R&B Hip Hop?!! I m Digging IT!!

I was at this new opening of gay bar owned by a friend of a friend. Met this cutie but he left early(oh well).  And we were talking about his bar which looks tad unworthy of a gay bar. The Carlsberg sign, the simple interior, the green colour and non of the sign says fabulous.

We gave him a few pointers on sprucing up the place, and then we talked about music. I naturally suggested him to find a new line of music for more refined ears(hehe) Enough of the techno and incoherent babbling of house music. For once, make a gay bar sound a straight! Not that R&B Hip Hop belongs to straight people.

So he was asking if anyone could provide him a compilation of R&B Hip HOp song. I was like, the hell I would! I will be the dee jay, (well sort of) .

Hence I was sieving through my CD collection and stuffs, and copying and pasting some of my best what is now known as urban music for this new friend of mine who incidentally looks a bit like Rudy Giuliani(haha) but gay.

Let me share with ya my nigga some of the best urban jam I would just LOVE to dance on when MR D Jay play it;

Fantasy Mariah Carey and ODB version. The hallmark of R&B Hip Hop, the epitome of Hip Hop greatness, and the turning point when Hip Hop became desirable in the mainstream and pop became urban. The person who did it is none other than the queen of pop herself, Mariah Carey. She is the first ever pop mainstream act to do a hip hop collaboration, the Homo Erectus of the evolutionary music in AMerica. Yet, being the first doesn't mean it need refinement, it is THE BEST hip hop song ever! It hit the chart all over the wrold and made Day Dream her most successful album after MusicBOx and erned her 6 Grammy's. 

Can;t Nobody Hold Me Down- Puff Daddy. Puff Daddy's debut album where he got his entire family record with him is I believe is one of the best hip hop album ever to come out of the scene. He's the first one who did sampling of old song and flip and reinvent them totally to a new sound and new hit, long before Kanye does. And this is one of his best effort ever. Other important ones which should be listed here as ones of the greats but would seem redundant if explained are Mo Money Mo Problem, It;s All About The Benjamin.

Fantasy- Mariah Carey, Puff Daddy and Mase, we are still in the 90's here, please bear with me. In fact I am sure you are enjoying yourselves. This is one of the best collaboration for Mariah Carey. Puff Daddy was just a genius! He captured the new essence of Mariah Carey- nasal, falsetto soaring weakness, sexy - so well in this single and sampled the opening lines from World's Famous Supreme's Hey DJ  The Treacherous Three's Body Rock this hit one of her most memorable from her.

Like I Love You- Justin Timberlake Now we're into 21st century, the name Neptune pops out like Mount Everest on the sea level. Their syncopathic beat simply reinvented hip hop over the course of 2000 to 2005. Chad Hugo and Pharrel Williams who surprisingly did not come out with memorable hits themselves even though they actually recorded a couple of studio albums. Justin Timberlake for one is the one act who knows where the music is evolving into. With the descend of Boy Band era of the 90's all top boy band members decided to go solo, and none of them are around today, except for him, for he knows where music is heading towards. He teamed up with Timbaland and Pharrell and came out with some of the most prolific hip hop tracks ever like Cry Me A River, Sexy Back and My Love. Like I Love You is I consider the best to come out by him.

Touch The Sky by Kanye West- coming off from his second studio album Late Registration, this is one of the best single from the album. It features Lupe Fiasco in the song.