
Where Is The Love?
2003
An uncredited Timberlake sang the hook to protect his solo album, and Britain kept it at number one six weeks.
★ 4.6

An uncredited Timberlake sang the hook to protect his solo album, and Britain kept it at number one six weeks.
Dilla looped Ahmad Jamal's "Swahililand" into a warning shot at where hip hop was heading in 1996.

Hi-Tek loops Boogie Down Productions while Mos Def and Kweli revive KRS-One's demand that the violence stop.

Hi-Tek loops Don Randi's "The Fox" under a Style Wars monologue, and three MCs read the city at night.

Recorded in 1992, shelved, then remixed after his death over Bruce Hornsby's piano; a posthumous Grammy nomination followed.
The record that proved hip hop could report and not just party, and the edge everyone's been close to since.