The Big 3 Of Black Songwriters

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OP left off Prince. I came into this thread expecting to see Prince

no list of anything top 10 musically can leave off Prince. He's eligible for too many categories. top 10 songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, producer, artist, performer, singer.

Top 10 artists is debatable.

Prince in the top 10 of singers
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Mike probably wrote a lil over 25 released songs in a career that spaned from 1968-2009.. foh

BTW he was 10 in 1968, he started writing around the Destiny Album when he was 20.

here we go:

Category:Songs written by Michael Jackson - Wikipedia

Shake ya body down to the ground (79)
Can you feel it (80)
Heartbreak Hotel (80)
Lovely One (80)
Dont stop till you get enough (80)
Get On The Floor (80)
Working Day and Nite (80)*
The Girl is Mine (82)
Muscles-Diana Ross (82)
Wanna Be Startin Something (83)
Beat it (83)
Billie Jean (83)
Say Say Say w/ Paul McCartney (83)
Centipede-Rebbie Jackson (84)
We Are the World (85)
I Just Cant Stop Loving You (87)
Bad (87)
The Way You Make Me Feel (87)
Dirty Diana (88)
Another Part of Me (88)
Smooth Criminal (88)
Leave Me Alone (89)
Liberian Girl (89)
Black or White (91)
Do You Remember The Time (91)
In the Closet (92)
Jam (92)
Heal the World (92)
Give In To Me (93)
Who is it (93)
Joy (performed by Blackstreet)......(94)
Scream (95)
Childhood (95)
Earth Song (95)
They Dont Care About Us (96)
Stranger In Moscow (96)
Blood On The Dancefloor (97)
You Rock My World (01)
Heaven Can Wait (01)
This Is It (09)
Behind the Mask (11)

85% if these songs were Top 10 Singles. The biggest song ever written was We Are the World.
 

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Kellz and Stevie is a damn lock,do what you want to after that.


i put Kellz over Stevie based on diversity of styles he can write for,he can write songs that sound like your favorite song writer of all time wrote it...that would make him the goat wouldnt it:sas1:?
 

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BTW he was 10 in 1968, he started writing around the Destiny Album when he was 20.

here we go:

Category:Songs written by Michael Jackson - Wikipedia

Shake ya body down to the ground (79)
Can you feel it (80)
Heartbreak Hotel (80)
Lovely One (80)
Dont stop till you get enough (80)
Get On The Floor (80)
Working Day and Nite (80)*
The Girl is Mine (82)
Muscles-Diana Ross (82)
Wanna Be Startin Something (83)
Beat it (83)
Billie Jean (83)
Say Say Say w/ Paul McCartney (83)
Centipede-Rebbie Jackson (84)
We Are the World (85)
I Just Cant Stop Loving You (87)
Bad (87)
The Way You Make Me Feel (87)
Dirty Diana (88)
Another Part of Me (88)
Smooth Criminal (88)
Leave Me Alone (89)
Liberian Girl (89)
Black or White (91)
Do You Remember The Time (91)
In the Closet (92)
Jam (92)
Heal the World (92)
Give In To Me (93)
Who is it (93)
Joy (performed by Blackstreet)......(94)
Scream (95)
Childhood (95)
Earth Song (95)
They Dont Care About Us (96)
Stranger In Moscow (96)
Blood On The Dancefloor (97)
You Rock My World (01)
Heaven Can Wait (01)
This Is It (09)
Behind the Mask (11)

85% if these songs were Top 10 Singles. The biggest song ever written was We Are the World.


Hes michael jackson,being a hit doesnt mean much...unfortunatley homie is right,only about 20 of those songs are noteworthy.
 

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You do realize that u said "only 20". Dude is the best selling artist of all time breh. They gonna play most of those songs until the end of time

I said about 20.

They can play em,dont make em great songs "Black and White"?"Childhood?":mjlol:

nikkas like Kells got at least 50 undeniables.
 

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I said about 20.

They can play em,dont make em great songs "Black and White"?"Childhood?":mjlol:

nikkas like Kells got at least 50 undeniables.

Im not gonna shyt on R Kelly to big up MJ, but Kelly got "Blassics" I went to a Falcons game last year and they played it during a time out. You think they playing "I Wish" at stadiums? Thats a black BBQ jam, no offense. shyt i attend waaay more black BBQ's than games, but im just pointing out the gap. The only song that might get burn is "I believe i can fly" by the greater public
 

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for the 60'= curtis may-field. 70's norman whitfield. 80's foster sylver 90's jimmy jam and terry lewis.

Thank you for naming Norman Whitfield...

A lot of you just named singers that barely wrote songs for other people and didn't even write enough to be considered songwriters...

Or producers...that get credit as writers...for producing...

And you can't name Norman Whitfield without Barrett Strong
 

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Im not gonna shyt on R Kelly to big up MJ, but Kelly got "Blassics" I went to a Falcons game last year and they played it during a time out. You think they playing "I Wish" at stadiums? Thats a black BBQ jam, no offense. shyt i attend waaay more black BBQ's than games, but im just pointing out the gap. The only song that might get burn is "I believe i can fly" by the greater public

nikkas aint playing no damn Child Hood or Black and White either,so i guess we even.

If we was going off the "greater public" they probaly wouldnt have 90% of the people mentioned in this thread as the greatest song writers of all time:mjpls:....we already decided black people make the best music around here,so black people would have better taste anyway and final say so....and black folks know damn well song for song Kellz wrote more classics then what you posted for MJ.

Besides that Ignition and fiesta gon get some play at the stadium:myman:
 
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