Hip Hop Uncovered Music
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Hip Hop Uncovered season 1 episode 2 soundtrack

Cash Rules Everything Around Me, 9 songs

Our OGs learn to hustle, hoping to make a better life for their families. The lessons they learn provide them unique business acumen that will one day serve them in the music business.

  • Hard Times — Run DMC
    Archival footage of black community in NYC. Breaking down message rap meaning of track and how it effected characters in NYC.
  • For the Love of Money — The O'Jays
    Bimmy talka about making a lot of money in order to supply the hip hop artists with studio time, supreme parties and Kurtis blow.
  • Wack Rappers — Hidden Hand
    Drug dealers backing music funding everything.
  • So Ruff, So Tuff — Roger
    Skating rinks and black culture, world on wheels, Dre on his experience DJing there.
  • Andromeda — Decap
    Bimmy starts hanging with DMC in NY, making the raising hell album.
  • Four & Funk — DUG
    BIG U recall the fights that broke out at the long beach convention center, Snoop Dogg and Bimmy.
  • 6 'N the Mornin' — Ice-T
    Big U, Ice-T and Dre talk about hearing the song and relating to it. Ice-T on FACTION.
  • We Dem (Instrumental) — OSBS
    Detroit drone shots; Trick Trick on Detroit; the 80's drug game in Detroit; Royce Da 5'9.
  • Cocaine — Royce da 5'9"
    African Americans taking the life they were given and rising up with the messages; End credits.