While David Banner’s impact on the rap game has been overshadowed by his raunchy hits, tracks like “The Christmas Song” proves that the Mississippi-bred MC and underrated producer has a versatility too often overlooked in evaluations of his career. Appearing on the soundtrack to Beat Street, their addition to the Christmas canon, “Santa Rap,” proved that rap and the holiday could mingle in a way that wasn’t just corny and commercial. Their speed rapping skills influenced artists like T La Rock, LL Cool J, Limp Bizkit, and Rakim. Treacherous Three never get their deserved credit as hip-hop innovators. Their version of “Santa Baby” became a massive hit, thanks to a bi-coastal effort from rap vets like Snoop Dogg, Onyx, Diddy, and Salt-N-Pepa. It’s hard to get more star power than Rev Run recruited as his Christmas All Stars.
Diddy & Keith Murray & Mase) – Santa Baby Rev Run & The Christmas All Stars (Salt-N-Pepa & Onyx & Snoop Dogg & P. The track finds Tyler rushing to get home to meet his love before Christmas is over, a decidedly PG version of Tyler many families were happy to play at their Christmas festivities. Seuss’ The Grinch and features pop icon Santigold and Brockhampton collaborator Ryan Betty. “Lights On” comes from Tyler’s soundtrack for Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. The Ying Yang Twins said it better than anyone else: “Deck the halls with piles of money/Falalalala, lala, la, la.” Christmas is all about spending the bread you so carefully stacked throughout the year, to shower your loved ones with gifts and meals and merriment. Their contribution? “Player’s Ball,” a song only about Christmas if you really squinted, but then again, Andre and Big Boi were beamed in from a planet in which Christmas carols probably never existed. Long before OutKast were, you know, Outkast, they were the face of a LaFace Records winter compilation set to emerge around Christmas. Though Snoop and the late Nate Dogg are best known for summertime smashes, on “Santa Claus,” they conjure up the first white Christmas Long Beach has ever seen.Ĭlick to load video Outkast – Player’s Ball (Christmas Version) Interpolating the title from James Brown’s seminal “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto,” Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, Tray Deee, and Bad Azz bring a little bit of West Coast gangsta rap to the Christmas staple.
Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dat N-a Daz, Tray Deee, Bad Azz and Nate Dogg – Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto But with a shout out to fallen friends and an overall message of love and the importance of family, “A Christmas F_ing Miracle” is the gift that keeps on giving. Run The Jewels – A Christmas F_king MiracleĪs glacial as the winter freeze, RTJ’s seasonal offering unapologetically questions religion and calls out racism in the US. Its thumping beat flips “Here Comes Santa Claus” to devastating effect.
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The Southern rapper / actor appeared as DJ Donnie in the 2007 movie Fred Claus in 2007 and, of course, provided a tune for the soundtrack. There are many disco influences in the music – the groove was taken from “Good Times” by Chic – but the raps are classic and served as a template for how emceeing could actually be done on a record.įun fact: the whole song was recorded in one take.Click to load video Ludacris – Ludacrismas And despite the controversy surrounding it (also about who actually wrote the lyrics don’t forget Grandmaster Caz’s uncredited contributions) – the song became a huge hit around the world. Because the song was performed by three ‘studio rappers’ who hadn’t been among the ones who pioneered Hip Hop on the Bronx streets, this song was initially dismissed by some.īe that as it may – “Rappers Delight” was the first (or actually the second … ) Hip Hop song that was released as a single. As early as 1979 the discussion about the difference between commercial ‘sell-out’ / pop-rap and real Hip Hop was prevalent. It could be (and has often been) argued that this song was not a natural continuation of the Hip Hop movement that had been building underground.
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