Okay, late night on Friday night for a West Coaster. No meeting tomorrow, I just woke up from passing out at eight. I'm so old.
Round: ilov80s Choice/Sadie Hawkins Chance
Genre - Song of 2000
Artist - De La Soul ft. Redman
Song - Oooh!
If you never been shot or stabbed in Brick City/go Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!
I didn't know this came out in 2000, or it easily would have made the hip hop mix.
Now this was my jam that year. I was twenty-six or seven and on top of the WORLD, muthas. Livin' in D.C., rooftop deckin' it. This song would come on and I'd go nuts.
Round: ilov80s Determinant/Doing It For The Kids
Genre - Song of 2019
Artist - 21 Savage ft. J. Cole
Song - a lot
Question: How many faking their streams?/Getting they plays from machines?/I can see behind smoke and mirrors/[Dudes] aren't as big as they seem...I don't want no more comparisons/this is a marathon
This song came out on January 8, 2019, according to Wiki, our official arbiter of all things Genrepalooza™. The album came out in 2018, so I think the rules are cool with it. I haven't got it out of my head since it showed up in the ***Official*** Rap/Hip Hop Discussion Thread, which I'd encourage you all to check out and contribute to if that's your sort of thing. This is a
@Majorspecial in the rec.
J. Cole absolutely kills his surprise guest piece, which 21 Savage calls "the verse of the year." He's right. He's so right and J. Cole's so right about the disparity between him and the modern trap rappers that 21 left his verse off of the album and single audio, if I'm not mistaken, but not the viddy. So there's a lot of moving parts here, but I'm going with this song, this year, this video version.