"Higher Ground" proves that pairing two hip-hop chefs doesn't automatically… Read Full Bio ↴"Higher Ground" proves that pairing two hip-hop chefs doesn't automatically render the kitchen overcrowded. The track opens with a running string of claps and a pitched-up sample, which bounce against each other as a stout drum kick teases its way into the mix. All falls by the wayside when the track's focal sample introduces itself: A brief brass riff hangs atop reverberated vocal leftovers. When the beat punches back in, a harmonizing brass line joins the riff, injecting the song with bombastic energy. These themes filter in and out through the three-and-a-half-minute jam, oscillating between moods of tense anticipation and unrestrained energy.
The result isn't really made for dancing — these beats may well have been cooked to serve a rapper's lyrics. But the power of "Higher Ground" on its own suggests that it's a dish best served raw.
- Sam Yenigun, NPR
The result isn't really made for dancing — these beats may well have been cooked to serve a rapper's lyrics. But the power of "Higher Ground" on its own suggests that it's a dish best served raw.
- Sam Yenigun, NPR
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@billystizzler764
This shit went so hard back in the day lmao
@somethinghappening3865
Idk all I can remember is that commercial playing this everytime 🤣🤣 how I found this song back in the day.
@onullo
still goes hard
@tylerburz8049
@@somethinghappening3865 it was under armour right? Or Gatorade?
@nomad_boreal
May our music from henceforth not descend into the clutches of blind conformity, mediocrity, and endless recycled covers. For this piece still fuckin slaps.
@globaladdict
@@nomad_boreal the underground will always evolve. But for the artists that give their all for this shit, let them get paid if it happens, yanno? Cuz more often than not, they fucking don't
@BareBandit
This song has never been recognized for how much it truly changed trap and hip-hop production. Everyone has copied this style even now a decade later.
@incaseofimportantnegotiations
never heard
@AlexRoseGames
it also killed dubstep. remember how the year before this dubstep was the biggest thing in the world, everything had a dubstep remix, every club played dubstep every night, even indie and pop nights would mix in dubstep remixes, and then this dropped and it was gone, overnight
@ssj4goku18825theepic
@@AlexRoseGamesdubstep was still big until atleast 2016-17 truthfully speaking. Many clubs or raves are still playing renditions of them too. The down line part that music always evolves and with time DJs are gonna adapt to the sound that’s popular and make them money