Today, 50 years ago, rock and roll was born.
OK, that’s probably a little extreme. But today, 50 years ago, The Rolling Stones played their first gig together, starting a historic musical relationship that can’t be matched.
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A half a century later and the band’s two leaders, singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, are still rocking…even though things haven’t always been easy.
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We know that most of our audience falls in the hip-pop space and classical rock really isn’t your thing. So we thought it would be cool to combine the two worlds.
The Rolling Stones and hip-hop have had a complicated, almost non-existent relationship (Keith Richards once said in a 2007 interview that he was “cold to hip-hop.”)
However, we were able to find a couple of instances where the two worlds collided. Here are our ten favorite Rolling Stones and hip-hop moments.
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Keith Richards Appears On The Cover Of GQ With Lil Wayne & Eminem:
We already know Keith Richards is a rock god. But Eminem and Lil Wayne? Who knew! This picture is going to be pretty iconic one day. Speaking of Lil Wayne…
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Lil Wayne Sampled A Rolling Stones Song On “Playin With Fire”:
When Tha Carter III first dropped, one of the songs to appear on the album was “Playin With Fire.” However, a month after the album was released, Abkco Music Inc. filed a lawsuit against Wayne and Cash Money, claiming that they ripped of the Rolling Stones’ “Play with Fire.” They eventually settled, but “Playin With Fire” no longer appears on the album.
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Kanye West Gives Mick Jagger A Shout Out On Twitter:
Kanye West doesn’t tweet a lot. But when he does, you know it’s something monumentally important, like this relatively random tweet he dedicated to Mick Jagger last year.
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Kanye West Has “Mick Jagger Swagga”:
That tweet to Mick Jagger wasn’t the first time Kanye showed some love. In T.I.’s 2008 hit “Swagga Like Us,” Kanye had the line: “My swagga is Mick Jagger.”
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Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Jim Jones & Kobe Ask If You “Ever Took A Hit Of Mick Jagger?”:
Raekwon and his rap friends showed some love to all of the rock legends, including The Rolling Stones, on his Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang standout, “Rock N Roll.”
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Mick Jagger & will.i.am Have Songs Together:
There is absolutely nothing rock about “T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever),” which also features Jennifer Lopez, and “Go Home.” Both songs feature club-ready music.
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Mick Jagger Formed A Super Group That Featured Damian Marley:
Eurhythmics keyboardist Dave Stewart and reggae legend Damian Marley. Together they make up a band that contains a garbage plate of different sounds.
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The Rolling Stones Sample Biz Markie On “Anybody Seen My Baby”:
The Rolling Stones rarely sample other acts. However, for their 1997 song “Anybody Seen My Baby,” the band took a short vocal sample from Biz Markie’s “A One Two.” Check 2:49 to hear it.
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Chiddy Bang Blew One Down With Keith Richards:
Rap duo Chiddy Bang admitted in an interview that while they were in a studio, they ran into Keith Richards and then proceeded to get stoned with the rock legend. Soooo cool.
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Mick Jagger & Keith Richards Argue About Gangsta Rapper On Saturday Night Live :
OK, so it’s not really Keith Richards (rather, Mick Jagger acting like Keith, while Mike Myers does Mick). Still, this is a pretty funny video of a pretend argument about rap.
