Songs · Skopia

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6 songs

Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)

2005

Cee-Lo cut the vocal in one take over a 1968 spaghetti western sample. Nine weeks at UK number one.

★ 7.6

1996

Five-Percenter numerology over a bassline that barely moves, Badu's debut single, and a Grammy at the first attempt.

★ 7.3

1999 · From Things Fall Apart

Jill Scott's hook, re-sung by Badu at the label's request, and Questlove driving the outro into drum and bass.

★ 7.1

1995 · From Brown Sugar

Every instrument on it is D'Angelo's, cut at Battery Studios, and the groove barely bothers to move.

★ 6.8

2013

Written first for CeeLo Green, whose label passed, cut in Miami, and given pop's first 24-hour video.

★ 6.7

1995

Larrieux's feathery lead over Bryce Wilson's interpolation of the Mary Jane Girls, and neo soul had its blueprint.

★ 5.2