’You Never Give Me Your Money’ has a sense of genuineness and somberness that makes it stand out in their discography.Ī stand-out track from their debut album “Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)”, the track is a juxtaposition against the other tracks in the record.
Other lines refer to his trips to the countryside in order to avoid the rising tension building within The Beatles: “One sweet dream, pack up the bags, get in the limousine.” While The Beatles had other songs that dabbled in the topic of money. This can be seen in the lyrics, “you never give me your money, you only give me your funny paper”. Paul Mccartney himself stated that the lyrics were based on the frustration he had with their manager Allen Klein. That being said, it may surprise you that the song documents the financial troubles the band had right before disbanding in 1969.Īt the time of the song’s recording, Both Mccartney and Lennon were in the midst of losing control of the company that published their songs, after another company bought a majority of shares from that company. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Music, Culture, Capital, Future and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday.The Beatles are considered as one of the most successful bands in the history of music. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called The Essential List. How many of these songs do you agree with? Let us know with the hashtag #GreatestHipHopSongs on Facebook or Twitter. Why are there so few women in hip-hop polls? ( not available in UK) Trends and surprises in the poll ( not available in UK) Why Juicy is number one ( not available in UK) More on BBC Music’s greatest hip-hop songs of all time:įull list of critics who participated – and how they voted The Message, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (1982)ģ.
93 ’Til Infinity, Souls of Mischief (1993)ĥ. Electric Relaxation, A Tribe Called Quest (1993)ħ. Rapper’s Delight, Sugarhill Gang (1979)ġ2. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.), Pete Rock & C.L. Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill (1998)Ģ0. And look out for more features on the global impact of hip-hop in the weeks to come.Ģ4. And we are aware that no list can be definitive or will please everyone – so look at the list below, listen to the playlist, and get in touch using the hashtag #GreatestHipHopSongs, and let us know what’s missing. One more thing to add: The purpose of polls like these should be to generate debate as well as encourage discovery.
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The full list of critics’ picks is below. (You can read more on the dearth of female MCs in our list here.) Rapper’s Delight, the track that arguably started it all, came in at number 14. There was a remarkable lack of women in the Top 25 only Queen Latifah’s 1993 hit “U.N.I.T.Y.” and Lauryn Hill’s supremely catchy “Doo Wop (That Thing)” appear in the list. The results are dominated by the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of hip-hop between the mid-80s and mid-90s, though there are some surprises from a more recent vintage with Kanye West’s Pusha T-assisted Runaway taking 12th place. There were more than 280 different songs named, a testament to the breadth and depth of the genre, and how the term ‘greatest’ can be interpreted in various ways. We asked 108 critics, artists, tastemakers, producers, and photographers from 15 different countries to name their personal top five hip-hop tracks of all time. The journey from the turntables of DJ Kool Herc to the addictive, meme-ified sounds of Megan Thee Stallion and Lil’ Nas X was long, but hip hop is here to stay. And it has become a truly global phenomenon, crossing ethnic, linguistic, and geographical boundaries. Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2018 album DAMN. Young Thug has created a wake of imitators that span genres and sounds.
Hip-hop has become a dominant cultural force, driving conversations about music, literature, and entertainment forward. The genre’s dominance of radio waves, streaming numbers, and billboard charts is undeniable, not to mention its influence on everything from avant-garde electronica to the DNA of mainstream pop music from artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande.īut it’s more than that.
Rapper’s Delight wasn’t the first hip-hop song, but it was the genre’s commercial Big Bang, and a sign that this music born in the housing project hallways and public parks of the Bronx was more than a passing fad. Then the song started moving units in the millions and climbed its way up the US Billboard charts, peaking at number 36 in 1980, and at number three on the UK Singles Chart. When Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight came out 40 years ago, it was dismissed by many tastemakers as a gimmicky track made to make money.
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