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Project X Hits the Hip-Hop Nostalgia Circuit [Project X]

Oct 6, 2008, 11:00am

Project X Hits the Hip-Hop Nostalgia Circuit [Project X]

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Michaelangelo Matos breaks down top-ten lists from every genre imaginable. After the jump, he sits through VH1's latest TV-based listicle, 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs , and finds a few poignant moments among the MC Hammer jokes: Last week, when I wrote about listicles , I forgot a non-print, but still big and obvious, agent of the format's spread: cable television. The televised countdown goes [...]

Artists: Dr. Dre, Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, The Notorious B.I.G., N.W.A., Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C., Salt 'n' Pepa, Snoop Dogg, Sugarhill Gang

Tags: Top, VH-1, Snoop Dogg, nwa, run dmc, public enemy, notorious big, kurtis blow, Dr. Dre, grandmaster flash, Sugar Hill Gang, feature, project x, salt n pepa, 100 Greatest Hiphop songs

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