Song Title: We Built This City
Artist: The Diplomats
Album: Diplomatic Immunity
Record Company: Roc-A-Fella Records
Date of Publication: March 11th, 2003
Catalogue #: 063211
Diplomatic Immunity was the Diplomat's debut album and its purpose was to attain commercial success. The album is rich in samples like "We Built This City", which implies that rappers cannot enter the mainstream without sampling popular hits from the past. The sampling in this song can be seen as a way of appealing to a broader audience while still keeping the characteristics of a rap song. The song demonstrates the rap group's desire to be unified with popular music, and is attempting to forge a bond between the two genres.
Listen to "We Built This City" by the Diplomats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFVf2pjOhIo
Listen to "We Built This City" by Starship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-UqB7uYiE
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