mainstream pop and rap
indie/blogosphere

s*** is unbeatable

Music was perfected in the 80s tho everything since is just experimental takes on everything since

Well Unwound released Leaves Turn Inside You so yes

the music videos

Songs in the Key of Life (Stevie Wonder)
Tapestry (Carole King)
Rumors (Fleetwood Mac)

I have heard that.
Do you have any favorites you’d want to share? No pressure tho

that's cos u skipped everything good and said lupe n american gangster

I said kanye too, jayz kanye lupe wayne young jeezy, mf doom, these r imo the best rappers from that era, 50 is cool, camron is cool, but those r the most high level rappers

80s might be the greatest but the 2000s might be up there as well

Op is right

These look 🔥
Imma have to check ‘em out

i think those are a variety of starting points if you're not familiar with anything from that era, not extensive just my favourites but they work if you're not familiar
i don't know what your personal taste is but i can't imagine anybody being disappointed by any of those records

what are your favourites from the 70s?

the 1930s were peak music

Yeah but 90’s was where people were establishing sounds and making dope s***. 90’s rap is what influenced 2000’s and up

Yeah but 00s mastered it.
I love 90s, 00s are just too special

I like a lot of the disco classics like Staying Alive and September.
I also like some of the soul from then too

this would be a random pick that i just found recently if you like nujabes

idk what you're listening to shadyant n i could post a thousand youtube links but sometimes if u dig into the samples on your favourite rap tracks you can find a lot

another reason why rap is the greatest genre

00s sampling game was crazy too

This is dope!
And the Isley brothers song you posted earlier was actually insane.
So much light warmth from songs back then.

70s 80s and 90s were arguably just as stacked if not more so

2000s was definitely peak rap though

That 40 year stretch from the 70s to the the 2000s was peak music

It was just the perfect storm of recording technology maturing to a certain point but not being as accessible as it is today so only the elite talent was able to even get in the studio

60s and 2010s were great too really a 60 year stretch that peaked in the 80s and 90s imo

Prior to that in the 50s and earlier primitive recording technology renders most of that music unlistenable by modern standards and as we can see in the modern decade of the 2020s recording technology is TOO accessible

I might have to do that, tbh.

if i had to make top 5 rap songs i always think of this pretty quick, rza does a lot with very little