A Little History of The Best of Rap
This morning, I was flipping through radio stations when I came across a song I hadn’t heard in ages. In the crush of new songs dropping daily, I realized how fleeting music is. A number 1 hit song becomes an earworm for the number of weeks it sits at the top. Every radio station on earth has it on frequent rotation, spinning it (what feels like) every 3 minutes.
When it drops lower on the charts, it’s relegated to the occasional “remember when” or the “oldies-but-goodies” playlists typically spun off-prime time.
Then one day, you hear it, and it all comes flooding back – what you were doing in your life when that song was hot, why you liked it (or not). You wonder at (or, at least, I do) how much time has passed and how it’s possible to have forgotten about a song that dominated the airways just a few months (or years) ago.
I guess the folks at Billboard must have been doing a little reminiscing when they decided to publish their “Hot Rap Songs” Chart (1989-2015). Remember the The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Coolio, Method Man?
Check out the whole chart here and revisit the music from all those years ago.
