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I Don't Like the Look of It Lil Wayne (Ft. Gudda Gudda) – I Don't Like the Look of It
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A version of this song using the same beat as Meek Mill’s “Willy Wonka”, produced by Jahlil Beats, appears on Gudda’s mixtape Back 2 Guddaville as “Willy Wonka”.

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Nobody Beats the Biz Biz Markie (Ft. TJ Swan) – Nobody Beats the Biz
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One of the classic early Biz tracks featuring TJ Swan on the hook. The chorus is adapted from a commercial for The Wiz chain of electronics stores. The commercial went, “Nobody Beats The Wiz"—in fact, that used to be the name of the store, before they shortened it to just The Wiz.

The Marley Marl production pairs “Hihache” by the Lafayette Afro Rock Band (the first use of this break) with Steve Miller’s “Fly Like An Eagle”

The song has itself been sampled many times. A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor and Pete Rock have all taken pieces.

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also sampled by gravediggaz

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Lecrae Lecrae
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Lecrae Devaughn Moore (b. October 9, 1979) is a Christian rapper, born in Houston, Texas. He is the president and co-founder of Reach Records.

Two years after converting to Christianity, Lecrae released his debut album, Real Talk, in 2004. He followed up with After the Music Stops in 2006 and Rebel in 2008. Rebel went on to become the first Christian hip-hop album to reach #1 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart.

His fourth album, Rehab, arrived in 2010. His fifth album, Gravity, was released in 2012 and went on to earn him his first Grammy, for “Best Gospel Album” at the 55th Grammy Awards.

He first received mainstream attention with the release of his 2012 mixtape Church Clothes, which was downloaded 100,000 times in just 48 hours. He followed that up with Church Clothes 2 in 2013 and Church Clothes 3 in early 2016.

His seventh studio album Anomaly went gold in 2016, 2 years after its release, making it the first Christian hip-hop album in history to do so. The last track on Anomaly, “Messengers” with for KING & COUNTRY, earned him his second Grammy at the 57th Grammy Awards, for “Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song.”

In 2017, he released All Things Work Together, which debuted at #11 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on Billboard Christian Albums, led by the platinum single “I’ll Find You” with Tori Kelly.

In 2018, he released Let The Trap Say Amen in collaboration with super-producer Zaytoven. In 2020, Restoration became his eighth studio album, which he followed up with a deluxe edition.

2021 saw the release of yet another album, No Church in a While, in collaboration with labelmate 1K Phew.

Lecrae released Church Clothes 4—the last in the Church Clothes series—in November 2022. A deluxe edition titled Church Clothes 4: Dry Clean Only was released in February 2023.

Lecrae is one of the most influential and successful rappers of the Christian faith. He has been featured to perform and talk on several television shows such as The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Good Morning America, Wild N Out and ESPN. He has won many awards, including several Dove, Stellar, and BET Awards, and—most notably—2 Grammys. He released his autobiography, Unashamed, in May 2016, which became a New York Times best-seller.

Lecrae is married with 3 children and is a graduate from the University of North Texas. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where his label is based.

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Hey You Tyler, The Creator – Hey You
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A “rough draft” Tyler threw together in Norway with Toro Y Moi during the summer of 2011. Tyler said it was a song he never got around to finishing.

https://twitter.com/fucktyler/statuses/226138833354358784

Produced by Toro Y Moi.

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Uptown Uptown
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Representing Brooklyn, New York, Uptown made a strong debut with the 1989 banger “Dope on Plastic” but for some reason never followed it up (Industry Rule #4080 strikes again?). He remained MIA for almost a decade, resurfacing (as 50 Styles) in the late 90s with Brandford Marsalis' Buckshot Lefonque outfit.

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Dope On Plastic Uptown – Dope On Plastic
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An underground classic from 1989 and the only record that this Brooklyn MC released under the name Uptown – surprising as it was such a big tune. Produced by CJ Moore and the infamous Dante Ross (who gets a shout-out in the first line).

The raw and noisy beats come courtesy of two Kool & The Gang songs: drums from “Give It Up”, guitars and horns from “Funky Man”.

Read the story behind this tune as told to Genius by Dante Ross here.

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Queensbridge unified all I ask for
Let's do it for DU Nas – A Queens Story
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The “DU” here is Queensbridge street legend Clarence “Drawz” Williamson, also known as DU, who was killed in 2011. Nas also references his killing on this album’s “Accident Murderer”

DU talks about unifying QB in this video interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjwQv9Z2ac

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And every Sunday I watch Gil Noble Black, Rock & Ron – Stop The World
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Gil Noble was a television reporter and journalist. He hosted New York’s African-American public affairs program Like It Is every week, from its inception in the late 60s to its close in 2011 (Gil suffered a stroke and was unable to continue).

The sometimes controversial show featured interviews with major black figures such as Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley and Stokely Carmichael.

He died in 2012.

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Kon Queso MF DOOM – Kon Queso
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Originally released on a 12" single as “Yee Haw” (with “Is He Ill” on the flip). It was rerecorded and renamed for inclusion on DOOM’s food-themed second album.

Explaining food metaphors in XXL Magazine:

It had to be two things: It had to be a food people could relate to and there had to be another play on the word. For instance, I’d say con queso, like cheese. Everyone knows “cheese” has a reference in the street, as money and whatnot. And cheese is something that’s always added in addition to a cheeseburger or a beef patty. So it’s about finding a word where you can take two different approaches to it.

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More so, imo, this is where MF steals the regularly scheduled program to espouse his villainous philosophies, while continuing his food metaphor

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Come And Get Some The Chosen Ones – Come And Get Some
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Samples “Little Miss Lover” by Jimi Hendrix, the same drums that Q-Tip would later flip for A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario”.

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