Ty$ & Joe Moses – The Weekend
Somebody’s been watchin’ Luke videos.
Luke – It’s Your Birthday
And listening to Wreckx-N-Effect.
Wreckx-N-Effect – Rump Shaker
(Who was listening to MC Lyte before that.)
Ty$ & Joe Moses – The Weekend
Somebody’s been watchin’ Luke videos.
Luke – It’s Your Birthday
And listening to Wreckx-N-Effect.
Wreckx-N-Effect – Rump Shaker
(Who was listening to MC Lyte before that.)
For Christmas this year, I just want Nate Dogg back.
Nate Dogg – Be Thankful
Merry Christmas
Gunplay – Guillotine Swordz
Raekwon – Guillotine (Swordz)
Rap pronunciation is getting pushed to the limit.
Chief Keef – They Know
Metro Zu – Dey Shunnin’
Future – My
Big Boi – Mama Told Me (feat. Kelly Rowland)
You can’t fool me with wordplay and neon colors; I’m a baker. Those are bagels. Not donuts.
This has to be the biggest coolness boost a song has received that I’ve come across since the whole Michael McDonald/”Regulators” discovery.
Enya – Boadicea
The Fugees – Ready or Not
The other day Matt sent me this video with the simple commentary “no limit era snoop: the most under-appreciated era of snoop.”
C-Murder – Down For My N’s (feat. Magic & Snoop Dogg)
I probably don’t know enough about other people’s opinions of Snoop to confirm or counter Matt’s assessment, but I think that song is pretty interesting in light of this one.
Kendrick Lamar – Tammy’s Song
I think the relationship between these two songs is a nice microcosm of what Kendrick Lamar is: his roots, background, and inspiration are unquestionably in the street, but he adds a level of nuance and balance by subtly shifting turns of phrase (and also introducing a genuine interest in a female perspective), and then occasionally goes a little off track with it (the whole “turnin’ dyke” direction). That part just feels a little too late in the game to make a joke, or at least that joke. Don’t get me wrong, you can ask my girlfriend, my blog, or my iTunes play count if I like Kendrick Lamar a lot and the answer will be unanimously “yes”, but every now and then I remember that he also particularly turns me off sometimes. Usually not though. Usually he’s doing something cool like turning a C-Murder song into a relationship analysis or a Janet Jackson song into a complex reference to a Janet Jackson movie.