The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

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by Serrano, Shea


  Rap Attack (radio program)

  “Rapper’s Delight” (The Sugarhill Gang)

  Ratatouille (movie)

  Raymer, Miles

  RCA Records

  “Ready or Not” (The Fugees)

  Ready to Die (album)

  Reasonable Doubt (album)

  “Rebel Without a Pause” (Public Enemy)

  “Rebirth of Slick” (Digable Planets)

  Recording Industry Association of America

  Redding, Otis

  Red Lobster (restaurant chain)

  “Regrets” (Jay Z)

  Regulate . . . G Funk Era (album)

  “Renee” (Lost Boyz)

  “Renegade” (Jay Z, featuring Eminem)

  Reno, Janet

  “Respect Us” (Hot Boys)

  Resurrection (album)

  Resurrection (documentary)

  Rhyme & Reason (documentary)

  Rhymefest (artist)

  Rhyme Pays (album)

  “Rhymin’ and Rappin’” (Paulette and Tanya Winley)

  Rich Boy

  Rich Gang

  Rich Homie Quan

  Rick Ross

  Riff Raff

  Rifkind, Steve

  rivalries

  chart

  “Takeover” vs. “Ether”

  Tupac vs. Biggie

  Rivera, Lance

  Roberts, Randall

  Robinson, Sylvia

  Roc-A-Fella label

  Rock, Chris

  Rock, Pete

  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  “Rock the Bells” (LL Cool J)

  Rockwell (pop artist)

  Rodgers, Nile

  Rolle, Ralph

  Rolling Stone (magazine)

  RollingStone.com

  Roots, The

  Rosenthal, Jeff

  “Roses” (Outkast)

  Ross, Rick. See Rick Ross

  “Roxanne, Roxanne” (U.T.F.O)

  “Roxanne’s a Man (The Untold Story)” (Ralph Rolle)

  Roxanne Shanté

  “Roxanne’s Revenge” (Roxanne Shanté)

  Rubin, Rick

  “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” (DMX)

  “Rump Shaker” (Wreckx-NEffect)

  Run-DMC

  Run’s House (TV show)

  Run the Jewels (duo)

  Ruthless Records

  Ryan, Chris

  RZA

  S

  “Sadie” (The Spinners)

  “Same Love” (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis)

  Sample, Joe

  Samuels, David

  San Antonio Spurs (basketball team)

  Sanneh, Kelefa

  Sarig, Roni

  Saturday Night Live (TV show)

  Saverin, Eduardo

  Scarface (rapper)

  Scarface (movie)

  Schoolly D

  Schwimmer, David

  scratching

  Screw, DJ

  Sermon, Erick

  Sesame Street (TV show)

  Shakur, Afeni (mother of Tupac)

  Shakur, Sekyiwa (sister of Tupac)

  Shakur, Tupac. See Tupac

  Shanté, Roxanne

  Sharknado 2 (movie)

  Sha-Rock

  Shawnna (rapper)

  Sheila E.

  Shoals, Bethlehem

  “Shook Ones Pt. 2” (Mobb Deep)

  Siffre, Labi

  Silkk the Shocker

  Simmons, Joseph

  Simmons, Russell

  Simon Wiesenthal Center

  Sinatra, Frank

  “Single Ladies” (Beyoncé)

  Sire Records

  Sisqó

  Sittin’ Fat Down South (album)

  “6 in the Mornin’” (Ice-T)

  60 Minutes (TV show)

  Ski Beatz

  Skiles, Scott

  slam dunk contest

  Slang, Houston (chart)

  Slick Rick

  Slim Shady LP, The (album)

  Slim Thug

  “Slippin” (DMX)

  Smith, Anthony

  Smith, Jada Pinkett

  Smith, James Todd

  Smith, Larry

  Smith, Will

  Smooth, C. L.

  Snell, Dr. R. J.

  Snoop Dogg

  Social Network, The (movie)

  Soderberg, Brandon

  So Far Gone (album)

  “So Fresh, So Clean” (Outkast)

  “Somebody’s Watching Me” (Rockwell)

  Sony Music

  Soulja Boy

  Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois)

  Soulsonic Force

  Sounds of Science, The (album)

  Source, The (magazine)

  Source Awards

  Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (album)

  “So What’cha Want” (Beastie Boys)

  Spears, Britney

  “Speedin” (Rick Ross)

  Spin (magazine)

  Spinners, The

  Spirer, Peter

  Spoonie Gee

  Stacey Dash

  “Stan” (Elton John and Eminem)

  Steam (band)

  Stein, Chris

  Stephenson, Lance

  Steward, Tricky

  Stillmatic (album)

  “Stillmatic (Freestyle)” (Nas)

  “Still Tippin’” (Mike Jones, featuring Slim Thug and Paul Wall)

  Stompanato, Johnny

  “Stoner” (Young Thug)

  Straight Outta Compton (album)

  “Straight Outta Compton” (N.W.A)

  Streisand, Barbra

  Stress: The Extinction Agenda (album)

  Strictly Business (album)

  strippers

  “Style Grids”

  “Style Maps”

  “Big Pimpin’”

  “California Love”

  “C.R.E.A.M”

  “Dear Mama”

  “Fight the Power”

  “Grindin’”

  “Hustlin’”

  “Jazzy Sensation”

  “La Di Da Di”

  “Lifestyle”

  “Milli, A”

  “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”

  “Monster”

  “Paid in Full”

  “Rapper’s Delight”

  “Same Love”

  “Sucker M.C.’s”

  “Sucker M.C.’s” (Run-DMC)

  Sugarhill Gang, The

  Sugar Hill Records

  “Suicidal Thoughts” (The Notorious B.I.G.)

  Summer, Donna

  Sundae (rapper)

  Sun Rises in the East, The (album)

  Supa Dupa Fly (album)

  Superman

  Super Tight (album)

  “Super Ugly” (Jay Z)

  “Swagga Like Us” (Jay Z and T.I., featuring Lil Wayne and Kanye West)

  Swear Words, N.W.A (chart)

  Swift, Taylor

  Swishahouse record label

  “Switch Up” (Big Sean, featuring Common)

  Swizz Beatz

  symbols, style charts

  T

  Take Care (album)

  Taken (movie)

  “Takeover” vs. “Ether” (Jay Z vs. Nas)

  Talib Kweli

  “Talk to ’Em” (Young Jeezy)

  Taylor, Chris “The Glove”

  Tech N9ne

  “Teenage Love” (Slick Rick)

  Teflon Don (album)

  “Tennessee” (Arrested Development)

  “10,000 Bars” (Lil Wayne)

  Tha Carter II (album)

  Tha Carter III (album)

  “Tha Crossroads” (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

  Tha Dogg Pound

  Thank Me Later (album)

  “That’s the Joint” (Funky 4 + 1)

  There’s a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs (Kool Moe Dee)

  Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland & How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing (Sarig)

  “Thong Song” (Sisqó)

 
Three 6 Mafia

  Three Tough Guys (movie)

  “Thrift Shop” (Macklemore)

  “Throw Some D’s” (Rich Boy, featuring Polow Da Don)

  “Thuggin’” (Gibbs)

  “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

  T.I.

  Tical (album)

  Timbaland

  Timberlake, Justin

  Timberwolves (basketball team)

  Tina B

  T La Rock

  TLC

  Toddy Tee

  Tommy Boy (record label)

  Tone Loc

  “Too Close” (Next)

  Too Hard to Swallow (album)

  Toomp, DJ

  Toop, David

  Too Short (rapper)

  Top Five (movie)

  Total (album)

  Total (group)

  Tougher Than Leather (album)

  T-Pain

  Trackmasters (production team)

  Treacherous Three, The

  Tribe Called Quest, A

  Trilla (album)

  Troutman, Roger

  Trust (movie)

  Tupac

  Tutu (album)

  “21 Questions” (50 Cent, featuring Nate Dogg)

  20/20 (TV show)

  2 Chainz

  2 Live Crew

  Tyson, Mike

  U

  UGK

  Underwood, Blair

  Universal Music Group

  University of Missouri

  Untouchable, The (album)

  “Up from the Underground” (documentary episode)

  “Up Jumps Da Boogie” (Timbaland and Magoo, featuring Aaliyah and Missy Elliott)

  Uptown Records

  URB (magazine)

  U.T.F.O.

  V

  Vanilla Ice

  Van Peebles, Mario

  Vernon, Justin

  VH1

  Vibe (magazine)

  Video Music Box (TV show)

  Village Voice (newspaper)

  Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop music critics poll

  Vol. 2 . . . Hard Knock Life (album)

  Vol. 3 . . . Life and Times of S. Carter (album)

  Vulture.com

  W

  Waka Flocka Flame

  Wale

  “Walkin’ on Air” (Rick Ross)

  “Walk This Way” (Run-DMC)

  “Wanna Be a Baller” (Lil’ Troy)

  Warner Bros. Records

  Warped Tour

  Warren G.

  Washington, Denzel

  Washington Post (newspaper)

  Watch the Throne (album)

  Waters, Maxine

  Watkins, Ralph Basui

  Watts, Michael

  Wax Poetics (magazine)

  Wayans, Damon

  We Can’t Be Stopped (album)

  Weingarten, Chris

  Weirdo (magazine)

  Weiss, Barry

  “Welcome to the Terrordome” (Public Enemy)

  West, Kanye

  Westhoff, Ben

  “We Will Survive” (Nas)

  “What Obama Can Learn from Jay-Z” (Samuels)

  “What’s Yo Psycho?” (Tech N9ne, featuring Brotha Lynch Hung and Sundae)

  “What You Know” (T.I.)

  “What You Want” (Mase, featuring Total)

  “Where I’m From” (Jay Z)

  White, Jarobi

  “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” (Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel)

  “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?” (Snoop Dogg)

  “Who Dat” (JT Money)

  Whodini

  “Whodini Makes ‘Friends’ at Radio, Retail” (Billboard magazine article)

  Who Is Mike Jones? (album)

  “Who Killed It?” (Nas)

  “Who Shot Ya” (The Notorious B.I.G.)

  “Widdling Down Infinity” (Perkins) (magazine article)

  Wilder, Matthew

  “Wild Thing” (Tone Loc)

  Williams, Hype

  Williams, Juan

  Williams, Pharrell

  Williams, Salih

  Williams, Shatasha

  Willie D

  Willie Hutch

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Winley, Paul, Paulette, and Tanya

  Winley Records

  “Wino and the Junkie, The” (Richard Pryor)

  Winslow, Michael

  Wire, The (TV show)

  women and rap

  See also misogyny; see also

  specific women rappers by

  name

  Wonder, Stevie

  Wonder Mike

  Word . . . Life (album)

  “Work It” (Missy Elliott)

  Worth Tha Weight (album)

  Wreckx-N-Effect

  Wu-Tang Clan

  Wu-Tang Manual, The (RZA and Morris)

  X

  XXL (magazine)

  XXL (website)

  Y

  Yella, DJ

  Yo! Bum Rush the Show (album)

  “You Got Me” (The Roots, featuring Erykah Badu and Eve)

  Young Jeezy

  Young MC

  Young Money Records

  Young Thug

  “You’re All I Need” (various artists)

  Z

  Zapp (band)

  Zuckerberg, Mark

  Zulu Nation

  “Zulu Nation Throwdown” (Afrika Bambaataa)

  Editor: Samantha Weiner

  Designer: Sebit Min

  Production Manager: Kathleen Gaffney

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2014959337

  ISBN: 978-1-4197-1818-2

  eISBN: 9781613128190

  Text copyright © 2015 Shea Serrano

  Illustrations copyright © 2015 Arturo Torres, except for this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, this page, copyright © Shea Serrano

  Foreword copyright © Ice-T

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