Sunday Special: 9-0 Life&Times
Below is the playlist for this week’s Sunday Special, which featured socially conscious and jazz-inflected hip-hop of the 1990s and 2010s.
The Scott-Heron Set
Gil Scott-Heron / “Message to the Messengers” / Spirits / 1994
Gil Scott-Heron / “I’ll Take Care of You” / I’m New Here / 2010
Drake, ft. Rihanna / “Take Care” / Take Care / 2011
The Long Breath Set
Logic / “Under Pressure” / Under Pressure / 2014
Ms. Lauryn Hill / “Superstar” / The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill / 1998
The Message Set Part I
Queen Latifah / “U.N.I.T.Y.” / Black Reign / 1993
Lupe Fiasco / “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” / Food & Liquor II (The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 / 2012
The Message Set Part II
J. Cole / “Love Yourz” / 2014 Forest Hills Drive / 2014
Ice Cube & Common / “Real People” / Barbershershop The New City / 2016
Par. / “Mumbai II” / Dot in the City / 2016
The Education Set
Jungle Brothers / “Acknowledge Your Own History” / Done by the Forces of Nature / 1989
The Fugees / “Vocab” / Blunted on Reality / 1994
Mos Def / “Mathematics” / Black on Both Sides / 1999
The Jazz Set
De La Soul, ft. Maceo Parker / “I Be Blowin’” / Buhloone Mindstate / 1993
Digable Planets, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat),” Reachin’ (A Refutation of Time and Space) / 1993
Neneh Cherry, ft. Guru / “Sassy” / Homebrew / 1992
Common / “The People” / Finding Forever / 2007
R.I.P. Phife Dawg
A Tribe Called Quest / “Can I Kick It?” / People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm / 2015
Dot in the City Single
Par., ft. Nineesha / “See Her Dance” / Dot in the City / 2016
We Out
Outkast / “ATLiens” / ATLiens / 1996
For further listening, here are the songs we didn’t have time to play:
The Beastie Boys / “Finger-Lickin’ Good” / Check Your Head / 1992
Us3 / “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” / Hand on the Torch / 1993
Meshell Ndegeocello / “Shoot’n Up and Gett’n High” / Plantation Lullabies / 1993
Nas / “The World Is Yours” / Illmatic / 1994
The Roots, ft. Erykah Badu / “You Got Me” / Things Fall Apart / 1999
Kendrick Lamar / “Rigamortis” / Section.80 / 2011
Ana Tijoux / “Somos Sur” / Vengo / 2014