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34 Ringz We Dem Boyz (Official Music Video)
I’m going to go through a variety of instrumentals that have always held a special place in my heart. Most of them are from rap music in the 1990’s through early 2000’s. I think, as do many that these are the years when rap music reached its peak. It had finally developed far enough as a musical genre and artists were coming out with some of the most in depth and tantalizing music. Rap music before these years was still in sort of a developmental stage where, as with any genre of music, the music hadn’t yet reached its ultimate level of complexity. After these years the genre really began to dumb itself down, even the great artists who rose to the top of the industry during this time period were releasing music that wasn’t there best and just plain not as inspiring. Lets discuss what was going on in the beginning of rap music.

34 Ringz We Dem Boyz (Official Music Video)

Lets be honest as cool and innovative as the early days of rap were the music itself was very basic. The musical backdrop was comprised mostly of drums mixed in with a little DJ scratching and maybe some horns, bass, or keys taken from a sample. The vocals that were in the forefront of the music were also very primitive. Using very simple rhyming patterns and rhyming words, sometimes delving into politics and mostly just party music. This is not an attempt to take away from the music at all. Rap in its beginnings was extremely revolutionary and innovative. After all, the entire world had never really heard anything that was like this before. If you look at the early eras of other genres of music you will also find that the music was undeveloped. Early blues would be simple guitar chords and vocals, early classical was just a piano sonata or string quartet neither of which come close to matching the complexity of a full symphonic orchestra. Early rap was the same way, it just grazed the surface of what the music could really be.