This former hardcore punk band showed a flash of their rowdy roots with this riff-heavy 1994 single. Somehow though, in his 1998 hit single, Jay managed to make stage brats sound cool, going platinum in the process. Hip-hop has used some strange samples in its time, but none more odd than Jay Z’s use of a chorus of squealing kiddies from the musical Annie. With Snoop Dogg on board, this seamlessly funky four minutes set the bar for the next twenty years. ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ wasn’t just a dancefloor filler, but a prescient education in safe sex and a timely debunking of harmful media censorship.įollowing his formative stint with NWA, Dr Dre slipped into the limelight with his debut solo album ‘The Chronic’, which just so happened to be one of the best rap records of all time. The first ladies of 1990s hip-hop, New York trio Salt, Pepa and DJ Spinderella broke down barriers with their effortlessly fresh tunes and ballsy attitude. Wu-Tang Clan’s late, great ODB shows off one of the most recognisable voices of the 1990s with this filthy and fun guttural groover. Rude and raucous, ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ is one hell of a party tune. ‘CREAM’ – led by Method Man, Raekwon and Inspectah Deck – is a celebration of 1990s hip-hop’s most precious commodity: “dollar dollar bills, y’all”. The Wu-Tang Clan are the most innovative, cinematic and outstanding hip-hop crew of all time, and their 1993 debut, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’, is often considered the finest rap album ever released.
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