My name's Jake Bourey, and I've dedicated a significant portion of my life to music and deciphering the science behind its beauty. As you can guess from my blog's title, I'm especially passionate about hip-hop. I post and review the best songs hip-hop has to offer, old and new. Most are in the “underground” genre, considering that’s where the vast majority of hip-hop's true art resides these days.
“This is dedicated to all the pretty girls. All the pretty girls in the world, and the ugly girls too, cause to me you’re pretty anyways.”
Who’s your favorite Wu-Tang Clan member?
NPR - How The Wu-Tang Clan Forever Changed Hip-Hop
“This year marks the 20th anniversary of a remarkable year in music. Over the 12 months of 1993, Queen Latifah, De La Soul, Salt-N-Pepa, Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest and more than a dozen other rappers released albums that helped to change the sound of America. One of those albums wasn’t just a collection of songs…it was a business concept too. The Wu-Tang Clan’s 1993 debut was the opening shot of an audacious plan to open the music industry to hip-hop made way outside the mainstream.”
If you haven’t yet noticed, I’m a huge fan of NPR, and you should check out all the other interesting stories I’ve come across.
“If you keep eating McDonald’s, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that’s what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people.”
- RZA
Played 399 times.
Raekwon is nicknamed “The Chef” for having “lyrical flavor”, and his ability to cook cocaine into crack rock.
16th May 2013
Notes: 347
