Jay-Z's 'The Blueprint,' Ritchie Valens' 'La Bamba,' and Cyndi Lauper's 'She's So Unusual' joined the Library of Congress' registry of historic recordings.
"The Blueprint," which revived Jay-Z's fortunes, becomes one of only eight rap or hip-hop recordings on the National Recording Registry.Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP - Getty Images fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
"The Blueprint," one of only eight rap or hip-hop recordings on the registry, marked a turning point in the career of Jay-Z, coming as he was facing trial on gun and assault charges and as he was broadly perceived to be losing relevance. Lauper's 1983 debut solo album,"She's So Unusual," featured the monster hit"Girls Just Want to Have Fun," which Lauper transformed from a New Wave throwaway written and first performed by a man, Robert Hazard, into a resistance-is-futile pop earworm that reinterpreted the lyrics as a proclamation of female empowerment.
The library highlighted another landmark of the civil rights era, Nina Simone's"Mississippi Goddam," which was released in 1964. The song, a response to the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombing deaths of four girls at a church in Birmingham, Alabama, was immediately banned in several Southern states.
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