Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Jump into My Mouth and Breathe



No rap since this has made me literally buzz half as much.

Young Dro->Clipse->Ja grand finale= game's still over.

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

It's Been a Minute For the Both of Us



My flow is past murder, it's autopsy
What are you, senseless? This is forensics,
I don't spit, I throw up my intestines

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Stop Snitchin'


Download: T.I.: "Big Shit Poppin'"
Calling this no "What You Know" is fucking retarded. Lemme guess, it's also no Illmatic right? Anyone who purports to have liked King cannot dislike this song. Don't love it? Fine. But it's one of the ten best hip-hop songs released this year easy. T.I. is the contemporary King of Swagger. This song is swagger. It sounds effortless because it wants to sound effortless. People are missing this. "What You Know" wanted to sound like you were about to get your ass beat. "Big Shit Poppin'" sounds like you already did. Because you already have. Kings sit on thrones and smile and bask and enjoy being kings. This is Tip enjoying being a king. Enjoy it also.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Hunting for Witches


Not sure if this is tounge-in-cheek, but "Doe Boys and Girls in America" and "My Moon, My Shawty"???????????????? This is creativity on another level. This blog is now a mash-up blog. Here are the first mash-ups.

ENJOY!!!!! JAMS FOR DAYS!!!!

Brightblack Morning Light vs. Mika "Everybody Gaylight"
Fall Out Boy vs. Feist "Thnks Fr The Reminder" (FULL ALBUM MASH-UP HOLY SHIT)
The Knife vs. Avril Lavigne "We Share Our Mother's Girlfriend"
Lil Wayne vs. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus "I Can't Feel My Face Down"
DJ UNK vs. Feist "1 2 Step 3 4"
Robin Thicke vs. Panda Bear "Comfy In U"
Fall Out Boy vs. Feist "This Ain't a Scene, It's a Sea Lion Woman"

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

It Must Be Summer Love

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!

THE OFFICIAL SNACK OF HIP-HOP!

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Friday, April 06, 2007

This Is Why I'm (Insert Pun Here)


Mims' new album is called Music is My Savior (Sidebar: I thought Pitbull would have copyrighted turning proper nouns into bad acronymic rap album titles by now). I haven't heard it and I don't plan on hearing it. What's got me all twisted up is just the name itself. Not the who, what, where or when (although those also); I'm more concerned with the why.

"This Is Why I'm Hot" is pretty standard fare in terms of what we've been getting from debut rap singles recently. I'm basically referring to "It's Goin' Down" and "Shoulder Lean" here, and both are enduringly great songs that will be inextricably tied to each other, in my mind at least. More than anything about those songs, I was always curious about the empty threats and empty boasting (I guess "braggadocio" if you will), not because I was offended personally about their possible (and probable) inauthenticity, but because I was intrigued as to why Joc/Dro thought they could get away with this audacious type of braggadocio without someone calling bullshit.

Both Joc/Dro gave off this air that they had already beaten the game at it's own game, that they were just using rap or at the very least passing through it for the quick(er) bucks. This doesn't really surprise me— Clipse and Jeezy make no qualms about this rich before rap type of thing— and it's obviously the culture rap lives in now, so I assumed Mims in the same light as those guys in terms of what I thought he was trying to portray himself as.

Thing with calling his album Music is My Savior is that it makes him infintely more human than those guys, in the sense that if I also happened to stumble upon the number one single in country, music would indeed also be my savior. I don't care about my rappers being relatable, human, real or any of that crap, but I was totally thrown for a loop by Mims flipping the script and painting himself as a slave to the music when "This Is Why I'm Hot" would seem to try and do otherwise.

I never thought I'd say that I completely have no handle on who Mims is as a person, or who he's trying to portray himself as in this rap game, but I don't. This whole "savior" deal has made him in my eyes one of the most compelling personalities of this short year, joining the likes of Gilbert Arenas (R.I.P.) and (pause) Donald Trump. (In the name of all that is holy).

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Where My Macaroni?



Weezy F. was starting to scare me; his best rapper alive boasts were becoming increasingly harder to defend when it was all but pudding this summer. It seems like he's been getting bored with himself, so like he decided to get on forgotten 106 & Park stars' singles (hello Mya) or that he wanted to start rapping like Elephant Man. Not to mention, he was striking out like P. Diddy (get familiar) on said major singles ("Give good brain like you graduated from a good school"= low point of my '06) insomuch that it I was for a second scared that he was not just Fat Joe's bff, but that he was actually turning into him.

And then this arrived rather inconspicuously on the once dominant XXL Bangers section, with Weeze rapping over T.I.'s rather meh "Top Back." And naturally, dude is in top form, the form that made rather prominent bloggers bonkers over an internet only mixtape on which said dude had like 8 songs. Here he is again sounding like he hasn't eaten in nine days, like he is the hungriest of the hungry, like he would bite your face if you stepped to close, pushing and pulling and stretching his voice and vowels like someone who aimlessly fiddles with gum. He patently slams the breaks on his flow mid-verse not as a gimmick, but because he literally can't control his own self, because he has yet to calculate his actions, because he is the most reckless of all rappers. And he's even sounding increasingly more insane by the leak, so here he is moving through his various personalities (Jovial Wayne, Agressive Wayne, Snarling Wayne, Manical Wayne) with a shout out to the long lost Fresh Fresh F-ere Fresh, ramblings about T.I. (...?) and a hyena laugh in a matter of like two and a half minutes.

All of that is fine and dandy (it is), but his punchlines are my heroin and I've been shaking and sweating for a few months. So when he dropped the equivalent of an ounce of smack, "A pint of DJ Screw and that Hawaiian/ I am... leaning like a three-legged lion," I couldn't help but grin the toothiest of grins to no one in particular, in my mind saying to the walls of my dorm room, "Don't fear, peasants, for the king has returned."

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