Английская Википедия:Hip-Hop (Dead Prez song)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox single "Hip-Hop" is a song by American hip hop duo Dead Prez, released on March 30, 1999 as a single from their debut studio album Let's Get Free (2000). Produced by production group Hedrush and Dead Prez, it is the duo's best-known song.

Composition and lyrics

The production of the song features a "warped, wobbly" bassline. Lyrically, Dead Prez criticizes the capitalist functions of the music industry and its exploitation of black people ("These record labels slang our tapes like dope / You can be next in line and signed and still be writing rhymes and broke"),[1] and encourages the idea of using hip hop music as a means to promote social change.[2] In the first verse, [[M-1 (rapper)|MШаблон:Nbh1]] promotes staying true to oneself as a rapper, and Stic.man echoes the message of the song in his final lines.[3]

Critical reception

The song received positive reviews from music critics. Andy Capper of NME described it as "A truly remarkable, inventive track - with its crazy, twisting boa constrictor bassline and blazing, call-to-arms chorus - it's a fierce declaration of war on hip-hop capitalists and an urgent reminder for rappers and fans alike to consider the bigger picture, asking them: 'Would you rather have a Lexus or justice?'"[2] Billboard ranked it as one of the greatest songs of 1999.[3]

Remix

A remix of the song titled "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop" appears on Let's Get Free. This version features Tahir (of Hedrush) and The People's Army, and was produced by Kanye West and Dead Prez.[4]

In popular culture

The instrumental of the song served as the opening music for Chappelle's Show.[1][4]

Charts

"Hip-Hop"

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"It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop"

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References

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