Last year I watched a rap/hiphop/house/club kind of music clip on Youtube. The singer was a black person and there were women dancing. I'm guessing that it was released some time around 2000, give or take 4 years.
I cannot say which genre that song exactly belongs to: hiphop, soul, black music (if there exits such a genre ) as I'm not a hiphop/soul/or whatever listener.
I browsed the hiphop/soul/house and the similar categories of the Allmusic.com to see if there is any match. I searched and found these artists:
J Dilla, Mos Def, Dan The Automator, Kool Keith, Dr.Octagon, MF Doom,Pharoahe Monch, Blackalicious, Murs, Cannibal Ox, Handsome Boy Modeling, Common, Busdriver, Spectre, Madlib, Cadence Weapon, Dizzy Wright
I listened to their popular songs on YT, but none of them sounded like the singer I'm searching. Then I searched and found these artists: Common, Madlib, YG. Again none of them sounded like it. Then I listened to Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, NWA, Jay Z and the likes, again no match.
If I have to give you a sample which might remind that song, they would be
--> The first 10-20 seconds of Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (until the main vocal begins)
--> The orchestration in the main part of 2Pac - Late Night where it is sung: ' In the late night ... last night changed it all..'. But I mean only the orchestration at the background without all the other sound effects and the voice of 2Pac.
As a whole, those samples are not similar to the song I'm searching.
Last thing I remember was it had tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of views on YT. I mean it must be neither too unknown nor very popular song. Thank you.