

^ "DeJ Loaf Chart History: The Hot 100"."DeJ Loaf Takes Us Behind 'No Fear' & Upcoming Album 'Liberated:' I'm 'Showing My Growth' ". ^ a b "New Music: DeJ Loaf - "No Fear" "."Billboard's 100 Best Songs of 2017: Critics' Picks". The song also appeared on the year-end ranking of Hot R&B Songs, on which it placed at number 42. On the year-end ranking of the 50 most popular rhythmic songs of 2017, "No Fear" placed at number 40. On the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, the song peaked at number 33, while it peaked at number 5 on the Rhythmic Songs chart, becoming Loaf's highest-peaking entry on that chart as a lead artist, and her second-highest peaking entry on the chart overall (behind Kid Ink's " Be Real," on which she was featured). On the Hot R&B Songs chart, the song became Loaf's first entry as a solo artist, eventually achieving a peak of number 13. On the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, "No Fear" peaked at number 43 on the chart dated September 23, 2017. The song also entered many genre-specific charts. It debuted and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 23, 2017, at number 100, becoming Loaf's fourth and most-recent entry to date on that chart. Upon its release, the song attained some commercial success.
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Loaf commented in an interview with Hollywood Life that "I wanted to feel very free in the video and show that freedom." Commercial performance The music video's concept was created by Rubberband, and was shot in a California desert. Critical reception īillboard placed the song at number 94 on their ranking of the 100 Best Songs of 2017, praising "its instantly memorable chorus and sun-bleached disco-meets-hip-hop swagger" and noting that it was more of a pop song than her previous work. Rap-Up deemed its production "an upbeat bounce with pop sensibilities," while Billboard called it the most pop-oriented song she has recorded thus far, also noting its disco influence. The song was also noted for its more pop-oriented production. It is now a word to generally describe full-length albums released for free, which is the modern form of mixtape that was made a popular following by 50 Cent and his group G-Unit in the early 2000s, sometimes containing all original music, other times composed of freestyles and remixes of popular tracks.Within the song's lyrics, Loaf yearns for her "high-school sweetheart."

In the hip hop scene, mix tape is often displayed as a single term mixtape. Also since the 1990s, it describes releases used to promote one or more new artists, or as a pre-release by more established artists to promote upcoming "official" albums. Blend tapes became increasingly popular by the mid-1990s, and fans increasingly looked for exclusive tracks and freestyles on the tapes. Ron G moved the mixtape forward in the early 1990s by blending R&B a cappellas with hip hop beats (known as "blends"). In the mid-1980s, DJs, such as Brucie B, began recording their live music and selling their own mixtapes, which was soon followed by other DJs such as Kid Capri and Doo Wop.

(who later became known as Whiz Kid) and DJ Super V would create personalized House Tapes which would eventually circulate throughout New York City. In the late 70's into the early 80's DJs began recording mixtapes out of their homes, referring to them as House Tapes. As more tapes became available, they began to be collected and traded by fans. Hip hop mixtapes first appeared in the mid-1970s in New York City, featuring artists such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. In hip hop's earliest days, the music only existed in live form, and the music was spread via tapes of parties and shows.
