King Giddra – not to be confused with MF DOOM’s alias King Gheedorah – was a Japanese group which took political cues from groups like Public Enemy, highlighting the stark economic reality for many Japanese people in the shadow of a deep recession. Just because international hip-hop didn’t hit the big time until the noughties doesn’t mean there weren’t artists trying to bring the genre to their own shores.
Here are the standouts from the critics’ picks that show hip-hop’s five decades of growth into a global phenomenon. As the purpose of these lists should be to encourage discovery as well as debate, we thought we would put together a list of the critic’s picks from around the world to create a global playlist. But we also received nominations for songs originating outside the US. No surprises to see that almost all of the 280 songs nominated in total are from US artists. It’s everywhere.Īs a result, we felt it was the right time to ask critics around the world what they think are the greatest hip-hop songs of all time. Hip-hop doesn’t just belong to the Bronx anymore. The genre that was once so tightly defined has started endless branches of new genres. Hip-hop is how people speak about themselves from Kashmir to California. The past decade has entrenched hip hop as not only a permanent part of pop culture, but as pop culture itself. and Dizzee Rascal becoming international stars.
The sound was everywhere, as the green shoots of its international rise were beginning to show, with artists like MIA. When the Millennium arrived, hip-hop started to creep into the mainstream narrative around pop culture.
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