THE 2-MINUTE RULE FOR MUSIC

To witness the delivery of a star is really a scarce matter—but in 2021, we witnessed two. It had been just a week into January that Olivia Rodrigo’s “motorists license” arrived, a debut single so immediate and so relatable that it promptly grew to become a pop cultural landmark, a Music on the Year-amount statement that felt similar to a c

: the score (see score entry 1 feeling 6a) of a musical composition set down on paper leafing from the audiocharts say may be their finest song, and Eric B. & Rakim’s “Know the Ledge.” The latter will go down as the most effective times from the original God MC—about menacing upright bass and neck-snapping crack, Rakim spits pure bragaddoci