wherever Courtney is.Īlbum: Lord Willin' Label: Star Trak, Arista The Neptunes had trouble breaking the Clipse early on. It played like a 2000s update of Toni Basil's late '70s cheerleader anthem "Mickey." Gwen ultimately got the last laugh, as "Hollaback Girl" became her most successful solo hit and the first single to sell a million copies digitally, and Courtney is. Meanwhile The Neptunes served up their version of a school marching band: Drums that replicated the sound of a step team at work and keys that mimicked a horn section, and Gwen belted out her revenge, interpolating Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" in the verses and chant-rapping the song's vindictive chorus. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani," she got an elite level "Fuck you" in the form of "Hollaback Girl." Which is why Stefani starts her first verse with the line, "I that you were talking shit and you didn't think that I would hear it." Label: Interscope When Courtney Love took a potshot at Gwen Stefani in a 2004 issue of Seventeen magazine saying, "I'm not interested in being a cheerleader. Written by Craig Jenkins ( The 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Beats of All TimeĪlbum:. Click through for a look at the finest work of one of the most reliably inventive and fearlessly adventurous hip-hop production teams of all time. This is a list of the 50 Best Neptunes Beats, from their humble beginnings in the late ‘90s to their early 2000s hit parade, through their tinny synthetic funk period, their ornate live band phase, and the era when they broke hip-hop down to its base elements to reinvent themselves. When they started feeling boxed in by that, they went back to the drawing board, delivering a series of defiantly minimalist beats during the mid-to-late 2000s that redefined the genre's production even as they genuflected to the sounds of the early days of rap. The Neptunes responded with lush productions full of live instruments, with string and horn sections fleshing out the sound. As rap quickly became America’s most popular music form, pop artists like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake came to them looking to liven up their sounds with a little hip-hop attitude. From there they tiptoed into the world of hip-hop production in earnest, scoring early production credits for girl groups like Total and SWV before rappers like Noreaga and Jay-Z started seeking them out.īy the early ‘00s you couldn’t get through an hour of rap radio without hearing their signature sound: A mixture of brashly synthetic keyboard sounds and off-the-wall polyrhythmic percussion tracks. They formed a group called The Neptunes and were discovered by R&B legend Teddy Riley after a chance meeting at a talent show. Pharrell Williams met Chad Hugo met in junior high school at a band camp for musically gifted students. The story of The Neptunes is a story about the revenge of the nerds.
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