It was so beautiful Remember how in love we were? So in love. Discovered using Shazam, the music discovery app. Next thing you know she was hollering lets try againīut Im a veteran whats better than a friendĪnd I just didnt see the God-light in her eyesīut the world is a little more colder nowĪnd Im just trying to get it all off my shoulder now Listen to The Guidelines by Aceyalone, 10,062 Shazams, featuring on Conscious Hip-Hop Essentials Apple Music playlist. Used to do a thing getting somebody anyoneĭrove home thinking never will I bother you I was like look girl its all in the bookĪnd if I had a whole dollar I would give her halfĪnd then she trying to play me out just for the hell of it Never did she notice she would end up in a shook world I was a fool just to think that I could change youĪnd if I had a chance to do it all over Id do it exactly the same When she called that said I wasnt all that Your place of mind was a part of the design She said I wasnt nobody to be believing in She said Ill never be nothing she wasnt having it A founding member of: Freestyle Fellowship (with Mikah 9, P.E.A.C.E. To a fan coming up in the era of Cardi or Tyler or Polo G or Playboi Carti, the golden age is now.And I knew they would get her when I let go her handĪnd after this neither one of us would benefit Aceyalone (born Eddie Hayes) is an American rapper, known for his command of wor Read Full Bio Aceyalone (born Eddie Hayes) is an American rapper, known for his command of words & language. One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that it evolves and expands faster than any other genre in music history. to Houston to Chicago, and beyond.Īs we dug and listened, we found ourselves a little less swayed by “golden age” mystique than we might’ve been had we done this list 10 or 15 years ago. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution - from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. The album was released on April 28, one day shy of the one-year. When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. The year was 1993 and the words rang out on Everything’s Everything, a song from Freestyle Fellowship’s Innercity Griots. Relatedly, a list of hip-hop-adjacent albums from the worlds of dancehall or reggaeton or grime would be fun and fascinating, and something for us to revisit down the road. That’s one reason we limited our scope to English language hip-hop. But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were forced to make some painful choices - there are so many iconic artists with deep catalogs, so many constantly evolving sounds and regional scenes. Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be.
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