A Look Into Hidden Features on Hip-Hop Songs
Making music is a communal thing. Most artists double as A&Rs who take on the task of recruiting the right people to animate their vision when it comes to a song or album. Sometimes though, the artists that are featured only live in the liner notes of a song or album and not on the actual tracklisting. These hidden, uncredited additions on hip-hop songs often emerge as secret ingredients in the formula. Dating back to the 2001 release of Jay-Z’s catalog classic The Blueprint, Hov tapped Michael Jackson and 1990's singer Chanté Moore for the background vocals on “Girls, Girls, Girls.”...
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