Tag Archives: 2Pac
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REWIND: Five of the best protest songs in hip-hop
Run The Jewels perform at the Oracle Arena in Oakland on March 13, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. We’re in week… nine of RIFF Rewind’s Black History Month? I think this is the ninth. Wait here for a second and I’ll check. Yes, it appears we’re entering Month Three of Black…
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REWIND: The starting nine songs to get you ready for Oakland Athletics baseball
Oakland Athletics. No juice required. Photo: Sacramento Bee. After so many long, dreary months without baseball, it has finally returned to the East Bay. And to a lesser extent, the rest of the country. In celebration of this momentous occasion, an occasion that should absolutely be a national holiday,…
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RIFF Rewind: Marilyn Manson lets the freaks out, 2Pac’s California love in 1996
Every week people get mad at me for my top five. Sometimes it’s songs in the honorable mentions list that they think should’ve been at the top, sometimes it’s songs that they think got snubbed entirely, but people haven’t been this mad at me over something I wrote since…
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RIFF Rewind: Tupac, Wu-Tang and the Breeders wrote the best songs of 1993
Photo: Che Holts Usually this column is the top five songs of each year. Sometimes, in an especially good year, I bend that and make it the top 10. This week has nine. The reasons for this are threefold: First, the longlist has 23 songs on it and that’s…