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Top 5 Hip-Hop Beats · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  What if, y'all, I am your Os Vegas and this it's hip Hop
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  Now podcasting podcast specifically designed to keep you caught up on all things hip hop,
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  music and coaching that happened throughout the week. This is a bonus episode.
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  I've done top five hip hop albums of all time. I've even done
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  Not only can you check those out here on the hip Hop Now podcast channel,
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  but subscribe as we are headed towards five one hundred subscribers, appreciate you.
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  But today we're doing top five hip hop beats all time. Now like
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  what I did with my last top fives, this is probably more so not
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  only just favorites of mine, but definitive for me. Right and maybe some
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  of these are yours also, maybe one or two in your top five.
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  It's tough to do these lists. It's even tougher to do it when it's
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  only five. There are millions of beat I could sit here all day and
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  talk about some of the greatest pieces of all times, like I love the
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  Benjamin's Beat. I love it and it's no, it's no smoking mirrors like
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  yo. So he took sample and put it over and he hit the No.
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  It's just a groove that works, that affects me as a human being
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  when you hear it. I love it New York State of Mind. Every
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  time I hear that, I just want to go buy fresh bed Thames Black
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  hoodie gets some overly baggy fatigues walk like a bowl legged around. I live
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  in the suburbs now, y'all, so it ain't like the flack or just
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  walk around. I'm like, like, I got the ratchet on me.
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  I want snow to fall from the sky even though it's summer, because it's
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  hoodie season. When I heard New York Stateium, you feel me. So
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  it's like beats that connect with you in ways that sometimes like here's an example,
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  y'all, And this goes for any genre. But have you ever heard
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  a song where the beat was so good you weren't really even listening to the
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  lyrics, yet when you went back you kind of had to catch it.
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  But it's like it's like an overload of your senses when you hear the beat.
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  Like some people know, sometimes we had crazy beating hippopular, like somebody
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  could be talking like, Yo, they're shooting me. You're like, what
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  right? Like wake me up out of my trance. It's beats that do
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  that for you in some ways beats for me that when I heard it,
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  I was I had to think to myself, how did he make that?
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  These are my top five beats of all time? Let's start right at the
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  top riza with cream past us everything around me. No, When I heard
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  that beat, I was like, this beat is impossible. I know producers,
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  like now all he did was take it that I don't care, Okay.
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  When I heard it, I was like, I don't understand this lazy
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  piano. It just it just was so like you see, I'm getting caught
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  up now. I can't even explain it right, use your education, that's
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  all. But it was one of those things. When I first heard it,
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  it was it was unexplainable. It was like, Yo, that beat
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  is crazy and I don't even know why it's that good? Like what sample
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  is that? Is he playing the piano? What made him come up with
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  this? This? This is not traditionally a hip hops down, but it
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  is. It was like grunge for hip hop. It was just dump.
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  That's when we look cash, lose everything around brig get the bunny dollar dollar
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  bill, y'all. I grew up on the crown side. I can lose
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  your time side staying alive. It was no job, had second hand mans
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  bounced from old man, and then we moved to farign Land, a young
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  youth rocking the gold too low boots. I'm telling you, man, it
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  was just a feeling. And to me, that's why it's one of the
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  greatest hipirects of all time because guess what happens that record was released at what
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  ninety three? That very same feeling comes over me falls sorry when I hear
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  it today. Okay, it just does. It's that infectious, it's that
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  impactful, and I think, hands down it gotta be for a hip hop
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  fan who liked it all, not just one region versus another reason or a
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  region or you know, only like a certain group or whatever. You just
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  gotta recognize it as for what it is. And Riza has so many that
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  I can go to, but I have to stick to one. Let me
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  just mention other ones like Triumph and Liquid Sauce, like Beats was. I
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  was just like yo, Rizza is crazy, so Cream is definitely one of
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  the greatest beats of all time. I don't care what you have to say.
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  Next up, DJ Premier, Massive Peal, DJ Premier, I can
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  go down. The whole group Home album is the top five beats of all
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  time. Okay, Gangstar Loan has a number of songs that he's produced that
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  are greatest, that can be the greatest beats of all time, beats he's
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  produced for us. But it's like, for me, it's just that crazy.
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  For mass appeal, it's one of those records that does the same thing
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  that said about Cream. It's just it's just especially when I saw the video
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  and Google had to snorkle on with the fur and the snow and it was
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  dark suckers be like playing themselves that had mass appeal and the scratching of the
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  youngster's vocals in there, and it's called mass appeal. Like this is what
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  when you see old heads getting excited about nineties hip hop or getting mad about
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  y'all not understanding potency of the music back then versus now, this is kind
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  of what they're talking about. And to be fair, there were generations who
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  we do the same thing with us, right, you know what I'm saying,
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  you hear what Marmy doing right there? Like, yes, we do.
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  They're about timed up. It's the same feeling. It's a beat that's
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  so infectious, song that speaks to you so deeply, to the point where
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  you just gotta hear rewind because you just want to hear it again. Massive
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  Pill just evokes that kind of emotion. Like I always joke around and tell
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  people, if you want to see me getting because I like a lot of
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  new music, and I bote new music now more than I do some of
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  the old stuff, I go back to it. But if you want to
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  see me getting my nineties bag, or you want to see my actual age
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  besides my gray hairs, that Max Pill come on. You want to see
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  what region I'm from. Watch the dance I do. When watch the dance
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  I do? When that come on, you be like, oh, yeah,
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  you're from the old from the OJI from the nineties. Yeah, when
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  mass Apell's on, That's that's just where I go with it, all right.
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  Next, elevators are outcast. I did not know outcasts could make this
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  kind of record, let alone make the beat. I was convinced. I
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  was like, it's organized noise, right, like no outcast, Andre Benjamin
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  and Big Boy they did it. When I heard that beat, I was
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  like, Yo, this beat is like dark, sinister, but smooth,
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  like I want to say, thoughtful or cerebral, I should say. It's
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  just one of those records where you have to pay attention to the lyrics because
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  of the groove. The groove is so you so much into the groove where
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  you just sort of like, man, this joint is just crazy, like
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  it's I don't know what to think. I don't know what to think about
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  this record. When I first heard it, I was like, this is
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  the same outcast from Southern Playlist And the way they were spitting on that record,
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  you know what I'm saying, what they because they don't get like everybody
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  give Andre three thousand props because it's kind of a thing to do. But
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  the way Andre and Big Boy their flows, like you can't nail the pattern
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  down. They just flowing. Like to me, it's not just the beat,
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  but the beat set the tone for what the lyrics were on all of
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  these albums, I mean, all these records, and Elevator is just a
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  record that every time it's on, like I can't help it. I gotta
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  I gotta listen to it. I gotta hear it because it's just that crazy
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  to me, you know what I'm saying, It just is so then you
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  have it, next step Quiet Storm. By having it now I know again.
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  Unfortunately, because these things just happened and everything not just hip hop or
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  sports or whatever. Sometimes there's just a consensus that Ill Manic is the greatest
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  hip hop album of all time, and it feels like there's no discussion or
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  debate, and it's like, well, no, this one is better,
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  you know whatever. Some people don't believe that. It's just that's what we
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  say. One hundred and three thousand is the best, and he's the best
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  out of the group by default. I feel like people do that with Shook
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  Ones. When I first heard Shook Ones, I thought it was dope,
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  but what brought it home for me was what Prodigy was doing. So all
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  the killers and the one hundred dollars billis to rail. You ain't got no
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  feelings. It's like that whole build into the BA I love the beat or
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  christ Storm's different and I heard the original christ Storm that was just Prodigy on
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  it on a mixtape, and I couldn't believe, even though some producers would
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  say, oh, you do nothing crazy just but I had never heard anybody
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  use White Lines in that way. Like the record White Lines. It's a
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  dope record, a dope beat in itself, you know, grand Master Flash
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  and Furious five. But Havoc turned it into this dark Havoc m P right
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  Havoc with the beat. But Prodigy turned it into like this dark journal like
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  in a lot of ways, Havoc's beats along with Prodigy's music, it almost
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  felt like they made horrorcore, you know what I'm saying, because it was
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  always like this real dark chords and keys and stuff like that. And that
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  record starts out with some rain Prodigy talking, and then when that beat hits,
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  I put my lifetime in between the papers lines. I'm the quiet Stone
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  who fight rhyn Peya. You heard the fuying the son with them. I
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  pop more guns than you hold than them. I put my lifetime in between
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  the papers lines, and that be. They had to make a remix and
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  make it a single, and then Little Kim kept it that be along with
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  Our Father Part three and a number of Havit beats, but that one specifically,
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  it just does something to me. Where I'm just like y'all. When
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  I first heard this, man, this is just one of the beats I
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  just could not shake from my I just needed to hear it again and over
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  and over again. It evokes a feeling for me, especially now. Sure
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  it's nostalgic, but it's it's identical. So when I first heard it,
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  it's not oh, I remember that and I was doing No, It's just
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  that that beat is just so crazy that the anticipation or Prodigy solo album was
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  crazy. When we knew that was going to be the lead single. It
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  was like, Havy get it back? How they make it better beats than
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  he did before? This is crazy? So and my last beat is And
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  this was tough to narrow it down because I swear to this man, it
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  just made so many But the first time I heard nothing but a G Thing,
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  and in the Chronic album alone, you know songs like let Me Ride
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  Stranded on Death Row, like it was crazy. But when I first heard
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  nothing but a G Thing, you couldn't tell me. I wasn't from camp,
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  I was in the video. I was just vibbing with the entire thing.
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  But it was a dre that I had never heard before. Right production
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  wise, Like we were so used to what he did with DC NWA.
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  You know, we're used to that vibe and this G funk era shout out
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  to Warren G. But this G funk sound was like it was so West
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  Coast, but it was so unique to Doctor Dre and what they were creating.
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  You have all these new artists like snook Rage and Corrupt Dazz on RBX
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  shout out to Dog County ain't new album as though. Man, I've been
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  listening to it all weekend, but nothing but a G thing. Someone might
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  not even say that Gray's greatest beats, but I think it's one of the
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  greatest beats of all time because it was popular. It was like pop popular.
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  See, sometimes if something's grimmy enough, we don't think it's popular what
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  everybody is to be like yeah, but when they go platum like that,
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  that means people who have never been around anything they seen in the video you
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  can't relate to anything being said in the song. It means they also like
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  it, like Annie Up from Our I mean from Mop when that song became
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  so huge, I'm like, I don't know if even though they're saying it,
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  I don't know if people know that we're talking about robbing people and his
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  joint, but the beat energy was so infectious it didn't matter where you were
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  from, who you were or whatever. We just dug it. And I
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  think with the Doctor Dre's the Chronic album and nothing but a g thing.
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  Specifically, it wasn't a regional thing. It represented the West Coast, but
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  in New York we were rocking with it. That's why every time I see
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  the Source of Wars thing where Snooper is like, y'all don't love us,
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  I'm like, I don't know what crowd that is, but where I'm around
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  and where I'm from. And some people cheer at the Source of Wars when
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  he said that, because we rock with it, and that's that record.
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  Even to this day I put it on, I just like, y'all,
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  I need to give me a low ride, you know, so I could
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  just you know. But that's that's what making great music is all about.
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  It's all about bringing you in. Even if you can't relate directly indirectly,
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  you vibe with it. You are the standing. There's some people have never
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  visited New York in a lifetime, and they know everything about New York through
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  hip hop. Right, specifically because they're hip hop ads and that's what's dope
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  about making lists like this. So there you have it. Those are my
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  top five beats of all time? What are yours? Leave them in a
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  comment and comment section below. We could talk about it, we could chop
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  more content like this. I'm gonna probably do more lists, So let me
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  know what type of list you want to see, because I have a few
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  in mind, but it'd be dope to hear what you have to say,
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  Like, I'm gonna do a little bit later, so til next time,
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  y'all. I'm not a critic, I'm a fan. Peace