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MBTM Presents: The 50 🔥Sexiest Moments In Hip-Hop
Moments that shocked, titillated, pushed boundaries—and really pissed people off. Over the last several decades, hip-hop has pushed buttons and raised eyebrows. We want to examine that history through a sex-positive lens...
Classic bit. #RIP Patrick Stewart
Dawg—the fact that you can’t stream classics by Salt-N-Pepa, Kool G Rap and DJ Polo, LL Cool J, etc right now is so fucked up.
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for real! so sad
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🎶 “Frozen” feat. Raekwon
If you compare Kane in the late 90s to, say, Slick Rick around the same time, it’s like night-and-day, exposure-wise. Rick was doing tracks with Rae and Nas and Aaliyah and OutKast. Dropped a gold album. The difference? Rick was on Def Jam.
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🎶 “Hold It Down”
A lot of Golden Age artists were hurt by the corporatization of the music industry. Acts like Kane, who’d been on Cold Chillin,’ were suddenly adrift as conglomerates swallowed everything up and tossed them aside. His 1998 album dropped on Joan Jett’s label.
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One advantage that I think the Stones have over the Beatles is the way the music of Mick & Co. has been used in so many classic movies whereas the Fabs have not. There’s only one classic movie scene I associate w/an original Beatles song.
This’n 👇🏾
“Now, youse can’t leave…”
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The way Scorsese used the piano part from “Layla” in “Goodfellas” is one of my all time favorite soundtrack moments. The song is forever fused to this sequence in my mind.
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But my all time favorite needle drop in a movie is the way Spike Lee used Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” in Malcolm X. It’s so perfect. I can’t imagine anything else playing over this sequence. So classic.
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One of so many great scenes in one of the most fantastic movies ever made.
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Being a sponge for learning, especially our history, I was often frustrated because my mom wouldn't view any cinematic representation or archives. The elephant on my chest every time I do, makes me understand her why. She's lived it. It would shatter her. She's fragile in that😞
One of the most insidious facets of racism is the way it conditions Black folks to see Black things as inherently limiting. You shouldn’t feel the need to “transcend” Blackness. It’s only bcuz white society conditions you to see “Black” as niche. So is “white” universal?
🎶 “Frozen” feat. Raekwon
If you compare Kane in the late 90s to, say, Slick Rick around the same time, it’s like night-and-day, exposure-wise. Rick was doing tracks with Rae and Nas and Aaliyah and OutKast. Dropped a gold album. The difference? Rick was on Def Jam.
Yep. Random, right? Cold Chillin’ folded in 1994 and that’s where he landed. Album got little-to-no distribution/promo. Most ppl never heard it.
🎶 “Hold It Down”
A lot of Golden Age artists were hurt by the corporatization of the music industry. Acts like Kane, who’d been on Cold Chillin,’ were suddenly adrift as conglomerates swallowed everything up and tossed them aside. His 1998 album dropped on Joan Jett’s label.