Hip Hop Golden Ange Blog

• Big Daddy Kane “Smooth Operator” (1989) 15 April 2025
  “Smooth Operator” is the lead single released from Big Daddy Kane‘s second album, It’s a Big Daddy Thing. Arguably one of Big Daddy Kane’s most popular songs, the song topped the newly formed Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart and was a hit on the R&B and dance charts, peaking at number 11 and 17 on […]
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• Saba & No I.D. – From The Private Collection Of Saba And No I.D. | Review 7 April 2025
  From The Private Collection Of Saba And No I.D. is an album built on groove, focus, and mutual respect. The production is steeped in soul, jazz, and dusty funk, with drums that knock and samples that swirl but never overcrowd. No I.D. stretches out across the tracks, flipping chords into loops that breathe, chop, and […]
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• Special Ed “I Got It Made” (1989) 5 April 2025
  “I Got It Made” is one of the classic singles of Special Ed’s debut album Youngest In Charge. “I Got It Made” remains a quintessential slice of late ’80s Hip Hop, a testament to youthful exuberance and lyrical dexterity. Released in 1989 on Profile Records, this track, propelled by its infectious beat and Ed’s smooth, […]
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• KRS-One – Temple Of Hip Hop Global Awareness | Review 22 March 2025
  KRS-One—Kris Parker—rolled out of the Bronx in the mid-’80s like a freight train, his voice a booming roar that shook Hip Hop’s core. Born August 20, 1965, he’s no mere MC; he’s a pillar, a philosopher, a live-wire preacher who’s carried the culture’s torch from street corners to lecture halls. His latest, Temple Of Hip […]
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• Concrete Kings: Lord Finesse vs. Percee P In The Patterson Projects Rematch 19 March 2025
  The camera wobbles, catching a picture of the streets of the Patterson Projects, South Bronx—a sprawl of brick towers buzzing with life. Two voices cut through: Lord Finesse, gruff and steady, laying down bars with the weight of a seasoned coach, and Percee P, a rapid-fire cyclone, spitting rhymes that twist and tumble like a […]
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• clipping. – Dead Channel Sky | Review 14 March 2025
  Clipping.’s Dead Channel Sky crashes in like a dial-up modem screech ripping through a quiet room—jarring, nostalgic, and impossible to ignore. This fifth album from the Los Angeles trio—Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes—plunges into a cyberpunk-inspired sound thick with industrial noise and electric tension. After a five-year gap since Visions of Bodies Being […]
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• Audio Two “Top Billin'” (1988) 14 March 2025
  “Top Billin'” is a single by Audio Two, released as the B-side of the single “Make It Funky” from the album What More Can I Say? It was released before First Priority Music inked a distribution deal with Atlantic Records. The song had a deep cultural impact on Hip Hop. The song was voted #8 in About.com’s Top 100 Rap Songs. It was […]
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• “Fight The Power”: Public Enemy’s Revolutionary Anthem And A Hip Hop Cornerstone 7 March 2025
  At HHGA, we hold Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” as one of our favorite songs of all time—a blazing, defiant masterpiece from our favorite rap group, and one of the most significant tracks in Hip Hop history. Released in 1989 for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing soundtrack and later anchoring 1990’s Fear of a […]
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• “The Message”: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s Timeless Cry And A Hip Hop Milestone 28 February 2025
  At HHGA, we rank Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five’s “The Message” among the most important songs in Hip Hop history—a track that reshaped the genre with its raw honesty and enduring resonance. Released in July 1982 on Sugar Hill Records, this seven-minute masterpiece, driven by Melle Mel’s searing verses and a minimalist funk beat, […]
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• KRS One “Sound Of The Police” (1993) 28 February 2025
  “Sound of da Police” is the second and final single from KRS-One’s first solo album, Return of the Boom Bap. The song is produced by Showbiz from DITC. Sound Of The Police begins with KRS-One whooping twice to evoke a police siren (the “sound of the police”); this recurs several times throughout the song. Sound Of The […]
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• “Juice Crew Allstars”: A Golden Age Anthem And The Legacy Of Marley Marl’s Juice Crew 23 February 2025
  In 1987, “Juice Crew Allstars” hit the streets as a seven-minute posse cut, a B-side to “Evolution” on a Cold Chillin’ Records 12-inch, and it still reverberates through Hip Hop’s golden age like a boombox on a Queensbridge stoop. Produced by Marley Marl, the track unites Kool G Rap, Craig G, Glamorous, MC Shan, Roxanne […]
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• “Triumph”: Wu-Tang Clan’s Relentless Victory Cry And The Shaolin Legacy 23 February 2025
  When Wu-Tang Clan dropped “Triumph” in 1997 as the lead single from Wu-Tang Forever, it landed like a Shaolin fist shattering concrete—raw, forceful, and unforgettable. Produced by RZA, this posse cut stretches past five minutes, uniting all Clan members—Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB), Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Cappadonna, U-God, RZA, GZA, Masta Killa, Ghostface Killah, and […]
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