Best of lists are always fun to read, and XXL's recently published special edition magazine XXL 250 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of 1990-1999 is no exception. That said, I have no idea how "It's All About the Benjamins" could be listed as the number two song. I mean, come on. Sure, the beat knocks and it's a good cut, but is it really a better song than say "T.R.O.Y" in the number 10 slot?
But I'll leave that debate for others and just mention where a couple of AD songs landed in their rankings. And yes, they did a get a couple of songs in, not just a token appearance with one track, which I thought was pretty nice. "People Everyday" fell in the number 179 slot and "Tennessee" followed in the number 196 slot. Good to see AD getting some love, and here are a couple of quotes from their articles:
On "People Everyday": "Speech put the rap game on notice that, despite wild hair and clothes, he was no sucka."
On "Tennessee": "Pre-Black Eyed Peas, one of hip-hop's most prominent alternative bands was the hodgepodge collective Arrested Development."
So pick it up and take a look, and maybe you can figure out why a Nas song didn't appear until slot number 88 or "Welcome to the Terrordome" popped up at 132.
2 comments:
Tennessee lower than People everyday? No Mr. Wendel. I guess i should just be happy that people who listed all about the Benjamins as number 2 would even know who AD is.
Yo Brother, did you see this video of Speech talking about Gil Scott-Heron?
http://youtu.be/IcTA7bkGzMU
Kel
I missed that Kel, I am going to post that up. Thanks, as always!
Yeah, nothing against People Everyday but Tennessee is an incredible song on another level. Oh well.
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