Whether you need some tunes to bust out at your next family reunion or just want to show a loved one how much you care, Billboard has rounded up the top 25 tracks that lay out the good, the bad and everything in between about familial relationships. And Kygo and The Chainsmokers’ 2019 collaboration “Family” paints a picture for all life’s ride-or-dies. Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink” reminisces on life’s most precious moments with the people you love.
Kanye West’s “Family Business” shouts out the people in his life who he can always count on having their support. And we can’t forget about the handful of tunes that honor mothers and fathers - including 2Pac’s public letter of appreciation “Dear Mama,” Taylor Swift’s cheerful ode “The Best Day (Taylor’s Version)” and late Swedish Avicii’s inspiring number “The Nights.”Įven if it’s your friends you call family, a variety of artists have got you covered on that front, too. There are tracks that spotlight brothers and sisters like BTS’ passionate early release “Begin” and Mickey Guyton’s modern country anthem “Sister.” Songs like Adele’s emotional ballad “My Little Love,” Stevie Wonder’s bouncy triumph “Isn’t She Lovely” and John Mayer’s Grammy-award winning “Daughters” offer a shoutout to sons and daughters. But who better to inspire a song than the people in your life who mean the most to you?įrom rock and roll to rap, nearly every genre houses songs that pay tribute to your loved ones. Success has only intensified Macklemore’s conflicted relationship with rap: On his 2017 solo single, “Good Old Days,” he looks back fondly at his early years as an unknown MC trying to break into the game however, the track’s elegant, ascendant piano chords and heartrending Kesha cameo suggests he’s grown evermore accustomed to playing the crowd-pleasing pop star.All artists, including musicians, have muses - whether lovers, strangers or even fictional characters. Their 2012 self-released debut, The Heist, crashed the Billboard Top 5 and scooped up four Grammys thanks to a string of unlikely crossover hits-like the sax-squawked anti-luxury anthem “Thrift Shop” and the pro-LGBTQ ballad “Same Love”-that betrayed his love of pre-millennial hip-hop sounds while interrogating some of the genre’s problematic materialist and homophobic tendencies. Upon connecting with producer Ryan Lewis in 2009, Macklemore finally acquired the megaphone that allowed him to project his big ideas to the masses. But during those DIY days, Macklemore developed a reputation for intense introspection and keen cultural observations-on his 2005 track “White Privilege,” he examined not only the gentrification of hip-hop from black street music to commercial commodity but also his own complicity in that process as a white MC.
Hip-hop, he said, was “my means of trying to figure out who I am, and to figure out my truth, and look at society and get closer to a connection to something much bigger than myself.” It would take some time for him to make that greater connection: The MC born Benjamin Haggerty in 1983 dropped his first mixtape in 2000 and spent the next decade doing the underground grind. In a 2016 interview with Apple Music, Seattle rapper Macklemore recounted the moment when, at age 17, he realized his life’s true calling.
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