Within a couple years, everyone in hip hop was calling him for hooks, and within a couple more years they'd bought their own AutoTune plugins and every other rapper started turning into a singer. In 2005 the failed Florida rapper stumbled onto a successful career as an R&B singer after starting to toy with AutoTune pitch correction technology and named his debut album Rappa Ternt Sanga. T-Pain didn't start the fire, but he's fanned the flames a lot the past few years. #7 Hot 100, #3 Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs, #1 Hot Rap Tracks Kanye West f/ T-Pain - “Good Life” (2007) You can bookmark this post and come back to it as I add new songs, or you can follow me on Twitter and get updates when I add new ones. I'm also going to try a new format: counting down all 50 songs throughout this week, 10 a day from Monday to Friday. But I'm gonna try to concentrate on the good songs here. Rappers have been increasingly relying on sung hooks, whether sampled or provided by R&B singers or even singing a little themselves, to sell their records pretty much since "It Takes Two." And in the past decade, pretty much every kind of crossover between hip hop and R&B has happened, often resulting in some of the worst music ever made. R&B singers themselves have been thugging and jacking hip hop slang since the early '90s heyday of Jodeci, Bel Biv Devoe, and the rise of long-running superstars R.
Pretty much every "rap station" in the country plays mostly R&B songs and rap songs featuring R&B singers. R&B and soul music and almost every other kind of music has been in hip hop's DNA pretty much since its birth, but it's been a very gradual road to the two of them becoming distinct but inextricably connected commercial forces. There'll be a rock list and a pop list, but since the overwhelming majority of my favorite singles of the last 10 years were hip hop and/or R&B, I decided to make a few different lists for those, including one for just all of the many gray areas in which both are involved. After a few months of procrastinating, I decided on a different format: several lists of 50, divided up into genres.
And I always wanted to do a similar list for singles, but I decided to put off that undertaking for a while, partly because I knew there was no way I'd be able to limit myself to just 100. By the end of the year, I had counted down my 100 favorite albums of the decade.
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Last year, as the '00s or the Aughts or whatever we're calling them were coming to a close, I prepared a series of posts here, with lists of my favorite albums and singles of each year of the decade.
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