When it comes to hip-hop, we have 50 years of amazing music to listen to.

And I feel like when it comes to my listening with the genre,

I've never reached a point where I feel like, oh, you know what?

I've heard it all because that's the beauty of the genre.

There's so much music to go through from the mainstream to the underground,

from the 1980s to the 2020s, that you can never leave yourself in a place where you feel like

you have nowhere else to go.

And what's amazing is being able to find songs that truly leave a mark on you and leave you

wanting to revisit them for years and years as they go on.

And that's sort of going to be the basis of our episode that we're trying to bring to you guys

today.

And that's going to be showing you guys 20 different songs that we feel like every music listener should listen to

at least once in their lifetime because that's how much value they actually bring to a listener.

And if you guys actually have friends, family members that aren't all the way invested into hip hop,

maybe send them this episode and actually give them a taste of some of the best music

that's at their disposal within this genre.

And as always, guys, if you're new here and it's your first time listening, make sure

to hit that follow button on Spotify, Apple Music, Podcasts, or wherever else you get your

podcast because we're actually putting out new episodes every single Tuesday. But let's get

into this episode. And let me know what was sort of the basis for going and choosing these

songs? I think standouts throughout the genre, especially for me. I have certain songs in here

that I value to such a

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