San Diego rapper and hip-hop artist Ric Scales reflects on the songs that shaped him — with picks from Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Parliament, A Tribe Called Quest and Nas.
My family, we were the family that, we would sit around in the basement and listen to tapes and records and sing and dance and play the piano and harmonize together. So it's safe to say that their music was part of my musical development. Always been a part of my life. It's always going to be a part of what I'm doing.
That's always been one of my general favorite things about Stevie Wonder, in general, is this contrast, whereas he'll have a song that sounds like a sad song, but it's a happy song or vice versa. The song"Skeletons" has basically been a song that's been part of my life for as far back as I can remember."Quicksand Millennium" from The Roots is one of my favorite hip-hop songs of all time. Criminally underrated. They have this way of going about music.
Then they had like the feature from I think it was Trugoy from De La Soul. The way he just went about it,"We on a world tour with Muhammad my man, going each and every place with the mic in their hand." Once I heard that, it kind of made me realize rap music doesn't have to be about just money or selling drugs. It can just really be about whatever. A Tribe Called Quest,"Award Tour" is definitely a life-altering song for you.
That's, like, my mantra. Because here in the hip-hop world, there is always a constant, like, Oh, well, I did this first. But did you? Everything's been done before, everything's been said before. Pretty much every movie that you watch is a Shakespearean story. But it's the way that you go about doing those things.
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