🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Mr_bogey]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

Check The Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest

 

[Qky75]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

Nelly - Country Grammar

 

[orangecurious]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

Young Fathers - Shame
According to my iTunes, this is rap... according to the sticker on one of their albums, it should be filed under rock/pop.
Whatever, thy are one of the best bands on the planet right now, if you get a chance to see them live, do it.

 

[The_Quiet_Man]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

 

[DannieB]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song
Forgot About Dre - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem

 

[morelikeasong]

You’re such a tease.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 5: A rap/hip hop song

In 1992, two members of the industrial/punk/hip-hop group The Beatnigs, Rono Tse and Michael Franti, formed The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Franti's smooth, spoken word-influenced rapping paired with jazz, hip hop, and a smattering of industrial to make Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury, an album that was universally heralded, but didn't sell. It was political, delving into many social issues such as homophobia, the danger of mass media, racial equality, and politics, but it also delved into Franti's wrestling with being a good human as well as a Black man in the United States.

Amos and Andy was a popular radio show about black characters in Chicago and later New York, primarily based on making fun of racial stereotypes, and voiced by two white men. This makes a powerful image for Franti and Tse to work with. Michael's spoken word flow is on full display here:

"And with society's nurturing, the psychic plastic surgery
Begins to take effect as our souls watch astound
Our characters flounder, duplicitous identity
Diction and contradiction have become the skills of assimilation
Razor honed to perfection from the moment of creation
It's gone from identity crisis to survival
slingshot to rifle
Sin to revival,
try to get looked at but not poked in the eyeball"

"Famous And Dandy (Like Amos 'N' Andy)," The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

The whole album is worth hunting up.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

I went a slightly different route...

Hurt Feelings - Flight Of The Concords

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

 

[IrrelevantFacts]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song
Something to rattle the windows
Nirvana-The Kids

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

For a while in the 80s there was this local cable alternative to mtv, called U68. They played mostly the same shit and it wasn’t as slick and well produced. I don’t even remember any VJs except for Uncle Floyd who was a local jersey celebrity who used to often have the Ramones on his comedy sketch show.

They had some edgier stuff too. For
Some reason I remember this song being on heavy rotation. I always liked it.

The DOC - It’s Funky Enough

 

[summer_reine]

Day 5: a rap/hip-hop song
Stressed out - Twenty One Pilots

Used to play pretend, give each other different names

We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away

Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face

Saying 'Wake up, you need to make money.'

I find this genre complex and I've mostly steered away from it. The poets of these genres are intimidating to try to interpret. I like listening to lyrics that I understand immediately, finding a connection without needing to scrape around the faulty language centers in my brain. My mind is tuned to do interpretive work visually so with music.. I just want to melt into it

 

[sister jenny]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

Living in Minnesota, of course I love Atmosphere. The lyrics to this song are just amazing.

”
I had a rough day, but that's life, it happens
Woke up on a dark side of my mattress
I guess I forgot to set my clock
Overslept, almost lost the job
Then to top it off, I'm kinda hungry
But can't eat till I find my money
It's in my wallet but my wallet ain't in my pocket
Can't remember the last time I saw it
And they don't want me in a bad mood
Afraid that it'll spread and everyone will catch an attitude
They got 'em all singing the same tune
Thinking I should go and start a fire in the break room
Co-workers make me sick
And the manager really ain't shit
But I can't quit, so I'm hiding in the basement
Holding onto to my face like fuck this place”

 

[Masters_slutpussy]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

 

[lingus60]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

Yazz: The only way is up

 

[orangecurious]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music For A Found Harmonium
The Penguins have been inside me forever, before i even heard them, the idea of music being an escape, a release from the shitty real world, a cafe, an oasis from the dismal reality that is your life.
Probably, the first piece i heard by them, when a classical shop wouldn't stock the records as it was rock and a rock music store wouldn't sell them as it was classical. I eventually found this album in a jazz shop!
Borrowed, used by many others, reclaimed... this is the original, written by Simon Jeffes (a truly wonderful genius of a person).
the fuzzy drone start and then it swells into life... swirl around the room to this
Yes, the harmonium was found, on a street in Tokyo.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

Well, this is almost every song ever. Music's my lifeblood, it makes my heart pump, it makes my soul sing.

But something in particular? I guess something I know inside and out, something I can sing, scream, that I know every word of, every beat; familiarity. The known, to ward off the unknown.

Gorillaz - Feel Good inc.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

Victim Of Love - Erasure

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

Oh, wow. I haven't heard that song in forever.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up
I don't want to know the person who can be in a bad mood when Earth, Wind & Fire is playing.
"September" - Earth, Wind & Fire

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 5: A rap/hip-hop song

Living in Minnesota, of course I love Atmosphere. The lyrics to this song are just amazing.

”
I had a rough day, but that's life, it happens
Woke up on a dark side of my mattress
I guess I forgot to set my clock
Overslept, almost lost the job
Then to top it off, I'm kinda hungry
But can't eat till I find my money
It's in my wallet but my wallet ain't in my pocket
Can't remember the last time I saw it
And they don't want me in a bad mood
Afraid that it'll spread and everyone will catch an attitude
They got 'em all singing the same tune
Thinking I should go and start a fire in the break room
Co-workers make me sick
And the manager really ain't shit
But I can't quit, so I'm hiding in the basement
Holding onto to my face like fuck this place”

That was... wonderful. I almost want to post it for today's prompt. Thank you.

 

[sister jenny]

That was... wonderful. I almost want to post it for today's prompt. Thank you.

Aww, that makes me so happy

 

[Apisto42]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

 

[Saltfountain]

Day 6: A song that cheers you up

A song about prostitutes. What could be cheerier?