CURTIS MAYFIELD

curtis mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an Americansoul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music.^[1][2] He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums. Mayfield is a winner of both the Grammy Legend Award (in 1994) and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1995), and he was a double inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted as a member of The Impressions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist. He is also a two-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.

BIRDMAN

Game Feat. Lil Wayne & Birdman - Can You Believe It Clean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_(rapper)

Bryan Williams (born February 15, 1969), better known by his stage name Birdman or Baby, is an American rapper, businessman, and record producer.

He is the co-founder of Cash Money Records and one half of the duo Big Tymers. Along with his releases with Big Tymers and for his solo career, Birdman recorded a collaboration album and numerous tracks with Lil Wayne. Birdman has also made his name by contributing to the making of YMCMB (Young Money Cash Money Billionaires). According to Forbes, he grossed an estimated US $15 million from May 2010 to May 2011 with a net worth estimated at US $110 million in 2011.^[1]

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Handel - Hallelujah-Messiah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
George Frideric Handel (German: Georg Friedrich Händel; pronounced [ˈhɛndəl]) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music. He received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London (1712) and becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727.^[1] By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

CLASSIC HIP HOP!

CLASSIC HIP HOP VOL 1!!!

kurtis blow - the breaks
ultra magnetic mc's - poppa large
malcolm mclaren - buffalo gals
run dmc - peter piper
ll cool j - jingling baby 
stop the violence movement - self destruction
my lyte - paper thin
3x dope - greatest man alive
stezo - freak the funk
under the cherry moon - intro
biz markie - somthing for the radio
umc's one to grow on
cool c - glamorous life "ooh oooohhh"
original flavor - here we go

FELA KUTI

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 - 2 August 1997), or simply Fela ([feˈlæ]) was aNigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.


Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon

LILWAYNE

Lil Wayne - 6 foot 7 (DvDj Reel Live SNL Snip)(clean)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne ( /ˌlɪl ˈweɪn/), is an American rapper. In 1991, at the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1996, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Young Turk. Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that year. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group's major selling album Guerrilla Warfare, released in 1999. Also in 1999, Lil Wayne released his Platinum debut album Tha Block Is Hot, selling over one million copies in the U.S.

KOOL MOE DEE

Kool Moe Dee - God Made Me Funke (12" Original Mix) (DVD) [1990] [HQ]

Mohandas Dewese (born August 8, 1962), better known as Kool Moe Dee, is an American hip hop MC prominent in the late 1970s through the early 1990s. He was one of the first rappers to earn a Grammy Award and was the first rapper to perform at the Grammys.