HIp-Hop Christmas: Day 9 & 10

So I think an apology is in order. To all my dear fans or just Scott, you may have noticed I didn't post a day 9 Hip-Hop Christmas track and for that I must apologize. I had a Christmas party to attend and I was pretty strapped for time. Nonetheless, that shouldn't be used as an excuse. If anything it would be my ingestion of "festive drinks" would be better to blame for the lack of posting. Anyways with all that being said, it's time for a DOUBLE POST!!!

Hip-Hop Hanukkah: Day 8

Today we are going down a different route. In search of broadening the scope of the hip-hop inspired December holiday theme songs. Up to this point we had focused primarily on Christmas with the one tangent song that featured a fictional Jehovah's Witness' interaction with Christmas. Today though will be Christmas free. Instead we will look at a few Hanukkah inspired songs.

First, I'd like to send out some 'Happy Hanukkah' love to all my Jewish fam out there. While I couldn't find any well-known rappers who had produced Hanukkah inspired rap songs; I did find some amateur musicians who I thought still did their best to convey the spirit of the holidays. Though if we are lucky we could possibly see a Shyne track that could change the whole Hanukkah rap game.



 Alright so that first song is alright. These American kids seem to have taken the appropiate rap styles and were able to apply them to the holiday. But it's the next song that I truly tip my hat to.




Use of the Kanye Beat and a more than accurate title makes me label this one a hands down winner. Let me know what you think on the comments or twitter.

Hip-Hop Christmas: Day 7

Day 7 of the Hip-Hop Christmas is upon us. Today, I have probably found the most unlikely of Christmas songs. Even after the obscenity filled Yuletide greetings of Eazy-E, after the sexual overtones of Kanye West or even after the straight from Harlem stylistics of DipSet; I still have that one song that you'd never think, "Oh yeah, that's a Christmas song?"

Day 6 of the Hip-Hop Christmas

Sorry for the delay on this one but I've slowly become addicted to the show "Storage Wars" on A&E. It was a perfect storm of my exams being done and a "Storage Wars" marathon going on. Anyways, Day 6 here we are. What do I have in store? Check it out.

Hip-Hop Christmas: Day 5

Here it is, Day 5 of the Hip-Hop Christmas. For the sake of trying to make this a big deal, if you're using twitter use the #hashtag: #hiphopchristmas in reference to the list. And with that selfish promotion, let's just get to the song.

Hip-Hop Christmas: Day 4

Alright Day 4 is upon us of the Hip-Hop Christmas. Today's song marks the first suggestion I've received since starting up this little list and I hope you appreciate it.

Hoodie and shorts fashionista, Datinga put me on this one featuring one of his favourite rappers, Childish Gambino. Though in the presented clip, born Donald Glover is playing his day time role as Troy Barnes on the NBC show Community. In a convergence of his two jobs, Mr. Glover and co. (Abed Nadir, played by Danny Pudi) rap about the appropiation of Christmas as a Jehovah's Witness to "infiltrate" the popularly coveted December holiday. Enjoy.

Hip-Hop Christmas: Day 3

Today, I thought it'd be best to hit up a song that is a bit more contemporary. Last year, Kanye West dropped the Grammy nominated, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy complete with one of the more provocative album covers to date. In addition to the album's release, Kanye released a series of songs prior and after the album's release to help create some hype. The last track to be dropped from the G.O.O.D Friday releases was on December 17th.

Hip-Hop Christmas: Day 2

Suge Knight is two things. For one, he is a criminal, there is no denying that with his record. Secondly, he was a brilliant business man. Typically this combo hasn't worked well in the record business. He may have been better served working in the financial industry, where crime pays. Though in 1996, during his time of unmatched success in the rap game,  he had the excellent idea to take all the rappers under the Death Row label and make a Christmas album.

Let's Have a Hip-Hop/RnB Christmas

Christmas is upon us once again. That time of the year where every store is playing the same maybe 50 Christmas songs that we enjoy to listen every year. Some of them are new, some of them are old. Hell some people have even given up and said Bieber's new Christmas album ain't that bad. In the end this might be all fine and dandy for some people and that's totally cool. I'm just here to pose the question, Where are the Hip-Hop/R&B Christmas songs at? While the list for R&B Christmas songs might be substantial and I'll be honest I've only added to help the tally cause I'm not to positive that there are a lot of just Hip-Hop Christmas songs out there anyways. So for the next 10 or so days I'll be posting some Christmas Hip-Hop gems out there and feel free to add to the list. As well, let's not just make it Christmas, how about Hip-Hop Kwanzaa or Hanukkah songs.