#HipHop6Music - What should make our ultimate hip hop playlist?
Alex Burnard
Content Producer
On this Sunday’s Now Playing we celebrate Hip Hop. HIP HOP?! Are you hip hopping mad mate? This is 6 Music. Well yes, we are, but that’s not the point. Let me explain first and then point out where you can go, suggestion-wise of course! The last couple of weeks in Hip Hop land have been busy…
De La Soul released a new track with Snoop Dogg called ‘Pain’ (it’s really good)
Speaking of Snoop, he himself announced last week he was releasing a follow-up to his 1993 debut ‘Doggystyle’
The Fugees' ‘Killing Me Softly' had its 20th birthday on Tuesday 31st May
The Prophets of Rage, a super group comprised of RATM, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill made their TV debut
Jurassic 5’s first single for a very long time, called ‘Customer Service’, is due for release on the 5th June. Their customer service is awful by the way, waited ages for them to deliver a new song…
PLUS ScHoolboy Q has a new album dropping in July
ALSO Run The Jewels tease new album clip for 'RTJ3'….is all this enough of a reason? Us lot at Now Playing thought so.
Where do you go with suggestions? Well, ALL of the above obvs but also:
- Your favourite rappers from Public Enemy to Run DMC, De La Soul or Nas
- SAMPLES: Warren G’s Regulate heavily samples Michael McDonalds ‘I Can’t Forget’ or Tupac’s California sampling Joe Cocker’s ‘Woman to Woman’
- Stuff from those behind the beats like Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Premier
- Contemporary artists like Kendrick Lamar, A-Trak, Jay-Z or Kanye West
- How about other genres and artists with a strong social message – the Sex Pistols through to Bob Marley to Dylan.
- Or the roots of hip-hop – great poets like Gil Scott-Heron, disco…and reggae
You pick the music, so get your Hip Hop inspired suggestions to Tom via Twitter using #HipHop6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify playlist.