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6 songs

Where I'm From

1993

Two Melvin Van Peebles samples anchor it, and the trio spends the whole track naming exactly what shaped them.

★ 4.5

1994

Butler moved the crew to Brooklyn and cut it live over programmed drums, jazz-rap turned dusty and political.

★ 5.1

Brown Eyed Handsome ManChuck Berry

1956 · From After School Session

Berry wrote it after watching an arrest in California, then cut it in Chicago with Johnnie Johnson and Willie Dixon.

★ 5.9

2014 · From To Pimp a Butterfly

Rahki built it on the Isley Brothers' That Lady, and Lamar turned self-love into two Grammys.

★ 6.4

1971

Mack Rice built it from a line Luther Ingram tossed off, and Pops and Mavis trade the sermon.

★ 6.5

1968 · From Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud

Brown cut it in Los Angeles with thirty-odd young people from Watts and Compton shouting the answer back.

★ 7.7