Hello
Last year as I was watching on Youtube a documentary about how people are manipulated by the TV and mass media and at some point it contained a hiphop-like music in the background. In the comments a viewer asked which music it was and another youtuber gave a link to its original video. I clicked on that link and watched that original clip. Recently, I wanted to listen to that clip again and I browsed my Firefox history, thinking that I could get the link there under but unfortunately I couldn't find the link, so I'll try my chances here to identify that song or its singer.
Here is my attempt to describe that song or its singer:
1- First of all, song being similar to the ones by 2Pac and Vinnie Paz is only conditionally true. I mean that singer didn't sing too much like 2Pac or Vinnie Paz and as far as I remember the lyrics didn't contain direct social messages like the songs of them, instead it seemed to give its message indirectly. The message was a kind of anti-establishment or at least its listeners considered it that way (me too
2- The singer was a black person and there were women dancing and it was dated 2002, or a year between 1998-2006 let me say.
3- The song didn't contain much lyrics. It contained long lines of singing just a few words (How I wish I listened to it more attentively!) I can name one song which sounds similar: Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphony. But again that's a very rough comparison. Massive Attack 's a female singer and he is a male anyway. Because I listened to it only once and without much interest, I cannot come up with a song which sounds more like it.
4- I cannot say which genre that song belongs to: hiphop, soul, black music (if there exits such a genre : ) cos I don't listen to those kinds of music much. If I said it was a hiphop music it might have been wrong or right, again not sure.
5- Last year it was on Youtube and because it had hundreds of thousands of views it's extremely unlikely to be taken down by any copyright claims. It might have been published by its copyright owners channel or by someone else.
Thank you for the help.