The History Of Jop Part 22 aka I apologise a million times

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

To celebrate all meeting up in the year 2000, the Pazz and Jop singles poll jumped in scale from a Top 25 to a Top 40 - 42 in this case, thanks to ties. You therefore get FOURTEEN big picks - use them wisely.


[Poll #871746]


1999: Poll Over Jops Out Of Time

1. ...Baby One More Time (43 votes)
2. No Scrubs (41)
3. Genie In A Bottle (38)
4= Got Your Money (34)
4= My Name Is (34)
6. Rendez-Vu (26)
7= Steal My Sunshine (24)
7= Beautiful Stranger (24)
7= Praise You (24)
10. Believe (22)

Comments

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Also, Dead Prez probably are one of the most "important" records on here, they were doing that "lol social commentary with pop beats amirite?" about five years too early. "Hip Hop" is the original "Where Is The Love?"

Re: Rock Off

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's stretching it a bit to call it a pop beat though! It's a lot more dour.

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Well, relevant to the prevailing underground hip-hop vibe at the time, it was pop I suppose. Radio 1 b-list, wasn't it?

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Undergound hip-hop.

Did you ever have any of the Lyricist Lounge CDs? I had a couple and while I don't listen to them very much there is this one song I found on one of them, 'Blood' by Sarah Jones, which is INCREDIBLE.

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to fiend for that stuff when I was 17/18. Cocoa Brovaz! Pre-Roca-A-Fella bitch Beanie Siegel! Was that Dilated Peoples/Eminem track on one of those CDs as well?

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No, not the ones I had. I remember some Bahamadia and Mos Def and (eek_ Jurassic 5...also SAUL WILLIAMS! Who is still awesome.

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The 'Hip Hop' beat is GRIMY.

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

The "Hip Hop" beat was the default freestyle beat for shitty mc battles at uni campuses from 2001 to 2005, as far as I remember.

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha you know about MIA using it on her mixtape I assume.

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(also, this is because it's such a slow, oozing beat that it's probably quite an easy thing to MC over without falling as flat on your face as you would if you tried it with eg 'Shake Ya Ass'.)