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  1. #RobBase, the rapper known for the certified platinum song “It Takes Two,” died of cancer Friday, acc/to his official social media account. He was 59.

    Base’s hit song, “It Takes Two,” with DJ E-Z Rock, came out in 1988 & was one of Rolling Stone’s 500 best songs of all time.

    “The 1988 tune remains the single greatest use of a looped drum break in #rap history,” the magazine wrote in 2018. It called it “the hip-hop equivalent” to the guitar solo in “Stairway to Heaven.”

    nytimes.com/2026/05/22/arts/mu

  2. #RobBase, the rapper known for the certified platinum song “It Takes Two,” died of cancer Friday, acc/to his official social media account. He was 59.

    Base’s hit song, “It Takes Two,” with DJ E-Z Rock, came out in 1988 & was one of Rolling Stone’s 500 best songs of all time.

    “The 1988 tune remains the single greatest use of a looped drum break in #rap history,” the magazine wrote in 2018. It called it “the hip-hop equivalent” to the guitar solo in “Stairway to Heaven.”

    nytimes.com/2026/05/22/arts/mu

  3. #RobBase, the rapper known for the certified platinum song “It Takes Two,” died of cancer Friday, acc/to his official social media account. He was 59.

    Base’s hit song, “It Takes Two,” with DJ E-Z Rock, came out in 1988 & was one of Rolling Stone’s 500 best songs of all time.

    “The 1988 tune remains the single greatest use of a looped drum break in #rap history,” the magazine wrote in 2018. It called it “the hip-hop equivalent” to the guitar solo in “Stairway to Heaven.”

    nytimes.com/2026/05/22/arts/mu

  4. #RobBase, the rapper known for the certified platinum song “It Takes Two,” died of cancer Friday, acc/to his official social media account. He was 59.

    Base’s hit song, “It Takes Two,” with DJ E-Z Rock, came out in 1988 & was one of Rolling Stone’s 500 best songs of all time.

    “The 1988 tune remains the single greatest use of a looped drum break in #rap history,” the magazine wrote in 2018. It called it “the hip-hop equivalent” to the guitar solo in “Stairway to Heaven.”

    nytimes.com/2026/05/22/arts/mu

  5. #RobBase, the rapper known for the certified platinum song “It Takes Two,” died of cancer Friday, acc/to his official social media account. He was 59.

    Base’s hit song, “It Takes Two,” with DJ E-Z Rock, came out in 1988 & was one of Rolling Stone’s 500 best songs of all time.

    “The 1988 tune remains the single greatest use of a looped drum break in #rap history,” the magazine wrote in 2018. It called it “the hip-hop equivalent” to the guitar solo in “Stairway to Heaven.”

    nytimes.com/2026/05/22/arts/mu

  6. I love this.

    The Brothers Uncle been doin this routine since 1988.
    😂😂. They still got it.

    tiktok.com/t/ZTY6oMTv7/

    They got the T’ park hummin’.

    #RobBase #DJEZrock #ItTakesTwo #HipHop #BlackMastodon #Dance