestens genauso unruhig und auf jeden Fall genauso viel unterwegs wie der Mond selbst. Seit fast zehn Jahren touren die Beiden, begleitet von wechselnden, dritten Gast-Musikern, durch die Welt und fesseln mit ihrem musikalischen Mosaik aus Folk, Mystik und Rock.

Die Single “Red Moon” ist am gleichnamigen Album “Red Moon” zu finden: Listen->ALBUM

Quelle: Rola Music

Three For Silver präsentieren Red Moon was originally published on The Art 2 Rock

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Ghetto D is the sixth studio album by American rapper @masterp released on Sept 2, 1997 on @nolimitrecordsofficial @priorityrecords Originally slated to be titled as Ghetto Dope, the name was shortened to the current title before the release due to the drug reference in the aforementioned title. The album would be one of Master P's biggest albums.The original album cover, which depicted a crack addict sitting on a curb and smoking from a glass pipe, was recalled from store shelves. It was promptly replaced by the collage style cover.The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums selling 760,000 copies in its first week. It was mainly on the strength of the two singles released; "I Miss My Homies" (US #25), "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" (US #22) became hit singles in the years 1997 and 1998. "Gangstas Need Love" samples Diana Ross's hit single "Missing You", while "I Miss My Homies" samples The O'Jays' song "Brandy" from the album So Full of Love. In 2008 "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" it ranked #26 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. It ranked at #36 on Blender's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever" In 2008, it ranked #94 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. "Here We Go", featuring Fiend and Mystikal, was a b-side, released on the "I Miss My Homies" single. Though not a single, there was a video for the song Ghetto D that was aired on November 23, 1997 on both MTV & BET. The album was certified 3x Platinum on August 4, 2006, with 3,185,221 copies sold, according to SoundScan. This is Hip Hop Raised Me The Blog!!! Where is about The Knowledge, The Culture, & The Lifestyle!!! Where we celebrate the 47 years of the youngest genre of music which is Hip Hop!!! HIP HOP RAISED ME!!!! -------------------------------------------------------- Posted based on the "fair use" statute/ act. Strictly for Non-Profit and entertainment purposes only.  Subject to copyrights( writing and teaching purposes #hiphopraisedme #hiphopraisedmeblog #hiphopraisedmetheblog #TheknowledgeTheCultureThelifestyle #blogging #vlog #blogs #news #reviews #journalism #entertainment #author #literature #music #fashion #modeling #culture #education https://www.instagram.com/p/CEowEWvgPOt/?igshid=1eumi39h7ih9l

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"15 Years" is the very first full featured album by Der Mystik. "Expectations" is the album opener so we thought of letting you listen and enjoy! Be warned. This is not a Trance song, yet, it has the very signature characteristic of this artists during his whole 15 years in his career. Emotion. Featuring Tmar from England tells a story of distance loving to summer Latin vibes with a shot of edm.