![]() Problem is Dill's considered an upright citizen in the community, so no one believes Millie. Their sophomore album De La Soul Is Dead is a very deliberate divorce from "Daisy-Age" antics of the first album, infusing their creativity with darker, weirder themes on songs like the drug addict character study "My Brother's a Basehead" and the heartbreaking story of "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa Claus." Here, a troubled Posdnous gets close enough to his court-appointed social worker Dillon to find out that he might be molesting his daughter Millie. RELATED: The 20 Best Rappers in Their 20s (Right Now)ĭe La Soul came in the game on the stoned, free-spirited fun of 1989's 3 Feet High and Rising, but the Long Island trio (and their producer Prince Paul) began to feel trapped by the neo-hippie image that resulted. RELATED: The 25 Best Rap Verses of the Last 5 Years RELATED: The Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979 Written by Craig Jenkins ( to Complex's Best Storytelling Rap Songs playlists here: YouTube/ Spotify/ Rdio But for now, check out The 50 Best Storytelling Rap Songs. What did we miss? What shouldn't be on the list? What should've ranked higher or lower? Shout at us in the comments. ![]() ![]() This is a list of the greatest storytelling raps in hip-hop history, from cautionary tales of lost souls on the road to ruin to locker room grade cataloguing of bedroom exploits to autobiographical yarns from over-sharing MCs sorting out their personal problems though the music, and of course, complex stick-em-up stories full of more blood and betrayal than Al Pacino's Scarface. Suddenly what started out as giddy toasting over party music had evolved into something closer in spirit to the gifted griots of African history. As hip-hop has matured as an art form, writers have come along who have taken the craft to new heights with their storytelling talents. The mark of a good rapper is the ability to string words together into captivating rhymes, but the mark of a great one is the ability to weave those rhymes into stunning narratives that grip and maintain the listener's attention through the end of the song.
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